We Are The One

[RazorbladeKiss87]

On 5/29/2024 at 10:34 AM, Curt McGirt said:

So! Here's a new thread for all your Punk Rock wants and needs. Any and all are subgenres are welcome, whether you are an egg-punk weirdo, a crasher-crust noise freak, a suit-bedecked Two-Toner, a boots-and-braces skinhead, or whatever. Because we love punk. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKifg-JQro

Have you seen this? Someone found some dead stock of a pretty great MRR comp.

https://prankrecords.bigcartel.com/product/maximum-rock-n-roll-welcome-to-1984-lp

[Curt McGirt]

On 11/15/2024 at 4:39 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

I wish I could say "I don't know how I missed this" but I can because the time it came out is a blur, so I'm just now hearing D-Clone. 

https://youtu.be/kp-CPmEHqXc?si=LEH7aGcBnMED6hFS

It might be the wildest thing that I have heard that I would still classify as traditional music. Of course it's beyond out of print. 

I ALMOST ALMOST ALMOST bought it this year but it got sold out from under me like a week after I took a pass. I was soooooooo fucking pissed. 

There are too many bands doing that style of crasher-crust these days, but you should definitely check out Destruct and DEFINITELY check out Physique. Destruct also just did a split with the amazing Life from Japan who have done the style forever and still sound as good as ever. 

Also if you are really digging the feedback and noise on that record I would highly recommend trying out Lebenden Toten, Aghast, and Atrocious Madness. 

[Curt McGirt]

23 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

Have you seen this? Someone found some dead stock of a pretty great MRR comp.

https://prankrecords.bigcartel.com/product/maximum-rock-n-roll-welcome-to-1984-lp

Had to check because I thought I had it on CD but I've had it on LP forever too. Highest recommendation, an utter classic. 

EDIT: Also... man, I don't think there's a bad MRR comp. I don't especially remember how good Sound the Alarms! sounds like (a lot of obscure-os on that one) but I grew up with the Public Safety one and it is an absolute murderer's row of bands from the Bush era, where the scenes worldwide were basically exploding. 

Oh and if you're a fan of the Bay Area/Gilman scene (Op Ivy, Green Day, Rancid, even Filth and Blatz etc.), they made a 2x7" of all those bands when they were happening. I just caught the really good Gilman documentary and that hipped me to it. 

Edited November 22, 2024 by Curt McGirt

[RazorbladeKiss87]

I watched the Gilman doc a few weeks ago actually. Got me back on a Crimpshrine kick. 

[Curt McGirt]

I really don't like any of that stuff that I've heard but I respect it. What that doc told me more than anything is that 

1. There was no way Green Day could fucking "sell out". They play pop music. It wasn't meant to stay underground, it was meant to make a million billion dollars. And kids all over the world were meant to sing that insufferable "Stop this... waaaaaar" chorus off of Op Ivy's "Unity" too.

Now Offspring though... I've heard those early TSOL ripoff records, you sellouts! 

2. Tim Yo apparently had a wicked jump shot?! And yeah, a complicated man. He could be an absolute cock. Vinnie Stigma, who seems like a very reasonable and understanding person, wrote that he actually went to (or called?) Tim Yo and tried to iron out his problem with Agnostic Front and he just wouldn't budge. Obstinant motherfucker he was.

...then again they shouldn't have been talking shit about welfare recipients either.

[Curt McGirt]

Back on the subject of the noise hardcore stuff, this is an old favorite of mine. I guess they are on hiatus or broke up ('19 feels like a world away, y'know?) but Prophetic Visions is a monster of an album. 

https://nbst.bandcamp.com/

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyv1-OTMwY&pp=ygUVYWJzb2x1dCBwdW5rIHN1cnZpdmFs

This will murder you. No chance of survival. 

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs9zwqXsceUgohVC8Oq7NQCnBPOSaHl93

I think I finally am going to try to get into the Fall. 

[EdA]

16 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs9zwqXsceUgohVC8Oq7NQCnBPOSaHl93

I think I finally am going to try to get into the Fall. 

Yes.  Yes.  Yes you should.  Try Hex Induction Hour as a place to start too.

Also, been meaning to bring this up - Tubi is streaming American Hardcore.  I actually had not seen it somehow before catching it a week or so ago.

[Curt McGirt]

I'd like to be nice -- the actual book is sitting on the shelf beneath my computer right now, because I was looking up the Big Boys -- but it's a pretty bland documentary. The cherry on top is Greg Hetson literally shit-talking any current fan of punk and specifically hardcore at the very end. Meanwhile this prick has been living off Bad Religion for most of his entire life, and hardcore has been a thriving underground scene for what, almost 50 years now? Fuck that guy. 

EDIT: OH! It is worth watching for the running Effigies/Articles of Faith feud part. Steve Albini sticks his nose in too, and of course trashes some band of then-youngsters that I can't remember the name of off the top of my head. That stuff is fun. 

EDIT II: Shit I made a mistake there. That's in THIS documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWOHfdBaXQ&ab_channel=InsideTheMusic

Edited December 13, 2024 by Curt McGirt

[Curt McGirt]

Those parts are still great, and they're around the hour mark if you just want to skip to them. Albini just tears down Articles of Faith and Vic Bondi is still butthurt about him.

The funny thing is I love Articles of Faith, the Effigies, AND Big Black and Rapeman and Shellac. They were all just assholes in their own fashion. 

[EdA]

2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

I'd like to be nice -- the actual book is sitting on the shelf beneath my computer right now, because I was looking up the Big Boys -- but it's a pretty bland documentary. The cherry on top is Greg Hetson literally shit-talking any current fan of punk and specifically hardcore at the very end. Meanwhile this prick has been living off Bad Religion for most of his entire life, and hardcore has been a thriving underground scene for what, almost 50 years now? Fuck that guy. 

EDIT: OH! It is worth watching for the running Effigies/Articles of Faith feud part. Steve Albini sticks his nose in too, and of course trashes some band of then-youngsters that I can't remember the name of off the top of my head. That stuff is fun. 

EDIT II: Shit I made a mistake there. That's in THIS documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWOHfdBaXQ&ab_channel=InsideTheMusic

Oh you are not wrong at all. I read American Hardcore ages ago (the book is somewhere in some stack) and just now saw the doc a couple weeks ago.  The book really is infinitely better. 

The footage is fine - the Bad Brains footage is spectacular.  But the doc is pretty lazy.  It is however one of the few times I've see Greg Ginn talk on anything.  Sadly, no one calls him out for being Greg Ginn.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

I used to love music docs but these days I just want the performance footage and thankfully Youtube has no shortage of that. Someone's been uploading all the old Target videos over the last few weeks. 

[Curt McGirt]

Oh god the Target videos. I used to rent them from a store in town -- amazing that they had those. The one I always go back to is the Crucifix/MDC show. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FviXJQznUo8&ab_channel=duleklc

I mean it's just a shot of pure adrenalin. The Crucifix drummer has his cymbals raised to the ceiling. Dave Dictor says "speed kinda really sucks" when he was living on it right then, I mean just look at his face... although he's always looked like that, I guess. 

WHOA!!! You are RIGHT, they have EVERYTHING ON THERE. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBABCDE35B9D8C85E

I've never even heard of most of these. It's a total library. 

Do not pass Go, do not collected $200, go straight to Screamers live at the Target Video studio. 

[zendragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmzn8JfV_fk

Merry Christmas