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June 6, 2011
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Adolescents, Anti Sect, Antidote, Bad Brains, Cockney Rejects, Discharge, Disorder, DYS, Gism, Jerry's Kids, Minor Threat, Necros, Podcast, Pushead, Rudimentary Peni, Sick Of It All, Society System DeControl, State of Alert, Subhumans, The Faith, The FU's, True Sounds of Liberty
Here’s the idea: Instead of doing regular Signifying Nothing podcasts this summer, I thought a cool idea would be to do podcasts chronicling the famous Top 100 Records of the Eighties that Pushead did many years ago. If people like this, I’d love to try it with various specific record labels too. Twenty songs for each. I think this will be cool. Discharge-War’s No Fairy Tale Society System DeControl-Get It Away Subhumans-Parasites Minor Threat-Bottled Violence Bad Brains-The Regulator True Sounds of Liberty-Abolish Government/Silent Majority Disorder-Violent Crime Rudimentary Peni-Black President Jerry’s Kids-Raise The Curtain Anti Sect-Channel Zero Reality Gism-Death, Agonies, &…
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March 30, 2011
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Cro-Mags, Crow, Discharge, Krishna, Sorry State Records
Crow Vertigo b/w Occupied Japan 7″ Sorry State Records Unlike so many American bands that get poppier, trendy, or keep putting out the same record over and over, Crow continue to impress me as their sound evolves over the past twenty plus years. Always influenced by Discharge, their sound is now a heavy, metallic, assault. I am reminded of a rawer Best Wishes era Cro-Mags (minus love songs to Krishna). Hopefully Crow will continue to record records like this one.
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March 17, 2011
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Discharge, Green Beret, The FU's
Green Beret Demo Not surprisingly, given their name, there is a heavy early Boston influence on this demo. A bit of a Discharge influence can also be heard here. Great lyrics combined with the excellent music makes for a memorable demo. I am looking forward to more.
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February 25, 2011
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DFJ, Discharge, Dissed & Dismissed Fanzine, Four Walls Falling, Give, Ignition, Mob Mentality, Release, Rob Fish, Stick Together, Swiz, The Rival Mob
My first show of 2011, and first since the summer, had me traveling up to Asbury Park at the last minute to see a few bands I’ve been meaning to check out. After a long afternoon in my office, (someone pays me to code wikis and listen to Discharge…what a world) and a quick trip to Walmart for earplugs, where I observed a near fight, I was off to Asbury Park. Parkway North is such a mess. Potholes everywhere, construction half completed, and a massive amount of shitty drivers on the road. Can I have my taxes back? Getting to…
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January 26, 2011
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Clean Plate Records, Crow, Discharge, Eyehategod, Mind Eraser
Mind Eraser Conscious/Unconscious LP Clean Plate Records Mind Eraser continue to progress with this two song LP. Each song hits about 10 minutes in length, which some fast parts and then a lot of sludgey, ugly, slowdowns. Combined with their previous influences I am hearing a lot more of both Discharge and Eyehategod in their sound. Some elements of more metallic Japanese bands like Crow can also be heard. It looks like this record is out of print currently.
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January 6, 2011
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Discharge, Knife Fight, Mind Eraser, Misery, Nausea, Obliteration
Obliteration Self Titled 7” Members of Knife Fight and Mind Eraser combine for fast D-Beat hardcore influenced by bands like Nausea, Misery, and Discharge. Noisy, ugly, hardcore which really stands out from most of the boring bands who play this style. Highly recommended.
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November 21, 2010
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Al Quint, Assuck, Call The Police, Citizens Arrest, Crow, Deathreat, Discharge, Disrupt, Double Negative, DropDead, Fear of God, Feral Ward Records, Frank Wright, His Hero Is Gone, Integrity, Judgment, Life Trap, Mind Eraser, Out Cold, Political Asylum, Rorschach, Socialcide, Taste Of Fear, The Proletariat, Tragedy, War Cry, Youngblood Records
I think, at this point, the podcast is going to be canceled, or, at least, released in a different form than weekly (I’m thinking maybe a longer, monthly, show? Man, I can’t imagine how Al does two hours a week!). Since the show came back for the fall, listenership has been sporadic. This will leave the written portion of Signifying Nothing as the main focus. I have a large backlog of reviews to post, plus some other features I’d like to implement. Let’s see what happens as we experiment with this new format. Hopefully, people care enough to check it…
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October 11, 2010
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Antischism, Cop Out, Discharge, Hatred Surge, His Hero Is Gone, Nausea, Neurosis, Painkiller Records
Hatred Surge Isolated Human EP Painkiller Records Until about a year ago, I wasn’t too familiar with this band. I am, however, very impressed with what I am hearing from them. Hatred Surge have duel male-female vocals that trade off similarly to bands like Antischism and Nausea. Musically, I hear a very heavy influence from His Hero Is Gone, Cop Out, and other bands from that era alongside the above mentioned bands and others like Neurosis and Discharge. This is one of the best records I have heard in awhile.
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October 6, 2010
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Agent Orange, Black Flag, Citizen's Patrol, Die Kreuzen, Discharge, Four One One, Framtid, Germs, Hatred Surge, Infest, Iron Age, Life's Blood, Midnight, Modern Problems, Podcast, Pressure Release
Pressure Release-Paralyzed (Prison Of My Own) Die Krezuen-Among The Ruins (October File) Iron Age-The Way Is Narrow (The Way Is Narrow) Black Flag-TV Party (TV Party) Four One One-Blackout (This Isn’t Me) Citizen’s Patrol-Mental Disorder (No Bullshit Volume Four) Modern Problems-Quality Control (Demo) Midnight-Distance (Demo) Infest-Excess Pig (Mankind Reissue) Germs-Richie Dagger’s Crime (Lion’s Share) Life’s Blood-Maximum Security (New Breed) Framtid-The Plague (Split With Seein Red) Agent Orange-KKK (VD) Hatred Surge-Monster (Isolated Human) Discharge-Never Again (Never Again)
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September 23, 2010
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Discharge, Knife Fight, Painkiller Records
Knife Fight Isolated 7″ Painkiller Records One of my favorite bands of the past decade return, taking the Oi! influence of their previous few releases and combining it with a huge Discharge/UK82 influence. This is gnarly, angry hardcore. Definitely a contender for record of the year.
