SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
jaybird wrote:SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
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This kinda goes with my long-held theory that 1987 was a watershed year for the punk/indie/hardcore scene... so many bands made huge leaps in overall concept and execution that year, and took the genre(s) to new places: Bad Brains/I Against I, Government Issue/You, Descendents/ALL, Dag Nasty/Wig Out Dinosaur Jr./You're Living All Over Me The Nils/S/T... and even already well-established/critically acclaimed bands put out definitive/landmark albums - Hüsker Dü/Warehouse, Replacements/Pleased To Meet Me R.E.M./Document, U2/Joshua Tree... was also the year i graduated high-school, so a lot of that music has a special emotional/psychological significance to me, but i do think it was an objectively standout year for music:
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/0 ... s-of-1987/
SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
FormerLurker wrote:SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
Yep. Slobbering all over the BB is the "but I've got black friends!" of punk fandom.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:Minor Threat was a lot better.
FormerLurker wrote:SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
Yep. Slobbering all over the BB is the "but I've got black friends!" of punk fandom.
FormerLurker wrote:SamDBL wrote:They were quite good as far as hardcore bands go. But I feel like the greatness of those first few releases is way over rated. I Against I is the real masterpiece that should go down in the history books. A truly unique record with a totally new sound and great songs. Before that, they were a fairly tight hardcore band. Big whoop.
Yep. Slobbering all over the BB is the "but I've got black friends!" of punk fandom.
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
Knutsen wrote:The BB played better Reggae than Minor Threat.
jaybird wrote:Knutsen wrote:The BB played better Reggae than Minor Threat.
Few things in the history of punk and hardcore were ever funnier than watching punker suburban white kids trying to hide their boredom, impatience, confusion and irritation at a Bad Brains show when they go into one of their interminable reggae slow-jams. "Haile who? Ethiopia what now"?
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