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I
want to thank the Chicago Tribune for this, most complete, list of
Artists and Records people should no longer buy, as you all missed
it, if you didn’t know about ‘til now. Personally, I would
like to thank them for continuing to provide this extensive list of
bands a lot of credit for merely helping exploit a sound that has
been done since rock & roll began and most of them, at best, are
barely second rate, playing with a style. For me, personally,
thanks for the dartboard and a consolidated one sheet on ‘HOW
MUCH I HATE’… It won’t go to waste.
And I love the criteria to make this list. Rock bands whose names’
start with “The.” I can’t believe I even had to
say that again; I had that rant 2 years ago. It epitomizes how they
grab at things and have to put them in boxes, I guess the “The”
just makes it that much easier. It takes away from the music that
the few, “all-right” bands, on this list, have actually
made and it has brought 15 other crappy bands with a similar sound
immediately on the level. I think you all wrecked this one, and this
sound has been around the whole time. |
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Aerosmith,
The Rolling Stones, even Lou Reed and Iggy…
ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
Can I get a death?
A request from the Coalition to
Stop Senior Citizens in Rock
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PAST
RANTS |
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EYEBROW
RINGS = CORNY
Eyebrow
Rings – what the fuck? Were they ever really in style? Even
if they were at some point, and I definitely missed that shit,
they definitely ain’t now. They are so dumb. They don’t
say anything except ‘I am trying to make this ‘cool
thing happen’ and I came up with a plan, I am going to put
a ring in my brow. Notice no ancient or aboriginal cultures or
groups of people ever pierced their eyebrows. Cuz it’s dumb.
And you’ve got to STOP! Get that shit off your face and
out of mine.
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Please
Stop
I
wish bands would stop with this reunion show fantasy.
Haven’t we seen how this movie ends already? Band does great
things…Band starts to whither a little…Band decides
to break up…Band hates each other…Band comes-back…and
comes-back….and comebacks… etc…etc. Oh, the fucking
pain! I loved seeing the Bad Brains before they were the Soul Brains.
Leeway, the Cro-Mags. The list goes on. Why do they ruin it for
me by returning with, if you’re lucky, 2 original members
on some wack-ass reunion crap. Do it once (maybe
one reunion show for old times sake) and Fade Away!
You were all dope when you were a real band. |
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Top
Ten most played out tattoos seen at hardcore shows...
- The
Alleyway Dragon
- Triple
XXX's
- Last
name in old English letters around stomach
- Sacred
Heart/Doves
- Crucified
Skin
- Anything
with the word pride in it, ie. hardcore pride, sXe pride...
- NYHC
-
AF boots
- Praying
Hands
- (Insert
name) Crew
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05-04-03 |
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I
didn’t think anyone cared… |
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I’ve
been on this mission to get a Cro-Mags “Age of Quarrel”
shirt for about 6 months now. Every time I find one the bidding
hits the $100 mark. Now, I’ll spend some cash for a shirt
I really want but one hundred fucking dollars seems a little
outrageous. This got me thinking. For a moment of music history
that goes virtually unrecognized in the greater music scene
it’s funny that some of this stuff is going for so much
money. I’ve made a little archive of classic hardcore
joints that have recently been up on the ebay block. I’d
like to know who’s shelling out that type of cash. Keep
checking back for more additions. Oh, and if anyone has an “Age
of Quarrel” shirt they’d like to part with, “Hook
a bruva up.” |
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EBAY
SALES (updated 08-22-03) |
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It
was nice to see Ian MacKaye and Dischord appear in this
weeks’ Arts section of the Chicago Tribune Sunday
paper. I also heard Ian spoke in Boston recently. I think
it is so important for people to know who Ian and Dischord
are, as Ian remains an inspiration to many of us and a
model to many young and now ‘not so young’
people. An inspiration to any musician to write and deliver
intelligent music that continues to challenge people and
ways of life. To have enjoyed a career making records
and succeeding as a label based on the same principles
Dischord started with. And finally he and Dischord are
an inspiration to anyone who uses brains and guts to do
something on and of their own. Dischord put Hardcore on
the map and threw all the rules out on who could make
records and how. I am glad someone decided to recognize!
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New
Breed |
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So
since my tape snapped back in college, I had often asked
friends over the years if in their ‘CASETTE collection’
they had (yeah that’s right, cassettes were kind
of big in the 80’s, and in hardcore), the New
Breed Compilation. Recently a friend Noah directed me
to http://www.contrasthardcorearchive.com
where the whole New Breed Comp can be downloaded. Fucking
awesome, as I remember getting that comp the day it
came out. It was a deceivingly cold day, as the sun
was bright and warm for a few in the afternoon while
sitting on A. I think it was February 11th 1987? I was
at the Pyramid club with J for a Bold,
Beyond, Collapse and
Wrecking Crew show. The flyer does
not mention the later, but I am sure they were on it.
