[announcement]
Lookout! Records
reviewed by Kira Sandage
I’ve been a fan of Lookout! Records since I was old enough to really enjoy pop punk. Green Day’s Insomniac was my first punk album and I rapidly became a huge Green Day fan. But I set aside punk for many years and am finally restoring my love for late eighties to late ninties pop punk, back when pop punk was actually real, not this Hot Topic bullshit like My Chemical Romance. So now that Lookout! is basically defunct, what with bands like Green Day and Screeching Weasel pulling the rights to their albums due to Larry Livermoore not paying royalties, I’ve decided to make a memorial to the good old days of Lookout! Records. So in celebration of the decline of Lookout! I have decided to collect and review at least one album from every single band ever signed to the Lookout! label.
The list of bands:
American Steel
Ann Beretta
Auntie Christ
The Avengers
The Basicks
Ben Weasel
Big Rig
Black Fork
The Bomb Bassets
Boris the Sprinkler
Brent’s TV
Citizen Fish
Cleveland Bound Death Sentence
Common Rider
The Cost
Couch of Eureka
The Criminals
Crimpshine
Cringer
The Crumbs
The Cuts
Enemy You
The Eyeliners
Fifteen
Frumpies
Fuel
Fun Bug
Furious George
Gaza Strippers
Gene Defcon
The Gonuts
Go Sailor
The Hi-Fives
The Invalids
Isocracy
The Jackie Papers
The Jimmies
Juke
Kamala and the Karnivores
The Lillingtons
The Lookouts
Monsula
The Mopes
Moral Crux
Neer Do Wells
Neurosis
Nuisance
One Time Angels
Pansy Division
The Pattern
The Peechees
The Phantom Surfers
The Potatomen
Pot Valiant
Rancid
Raooul
RIce
The Riverdales
Samiam
Scherzo
Servotron
The Shotdowns
Sludgeworth
Spitboy
The Splash 4
Squirt Gun
Surrogate Brains
Sweet Baby
Tilt
The Tourettes
[towards an end]
Uranium 9 Volt
Wat Tyler
Worse Case Scenario
The Wynona Riders
Yeastie Girlz
Yesterday’s Kids
(Young) Pioneers
Zero Boys
I feel vaguely sick looking at that list.