An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 22)

Posted on 2 December 2007 | 2 Comments

Filed Under: Chicago Punk, Punk

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Now my first exposure to the now legendary South Suburban bubblegum pop-punk of Winepress (and a number of other bands) was on the “Dad Are We Punk Yet?” compilation from the awesome but now defunct Harmless Records which featured their song “She Just Won’t Do.” My next exposure to the band was the Mushuganas cover of the Winepress tune “Disappointed.” It is (IMHO) a classic. I love the Mushuganas version and when I found out it was a cover, I just had to find the original.

Winepress officially existed from 1991-1995 and were the kings of the Off The Alley scene in Homewood. Sadly, I’ve never seen Winepress live even though they have played a few scattered shows around Chicago the past few years, but I do own a copy of their Worth A Thousand Words 7” and their Complete Recordings discography CD. The CD contains everything the band recorded but I believe that the CD is now out of print (or at least really difficult to find) but definitely worth searching out. It’s one of my all time favorites.

MP3 | Winepress – Revenge Of The Nerds Complete Recordings
MP3 | Winepress – Disappointed Complete Recordings
MP3 | Winepress – Stay Awhile Complete Recordings
MP3 | Winepress – She Just Won’t Do Complete Recordings

If you’d like to revisit some other great Chicago punk rock bands, the other posts in this series can all be found via the links below.

Oblivion | Rise Against | The Bollweevils | The Effigies | A.Y.A. | Sludgeworth | No Empathy | Los Crudos | Apocalypse Hoboken | The Lawrence Arms | Naked Raygun | The Mushuganas | Allister | Screeching Weasel | Tuesday | Slapstick | Tricky Dick | The Falcon | Skokie | The Feds | Rustweiler

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