Bonus Fat 12"

Bonus Fat is basically an archival grab bag: the Descendents' 1979 debut 45, "Ride the Wild" backed with "It's a Hectic World," most of 1981's Fat EP, and "Global Probing," a track that had already popped up on the New Alliance compilation Chunks that same year. New Alliance Records put it out in 1985, right at the hinge point where the band's surf-flavored pop-punk was turning into something faster and harder. SST Records bought New Alliance in 1987 and later stitched this material together with Milo Goes to College to make 1988's Two Things at Once.