Musical Nostalgia

I had mentioned that yesterday at work had felt like an end-of-term feel, and one contributing factor to that was the music. We typically have the radio on, but often will have someone's music playing. Yesterday one of my colleagues had a newly purchased album which was definitely worthy of an airing - a compilation album titled Teenage Dirtbags.

This was an immense trip down teenage nostalgia as it contained almost exclusively turn-of-the-century pop-punk and 'alternative' tunes. Tunes featured include classic pop-punk such as Blink 182's All The Small Things, Bowling For Soup's Girl All The Bad Guys Want, Fountains of Wayne with Stacey's Mom, American Hi-Fi's Flavour of the Weak - and obviously the titular track, Wheatus' Teenage Dirtbag, which kicks off the whole caboodle. Ska was represented in the form of Reel Big Fish's Sell Out, Goldfinger's Superman and Less Than Jake's She's Gonna Break Soon (not their best, but still good).

There were more tunes on the second disc - yes, this compilation contains a stonking 44 songs - starting off with Weezer's Buddy Holly and Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch, although less of the pop-punk focus with efforts such as Celebrity Skin by Hole and Fall Out Boy's Dance Dance, the cheese-nu-metal (is that even a genre?) of Andrew WK's Party Hard, matched in lyrical ingenuity by Metro Station's Shake It (which I hadn't heard before but could sing along to by the end of the first few lines), the 'take us seriously we know more than four chords honest' effort I Feel So by Boxcar Racer and a host of others inbetween.

I have several of the songs on various albums I own, or compilation efforts such as Kerrang, but it was still a fantastic guilty pleasure to go through all those songs in succession. It may be one that goes onto the shopping list.