Bonus Fat CD

Bonus Fat gathers the Descendents' earliest singles: their 1979 debut 45, "Ride the Wild" backed with "It's a Hectic World," most of 1981's Fat EP, and "Global Probing," which first turned up on the New Alliance compilation Chunks that same year. New Alliance Records put it out in 1985, catching the band mid-shift from the surf-leaning pop-punk of that first single into the faster, harder sound of their later records. SST Records, which bought New Alliance in 1987, later folded this material together with Milo Goes to College into 1988's Two Things at Once.