LABEL: RevelationRecords
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2022
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 1988
VARIANT: Red Vinyl LP

The seventh release from the soon-to-be essential Revelation Records serves as a thrilling primer of the young, enthusiastic bands who were flooding CBGBs matinees every weekend in late-Eighties New York. While youth crew bands like Youth of Today and Gorilla Biscuits are well-represented, the comp also includes heavier bands like Sick of It All and Breakdown, crusty acts like Nausea, and even the early post-hardcore of Supertouch. If you werent there stage-diving in 1988, The Way It Is will make you feel like you were.

Track Listing:

1. Bold – Wise Up
2. Nausea – Fallout Of Our Being
3. Warzone – As One
4. Warzone – Escape From Your Society
5. Gorilla Biscuits – Better Than You
6. Gorilla Biscuits – Forgotten
7. Trip 6 – Back With A Vengeance
8. Breakdown – Sick People
9. Youth Of Today – Together
10. Youth Of Today – Understand
11. Sick Of It All – Politics
12. Sick Of It All – Pete’s Sake
13. Krakdown – Ignorance
14. Side By Side – Dead Serious
15. Side By Side – Time Is Now
16. Youth Defense League – Blue Pride
17. Supertouch – Searchin’ For The Light