if there has been a thread on this before...please excuse me but i just wanted to make a thread for all the hxc fans to "unite". i grew up listening to 80's rock and glam metal which soon turned to hardcore/punk/skatecore when highschool hormones and rebellion hit. by 10th grade in was full force into hxc and "nailed to the x". by the time highschool ended, my brother and i had started a band and i would come home on weekends to play shows at the local clubs. although we never toured outside new england i was fortunate enough to go and headline a tour in japan in 2001 where we were surprisingly popular (at least popular enough to headline a tour). i wasn't into kaiju back then...bummer for me. anyway...enough "this is your life" and back to the meat of the thread. i know flynn is a fan...but who else out there is familiar with the likes of youth of today, gorilla biscuits, bold, instead, chain of strength, sick of it all, carry nation, crippled youth, slapshot, breakdown, underdog, madball, agnostic front, cro-mags, judge, no for an answer, uniform choice, inside out, judge, etc... or 90's hxc like snapcase, earth crisis, coalese, strife, integrity, bloodlet, one king down, starkweather, sam black church, harvest, despair, etc... we collect these JP dollies to recapture some of our youth and i just wanted to start a thread that would allow us to do it in another way. so list the bands of your youth...your favorite show...your thoughts on hxc today...do you still collect 7" vinyl or listen to hxc still? gorilla biscuits are doing a reunion tour right now...anyone see it? with a finger in the air i scream...GO!
Dude-I used to chil w/the guys in Sick of it All,War Time Manner and Dying Breed back in the day out at Troy NY..All cool peeps too from what i remember....
I guess I was never really into hardcore...the above names I don't know other than Agnostic Front which I have a couple of albums. I was listening to the likes of Iron Maiden early then from there bounced straight into Death Metal and the various sub genres surrounding that. I saw Tad mentioned in another thread somewhere recently, but can't put a genre to them though I remember the name from ages ago. Were they hardcore? I might look into some of those names above. Any suggestions on where or what to start. I'm pretty keen on the heavy and fast. On a side note about Agnostic Front, Roger Miret is (I think) the president of 'The Rumblers' and NYC car club and has a mighty mean '32 Chevy Coupe. Not sure if any one is keen on that gear on here but check him out on their site: Go to members. http://rumblersnyc.f-n-b.net/indexFrameset.htm
anyone catch this show? good friends with Richie from Underdog and Jimmy from Murphys Law and haven't seen them in years. This was a sick lineup.
From the mid'80s on up, I've seen quite a few hardcore and metal shows. Most of these were in New Orleans in tiny places. place lots of skate contests that always involved bands playing (at some point). original Cro-Mags and Destruction. original Celtric Frost and Voi-vod. Circle Jerks. original Corrision of Conformity. the Faction in Slidell, LA GBH all over the place from Dallas to Pensacola, FL. Suicidal Tendencies in Pensacola that got shut down almost immediately... the fun just never ends.
I got into hardcore and punk from being into skateboarding and reading Thrasher magazine in the 80s. I used to read the Puszones and have been in awe of his artwork since i first saw the "nosepicker" cover in the 80's. I have been obsessed with Glenn Danzig and his various projects for as long as I can remember. I got into Youth of Today and sXe in the early 90's. Seeing pretty much every notible hc band at the time: earth crisis, strife, snapcase, outspoken, lifetime, shelter, chokehold, converge. I went to college in wilkes barre pa so we got tons of good shows and I could otherwise travel to philly, nyc, and syracuse a lot. It was great. I used to do a decent record label, a magazine, and band etc... I kind of lost touch with the scene after graduating college and got more into brit pop and artsy shit. When I look back at all of the amazing shows I have seen over the years I can't help but laugh at the current state of hardcore that is on mtv that is being marketed as 'EMO'. Over the years I've drifted back into listening to hardcore again though I have always been into converge, isis etc. I have been way into quicksand lately. so um yeah. hardcore.
lurker...where did you go to school? what label/zine did you do? i may have some...? lamour...i didn't go but that did look like a rad show.
