All the Punk... Fit to Print (1995, Newspeak) - This was part of a huge haul of shit I bought for what I'm pretty sure was a relatively tiny amount of money from No Idea mail order as a young metalhead who was making a halfhearted attempt at getting into punk. (maybe not halfhearted, but probably no more than twothirdshearted) It is a product of its time, in that it's all pop punk and ska-punk, which was the style at the time.  I probably didn't spend enough time listening to this, as I had better stuff come in as part of the same haul, but I do remember putting the tracks by Rhythm Collision and Nonsense on a mixed tape or two, and it's also got stuff by Skankin' Pickle, Against All Authority, Lagwagon, and Voodoo Glowskulls, (as an untitled, semi-hidden track at the end) and those are all bands people have heard of.  Someday, I'm gonna go back and listen to all my cheapo punk comp CDs and get super into shitty 90s pop punk when I'm like 54 years old, and I'm gonna buy gigantic skater pants, and it's gonna be hilarious, until my wife leaves me over it.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Alpha Motherfuckers: A Tribute to Turbonegro (2001, Hopeless) - This CD came out a few years after Turbonegro broke up for a while, and according to the internet, it happened because of Hank Von Helvete converting to Scientology, which is a very appropriate way for them to break up.  Anyway, it's got 26 groups doing TRBNGR covers, and it's all over the goddamn place, with genre-appropriate punk bands like Zeke and Ratos De Porao mixing in with shit from elsewhere, like Queens of the Stone Age, Nashville Pussy, and fucking Satyricon.  Honestly, most of it is weird and not good, but at 26 tracks, there's still enough good to justify a normal sized CD comp.  My CD had two booklets when I got it, but it seems that there's only one now, meaning I probably thumbtacked the other one to a wall at some point, because I was fifteen years old well into my thirties. Hot Water Music does "Prince of the Rodeo" on here, and it may be the best thing they ever did.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Back to Donut: A No Idea Compilation (1999, No Idea) - Look, y'all, I really don't remember a goddamn thing about this CD.  It's a No Idea label sampler kinda thing, and one of three that I have around here, but it's one I ended up owning after I stopped trying as hard to care about punk and punk-related stuff that wasn't like twenty years old or whatever, so I barely ever listened to it.  Shame, because it's got stuff on it that was never released on CD, like a song from that Pung 5" record I got in the same box as this, plus a song from that 7" where Less Than Jake did Slayer covers.  I will toss this into the "maybe revisit someday" pile, and then probably never revisit it.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

The Beavis and Butt-head Experience (1993, Geffen) - This Cd was like a goddamn cultural event when it came out, just like Beavis and Butt-Head.  (which I never noticed until looking at the cover is apparently officially spelled "Butt-Head," with a hyphen, instead of just "Butthead." My whole life has been a lie.)  Like if you hadn't picked up the Crow soundtrack, you could still be considered legally white so long as you had this, and lessen the risk of being murdered by the cops.  Everybody that was even moderately huge while still being theoretically approved by Beavis and Butt-Head was on here, (plus Cher, and for some ungodly reason, Jackyl) like Nirvana, RUN DMC, Primus, White Zombie, Megadeth, and Anthrax, even though the Anthrax song is an absolutely dreadful Beastie Boys cover.  The inside is full of Mike Judge doodles of the two dudes drawn as stuff like hippies, Hasidic Jews, and Riker and Picard, and doing stuff like that was one of my favorite pastimes when I wasn't paying attention in class.  Somewhere in a Mississippi landfill, there's an 8th grade notebook with Beavis and Butt-Head drawn as Lemmy and Wurzel from Motorhead, James and Lars from Metallica, Butt-head drawn to look like Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rod Woodson, (making "Rod" and "Wood" jokes, obviously) and Beavis as ill-fated Indianapolis Colts defensive tackle Steve Emtman, screaming "AAAAH, MY KNEEEE!" I'm probably a bad person.  Also, in a cardboard tube somewhere around here, I still have the poster with near-identical art to what's on the back cover of this.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Big Pants Waste Precious Fabric: No Idea Fanzine #11 (1994, No Idea) - This is the second No Idea comp CD I ended up with, oddly enough after buying the issue of the 'zine it came out of from the issue that came out two years later.  And that Cd from issue #11 was one that I loved and listened to often, but this one... was not.  I dunno, maybe the novelty of things was wearing off, and it wasn't helped much by how a lot of this stuff was out-of-print by '99 or 2000 or whenever it was that I got this, so even if I did like something, I couldn't delve further into things.  