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 01. BAD LIEUTNANTS - Arizona Love
02. DIE HUNNS - Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
03. BRIEFS - Human Thermometer
04. PRIMA DONNA - Double Crosser
05. THE BONES - Not A Love Song
06. ANGEL CITY OUTCASTS
Rev It Up, Turn It Loose
07. TURBO NEGRO - Suffragette City
08. BLACK HALOS - Burning Trash
09. EPOXIES - Don't Talk To Me
10. THE LIZZIES - Baby Black And Blue
11. DUCKY BOYS - Scars
12. U.S. BOMBS - He's The Man
13. THE DISTRICT - I Crisis
14. AMAZOMBIES - Blind Devotion
15. MAD SIN - Straight To Hell
16. STREET DOGS - Drink Tonight
17. RIVER BOAT GAMBLERS
Smoking Crack With L.A. Reid
18. THE DEEP EYNDE - Zombie Kids
19. THE DUANE PETERS GUNFIGHT
Blow My Brains
20. CIVET - Black Day
21. THE ADDICTS - Steamroller
22. THE WORTHLESS - Fall In Love
23. THE SKULLS - I Don't Need Nothing
24. HOLLOW POINTS - Ropes End
25. BLOOD FOR BLOOD
Hanging On The Corner
26. ROGER MIRET & THE DISASTERS
Lower East Side
27. THE STITCHES
Monday Morning Ornaments
28. THE ORPHANS - Underage Girlfriend
29. R.X. SON - Because Your My Friend
30. THE KINGS OF NUTHIN'
Wild In The Streets

what the press has to say

Mad Dog Duane Peters is back with his 5th batch of old and new punk bands. We don't play the age card here, so allow me to just list my favorites off this record: Epoxies, River Boat Gamblers (a fantastic Dallas punk band with a gritty, drunk sound), The Skulls (one of LA's first punk bands), New York's Dead Boys wannabes the Black Halos, and Scandinavian gay porn death metal purveyors Turbonegro covering David Bowie's seminal "Suffragette City." Like a good cover, it sounds familiar and totally alien at the same time. 30 songs, some good new acts and it's cheap! - Sid Arthur / Culture Bunker

A pretty good sampler of the current punk scene, featuring bands like the Briefs, the Briggs, Street Dogs, Union 13, the Hunns and more. While this is actually good stuff, an official call out must be made. German band the Revolvers do a song called "No Clash Reunion", and before anyone gets into it, they should know that Brazilian punk band the Blind Pigs did "No Pistols Reunion" back in '97 or so. Still, this disc is worth having for the people out there who refuse to accept that there aren't any good punk bands coming out anymore. - Bob Trendy / Altercation Magazine

A street punk heavy compilation of rare tracks, including a couple of killer songs. So if you want to hear Die Hunns do Van Halen and Turbonegro do Bowie and Duane Peters do what he's done for the last century, skar yourself. - Roctober

If you like your punk rock, it's hard to go wrong here. Duane Peters knows how to pick 'em, and this disc contains 30 tracks of kick ass shit, all the way from the Briefs to Turbonegro. Old skars means that some of these tracks, such as the Adicts' "Steamroller", are quite old, but others are obviously new. The only one I was tempted to skip was a number by the Ducky Boys, which sounded disgustingly radio-friendly. What happened? I used to love that band! But I won't whine about one track when the other 29 are damn good. My favourites include the Lizzies, Riverboat Gamblers, U.S. Bombs, Black Halos, Amazombies, the Worthless, the District, Duane Peters Gunfight - oh, hell, I'd have to list most of them. One thing I don't understand is why Die Hunns covered "Ain't Talkin' About Love", and Turbonegro covered "Suffragette City". Sure, those songs are both guilty pleasures of mine, but I'd never admit it publicly. Wait a minute, I just did. D'oh! - Chris Walter / The Nerve

The fifth installment of the 'Old Skars And Upstarts' compilation series is the best in the series to date. Duane Peters, the former U.S. Bombs frontman, has compiled the perfect mix of unsigned or unknown artists with big name bands to make this album a hit from start to finish. All 30 tracks are rare or unreleased tracks from such artists as Turbonegro, U.S. Bombs, Hollow Points, The Addicts, Epoxies, and many more. With a DIY feel and a great tracklist this album is an ideal punk compilation for novice and hardcore fans alike. Don't be surprised if you find a few more favorite bands after listening to this compilation. I know I did. - Josh / EpunkZine

