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 

[zendragon]

Dwarves Unreleased 1989 LP For Record Store Day!

[Curt McGirt]

Oh, fuck yeah. Blood Guts and Pussy is the only thing I really liked of theirs aside from the live DVD (in which Blag announces "Hardcore punk is good times music!"). 

EDIT: Actually, I used this opportunity to download Free Cocaine. 

Edited January 28 by Curt McGirt

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vnRJOkNB3Q&ab_channel=goopidentifier

Caustic Christ never put anything bad out, but the Lycanthropy album is my favorite material of theirs. This banger is your anthem for the current administration. Considering some of the things brought up in it have actually came to pass since 2006... well lets just say we haven't moved forwards as a country even if time has.

EDIT: Oh, fuck it, here's the whole album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10KVKap2xM "The War Has Come Home" is soooooo fucking good. The whole album is just insane. It will absolutely make you want to destroy something with impunity. 

Edited February 7 by Curt McGirt

[Curt McGirt]

This could use a bump. There's a new Asocial record out and here's a new track from it along with their last three records. They've been around for 35 years now (!!!) off and on, and I can't say a single thing they've done is bad. Not just being D-beat stalwarts, their How Can Hardcore Be Any Worse? split tape with the Bedrovlers was one of the first examples of near-blast beats ever done on record (we'll leave that one to DRI's "No Sense" because these are more in the hyper-thrash, Heresy/Ripcord speed). Hell, I'll add those on here too. Aside from maybe Uncurbed, I can't think of another Swedish raw punk/kang/mangel band who totally kept the plot through their entire career. Avskum disappoint, Wolfbrigade's formula varies from album to album, Totalitar split into half a dozen other bands, Skitsystem are just now back to recording. 

https://blackkonflik.bandcamp.com/album/asocial-the-bedrovlers-how-could-hardcore-be-any-worse-vol-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igSwzalVqo8

https://asocialattack.bandcamp.com/

[Curt McGirt]

https://dtaktochrapunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tills-du-d-r

Man, how could I have missed posting the new Mob 47 album that came out?! Make that the ONLY Mob 47 album, because they never put out a full-length on wax. If this doesn't drive you flat through the wall then I don't know what's wrong with you. 

[Curt McGirt]

https://dbeatfarce.bandcamp.com/album/sights-of-war

Farce. Completely tears ass. Super noisy but not in that "five pedals at once" way, instead it's like they pushed everything into the red, where you get distortion off the cymbals even. I had to buy it after just hearing the first song. Sorry State's got it and they said not for long. 

https://symphonyofdestruction.bandcamp.com/album/g-tico-tropical-lp

X200. Columbian singer singing in Spanish in Sweden? Totally chorus-soaked guitars? Intense tupa-tupa forward motion? Named after a bullet train? Yeah, as a guy who used to use way to much chorus and named his band after an airplane part that makes it go fast, I love this. And check out the note from the band on the Bandcamp about Columbia: 

Quote

𝘽͟𝙖͟𝙣͟𝙙͟ 𝙣͟𝙤͟𝙩͟𝙚͟:

This is the land of tropical gothic, of danceable stabbings and gore capitalism.
In this land, serial killers do not hide; they walk in broad daylight, cloaked in impunity, free to roam in a country that breeds them and shelters them. This is the land of murders without culprits, of anonymous graves, of terror cultivated like sugarcane and sown with hands stained in blood. Because Colombia has a history of everyday horrors passed down from generation to generation, a genetic code of fear that has taken root in the flesh of its inhabitants. And in this tropical gothic, the heroes are made of paper, figures that the press tears apart and patches up again, while killers leave their trail of ashes. This is the country where death wears the mask of a politician, a landowner, a guerrilla, a soldier. Here, life is worth less than a whisper in the wind, and the rivers bear witness to the most macabre tales of blood and abandonment.
Here, where not even Nosferatu dares to come.

WHOA. As always, reform comes and goes and nothing ever changes. Welcome to Cokeland. 

[Curt McGirt]

Crucifix. Cymbals to the roof!

[Curt McGirt]

https://cimexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hierarkin-bomberna-faller

Hierarkin - Bomberna Faller

Some rad No Security/Svart Parad style kang here, with a touch of Wolfpack for seasoning. It's on Charlie from Anti-Cimex's label (Cimex Records, duh) so of course it's good. 

https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/mua-et-voi-omistaa

Plasma - Mua Et Voi Omistaa

Female-fronted Finnish pogo shit. Thankfully not fuzzy-buzzy Confuse style, just straight up hardcore punk. 

https://naturalabuse.bandcamp.com/album/the-end

Natural Abuse - The End EP

Only two songs but my buddy's seeing them in Chicago soon and I envy him. Hopefully I can get them booked down here. Stellar Dis-crust in an early Aughts fashion with a singer who sounds like a more guttural version of Todd from Tragedy/Warcry along with backups from a higher-pitched duder. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwOB-Tmvs8&ab_channel=jungle

Early Grave - Sewer Baby Eaten By Worms

Crackin' stuff here, kind of Clevo HC a la H1000s, Nine Shocks, Bomb Builder or my old Bay Area fave Strung Up, only with strict D-beat and frenzied thrash pounding sometimes instead of fills. Somebody is gonna have to remind me what movie the sleazy synth music in "Necrosis" is from. I'm thinking something Troma? For some reason I'm also thinking it might be Vice Squad. (Also, love the GBH ripoff title of the tape)

[RazorbladeKiss87]

You had me at 9 Shocks Terror on that Early Grave demo. Good, nasty scumfuck hardcore.  The servers at work don't want to come back into the kitchen now. 

[Curt McGirt]

And there are three more albums there to keep em out!