I seem to remember liking a song by this one band called Grain on here, but I couldn't tell you a damn thing about the rest of it, aside from Less Than Jake showing up at one point, and this band called Schlong does a song that's like ten seconds of what it would be like if Anal Cunt covered the Barney and Friends theme.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Bread, The Edible Napkin: No Idea Fanzine #12 (1996, No Idea) - I got this at my first Cleveland, MS punk show (Punktoberfest '98 - I believe the bill was The Kenmores, The Kuldips, Kaiser Peas, Not Dead Only Frozen and Fake) and it was a huge milestone for me, because it was the first knowledge I ever had that there was music out there that was too underground for a mention in the Columbia House catalog, but too big to just be a cassette with a photocopied cover.  Also, it was the first time I could even fathom the idea of a compact disc with thirty-three tracks on it, after a brief musical life of listening to heavy metal bands who just can't help themselves with the seven-plus minute songs sometimes.  But I wore this damn thing out and listened to it front-to-back a million times, even though there's an awful lot of 90s emo-y stuff whose tomfoolery I simply cannot sanction. I don't remember which band it is, but there's one song that's just quiet music over some nerdlinger talking (not singing) about finding an old picture of someone and it making him sad, and I would have to listen to Chaos A.D. in its entirety to detox after every time I accidentally played that track.  I should probably listen to a second song by Floor someday, but I haven't, because I'm lazy.
CDs/records bought as a direct result of this compilation: Nine (9) - Fuel for the Hate Game by Hot Water Music, State of the Youth 5" by Pung, B. Lee Band by the Bruce Lee Band, Collision Course by Rhythm Collision, plus at least five other compilation CDs

Contaminated 5.0 2CD (2003, Relapse) - Heavy Metal really started to leave me behind once the 2000s started, and this set having 45 tracks, of which I only gave a damn about *maybe* five, is a pretty good example of this in action.  Like I'm sure if I dove back in, there would at least be one or two things I didn't get into in 2005 or whenever I bought this, (I legit never realized there was a Cryptic Slaughter track on here, probably because it's at the end of disk two) but I'm sorry, death metal and death metal derivatives usually just bore the living shit out of me, and we're at least 15 years deep into a world where even the modern equivalent of sissy glam rock stuff would've been "extreme" by 1997 standards.  Perhaps I'm out of touch?  No, it is the children who are wrong. I don't know why I don't have any High on Fire, everything I've ever heard of theirs has ruled.  Maybe I'm just bad at listening to music?  I dunno.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: One (1) - Last Daze Here by Pentagram

Don't Attempt to Make an Effort (King Recordz, 1996) - I'm pretty sure I bought this because it was intensely cheap, like it says four dollars on the back of it, but I'm pretty sure I only paid maybe half of that.  Bu this is a comp of 90s punk bands that are very much on that "cassette demo with a photocopied cover" level as far as I can tell, and most of it is pretty unremarkable.  I guess you just have to take what you get with a $4 CD on clearance or whatever.  I'm pretty sure Big Wig eventually amounted to something, which makes sense, because theirs was the only song on here that was good enough to put on a mixed tape in 1997.  Overall, the best part of this is probably the dude with a dirt-stache on the cover who looks like he should be under a Snuggie, but he cannot be under one, because they haven't been invented yet.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Earache: Twenty-Five Years (2012, Earache) - The modern world has robbed us of the artifact value of the cheapo compilation CD, but it has given us the free compilation download, so that's some consolation, I suppose.  But as the title indicates, this is a sampler of the first 25 years of Earache Records, and they've always been really heavy into death metal and grindcore and what-have-you, and I'm a tiny little baby, so a lot of this isn't for me.  But there's stuff on here like Napalm Death and Natur and Sleep and Evile and Entombed, so I probably got more for my money off a free thing than most of these that I actually paid for.  I still don't know what you people see in At the Gates, though.  The forgotten-in-their-own-time 90s band that the 2000s in heavy metal were inexplicably based around shoud've been Only Living Witness, dammit.  I'll be seeing Napalm Death in August, (With Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, and to a lesser extent, Lamb of God) so I should probably look for more of their stuff.  They've always been a band who I should super dislike, based on my own general wimpiness, but I've liked almost everything I've heard over the last hundred years or so.