Best of 2000: Best CD Graphics

Staring at the Sun 4
Loudspeaker Records/Slamm Magazine/91X

Volume #4 of this local band compilation has some fabulous selections, including the Crawdaddys' "There She Goes Again"(1978) with guest star Dan McClain, later to be known as Country Dick of the Beat Farmers. However, just the comic book­style cover illustration by Mark Scarbosa makes the CD worth having, featuring tentacled, bug-eyed aliens advancing along Kettner Boulevard and choking the throat of a spiky-haired punk caught in front of the Casbah while planes go down near the Coronado Bridge in the background.