This is quite possibly the single most important punk compilation ever released. Fat Mike somehow got 101 bands, many (most?) of whom were not signed to Fat Wreck Chords, to contribute songs that were 30 seconds or less to this and so it's this perfect time capsule of punk in 1999. Everything is here, you have giants of the era like Blink-182, The Offspring and Green Day, all at their most actually punk, you've got bands like Black Flag (who were sadly already on their way into right-wing irrelevance) and The Descendents that were monsters long before Fat Mike ever got started, you've got a no-star lineup of bands that should have been bigger than they were, and every damn thing in between. You even have Terrorgruppe and Wizo representing German punk in the best way possible and Spazz shit-talking half the other bands on the album! What more could you want?

Less, uh, unfortunate songs like No Fun At All's Get A Grip, that's what we could want. It's uh... well, I'm glad we don't have people using "fag" as a generic insult so much these days. That's a good thing. Maybe we could also not have White Flag pushing their dumb fashy bullshit too, I'd be down with that. Still, in the balance: An absolutely essential beast of a compilation. Not bad for something that everyone thought was a joke at the time.