Buy-Product 2: Brief Encounters (1996)

About this title: Buy Product 2: Brief Encounters is another label sampler from Geffen Records, spotlighting highlights from their roster of alternative roster. Certainly there are some great songs on here, ranging from album tracks like Garbage's "Vow" and Beck's "Novacane" to B-sides and rarities like Elastica's demo of "Blue" and Sonic Youth's instrumental version of "Little Trouble Girl." In between, there are some intriguing tracks, as well as some mediocre ones. No listener will like every song on the album -- there are simply too many songs from too many different genres for this to be consistently ... read more

Tracks:

1. Winn Coma [Boss Hog]
2. Synonym [Skiploader]
3. Novacane [Beck/King/Simpson]
4. Down Baby [Lane]
5. Blue [Donna's 4-Track Demo] [Matthews]
6. Absolutely Barking Stars [McKee]
7. Chemistry [Jawbreaker]
8. Montebello [Eshbach]
9. Vow [Garbage]
10. Red Beans N' Reverb [Miller]
11. Pretty [Birch]
12. Fight It (If You Want) [Auer/Stringfellow]
13. Pass You By [Rawlings/Welch]
14. Encyclopedi-Ite [Hartman/Wood]
15. Temenos (Here Comes the Shakes) [Remy Zero]
16. Honky Time [Hall]
17. All over Now [Mann]
18. Not Perfect [Miller]
19. Speaking Confidentially [Timmins]
20. Little Trouble Girl [Instrumental] [Sonic Youth]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.