This series of compilations always has had some tremendous bands on it; this iteration has pretty much a half/half mix of famous/up and coming bands. The compilation's first hit really comes in Die Hunns' version of the Van Halen classic "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love". Where the cover does not really bring much in the way of a re-tooled sound to the track, the energy present on the original song is maintained for this cover. Coming out of virtually nowhere, The Bones make the next strong case during their "Not A Love Song". The rich instrumentation and smart arrangements during the track only bolster the smooth vocals, and The Bones have a poppy (but not in the vein of Blink 182) sounding punk rock track. Surprisingly enough, it is another cover that really will get individuals' toes tapping; Turbonegro have surprisingly allowed their version of David Bowie's "Suffragette City" to find its way onto this track. This time, unlike Die Hunns, Turbonegro's version tackles the original and only uses some of the vocal inflections of the original, while making the rest of the track theirs. The Black Halos use multiple harmonies, coupled with buzzing guitar lines to make a compelling and bouncy punk track, while the River Boat Gamblers battle a slightly fuzzy recording to bring forth their rich, interesting combination (think Welt meets "At The Library"-era Green Day). With thirty tracks, the fact is that even if "Old Skars and Upstarts" had twenty bum tracks (which is most definitely not the case), the quality of the remaining songs would make the price of this disc worth it. Blood For Blood really push the disc in a bold new direction; in their "Hanging On The Corner", the band mixes equal parts Cali-punk, NY "tough" hardcore and even the slightest amount of melodic "post-hardcore" (read: emo). Finishing up the discs with a cover of Circle Jerks ("Wild in the Streets"), The Kings of Nuthin' truss up the track in much of the same way as Alice Donut's cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"; the Western-sounding plinking of the piano mixes well with the horn section. This CD is excellent in the sense that it will lure individuals in with tracks from major acts (like The Epoxies, The Adicts, and Roger Miret), but intersperse those tracks with a number of "upstarts" that often even outstrip the efforts of established bands on this disc. - Neufutur

Old Skars And Upstarts 505 est la compilation de Disaster Records. Plusieurs des groupes sur ce CD vous seront sûrement inconnus comme BAD LIEUTNANTS ou bien DIE HUNNS mais cela n'empêche que la compilation a le mérite de mélanger autant des groupes punk des années 1970 que des groupes actuels. Côté vedette, on retrouve ROGER MIRET AND THE DISASTERS qui nous chante Lower East Side, une pièce punk relax sans prétention qui ressemble à du RANCID mais en plus molo. On a aussi des chansons de THE ADDICTS (Steamroller), BLOOD FOR BLOOD (Hanging On The Corner) et U.S. BOMBS (He's The Man). J'ai beaucoup aimé le choix des artistes pour la compilation qui nous offre une bonne variété sans pour autant trop s'étendre. Parfait pour les partys de toute sorte, le CD a un certain charme qui ne s'efface toujours pas après plusieurs écoutes. Une autre découverte! - Dave / PunkMeUp (Canada)

Once again Punk/Skate legend and Disaster Records head-honcho Duane Peters has put together a compilation package for your listening pleasure. This is the fifth volume in the OS&U series, and the second I've gotten my hands on. I thought last year's was pretty cool, but I think this year's manages to top it just a little. Once again Duane has hand picked some killer tracks (with a handful of course coming from bands that he's involved with). This time out he has expanded the number of tracks to a nice round 30, and the running time stretches out to 76:50! So you are pretty much guaran-fuckin-teed to get your money's worth here. Now, as always, we'll all have different favourite tracks and bands here, but there are a few I gotta mention. First of all, if you're a die-hard Turbonegro fan like myself, then hearing them do a cover of Bowie's "Suffragette City" will alone be worth the price of admission! This was of course released on another comp back in 2000 (Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man), but that was an expensive import, and this ain't. Moving on, we have a killer track from personal faves The Deep Eynde, and another from The Duane Peters Gunfight. Incidentally, the track from TDPG, "Blow My Brains", sounds remarkably like a lost Dictators song (which is a good thing). There were a couple here that didn't raise my pole (if ya know what I mean), but the score was greatly weighted in favour of the hits over the misses. Excellent stuff! My only criticism, which is carried over from last year's review, is that we need a nice fat booklet to go with this disc. I'd love to read a small bio or whatever on each of these bands, and find out if a particular song is unreleased or not. (and if not, where did it originally appear??) Other than that, you can't really lose here. - Jeff Urotsukodji / Sunset Underground

Well here it is! The fifth collection in the series that unites old timers with new blood through 30 tracks of punk, hardcore and rock n, roll. Each instalment seems to get more and more varied sound-wise and band-wise and that,s a great thing because it keeps the whole thing fresh and exciting. If there,s too many similar bands all back-t-back it becomes an indistinguishable blur but when you have a punk rock backed by a rock n, roll band backed by a hardcore band it adds an unpredictable element to the comp and that keeps it stimulating. Also, there,s a lot of bands on here that have a really interesting sound to begin with like THE KINGS OF NUTHIN,, THE DISTRICT, TURBO NEGRO, EPOXIES (covering GG!!), HOLLOW POINTS, THE STITCHES, DIE HUNNS, THE BRIEFS, THE DEEP EYNDE, MAD SIN, PRIMA DONNAall these bands are pretty unique and instantly recognisable adding to the diversity. I think that Disaster just keeps getting stronger and stronger and expanding it,s sound, especially with bands like DARLINGTON, HOLLOW POINTS, INSAINTS and CIVETthis series of compilation really illustrates that and I love each volume of it, but if you look at each one individually, you can see the progression right there, you can see Disaster expanding and developing and constantly keeping things invigorating. Other bands on this volume include BLACK HALOS, DUCKY BOYS, THE WORTHLESS, THE SKULLS, BLOOD FOR BLOOD, ROGER MIRET AND THE DISASTERS, THE ORPHANS, ANGEL CITY OUTCASTS, THE LIZZIES, THE BONES, U.S. BOMBS, AMAZOMBIES, THE DUANE PETERS GUNFIGHT, STREET DOGS, THE ADDICTS, BAD LIEUTENANTS, RIVER BOAT GAMBLERS, and R.X. SONgreat collection again and as always cool artwork and this time it,s presented in a digipak style which I always like! This is one of the only compilation series that I genuinely look forward to the next one coming out, it never fails to impress me and I can,t wait for the 2006 instalment already. - Marco / NFT (UK)

