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| Blazing Wheels and Barking Trucks | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1984 |
| Genre | Skate punk |
| Label | High Speed Productions/Thrasher Magazine |
Blazing Wheels and Barking Trucks is Thrasher's second skate punk release (subtitled "Thrasher's Skaterock Vol. II"). [1] [2] Released in 1984, it was the magazine's first skate rock release on both cassette and LP. [3] [4]
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