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Signifying Nothing Episode Two

Playlist Leeway-Unexpected Bad Brains-The Regulator Get Real-Welcome To My World Cockney Rejects-Fighting In The Streets Black Flag-Account For What? Void-War Hero Agnostic Front-Hiding Inside Beyond-Instrumental Fu Manchu-Laserbl’ast! Burn-Godhead Husker Du-Makes No Sense At All Flipper-Sex Bomb Sheer Terror-Ashes, Ashes Crossed Out-Practiced Hatred Lion Of Judah-Trapped Devoid Of Faith-Tear It Up Bikini Kill-Strawberry Julius The Clitboys-Gay’s OK Fu Manchu-Nothing Done  

Top 100 Of The Eighties: Beyond-No Longer At Ease

Beyond No Longer At Ease LP Combined Effort Records 1989 This is another record, much like the Burn record, which really blew my mind. Beyond were pretty legendary to me before I even heard them. Remember this is the days before file sharing, eBay, and CDR’s. If you were lucky you had cool people in your town or pen pals who hooked you up with classic records and demos. Thankfully I had a bit from column A & B so I got a video of Beyond when I was 16. I was floored by this band who played lightning fast…
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Top 100 Of The Nineties: Burn

Burn Self Titled EP Revelation Records 1991 Burn are one of my favorite bands. When I first heard this record this was pretty mind blowing. It was still hardcore, but it sounded fresh and new without getting too metal or stupid. This is proof that you can do something “new” with hardcore without bringing in corny mainstream riffs or anything stupid like that. This record is still available from Revelation Records. Apparently they finally fixed the misspelling on the back. Burn also finally released their 2nd recording on CD as The Last Great Sea. There are a lot of great…
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Signifying Nothing Episode One

Playlist Infest-My World, My Way Infest-Iran Scam Calvary-It’s Sport Fugazi-Cash Out Mental-History 101 Deep Wound-In My Room Black Flag-Three Nights Endpoint-Black Skies Citizens Arrest-In The Distance Sleater Kinney-Jumpers Far From Breaking-All The Difference Midnight-Cold Sweat Cold Sweat-Guilt Burns Judgment-Kick Them Over 108-Killer Of The Soul Eyehategod-30$ Bag Signal Lost-Innocent

Top 100 Of The Eighties: Deep Wound S/T

Deep Wound Self Titled 7” Radiobeat Records 1983 An absolute classic record from western Massachusetts. Deep Wound emulate contemporaries Siege and Void for insanity and intensity while also being pretty straight forward. Some songs, especially In My Room, have an almost youth crew feeling to them. Like mixing Void with Youth of Today. Sounds good to me. There is also a demo from these guys. That piece of shit bootleg label Lost and Found did a CD for these guys years ago that had both collected on it. There is also a four way split on that label with Siege,…
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Black Flag My War LP SST Records 1983 I first heard My War the summer after my first year of college. My War was exactly what I needed at the time; the brutality, the dense often claustrophobic feeling of the record perfectly captured what I was, and still am, feeling at the time. I listened to this record so often that it became a joke amongst my friends whenever they came over I would have this on my turntable. This is a rather influential record. Bands like Eyehategod, The Melvins, and Annihilation Time are greatly influenced by this record. A…
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Sleater Kinney-Entertain

Sleater Kinney Entertain CD Single Sub Pop Records This is the first single from The Woods.  Entertain is easily my favorite song on the record.  This song is fast (for S-K at least) and very heavy. I love the drumming on here!  This, and the other single Jumpers, should be the biggest songs in the universe right now.  Everything is a decent b-side and while a live version of The Fox is great, I have a lot of shows from this summer’s Sleater Kinney touring already.  If you aren’t obsessed with S-K you might pass this one, but it’s worth…
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Lack Of Interest-Take Another Step

Lack Of Interest Take Another Step LP Deep Six Records Ever since first hearing these guys on their split with Spazz sometime in the mid 90’s, I have been pretty indifferent towards Lack Of Interest. Their influences are clear: Infest, No Comment, Spazz, and other bands of that nature. Despite this, nothing about this record really grabs me. There are a few ragers, but otherwise it is too long and pretty flat sounding. This would have worked a lot better as an ep with about half the amount of songs.

Far From Breaking

Back when we did Parade Brigade Fanzine, one of the bands we would’ve done something with if we didn’t end the fanzine was Far From Breaking.  I remember getting the demo in the mail and really liking it.  At the time the youth crew thing was pretty diluted (not quite as bad as it is today though) and there weren’t many bands in the style (or any style) holding my interest.  I dug the demo enough to pre-order their first ep.  I missed them when they came out here due to conflicts with school, but did get a special pressing…
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Top 100 Of The Nineties: Endpoint-In A Time Of Hate

Endpoint In A Time Of Hate LP Conversion Records 1991 This is a personal choice. When I was a young punk Model was put on a mix tape for me (turned out said mix tape maker just copied the east coast side of the Voice of 1000’s compilation and said it was a mix) and I loved it a lot. In A Time Of Hate, the LP the song comes from, is a great record of slightly metallic youth crew hardcore with great lyrics about the environment, straight edge, and drunk driving. I’ve always had a soft stop for this…
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