From our friends at Disaster Records comes the latest edition of the Old Skars and Upstarts compilation disc! Put together by Duane Peters, if you're a fan of Punk Rock you're going to really enjoy this one. It features tracks from icons like US Bombs, The Addicts and Ducky Boys. Along side some newer bands like The Hollow Points, Civit and Kings of Nuthin', just to name a few. Its awesome to have a disc that has stuff from the bands you grew up with along side with those who may be a bit newer to your ears. You'll find yourself feeling the classics all over again while being turned on to some killer new shit! - Sameerah / Ectomag

How can I possibly adequately describe the sheer amazing qualities of this raucously grand CD? Truth be told, I fuckin' can't! There are no words whatsoever that can serve justice to the spectacular nature of the sounds contained herein. Legendary skateboard kamikaze Duane Peters has once again picked the cream of today's Punk Rock crop and packaged it all together into the latest, flesh-shredding edition of Old Skars & Upstarts (the fifth installment, to be exact). Without further verbose ado and adjective-strewn grandstanding, I'd like to now present the entire rundown of this particular collection from start to finish (because each band is definitely worth mentioning): Bad Lieutnants, Die Hunns, Briefs, Prima Donna, The Bones, Angel City Outcasts, Turbo Negro, Black Halos, Epoxies, The Lizzies, Ducky Boys, U.S. Bombs, The District, Amazombies, Mad Sin, Street Dogs, River Boat Gamblers, The Deep Eynde, The Duane Peters Gunfight, Civet, The Addicts, The Worthless, The Skulls, Hollow Points, Blood For Blood, Roger Miret & The Disasters, The Stitches, The Orphans, R.X. Son, and The Kings Of Nuthin'. One hell of an impressive roster, huh! If there were a Cannes Festival for Punk Rock compilations, Old Skars & Upstarts 505 would undoubtedly take top honors as far as I'm concerned. You ain't even close to being punk until ya give this a listen! - Moser / Under The Volcano

Perhaps it's simply my growing age, but each time I get another one of Duane Peters' samplers of rarities and unreleased tracks, I'm surprised to hear there is still so much vitality in the punk underground. After punk's commercial uprisings in the late '70s, and again in the MTV age, it's easy to forget that the music is still living as a commercial outcast in the underground. But devoted old-timers and newbies alike can be heard bashing out three-chord rock 'n' roll with various degrees of traditional talent and plenty of anti-authoritarian spunk. Peters' band Die Hunns bridges the late '70s to today with a growling cover of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," that retains the original's punk-edged-metal attitude. A good deal of this collection is winningly indebted to New York and UK punk variations of the late '70s, including straight ahead influences from standard bearers like The Clash and Buzzcocks (and earlier rock influences like The Who), but also sounds of garage, glam, pub-rock and new-wave. The disc is evenly split between punk-rock with melodies and lyrics and speedier-core that's more spat than sung. Highlight include Briefs' "Human Thermometer" and the punk David Bowie styled "Baby Black and Blue" by The Lizzies. U.S. Bombs "He's the Man" digs into the classic "Have Love, Will Travel" riff for a tune that should be the next Austin Powers' theme. Thirty (30!) cuts means a lot of great music for punk rock lovers of every stripe. - Eli Messinger / Amazon.com

Old Skars and Upstarts 505 is the latest comp put together by the Master of Disaster Duane Peters. I own all of them and all of them rank in my top 10 all time best cd list. This new one, "the 505 edition" is no exception. It begins with the "Bad Lieutnants" doing 'Arizona Love' that kind of sets the pace for an in your face dose of punk rock from around the globe. The Hunns cover the classic VH track "Ain't Talkin' bout Love" and not only do it justice but actually make it better with Duane and Corey trading off on vocals throughout. AWESOME stuff! The Lizzies (feat. Corey) contribute "Baby Black and Blue". I can't wait to hear some more from this band. None of the bands on this cd disappoint. Instead they all give you a sense that punk rock is alive and well despite all the CRAP being thrown at everyone that is labeled "punk". Mr. Peters knows good music period. Now, as if this incredible comp cd isn't enough, he has organized a tour featuring a lot of the bands on this edition of Old Skars. - Jeff Jackson / Music Filter

German review of Old Skars & Upstarts 505 on the Screwed Blued Tattoed site

If you are a fan of anything punk rock then this compilation is for you. There are 30 rare songs from some of todays biggest stars of the punk rock underworld. Rating: 4. - Sidelink

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