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Dogs don't live to bark 20 years, but record labels do-and the Massachusetts mongrels at Arf! Arf! Now have 20 candles burning on their birthday cake. You don't get to blow 'em out, but you can join in on the celebration with this bargain 50-song extravaganza that touches on pieces of the label's history. Actually, this sampler is more of a parallel universe, as it serves up alternates, demos and outtakes from artists whose works have been emblazoned with the twin Arf! Arf! #dogs, the twin birds of it's budget line Cheep! Cheep! #subsidiary, or the dignified font of it's new music spin-off, s'z. It is not, however, the bottom of the barrel; it's simply the stuff that, for one reason or another, didn't quite make it onto one of the imprint's many fine releases. But it had to come out eventually, and since the label's a year away from the legal drinking age, what else was it gonna toast with' Whatever your choice of musical beverage, you will certainly get your fill on these two CDs. For less than the price of two beers in a bar (or a couple sodas if you're driving), you get two 78-minute discs crammed with the type of stuff that's had Arf! Arf! #fans growling for years, whether the garage antics of the Litter and the Rising Storm, the psychedelic visions of Lazy Smoke and the Flat Earth Society, or the sheer strangeness of the Space Negros and Lucia Pamela. Maybe an old mutt can't learn new tricks, but the brains behind Arf! Arf! #don't need to. As the breadth of musical styles encompassed on this sampler prove, these people know plenty of tricks already. Kick out the dogs, motherfucker!

1. Wasting My Time (Instrumental) - New Breed 2. Everybody Knows - Lost 3. Alyshia - Bourbons 4. Baby Please Don't Go - Rising Storm 5. Pandora Wants Strange - Rich Weinberg 6. Can You Get Me Out of This Place - Four Commandments 7. Mary Is Alone - Dry Ice 8. You Gave Me Light - Lazy Smoke 9. More Incidental Music - the Lost 10. Satori - Flat Earth Society 11. Action Woman - Litter 12. Tallyman - Litter 13. Without You - Those of Us 14. Pride of a Man - Steve Ellis and the Starfires 15. Instrumental - Dee Jay ; the Runaways 16. Espanie'l - Chuck Barr ; the Playboys 17. I Can't Take It - Yankee Rebels 18. My Life with You - Traditions 19. Mojo Workout - Pat Farrell 20. I Need Love Now (Instrumental) - Flowerz 21. In Retrospect - Six Feet Under 22. Country - Fredric 23. Freedom - White Lightning 24. Rock and Roll Woman - Legends 25. Please Let Me Into Your Secrets - TNT 26. King Queen - Pandora 27. House Flaming - Moving Parts 28. Soul Searchin' - Electras 29. No No No - Lovin' Sandwich 30. (Boss) Be Good to Me - Apollo's Apaches 31. Kiddie a Go Go - Males 32. Let's All Mix Together - Black Diamonds 33. Of Dreams - Morgen 34. Enjoy Yourself - Dragonfly 35. Distortions of Darkness - 31 Flavors 36. The Rake - Id 37. Freakout (Part One) - Soundz 38. In a Gadda Da Vida - Space Negros 39. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - Space Negros 40. Crossfire/Tea for Two Cha Cha Cha - Space Negros 41. We Will Fall - Space Negros 42. It Looks You in the Eye - Erik Lindgren 43. Deep in the Heart of Texas - the Beagles 44. Fancy Woman - High Voltage 45. In the Year 2001! - Lucia Pamela 46. Sings - Jack Mudurian 47. Insanity - Ken Field 48. Changes - Erik Lindgren 49. Action Man - Erik Lindgren 50. Waltham Camera ; Stereo 1 (1982) - Erik Lindgren