I was similar with the Deathmetal and the like I was listening to Lurker. I drifted off in to other music and basically stopped listening to the heavier stuff. One day I put some on again and got back into it. Danzig and The Misfits (original) have been a regular in my listening since getting back into it all. So if I was to search out some of this stuff from the 80's and 90's what would you guys suggest on a starting point? I really don't want to get close to anything MTV and EMO though. I have a hard time figuring out exactly what Emo is, but can't stand the "Poor Pathetic Me" cookie cutter kids dragging their feet about that listen to the shit. Good Charlotte is NOT the same as listening to the Clash or Sex Pistols back in the day.
if this is any indication, I'm still straightedge, and still call myself straightedge. in fact, I've never had a drink in my life. total hardcore dude here but I must say I don't really keep up with it currently, sorta stopped around 2000 for the most part. but I'm also a metal guy, and listened to that along with hardcore pretty much the whole way through, back and forth. now that I don't really keep up with the hardcore scene, I mainly listen to early to mid 90's death metal and late 90's to current black metal. I did see the GB reunion tour though, and made a post about it.
although i grew up as a definite PUNK, I took in my share of Hardcore shows. I once got a black eye at a Sick of it All show when I got hit in the face with a guitar in the pit. that's gotta be worth something. But in all reality, i love punk culture. i grew up around it and lived in it, and its the only thing that saved me from a mundane or redneck life in western PA. here is an old picture of me and my 2 ex roommates at a dirty club with no heat (note our scarves & hats) haha. I am the least looking punk one, but just know that under that scarf, my shirt says "FUCK CENSORSHIP" oh to be young again.
Interesting...On the flyer above there's one almost "old school" band in ML...Funny - Doomsday Device has some Fresno guys! My story on hardcore...I grew up in a time when there was zero difference between a "punk rocker" or a "hardcore kid" or a "skinhead" (in the US anyway)...of course at this time the term "hardcore kid" wan't yet invented yet. in 1980 we were ALL freaks and got the living shit kicked out of us or chased (yeah we RAN) almost daily (literally). it was a different time. 3 cheers for Bad Religion, CJs, Black Flag, Circle One (gang) and all the rest. ------------- S.D.H.C. - 1979
I remember seeing the Dickies open up for Circle Jerks at a little dive here in town in the late 80's...we didn't really get a lot of punk bands through town back then...or now, for that matter! Kinda funny what bands have the term "punk" applied to them for marketing purposes these days...funny and sad...
Lion City Hardcore (Singapore) All these talk of Hardcore music bring back memories. I remember how my music taste evolve with hardcore. I was mostly chilling with Bad Brains, Fugazi,YOT, No use for a name,Judge, Minor threat, JFA, Shelter, Quicksand & the list goes on & on. My favourite was Underdog their album Vanishing Point was at its best followed by Slapshot's Debut with their eerie yet hard cover of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. Singapore had seen its fair share of 'Hardcore' we experience band such as Fugazi, Buzzcocks & Rollins Bands. Late 80's were fueled by the skate culture therefore hardcore soundtrack was the main stay. We had a lot of local hardcore band, gigs was almost every week. We even pooled to have our voices heard in this so called Corporate environment. We had our local heroes Such as Stomping ground, Four Sides, Global Chaos, Voiceout, Soulfire to name a few. Besides their individual demos/album, there was a compilation CD (now out of print) to showcase the definitive 'LCHC' which consisted of 10 bands with 20 track. For us hardcore was a revolution for our own institution, A freedom of expression, it was to channel our energy to something useful , provoke thoughts and challenge ideas. We don't need eyliner, Masscara or black nail polish. All we needed was a Voice, A Power chord and an audience.
Re: Lion City Hardcore (Singapore) the cover of white rabbit was on Sudden Death Overtime. it was Slapshot's third release not their debut. back on the map and step on it came before that.
