Greatest Hits Vol. 1

This album was built as a 'punk' inspired cooperation by many fans of the genre, and a quick look of the names involved, largely back up those claims, however, it's more of a hardcore who's who, with a very strong and disctinctly metal edge.What's great about this album, and other projects similar to this, is a sense of oneupmanship in the group, you really feel, they're all trying to outdo each other, whilst giving their own take on the formula! Another plus is hearing some that have become slightly estranged from the genre revisit their roots e.g. Neil Fallon of Clutch on 'Crowned by the Light of the Sun,' established names doing something pretty new or unheard of for them such as Randy Blythe on 'Hung Out to Dry,' or doing what they do but for a different band / pace : Jello Biafra.As I've already established, this is a kind of hardcore/metal hybrid album, and it with quite a bit of irony that perhaps the best track feature someone on the more 'willowy' side of punk/hardcore spectrum, 'Barrio' featuring Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio (cough...Blink 182)!Out of the many, short, sharp 20 tracks (rarely troubling the 3 minute mark) I would say at least 15 are great tracks. Indeed, the only track that really stands out as dull or by the numbers is 'Your Empty Soul' it's not terrible, but it just dragged to my ears!Full of nice surprises and great songs. Probably the most 'punk' album released this century NOT from the underground!

Great rock record!

This album is so much fun. It's like the other album from Dave Grohl, released a couple of years ago called 'Probot', but I think this is better. So if you're into that sort of thing...

So much anger. So much goodness.

AWESOME ALBUM

The idea of this album is pretty simple and similar to the really quite good ‘Roadrunner United’ released way back when, which brought together loads of different artists to make some really good music. The songs tended to ape the vocalists regular bands which meant that the album felt more like a compilation rather than a coherent whole. Teenage Time Killers are a more consistent beast their sound resides in the dirty rock n roll crusty Sabbathy type sound, which means a good gel which keeps you musically excited from start to finish.You really couldn’t ask for more solid grooves or more wailing leads but what really puts this album at the top of the pile is that despite the variety of names involved it really feels like a band playing good music because they transcend the idea of supergroup collaborations and solidify the long forgotten idea of a band rocking out. They get the blood pumping and make you feel young and as such any second volume will have much to live up to.There are 20 songs here but while that may sound like a lot it never feels like it is because what you have here is lean and mean stuff, no excessive verses or choruses or messing about, songs generally last around 2 minutes, they rock you hard before passing you onto the next slice of distilled tastiness.The core band consists of Mick Murphy from my Ruin and Reed Mullin from Corrosion of Conformity and then there is a huge number of contributors whose names you will be very familiar with but which I won’t name because it would spoil the surprise, suffice to say that there are no weak links on this album, even if you might not be keen on all of the contributors day jobs.