Early Bad Brains

[xxxHunterxxx]

I watched Punk The Capital last night. There are a bunch of killer clips of the early Bad Brains playing their classic songs at a slower pace. Frankly, I preferred them to the RFL/ROIR versions. That’s all I got.

[drew]

Yea, early stuff is great but it’s Punk. Not hardcore yet. That they were able to make the conscious decision to “speed up” or whatever is what is historic.

[SamDBL]

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]

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.

Bronzed 'n' huged


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]

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.

Bronzed 'n' huged


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/

Absolutely.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Minor Threat was a lot better.

[lewdd]

1987 HS grad too...rock on, jaybird!

[FormerLurker]

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.

[jaybird]

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]

And, to be clear, I am a fan, though moderate and not slobberin'.

[SamDBL]

Minor Threat was a lot better.

Yep.

[SamDBL]

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.

[gregpolard]

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.

WUT

[jaybird]

Randie and the Revisionists

[gregpolard]

The revisionism is coming from those who are saying that they were just an "ok" hardcore band.

[target]

Another class of '87er here.

for me, the best BB album was rock for light. but like others have posted, it might have to do with my personal experience. I got it first and wore it out. I think Ron St. Germain's production on I vs I is wicked, and far superior, and the screaming guitar squeal on the ROIR cassette hits harder. RFL is simply the one i got first.

I think Bad Brains were head and shoulders above any hardcore band at the time.

[SamDBL]

I think they were a really awesome hardcore band. But a really awesome hardcore band vs a really awesome rock band is just no comparison, to me. And god help anyone that tries to claim they were jazz fusion-level musicians that just decided to slum it as a punk band. That is one of the more ridiculous claims in the mythology that has become early 80s hardcore.

[Knutsen]

The BB played better Reggae than Minor Threat.

[jaybird]

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"?

[FormerLurker]

LOL, it's pretty apparent on the 1982 CBGB's DVD.

[SamDBL]

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"?

[Knutsen]

The chill out Reggae tunes had quite some use to catch a breath in between the fast songs.

And yeah, the I Against I album is a masterpiece.