Cheapskates Volume 2

Description

Cheapskates Volume 2 is a multi-artist compilation released on BEC Recordings ‎in 2001, a division of Tooth & Nail Records.

BEC Recordings is the shop window label of Seattle’s amazing Tooth & Nail/Solid State who over the last few years have poured out torrents of albums to finally convince corporate America, and more importantly tens of thousands of teenage believers, that Christian music doesn’t begin and end in Nashville. As this release shows, Ebel’s company has now diversified to such an extent that alongside the punk, alternative rock and hardcore bands on which it built its following, the company has now been able to diversify to take in a broader range of youth culture styles. So alongside the raucous sounds of punk rawk, you’ve also got ’60s sounding electro pop (Joy Electric), dance (Germany’s Ultrabeat), ska (OC Supertones), hip hop (MG! The Visionary and III Harmonics – have you caught their «Rock The Casbah» heavily featured on Cross Rhythms radio yet?) and, most unexpectedly of all, cod disco (The Company). A particular standout here was Plankeye’s mid tempo rocker «The Meaning Of It All» while the UK’s small band of Tooth & Nail devotees might be tempted to investigate this recent release sampler by the inclusion of a couple of previously unreleased Hangnail tracks. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, July 2001]

CD tracklist:

01. The O.C. Supertones – Jury Duty (from the album Loud and Clear)
02. Cadet – God-Man (from their self-titled album)
03. Plankeye – The Meaning Of It All (from the album Strange Exchange)
04. Any Given Day – Great And Mighty (from the Any Given Day: Earth to Heaven P&W Album)
05. Hangnail – All That You Wanted (Brand new unreleased track)
06. Flight 180 – Prom Queen (from the album Girls & Boys)
07. Ace Troubleshooter – Yesterday (from their self-titled album)
08. Joy Electric – Parlor Inventor (Brand new unreleased track) (later included on the multi-artist compilation Plastiq Musiq. New Musiq Volume 2.)
09. Ill Harmonics – Will I? (from the album An Octave Above the Original)
10. Ultrabeat – Deeper Than Oceans (from the album Beyond the Stars)
11. Hip Hop Praise – Liteshine (Declaring War) (from the album Sinner’s Prayer)
12. Mg! The Visionary – ‘Sponsible (from the album Transparemcee)
13. The Company – Boogie Machine (from their self-titled album)
14. Lost Dogs – Diamonds To Coal (from the album Gift Horse)
15. Hangnail – Double Standard (Acoustic Demo Version, unreleased)

Note: Tracks 5, 8 and 11 were previously unreleased.