Track Listing

1. Modern Way
2. Small Man in a Big World
3. All I Know
4. What's Your Problem
5. Boredom Is the Reason
6. Who Will Survive
7. Used T Know Me
8. Murder in a Foreign Place
9. Vegas
10. Reality Is Killing Me
11. There Is No Love
12. Turning into What You Hate
13. Just a Dream
14. Tell Me Why
15. Gas Crisis
16. Cold Sweat
17. I Hate Hippies
18. Angry Youth
19. All the President's Skin
20. Fucking Zones
21. I Can't Take It No More
22. New Left
23. Kill
24. Schoolboy
25. 'Tomic Bomb
26. Who Cares
27. Hatin' Life
28. Machine Gun Etiquette
29. Boredom Is the Reason
30. Above the Crowd
31. Make a Choice
32. Voices in the Dark
33. Haven't You Heard
34. Never Again
35. Other Side
36. Rhythm of Life
37. We Will Speak Out

Product Details

• Released on: 2008-02-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Best of
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Essential with a capital "E"
Aside from a handful of bands, incliding Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and early Circle Jerks, I've never cared for hardcore. I don't get the "faster is better" mentality and feel that most HC bands simply lacked musical skill and, more often, originality (remember those bands on Mystic Records?). I suppose it has to do with the manner in which you define hardcore.

MIA, for example, are generally classified as a HC band, and the description actually does fit. They could play as fast and hard as anyone, but they also were skilled songwriters and musicians who were smart enough to include powerful, melodic midtempo numbers in their sets to keep things interesting. In other words, these guys had taste.

This collection will not dissapoint any fan of REAL punk rock. Even if you tend to favor the late seventies variety, as I do, you can't go wrong with "Lost Boys".

PS: If you have a turntable, get the double LP set on orange vinyl!

The BEST melodic hardcore punk band of all times
M.I.A. were an absolutely AMAZING hardcore band. They started in Las Vegas in 1980, made four GREAT records and disbanded in 1988. This cd contains the first two of them, Last Rites(1982)and Murder In A Foreign Place(1984)plus many demos, outtakes, compilation and live tracks. Both of them are excellent, with great powerfull catchy songs,melodies,speed,noise, everything. The band plays melodic west cost hardcore at its best but there are also different moods in their songs. You can hear classic hardcore, surf-punk, thrash, punk-pop and some gloomier songs like "There Is No Love". Their sound is noisy and melodic at the same time, the rhythm section plays as fast as anyone can play on one song, then slows down a little bit for the surf-punk madness and above all that are the incredible voice of Mike Conley and the amazing wall of guitar sound of Nick Adams. Everyone who listens hardcore punk must buy this cd because M.I.A. WERE ONE OF THE BEST BANDS OF THE DECADE.