Hot Shit Attitude

Way back before the internet, it was difficult to hear bands without buying records or CDs unless you had friends who you could tape stuff from (which I never did). So compilations were a good way to 'sample' lots of different bands before making that cash investment in a physical product. I think that in Germany they efer to compilationss as 'samplers' which I kinda like. But anyway, it seems to me that compilations are pretty unneccessary these days. Ok, so a lot of them contain exclusive songs, but even so, you can no doubt listen to them on bandcamp or spotify or whatever. Plus comps are sometimes a tough listen because there are likely to be songs that seem out of place. But still, comps can be good fun, and provide a nice varied listen. A couple of years ago, Blackout! Records put out a compilation LP called 'Hot Shit Attitude' which features various 'current' bands (i.e. ones that were current about 4 years ago) playing Outburst covers. I was buying some records from Rev a while ago and was looking to see what else I could add to my cart, so I picked one up this comp on a whim.

I really like how this is made out to look like something from the 80s and bears absolutely no resemblance to either a hardcore record nor the Outburst 7". I also love pink vinyl. As someone said recently, it is the best colour for a record. Well, except clear.

There are 13 songs on here, which includes covers of all 7 songs from the Outburst 7" (played in a completely different order), 4 songs from the demo, and the two songs from the 'New York Hardcore Where The Wild Things Are' LP. Some of the bands I was already familiar with to some extent (Wild Side, Search, Krimewatch, Higher Power, Fury, Stand Off) and some I had never heard before (Initiate, Mizery, Big Boss, Outskirts). All the covers are played pretty faithfully, and actually a lot of these sound harder than the originals, which I think is down to the whole thing sounding like it is mixed better than the original (I always thought that the vocals were too loud). So yeah, overall a pretty cool record really.