Drawing from seven 1967-1973 albums by the Free Design, this 20-song compilation overlaps some with the other Free Design best-of (Varese Sarabande's Kites Are Fun), but each of those anthologies has a good number of songs not on the other. Each one is a reasonable intro to this soft pop/rock band, though, and this does include, naturally, the one song that would be considered essential to any best-of, "Kites Are Fun." The Free Design's world is a never-never land of fluffy good times,...   [ read more ]

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Skatepunk pioneers Free Beer blessed the San Francisco punk scene with a unique, driving sound that would go on to influence countless other bands through the years. While not the only ones planting the seeds for skate-friendly hardcore at the time, the bandmembers were genuinely made up of skateboarders who only wanted to make music that they could skate to. Railing against girls, religion, parents, the army, sobriety, and virtually any other thing that would get in the way of their lifestyle,...   [ read more ]

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