Howard the Duck

my knowledge of hardcore is pretty much limited to the American Hardcore movie

as far as i know, it was mostly a scene of suburban kids bored with the ennui of suburban life

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BastardofYoung

Duce... go and download this album:



Gang Green - Preschool

This compilation includes the "Sold Out" / "Terrorize" single, the tracks from the "This is Boston, Not LA" compilation, and the track from the "Unsafe at Any Speed" compilation.

"Sold Out" is one of my favorite songs in Hardcore Punk, love the speed and beats of it. Just good, fast hardcore the way I enjoy it.

If you are so inclinded get the "The is Boston, Not LA" compilation, and the "Unsafe at Any Speed" comp (the two released have been put on one album.. This Is Boston Not L.A. by Various Artists : Reviews and Ratings - Rate Your Music). Has many greats from the Boston scene... which was talked about in American Hardcore.

But for sure get that compilation by Gang Green, the whole thing only clocks in at 14 minutes. So not to long, and should be a good introduction for ya.

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‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

Howard the Duck

^^sure

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bob.

"harcore changed my life" - d. boon (kind of )

i'll throw out a diatribe about my love for hardcore music!



^i traveled from reno, nv to the LA area to see this band two times when they re-united a few years ago.....i could have easily just gone to the two bay area shows but rumor was that at the orange county show uniform choice was going to be there and may talked into coming on stange for a short set....they did.....it fucking rocked....anyways point here right?....i traveled via greyhound bus (the worst way to travel in the states) for 16 hours and get to victorville ca....meet my friend, checked into a hotel...went out for a great meal and hit a couple of record stores then headed to the show....at the time i was 30 years old and he was 19 (met online....great kid)....we're at the show and the feeling there is fucking amazing.....we're towards the back and the two opening bands finished....he looks at me and says "you coming up front?" i tell him no.....just gonna stay back and let the kids have their fun......we agree to meet up out front at the end of the show and he heads into the crowd.....walter, civ and the boys take the stage to a roar of applaud....then i hear that horn intro.......the hair on my arms stand attention....and within milliseconds my mind goes crazy....."fuck age" by the time he screams "rebirth to hardcore pride" i'm up front fighting for the mic.....i walked out of that show bruised, bloody and literally dripping in sweat....by far one of the best shows i've ever been to....and i went two time in four days!

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Trauma

I like hardcore because the lyrics of most bands are mostly truth and not bogus fantastical dreams of cash and clothes. Furthermore, the scene seems in general to sponsor good will, humanism and a strong belief in valuation of friendship and life.
Probably romanticized and very generalized but these are a couple things I admire about it.
Then again, I don't listen to a lot of "brocore" or straight-edge (other than Minor Threat) or a lot of other bands that have large followings that would more than likely kill the notion for me of the scene being cool.

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bob.

i would have to agree on Trauma's comment about lyrics....i think the lyrics are my main draw to hardcore music.....i did not get into the idea of vegetarianism due to hardcore....but hardcore made me proud to be a vegetarian.....it helped me lash back at rude and unjust comments due to my empathy towards the torture and mindless death of animals rather than take comments at stride (Gorilla Biscuits, Earth Crisis, 108,)......i also found the only books that i feel...for me.....explain a real way to take a positive and very personal moral inventory and try to create yourself into a better human being (108, Shelter, Better Than A Thousand, Cro-Mags).....at the same time i've found my frustration with myself and the people around me in the lyrics of hardcore bands...fueling my misanthropic tendencies more so than any of the other genres i listen to (Deadguy, Bloodlet, Blood For Blood)....while at the same time creating hope for myself and other humans (Snapcase) and even with hardcore i was better educated on some of my favorite weirdo religious doomsday cults (Integrity)

i've never been straight edge....and never will....but man do i LOVE straight edge hardcore....i really do feel its a positive movement (for the most part)

edit.....i added links in case anybody actualyl cares to look into these bands

and you cannot have a hardcore thread without mention of Inside Out

this is seriously my all time favorite hardcore song...."try to make me just another pebble on the beach"

i can't believe i forgot to represent Reno hardcore!!!!!
7 Seconds is still one of the best things to have ever come out of the truckee meadows

the mighty Fall Silent....another just amazing hardcore band from Reno....the did eventually release a few albums on Revelation Records gaining quite a bit of underground success....i think this song reflects why

and Gehennna (although technically they are a Bay Area band....they all lived in Reno and that is where the band formed).....this is still by far the most violent band i have ever seen live (the vocalist Mike Cheese stabbed a guy)


and we really need to mention some more NY Hardcore....i means seriously....all these posts and not one mention of Sick Of It All!

and no mention of the hardcore anthem by Warzone

"don't forget your roots....DON'T SELL OUT!!!!"

sand what about Judge.....

and we can't talk New York hardcore with out mention of the over the top and quite silly super group/joke band Project X

"I'm as straight as the line that you sniff up your nose" classic

and Cause For Alarm....their first ep is a hardcore masterpiece


and with all this talk about Refused and there is no mention of the great all girl Swedish hardcore band Doughnuts!

members of Doughnuts and members of Refused later got together to form The (international) Noise Conspiracy

hmmmm...i've probably reached the point of "ignore that post"....but what the fuck two more classic and great hardcore songs

Strife....great LA Hardcore

i mention Uniform Choice in a previous post.....classic old school hardcore from orange county

therer has to be mention of Youth Of Today....they practically started the concept of youth crew and posi-core


Crucial Youth was a joke band who sang great songs about eating broccoli and have good oral hygiene


alright i'll stop now....this whole post has just reminded me just how much i love this music and what an iompact its had on my life.....at that i'll end my post with the song Steps by Snapcase...whose lyrics are still very as important6 as the first time i heard them years ago


i want to live my life, live it my own way. over throw the shame,
the shame you dealt, brought me to my knees.
always trying to please you instead of living for me
you...say...you say you know what's best for me.
time...change...the time came for me to change.
and you controlled my dreams. you never asked me and i never agreed,
to your requests, goals, destinies. i abandoned you and now i'm free.
you...say...you say you know what's best for me.
time...change...the time came for me to change.
i...live...for...me.
now i, i live my life, live it my own way, forget yesterday.
no expectations just my ambitions. Identity, the choice is up to me

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neeraj86

listen to your song and it's good.
i like this one