Great thread! I strated really getting into punk back in around 92-93. The first bands I was really into were Pennywise, Bad Religion, NOFX, Lagwagon, Jughead's Revenge, Good Riddance, Propaghandi, BLINK... Yes Blink(before)182, unwritten law, FYP, White Kaps, and others. I would go to shows with buddys weekend after weekend. The progression into more agressive punk rock first came when I saw Ensign upen up for AFI and Good Riddance. After that I got heavily into Victory bands like STRIFE, snapcase, ExC, HATEBREED, and other killer bands by the likes of converge, American Nightmare, carry on, floorpunch, chain of strength, onekingdown, ten yeard fight, shutdown, eyelit, insurgence, and others at the time... too many to mention! Then I noticed more unknown bands by smaller labels like throwdown, adamantium, eighteen visions, poision the well, when hardcore and metal really started to mesh into Metalcore I got into bands like bleeding through, unearth, a life once lost, dillinger escape plan, candiria, and many others... There is an influx of pretty amazing bands right now that are still killing it. Norman Jean, Every Time I Die, Between the Buried and Me, THE WARRIORS (love them), Remembering Never, Nodes of Ranvier, COMEBACK KID (the best), and so many more. I barely go to shows anymore, which was my all time favorite thing to do during my last couple years of highschool through college and beyond... but it is still great driving around blaring BANE and seeing the look on peoples faces! I'm stoked about the amount of HxC on the board. Its rad that their are so many HxC toy collectors out there! \m/ \m/
moriachi, put on an old deathmetal album you used to really dig...it floods you with a wierd feeling...awesome. as far as recommendations for old 80's/90's hxc reccomendations...musical tastes are like assholes...we all have 'em. i would suggest giving any of the 80's bands in my original post a shot as they are all in that hxc punk vien. the 90's stuff i listed moves a bit into the metalcore vien which maybe you'd dig too considering your background in metal. run google's on the web and hit me up if you find something you really dig...i may have mp3's i can send. skylar, i still am edge too although the days of sharpie hands are long gone. as blasphemous as it sounds i can't say i will be for the rest of my life but at the same time i don't think i'll ever become a raging fratboy drinker either. i don't really have plans too one day wake up and drink i'm just more open to following the "middle path" of life right now without swaying to one end of an extreme or another (can you tell i've been reading a lot of buddhist writings lately?). who knows i may never drink again or maybe one day i'll have a glass of wine at my daughters wedding (she's 2 now). i really don't worry about it like i used to. as long as someone is not an asshole i could really care less if they drink or not. a far cry from screaming all the hardline sxe lyrics of days past huh? i still keep up with some of the new hxc and metal but not nearly as much as i used to. HOW WAS THE GB REUNION SHOW!? HIT ME UP WITH A LINK TO YOUR POST!
I started going to (real)shows in the early/mids 90s in dc area. Still have consistantly gone to shows up until about a year ago. no particular reason for me to stop but just the ordinary reasons... My friends and I got older. friends bands broke up,"real jobs" and the sort... but I'm not completely out of touch yet...at least as far as I know....new bands I think some of you guys maybe into are the following... set to explode (dc)(antidote/early dischord hardcore) righteous jams(boston)(dys/cromags) goverment warning(richmond,va)(LA punk) cold world(wilkes barre,pa)(biohazard/mobbdeep/cromags) cloak/dagger(richmond,va)(blackflag/hotsnakes(seriously)) blackSS (syracuse, ny)(slapshot/negative approach) also heres a shameless plug for something I do with my roommate www.bannedindc.com
"real" shows are anything that wasnt a concert. I had been to see metallica and the clash of the titans tour. the first real show I went to was orange9mm and quicksand.
Can I get some love for Into the Moat? If you haven't heard them and like contemporary death/core "american tech metal", do so.
the demo is awesome. its about to be put out on vinyl. they actually just signed to jade tree, as did fucked up. the new dawn of an era at jade tree?
