Vancouver Complication
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| Vancouver Complication | |
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| Compilation album by various artists | |
| Released | 1979 |
| Recorded | 1976–1978 |
| Genre | Punk rock |
| Label | Pinned Records Sudden Death Records (CD Re-Release) |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Ned Raggett, AllMusic |   [1] |
| Brian Lynch, Georgia Straight | link |
Vancouver Complication is a compilation album featuring many influential Vancouver punk bands. It was released in 1979 on Pinned Records, and has been reissued a number of times with several different cover designs.[2]
Considered one of the most important Canadian punk rock albums,[3] the album was compiled by Grant McDonagh, who would later become one of the founders of Zulu Records.[4] Most tracks were recorded at the Sabre Sound studio in Vancouver; for some bands, their contributions to the album were their first and/or only time recording material in a studio.[5]
The album was reissued in compact disc format in 2005, on Joe Keithley's Sudden Death Records.[5] The CD reissue's liner notes acknowledged that the 1978 Akron, Ohio punk compilation The Akron Compilation was one of McDonagh's key inspirations for compiling and releasing the album.[1]
The CD reissue was marked by a release party at Vancouver's Wise Hall, featuring performances by many of the bands on the compilation.[5] In 2011, Sudden Death Records announced a special project, donating all proceeds from sales of the album during the Christmas retail season to the Vancouver Food Bank.[6]