Tag Archive: The Faith

Signifying Nothing’s Top 100 Hardcore Records Of The 1980’s

Abombanation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 The Abused, Loud & Clear 7″, USA, 1983 Adolescents, Self Titled LP, USA, 1981 Adrenalin OD, The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin OD, USA, 1984 Agent Orange, Your Mother Sucks Cock In Hell 7″, Holland, 1983 Agnostic Front, Victim In Pain LP, USA, 1984 Altercation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 Anthrax, Capitalism Is Cannibalism 7″, England, 1983 Anti-Cimex, Victims Of A Bomb Raid 7″, Sweden, 1983 Bad Brains, Rock For Light LP, USA, 1983 Battalion Of Saints, Fighting Boys 12″, USA, 1982 Beyond, No Longer At Ease LP, USA, 1988 Black Flag, My War LP, USA, 1983…
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Parade Brigade Fanzine #1: The Reviews

We put out Parade Brigade Fanzine #1 in the spring of 1999. I have no idea what show we released it for, but I think it was at Manville Elks Lodge. Maybe. Amendment 18 Demo This band has members of a number of bands (Insted, Chorus Of Disapproval, Outspoken, etc) I had different expectations for this demo expecting more moshy stuff, but I got straight forward hardcore with interesting breakdowns. Lyrically, this isn’t as “militant,” as xChorusx was, but good all around especially “Eulogy.” I look forward to more. BW Bane Holding This Moment Equal Vision Records Bane sort of…
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Parade Brigade Fanzine #2: The Reviews

All three “staff members” did reviews for issue two. BW=Bill Wend, John=John Piorkowski, Ferret=Justin Bragg I got a ton of shit in the weeks before that In My Eyes record came out. I got it in the mail, listened a few times, and posted one morning on the Rev Board that I did not like it. I said it reminded me of Better Than A Thousand and was kind of shitty. I went to class and came back to this huge thread about what a fag/loser/pussy I was. LOL. Oh noes, I didn’t like your precious friend’s band and their…
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Floorpunch-Ten Yard Fight-Hands Tied-Fastbreak-Uprise-Bladecrasher-Last Straw-9 Lives at Fieldsboro VFW in Bordentown NJ 1-4-97

My first show of 1997 was in Bordentown, NJ at the Fieldsboro VFW (which apparently doesn’t exist anymore?). When I began teaching at BCC in 2009, I noticed I drove near Bordentown every day on my commute and it always made me think of the shows I went to at this venue (Also, Vincenttown. Do the punks still slam there?). I missed the two other Floorpunch shows here (one with Rain On The Parade and Vision, and the other with Human Remains and Earth Crisis). I went to this show with a bunch of friends, two of which, John Piorkowski…
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Summer Reviews

Things have been slow around here lately. Some of it is lack of motivation, a lot of that stems from a decent downswing in readers/listeners, but also in content. I have not had a lot to say lately for some reasons that, maybe, I will write about sometime. *** Real Cops Demo Excellent NJHC that reminds me of bands like Full Speed Ahead and Tear It Up (who members of this band were in). I see a lot of potential here. *** Sucked Dry Demo Wow, another band that sounds like Cold Sweat is a big influence on them. Obviously, other bands like Crossed Out and Rorschach are also big influences. I…
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March 2012 Reviews

No Tolerance (Full Set) from hate5six on Vimeo. Bad Noids Demo Fast, distorted, hardcore that reminds me a lot of H-100s. This would have fit in really well with that crop of late nineties bands in this vein. I want to hear more. Iron Age The Sleeping Eye LP Tee Pee Records This is Iron Age at their finest. A great combination of their earlier NYHC influenced material with the more recent, more “metal” influences. The songs are fast and heavy without a lot of stupid metal bullshit besides one instrumental interlude style track. Two earlier tracks from their eps are rerecorded as…
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Signifying Nothing Best of 2011 Podcast

Cro Mags-We Gotta Know (Age of Quarrel) New Lows-Last of The Rats (Harvest Of The Carcass) Citizens Arrest-Soaked In Others Blood (Soaked In Others Blood) Waste Management-Too Much Unity (Power Abuse) No Tolerance-Empty Words (No Remorse, No Tolerance) Technocracy-Aggressor (Diary of a Terrorist) NYC Mayhem-Want Authority (Crossover Days) Bastard-Defective Chain (Controlled In The Frame) Soul Swallower-Burning For The Ultimate (Devoured) Give-I Am Love (I Am Love) Void-Condensed Flesh (Sessions 81-83) Scapegoat-Bleach (Self Titled) Death Evocation-Relentless (Self Titled) Vaccine-Drug War (Crimes In Blood) Mauser-End Of The Line (End Of The Line) Omegas-Excessive Force (Blasts Of Lunacy) Faith-Untitled (Subject To Change Plus…
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Best of 2011

2011 ends as a pretty strong year for new releases. Wading through the bullshit in hardcore seems to get harder and harder each year, but here is a list of the top records in various formats I enjoyed this year. Demos/Tapes/CD • Our Side • Cervix • Blessed Offal Seven Inch or Less • V/A-Brutal Supremacy Compilation • School Jerks-Control • Citizens Arrest-Soaked In Others Blood • Death Evocation-Self Titled • Waste Management-Power Abuse • No Tolerance-No Remorse, No Tolerance • Vaccine-Crimes In Blood • Mauser-End Of The Line • Give-I Am Love • Gasmask Terror-Like Daggers Longer Players •…
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Pushead Top 100 Podcast Part One

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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Signifying Nothing Episode 04×01

Saint Vitus-War Is Our Destiny Faith-Untitled Mouthpiece-Nothing There XKI-I Hate Everything Redd Kross-Notes & Chords Mean Nothing To Me Meat Puppets-Plateau DRI-Give My Taxes Back Adolescents-Kids Of The Black Hole Reflex From Pain-The Scream Obliteration-Fascist System (Whoops—This track got deleted while editing…sorry guys!) Christian Mistress-Poison Path Crossed Out-Force of Habit Avengers-Corpus Christi

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