
Back To School (Punk and Hardcore Mixtape)
old compilation tapes I’ve talked a bit about growing up in punk in the mid-80’s after the classics (Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys) broke up. The one enduring thing was …



I’ve talked a bit about growing up in punk in the mid-80’s after the classics (Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys) broke up. The one enduring thing was that the bunch of us, and our network of penpal friends from elsewhere would always do up a mixtape. The mixtape was a glorious thing, and several of us got really really good at finding a topic and milking it for a themed side of a mixtape. A favourite of mine was through a British penpal who did up a Life/Death mixtape: starting with Subhumans — I Don’t Want To Die on the Life side and ending with Rudimentary Peni-Death Hearse on the Death side.
So seeing as it’s close to September, I thought it might be fun to do a mixtape for those heading back to school. All these songs are about learning or school in some way, and well you’ll see. I don’t anticipate doing a ton of mixtapes; like the podcast it takes a bit of time to squeeze these together. Periodically, I’ll do a themed thing. I’ve got some old tapes that I’ve been digitizing so I’ll try to throw something on these mixes that aren’t immediately well known.
Tracklist:
Redd Kross — I Hate My School
Bl’ast! — School’s Out
Ramones — I Don’t Wanna Be Learned, I Don’t Wanna Be Tamed (Demo)
Die Kreuzen — In School
Void — Void — Think
Anti System — Schoolboy
rattus — miesten koulu
Withdrawn — Back To School
Dead Kennedys — Straight A’s
HUL — Skole
Problem Children — The Future Is Now
MDC — I Remember
Necros — I Hate My School
Crude SS — Ingen Skola
Direct Control — De-Educate
Scholastic Deth — Killed By School
School Jerks — High School
Really Red — Teaching You The Fear
Scared Straight — School
Code of Honor — Education
Maniacs — One Way Education
Big Boys — Frat Cars
JFA — Out Of School
Necros — Public High School
Hüsker Dü — Guns at My School (Live)
The Replacements — Fuck School
Mission Of Burma — Academy Fight Song
Nation Of Ulysses — Cool Senior High School (Fight Song)
Diet Cola —Early Learning
Charles Bronson — I Go To School
Out Cold — You’ll Never Learn