Drive-Thru Records: Pure Volume Compilation

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Drive Thru
• ASIN: B00078FAMI
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,178 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Tie the Rope

2. Exit Emergency

3. Sesame Smeshame

4. Can't Suspend It

5. Rushmore

6. Saturday

7. The Blame Anxiety

8. Sydney

9. Once Again

10. Caroline, London 1940

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Homewrecker

2. His Midas Touch

3. Ashes, Ashes

4. Homewrecker

5. His Midas Touch

6. Ashes Ashes

7. Nice Night For a Fist Fight

8. Kill the Messenger

9. Better Love

10. Speechless

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wish I could give it 5..., June 4, 2005

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Dan (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Drive-Thru Records: Pure Volume Compilation (Audio CD)

This set of CDs is one of the best ways to be exposed to new music in the punk rock, pop punk, emo, punk, and alternative genres. Drive-Thru managed to get all sorts of bands on these CD's, with a grand total of 145 songs. It's hard to imagine that much music all at once, in fact I haven't yet listened to all of it. So far so good! :)

There is just so much here to listen to... buy this set if you've got a lot of time on your hands!

The music itself is worth a 5/5, you'll definately find stuff that you'll enjoy for a long time. Better yet, you'll find whole new artists you can look into for more great stuff!

The real issue that I have with this compilation is organization. The MP3 portions of the CDs are as poorly organized as a 13 year old's bedroom!

The names of the files are in the form: XXYYYY.MP3, where XX is the track number and YYYY are four letters of the title. It's nearly impossible to tell what song you're playing! The ID3 tags, the things that Winamp uses to get more information about the song (title/artist/cd/year/etc) are all very very messy. Many misspellings on the first CD, most of the artist names are in the "album" placeholder, and the artist comes up as "no Artist". Very many are just plain labelled incorrectly. It's ridiculous!

I used the paper insert to rename them all to their correct names, that took me easily over an hour!

Oh, and to top it off, track #49 on CD1 is just plain missing.

Drive-Thru Records: shame on you!

The music, however, deserves a 5/5. So much variety, so many songs, you're bound to find at least a CD's worth that you really like!

Hope all that helps...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gotta love jack..., May 1, 2005

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Music lover "Jenny" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive-Thru Records: Pure Volume Compilation (Audio CD)

This CD is worth buying if only for 1 song-- "Kill the Messenger" by Jack's Mannequin. Anyone who loves Something Corporate *as all sane people should* will love it. Andrew McMahon is a musical god in all ways and forms and this song truly shows it. Their debut CD comes out on July 12.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Compilation, February 13, 2005

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Brad Nowak (Northern Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive-Thru Records: Pure Volume Compilation (Audio CD)

Just a great CD if you want a variety of music. Also check out 1st CD, mp3 track 23. Great song from Evermore, an unsigned band from New Jersey.

This cd is worth so much more than the price, i just wish they would of had all the real audio tracks and mp3's tagged so i wouldnt have to put all the information into them myself for iTunes...