Bonus Fat 12"

Bonus Fat pulls together the Descendents' earliest singles: the 1979 debut 45, "Ride the Wild" backed with "It's a Hectic World," most of 1981's Fat EP, and "Global Probing," first heard on the New Alliance compilation Chunks that same year. New Alliance Records issued it in 1985, right as the band was shifting from the surf-tinged pop-punk of that debut single into the faster, harder sound that defined their later records. SST Records, which absorbed New Alliance in 1987, eventually folded this material in with Milo Goes to College to form 1988's Two Things at Once.