In honor of this thread, I burned myself a CD tonight of much of my favorite American hardcore:

Die Kreuzen: Cows and Beer EP
Die Kreuzen: three cuts from The Master Tape
Void: half of Void/Faith LP
Void: three cuts from Flex Your Head
Malignant Growth: three cuts from The Master Tape Vol. 2
Negative Approach: 5 songs from self-titled EP
Negative Approach: 7 songs from Tied Down LP
Bad Brains: "Pay to Cum" from Let Them Eat Jellybeans

Needless to say, this motherfuckert throws down. Of course, there should have been a lot more Bad Brains, but I have inexplicably failed to replace my long-gone ROIR cassette. Does the vinyl version sound all right? I'm not much into hardcore on CD.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:In honor of this thread, I burned myself a CD tonight of much of my favorite American hardcore:

Die Kreuzen: Cows and Beer EP
Die Kreuzen: three cuts from The Master Tape
Void: half of Void/Faith LP
Void: three cuts from Flex Your Head
Malignant Growth: three cuts from The Master Tape Vol. 2
Negative Approach: 5 songs from self-titled EP
Negative Approach: 7 songs from Tied Down LP
Bad Brains: "Pay to Cum" from Let Them Eat Jellybeans

Needless to say, this motherfuckert throws down. Of course, there should have been a lot more Bad Brains, but I have inexplicably failed to replace my long-gone ROIR cassette. Does the vinyl version sound all right? I'm not much into hardcore on CD.

I never heard it on cassette (had a CD until recently), but I just bought the vinyl version, and it sounds great. Pick it up.

To be quite honest, I think it all depends on the day. Sometimes you're going to wake up and maybe the "An Ideal for Living" EP is going to float your boat, on other days you might need "Double Nickels on the Dime"...

...and then there are those days where you just need a dose of Biz Markie...

Fun question, but so subjective as to be pointless, so I'm going with late 60's reggae as my answer.



(quasi-geek)

No one seems to have a good sense of what Brit Punk and US Hardcore consists of.

Fair enough, I suppose, labels being what they are.

US hardcore spawned T&G, AT, Dischord, and SST (admittedly there was a good deal of punkish, post punkish noise in the early days of AT and SST). If Brit punk from the 70s married artists and business in such quixotic stabbings and won on four counts I'll eat my Resistol.

Someone above dismissed the greatness of the Birthday Party, which is simply the airing of ignorance. Their is no subjectivity about this.

Someone above tipped brim toward Brit Post Punk. All things art punk or post punk or weird noise, etc., created out of season, should be summarily cap-doffed and then left out of this discussion.

Someone above had Die Kreuzen losing a face off of some musical sort. The fix was clearly in.

galanter wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:Sex Pistols

VERSUS

Dead Kennedys

=

America wins

In what sense?

In an 'I was drunk last night and don't remember posting this' sense.

Ranxerox wrote:Someone above dismissed the greatness of the Birthday Party, which is simply the airing of ignorance. Their is no subjectivity about this.

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Someone above had Die Kreuzen losing a face off of some musical sort. The fix was clearly in.

Actually the face off that Die Kreuzen lost was against The Birthday Party, so what do you do there?











...time to put Bananarama's Greatest Hits on the turntable.





(geekanaut)

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

steve wrote:You really do need to hear a couple of the Jesus Lizard's albums.

Just ordered Goat. God, I hope it's not better than Funhouse, or I'll really have some explaining to do.

Another commission for Steve. You guys are total suckers. You know he pulls 48% off of *every* sale of that record, right?

You watch. Next week he's going to be suspiciously hawking Night Moves again. "Best rock ever to come out of Detroit." he'll say.
And you people will just eat it up. Fools.

-A

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

steve wrote:You really do need to hear a couple of the Jesus Lizard's albums.

Just ordered Goat. God, I hope it's not better than Funhouse, or I'll really have some explaining to do.

Please report back to thread once you've given it a few listens.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

steve wrote:You really do need to hear a couple of the Jesus Lizard's albums.

Just ordered Goat. God, I hope it's not better than Funhouse, or I'll really have some explaining to do.

You really should have just gone ahead and ordered Liar at the same time. I feel it's just as essential, and probably more immediately accessible than Goat. Though "Mouth Breather" and "Nub" are tremendous songs right from the get go, it's hard to get over that triple opening attack of "Boilermaker", "Gladiator", and then "The Art of Self-Defense", not to mention having "Puss" finishing off that first side. Probably one the best side A's ever recorded.








Has someone ever done a "Goat" vs "Liar" which is better? thread?








I must need more beer. (geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekout.)

Goat is better than Liar, but Liar has "slave ship" so... its a tie. "Head" makes me wanna strangle myself with a belt while spankin' it. I really like that record.

Listen to some Scratch Acid, that stuff is wayyyy more reminiscent of The Birthday Party than the Jesus Lizard.