What are some oyou favorite comps that led you to to discover a band you otherwise probably wouldn't have?

I posted this yesterday. It turned me onto bands like Lagwagon, Good Riddance and The Swingin’ Utters.

I also made a Spodify playlist with most of the songs minus a few obscure ones I couldn’t find. Here’s the compilation Los Chupacabras

Mostly label comps from Beer City, Punkcore, etc.

"Let Them Eat Jellybeans!", was how I first heard the Bad Brains. Went out of my way to see them a few months later, just from hearing, "Pay to Cum.

Punkzilla got me into afi and the “rock against bush” comp got me into Against Me and Strike Anywhere. That one had so many great bands.

Not So Quiet on the Western Front - MRR comp from 1980 - my first introduction to punk/HC and it changed my life. Thanks D!

PEACE comp on R Radical introduced me to a treasure trove of 80s hardcore like The Proletariat, B.G.K, and a slew of others.

As an old guy, the Peace/War comp was hugely influential to me when it came out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_P.E.A.C.E._Benefit_Compilation

Not pure punk but picking up a comp called 'Psychomania' got me into quite a few of the bands featured. Bought at a whim based on the album art:
https://www.discogs.com/release/4025767-Various-Psychomania

A few videos of some of the bands featured:

Highliners doing 'Henry the Wasp': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX_uz8uo5cE

Demented Are Go 'Holy Hack Jack': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZ_UttI_ec

King Kurt 'Road to Rack and Ruin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iizkI3z-0ec

And finally... the legendary Guana Batz doing 'Rock This Town': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc3Gqy3XpZg

Who doesn't Love British Country Punk with massive hair and upright double bass?!

The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore
https://www.discogs.com/master/462577-Various-The-Thing-That-Ate-Larry-Livermore

A more modern comp ( 2012) but really solid play through front to back and the songs are all exclusive as the bands don't own the rites.

Punk O Rama 2 changed everything

The Blasting Concept was an SST Records sampler from 1983 or so. and was the first place I heard the Minutemen & Saccharine Trust.

The New York Thrash cassette on ROIR is how I discovered The Mad. "I Hate Music" is one of the greatest noise punk songs ever.

2.06 The Unpunk Album led me to discover Manner Farm. Amazing band.

The Punk O Rama comps got me into many bands that are still my favorites to this day. Mr Brett was a genius for putting them out and keeping them cheap. As a young teenager with limited cash and social anxiety about connecting with others/going to shows before I had internet, they were the perfect gateway. I still give them an occasional listen, and even much later in life now I still find something on them that I overlooked as an early teen that I dig now.

Probably the most "obscure" band that I got into from them is 59 times the Pain.

Scrolling through wikipedia as I type this though- I see most of my past and current favorite bands were on there though at one point or another and that's wild to me.

Nardcore comp was a great find me. No respect by RKL is still my favourite track to this day.

The thing that ate Floyd comp, early lookout bands

Make the collector nerd sweat comp

Virus 100 -Alternative Tentacles

Towncraft- a comp of Little Rock bands

Bombpop flexi - econochrist, pezz, sobering consequences, trusty, numbskulz

Punk Uprisings Vol II showed me Lifetime right when I needed it around age 15.

Plus Atom and His Package, Discount, Snapcase, and of course, A.C..

So many different sounds in there, it really expanded my mind about what punk is and could be.

Hell Comes to Your House introduced me to Tex and the Horseheads and I became a big fan.

Don Letts Presents Dread Meets Rockers Uptown - got me into roots reggae.

“Songs that will make you cool” “Punk uprisings vol2” “Fat music for fat people” “Short music for short people”

New York Thrash