All Bagged Up: The Collected Works, 1977-1980

The Bags, “All Bagged Up: The Collected Works, 1977-1980” (Artifix, 2007)
One of the earliest L. A. punk bands, the Bags also pointed the way toward hardcore (see A/1). As much as anyone, they created L.A. punk/HC’s signature aerodynamic, jet-propelled rush of antisocial blare, but here the joy is as palpable as the rage, is in fact inextricable from it – particularly in Alice’s vocals, one of the purest examples anywhere in early punk of somebody letting loose everything they’d been waiting to say for 18 years at once.
The great stuff is on the A; start with A/1, then A/2, then keep going.
10/22/11