A critical piece of early ’90s Bay Area punk, the Puddle Compilation Cassette captured a slivver of the scene in its infancy. LOOKOUTS, FILTH, GREEN DAY, CRINGER and BLATZ alongside lesser known hitter THE FUMES, MYSTERY MEAT, E.M.R. and NAPKINHEADS. Whether you consider this a starter kit or a refresher course, please listen to CRINGER’s “Another Day” at least once today, and then lament the fact that E.M.R. appear to have left us with just this one absolute screamer. Don’t need to talk about the weird ass throw away OP IVY cover, I’m sure it’s bee addressed by “music journalists” a thousand times already. This music is almost 35 years old….think about that shit. Wild.
