J.F.A. - The Speed Of Sound

Genre: Skate Rock
Year: 2010






Tracklist:

01. Danny Sargent's Trucks
02. Party Like The Amish
03. You Can't Surf
04. Fortune Favors The Brave
05. Wilson
06. 16 Hippies
07. Can't Go Back
08. Sponsored Guy
09. Intermission
10. Nanny State
11. Bow To No Man
12. I Hate Chocolate Cake
13. Number 7
14. Do You Know This Man?
15. My Wife
16. Mayan Calendar







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McRad - Absence Of Sanity

Good full length, the songs flow together better than the first 12". More of their patented skaterock, a lot of these songs were featured in skate videos from the late 80's. The music is still varied, fast thrashy songs, dark eerie songs, and some reggae too, but for the most part loud rocking punk with a slight metal influence. Excellent production. More crossover and diverse sounding than the first LP. The songs "Weakness" and "McShred" have become classics because of their appearance on the soundtrack for the most crucial sequence of the famous "Public Domain" skateboarding video (released by Powell-Peralta). Music ranges from melodic hardcore to all out thrash to reggae-punk to crossover.--flex







Genre: Hardcore/Skaterock
Year: 1987









Tracklist:

01. Mcshred
02. Fiend
03. Weak Style
04. Jocelyn
05. Words of Life
06. Dead by Dawn
07. Weakness
08. In My Forever
09. This Indecision
10. Tom Groholski
11. Brain









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J.F.A. - Valley Of The Yakes

Genre: Skate Rock
Year: 1983








Tracklist:

01. Kick You
02. Great Equalizer
03. Preppy
04. Little Big Man
05. Johnny D
06. Walk Don't Run
07. I Don't Like You
08. Baja
09. Skateboard/We Know You Suck
10. Too Late
11. Sadistic Release
12. Axed at Howards
13. I-10
14. Guess What








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The Faction - The Collection 1982-1985

Think about skating, and you think about punk rock. The two have become inseparable, the terrible twins, joined at birth and destined to suffer together throughout their increasingly dangerous life spans. Out of the madness that linked both, skate rock was born, and the band that epitomised and epitomises skate rock more than any other are The Faction. Formed by Steve Cabellero and fellow skaters, the band had one function. To provide a soundtrack that could be skated to. One that was hard enough to grind along with, powerful enough to fuel a thousand vert tricks and street sessions, that raised a middle finger to the mainstream play it safe, stand on edges wannabe skaters and their ilk and catchy enough to sing along with and dance to at the pool parties and barbecues that followed every session. The Faction fulfilled the dreams of Cabellero, and went above and beyond his wildest expectations.

“Collection” draws twenty eight of the best songs from all of The Factions previous releases and offers them up to the skate gods to dispense to the kids discovering four wheels and a board for the first tie and veteran riders alike. The Faction are back!--interpunk



Genre: Skate Rock
Year: 2003




Tracklist:

01. Tongue Like a Battering Ram
02. Friends and Enemies
03. The Kids Are the Future
04. Dark Room
05. Being Watched
06. Corpes In Disguise
07. Let's Go Get Cokes
08. Why Save the Whales
09. Yesterday Is Gone
10. 100 Years War
11. I Decide For Me
12. Fast Food Diet
13. California Dreamin'
14. Lost In Space
15. Room 101
16. Skate & Destroy
17. Deathless
18. Boredom Awaits
19. Your Generation
20. Not Mine
21. Bullets Are Faster Than Words
22. Since I Was a Kid
23. Pegged For Life
24. Skate Harassment
25. Spineless Majority
26. Beyond the Mirror
27. Demons
28. Tenebrae






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J.F.A. - Demo

Genre: Skate Rock
Year: 1983




Tracklist:

01. Sadistic Release
02. Axed At Howards
03. Skateboard
04. American Buttfucker




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J.F.A. - We Know You Suck

For me, this was one of the most long-awaited reissues of old hardcore punk that has popped up. Phoenix, Az. heroes JFA, or Jody Foster's Army, were one of the best of the old "skate rock" bands from the 80s, but their records have been out of print for years. I was lucky enough to stumble upon copies of "Valley of the Yakes" and "Untitled" in a lil' record store for a few bucks a piece and they've become some of my favorite records.

Anyway, "We Know You Suck" compiles JFA's first two records, the "Blatant Localism" 7" (1982?) and "Valley of the Yakes." (1983). Both are fast, tuneful -- but far from poppy or extremely melodic -- slabs of youthful hardcore punk that bring to mind Bad Brains, Ill Repute or "Group Sex"-era Circle Jerks. Lyrics are really pretty silly and juvenile (in a good way!), with most songs about skateboarding (of course) or how the band hates jocks, preppies and other various enemies of punkdom.

Some personal favorite lyrics of mine are in "The Great Equaliser," in which singer John praises Ronald Reagan for starting a nuclear war and creating an atomic wasteland where preppies are destroyed by "groups of skaters, roaming in packs" because "we had the adaptability you lack." Now the skaters are free from harrassment and have all day to skate around amidst charred buildings and the bodies of dead cops and football players. Really funny, but really smart at the same time. When mst punk bands were churning out standard ...Ronald Reagan" lyrics, JFA found a way to turn the idea of Reagan-bashing on its head and still be successful about it... while still retaining the fun element to their music.

Also, check out the ripping, reverb-drenched surf instrumentals on this CD: a cover of "Walk Don't Run" is included, as well as JFA original "Baja" which, in the right time and place, could have been a bonafide surf hit. Too bad the band was 20 years too late for that one...Thank God for Jello and AT. Without him, these tracks would probably stay out of print and hard to get, but now everyone can enjoy the pool-ripping, curb-grinding fun of JFA.--amazon


Genre: Skate Rock
Year: 2003


Tracklist:

01. Out Of School
02. JFA
03. Do The Hannigan
04. Count
05. Beach Blanket Bongout
06. Cokes & Snickers
07. Kick You
08. Great Equalizer
09. Preppy
10. Little Big Man
11. Johhny D.
12. Walk Don't Run
13. I Don't Like You
14. Baja
15. Skateboard
16. We Know Who You Suck
17. Too Late
18. Sadistic Release
19. Axed At Howard's
20. 1-10
21. Guess What?
22. Bouncer
23. Middle America
24. Lowrider
25. Out Of School - (live)
26. Great Equalizer - (boomer version)
27. Skateboard - (live)
28. Preppy - (Topsider version)
29. Standin' On The Verge - (live)
30. Teen Idol
31. Johnny D. - (live)
32. Charlie Brown - (Schroeder version)
33. Do The Hannigan - (live)



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