Did Collapse cancel? I forget. Anyway
the New Breed Comp was available that day down at Venus
so we all ran to the old 8th Street location and picked
up our New Breed Cassette compilation in its fucking
zip lock type bag, with a 8.5 X 11”
copy paper book; the quality was a little like a zine.
Anyway I remember the quality, or lack of, and strange,
but unique, packaging was cool because of all the material
you got with it. There was no Absolution material on
record or tape available at this point. To take it one
step further, the quality of Never Ending Game
on the New Breed Comp is better than any other
Absolution recording I have heard or anything that appears
on the discography. Collapse had really made an impact
in the months prior and they were awesome, Sean Murphy
did vocals and he was real cool. As of today I still
don’t know of any other record, comp appearance,
or recording by Collapse in existence.
Beyond and Outburst
I thought needed to be on record ASAP and the old Raw
Deal and Breakdown recordings
are NYHC. Then there is a whole bunch of c…rap
on here. A whole bunch of young bands at the time that
were easy to pile on a cassette comp. 36 fucking tracks
dude, some live, some off demos, some whatever. This
comp was spirited and gave a whole bunch of young new
bands a chance to be on something, Urban Records should
re-issue it. That cassette got so much play in the ’74
Oldsmobile Cutlass in the box on the front seat, I was
not surprised when it finally snapped.
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NEW
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new york hardcore
comp from mid-eighties - urban style records
1.
ABSOLUTION - Never Ending Game
2. LIFESBLOOD - Maximum Security
3. LIFESBLOOD - Youth Enrage
4. OUTBURST - The Hard Way
5. OUTBURST - Thin Ice
6. OUTBURST - Controlled (live)
7. OUR GANG - In Anger
8. OUR GANG - My Tomorrow
9. OUR GANG - Without A Home
10. COLLAPSE - Failure
11. PRESSURE RELEASE - Try
12. PRESSURE RELEASE - The Line
13. BREAKDOWN - Don't Give Up
14. BREAKDOWN - What It Is
15. TRUE COLORS - No Way To Live
16. SHOW OF FORCE - Finding It Hard
17. DIRECT APPROACH - True Vision
18. DIRECT APPROACH - No Respect
19. RAW DEAL - Backtrack
20. RAW DEAL - Wall Of Hate
21. ABOMBANATION - Disinherited
22. ABOMBANATION - Something Must Be Done
23. ABOMBANATION - Not Kosher
24. BEYOND - Seasons
25. BEYOND - Someday (live)
26. DIRECT - Reach Out
27. DIRECT - One Life
28. UPPERCUT - Down For The Count
29. UPPERCUT - AM I CLEAR
30. FIT OF ANGER - The Opressed
31. FIT OF ANGER - Revealing The Truth
32. DISCIPLINE - We All Learn
33. BAD TRIP - Something More
34. UNDER PRESSURE - Supremist
35. STANDPROUD – Dust
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So
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Funny,
how Williamsburg was named the #1 Most Rock & Roll town
in America. I’ll tell you, when I lived on the, very ill,
South 3rd and Havemeyer Streets in 1990, and I used to see 3
other dudes in the whole neighborhood, one being Raybeez (Warzone),
the other was Jorge from Merauder, and then my roommate Rob
Calhoun, who used to sing for the almighty Rest In Pieces. It
didn’t feel that Rock & Roll. 20 dudes hanging at
the Right Bank, with Kause, every night, to get shit- faced,
and deal with the #1 Rock & Roll hood. And I don’t
remember seeing any hipster fucking socialite model types doing
Rolling Stone photo shoots on corners around then. The Road
Tramps fucking with my motorcycle once a day or night, taking
parts. Rats the size of Possum. And finally a stop sign and
the pole through my girlfriend’s windshield and car after
it was used as a lance to bust every window and slash every
tire on the car the day it was sold; funny huh? #1 most Rock
& Roll Town in America, that’s fucking funny! All
pussy ass hipster model, dress like you’re in a band,
bitches, can send thank you cards, for fucking paving your way
into your #1 Rock & Roll town in America, when it wasn’t
safe, to me at #1 ‘I now live in the next soon to be #1
most Rock & Roll town in America’ you following fucks! |
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