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Equal Vision Records Label Sampler (Equal Vision, 2000) -Another compilation of punk and punk-adjacent stuff that I bought super-cheap, and that I didn't really care much for.  I don't recall anything on here being offensively bad, but I'm pretty sure I got this about a good four years after my attempt at a punk phase had ended. It's not you, Equal Vision, it's me.  I'm pretty sure I liked One King Down, Snapcase, and Ten Yard Fight in a "listen to their track on various comp CDs multiple times, but never actually get any of their stuff" way.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Extent Fanzine Silver Five Inch Collection Vol. 1 (Extent Fanzine, 1996) - Aw maaaaan, this Cd is worn out to the point where the silvery stuff is coming off, but the first track seems to still play? Weird. Anyway, I got this and volume two with copies of Extent 'zine that the dude from Ten Yard Fight used to put out, and they both cost me literally $1.80 apiece from the No Idea/Blindspot Mailorder catalog, which is crazy, because this CD is so goddamn good for a price like that.  Honkeyball and Cast Iron Hike became two of my favorite bands because of this thing, and the Damnation A.D. track ("On a Pale Horse;" the CD incorrectly list it as "Damnation") has the most evil-sounding first minute so of any song, ever. And even some of the groups I don't remember being all that into twenty years ago (oh god) now sound like stuff I really should've checked out, like Sinkhole and Breach. It's not all great though, as Buzzkill is just weird, and there's this straightedge rap group called Fort Knox that spends half the track on a skit about murdering drug dealers, and it's just awful, and I want to do drugs just to spite them now.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: Three (3):  Onetime by Honkeyball, The Salmon Drive EP by Cast Iron Hike, No More Dreams of Happy Endings by Damnation A.D.

Extent Fanzine Silver Five Inch Collection Vol. 2 (Extent Fanzine, 1997) -Well, boy, this is just so much worse than Volume 1 was.  It's still way above the level of a normal cheapo comp CD, but there were only two songs on here that may have inspired me to go out and find their stuff, and I already had the CD with the Hot Water Music song, and somehow, I could never find the one by The Piss Drunks.  (Years later, I illegally downloaded it off Soulseek, only to find out that the guy I was downloading it from had actually been a member of the band, and we had a pleasant conversation, which is really rare for the internet, even back in 2002 or whenever it was) I guess the stuff by Sub Zero, One King Down, 454 Big Block, and Ten Yard Fight wasn't bad, but I came a lot closer to getting just what I paid the $1.80 for on this one.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None. (Unless one of y'all can find me a copy of Alcoholocaust by the Piss Drunks somehow)

Fast Forward Rock, Fall '98 (1998, Columbia House) - Eh, this was a free CD they tried to turn into a quarterly thing with your Columbia House membership back in the day.  It was so bad, I opted out of future editions, even though it was completely free.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Fear Candy #33 2CD (2006, Terrorizer Magazine) - Have to pretty much repeat most of what I said on that Contaminated CD here, where 21st century metal generally does little for me, and extreme metal even less, and this is almost entirely 21st century extreme metal, so there you go.  It's got Amon Amarth and Napalm Death, but other than that, it's all either stuff I can't get into or stuff like Cradle of Filth and Wednesday 13 that just plain sucks. Disc Two is all unsigned bands, which is a pretty cool concept, but it's still a bunch of bad death metal and metalcore that I'm too old to care about.  I don't think any of these guys ever got signed, either.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Fear Candy #37 (2007, Terrorizer Magazine) - I, uhhh, yeah, pretty much repeat the paragraph about Fear Candy 33, except this has a song by Destruction on it, and that's cool.  Modernity is bad, even if it's eleven years old. (oh god)
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Go Ahead Punk... Make My Day (1996, Nitro) - This is a compilation CD from the label that the Offspring own, so whatever that makes you picture in your mind is probably true either way.  Mid 90s pop punk in the mid 90s style, with two songs each from The Offspring, Guttermouth, The Vandals, AFI, And Jughead's Revenge. It's all pretty much disposable, dime-a-dozen kinda stuff, but I guess the only band on here that's actually *bad* is AFI, which is hilarious, because they were the ones that ended up being huge a few years later, after a kinda-sorta vaguely gothic makeover.  Music got real, real stupid in the early 2000s, you guys.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Hard Rockin' 70s (1990, Priority) - Ha, so hey, I just remembered I have this after accidentally stealing it from my mom somehow.  Oops.  Anyway, this is one of those compilation CDs that flooded the earth once CD players started getting affordable enough for CDs to slowly become the dominant format, but the CDs themselves were still usually close to twenty bucks apiece, so people bought a lot of compilations, so as to not go broke replacing LPs and cassettes.  And this has 12 tracks of a lot of what you'd expect to be a Cd based on the concept of the hard-rockin' 70s, but it's kinda bullshit, too, because it has a version of "We Will Rock You" that doesn't segue into "We Are the Champions," and some kind of radio edit of "Freebird" that's less than five minutes long.  I should give this back someday.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Hell Bent Forever: A Tribute to Judas Priest (2008, Deadline) - Man, the world is lousy with bad tribute cover Compilations, and this is certainly one of those.  I think I just glanced at this and saw Motorhead doing "Breaking the Law" and Sepultura doing "Screaming for Vengeance," and was too intrigued by the possibilities of those to realize that the rest was all a bunch of old hair metal  bands, a sort of Who's Who of people that aren't anyone anymore.  This is all just sad and awful, and they used Iron Maiden's logo font for a Judas Priest-related CD and I probably could have gotten a whole large pizza for the price of this thing.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Identity II (1995, Century Media) - Man, Century Media was such a weird label in the 90s, and this Cd is all over the goddamn place as a result.  This has punk, hardcore, sludge, doom, power metal, nu-metal, rap metal, and freaking black metal, among other subgenres I'm probably leaving out.  It's got Toxic Reasons and Emperor on one CD, you guys.  This shit is weird. I wonder how the people who bought this for Emperor, Moonspell, Samael, and The Gathering felt about Punky Brusster and Chum, and I wonder if they were all united by agreeing that Stuck Mojo sucked ass.  This actually has a lot of good stuff on it, which is probably how this label pulled off being an indy that had a little of literally everything on it.  Also, they put the track by Only Living Witness at the beginning, because they knew what was up.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Identity 7: Deadly Sins (2001, Century Media) - Man, I don't think I've listened to any of this in over a decade, and I honestly don't remember much about it. Just looking at this track list, it's in the beginning of that weird transitional period, when hardcore was becoming completely detached from any version of punk, and Century Media was becoming more of a pure metal label as a result.  Man, that ended up being the worst time, because the whole metalcore thing took off to the goddamn stratosphere, and people were all "YEEEAH, HEAVY METAL IS BACK" and they brought back Headbanger's Ball and everything, but all the new bands sucked so bad, and the new Headbanger's Ball sucked too, and it was just like nu-metal never stopped, except it was also death metal now, or some shit.  I guess Mastodon was really good, but even they have been pretty lousy for several years now.  Anyway, you were all stupid for buying into the "New Wave of American Heavy Metal," and Century Media was stupid for keeping Stuck Mojo records in stores for decades.  God, I never could stand them.  It got especially bad later on, once they tried to cash in on the post-9/11 climate of fear by becoming THE OFFICIAL METAL BAND OF PATRIOTISM or some shit, except not smart enough to know that you can't properly pander to terrified racists when you singer is a not-white dude who raps.  Anyway, fuck Five Finger Death Punch.
CDs bought as a direct result of this compilation: None.

Knuckletracks 86 (2005, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles) - This is another that I haven't listened to in a decade (and honestly, might have bought it in the same trip as Identity 7) but it's a lot of bands I had actually head previously and knew in advance that I didn't like, so welp, what are ya gonna do.  I remember being kinda weirded out by the Agnostic Front track on here, because in five years or so that I had spent not paying attention to Agnostic Front, they had gone from an old-school hardcore band  to a shitty version of Sepultura or something.  The other notable thing here is that the God Dethroned track on here is called "Loyal to the Crown of God Dethroned," and that's got to be the black metal equivalent of that time The Dwarves put out an album called "The Dwarves are Young and Good-Looking."  I'm not familiar enough with God Dethroned to know how they roll, but that just seems way too over-the-top goofy for a black metal band.  I mean, most black metal bands are goofier than shit, but it's unintentional, like some skinny kid waving around a medieval fair pole-arm in a snow field, and there's a 1999 Toyota Corolla and a couple confused neighborhood kids visible in the background.