Good Lord, I can't believe I made it all the way through this thread without mentioning:




I can't believe this album never gets any mention. In my opinion, it's ten times better than their supposed classic, II, and one of the greatest hardcore releases of all time. The vocals, if you want to call them that, are different than anything I've ever heard...even if you read along with the album sleeve, you still can't follow it. It's more moaning and groaning than anything, but it still sounds brilliant.

It's hard for me not to pick Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables, but I really think the first Suicidal Tendencies record should be on the list.

Another potential pick for me would be Animosity by COC.

See, I never even knew we had this shit in common!

No For An Answer, too. "We're no for an answer from orange county california." Yes, we know, you mentioned it 14 times already.

Hard to choose from this list, as I would rank Minor Threat, DK's and Bad Brains very highly, but if I had to choose just one....

Bad Brains, hands down.

There were quite a few good Bad Religion albums out earlier, like Suffer and No Control. My husband would have a field day with this topic (he's more of an aficionado than I am).

Some other interesting bands: the aforementioned Circle Jerks and Misfits, Nausea, Samiam, Trusty, and of course, you can't discount Ramones and Sex Pistols.

Dude, wher's the hookup?!!? I literally wore this album out when I was 13... have no idea where it got to. Can't even remember one song off of it, but I know I loved it...

Getting giddy over what the first re-listen will be like. Gimme Gimme Gimme!

Actually, if it counts, I could go with this one:

I've never considered their stuff after Dealing With It to be hardcore punk, but I'm not trying to start a debate about monikers for genres of music. There's a lot of stuff out there that drags the lines among hardcore, crossover, and metal. Mid-era DRI and COC are good examples, as are the two Ludichrist albums.

Dealing with It was pretty hardcore if I remeber correctly. Somewhere along the line DRI actually put out an album called "Crossover" I think, signaling a turn to something like spped metal. By "4 of a Kind" they were going for straight up metal I think and lost a lot of cred with the punk crowd.

I cut my teeth on metal though, like Bloor et al, and it was ALL GOOD to me. I HAVE to find that album.

DKs win for their surf guitarish sound, and cos I have a tape of it in my car.

The Minutemen * What Makes A Man Start Fires (SST) 82
Discharge * Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing (Clay) 82
M.D.C. * Millions Of Dead Cops (Radical) 82
Social Distortion * Mommy's Little Monster (Time Bomb) 83
T.S.O.L. (Posh Boy) 81
Adolescents (Frontier) 81
Angelic Upstarts * Teenage Warning (WB) 79
D.O.A. * Bloodied But Unbowed (Alternative Tentacles) 84
Bad Religion * How Could Hell Be Any Worse (Epitaph) 82
Agent Orange * Living In Darkness (Rhino) 81
The Exploited * Troops Of Tomorrow (Grand Slamm) 82
Rudimentary Peni * Death Church (Corpus Christi) 83
The Vandals * Peace Thru Vandalism (Epitaph) 82
The Subhumans * Incorrect Thoughts (CD Pres) 81

Been spinning BEDTIME FOR DEMOCRACY in my mp3 player at work lately. This shit refuses to get old.

Damn, I didn't mean to get your hopes up. I, too, would love to have it again. I'm such a music cock-tease. Sorry man.

I've always heard how this album sucks, but I like it quite a bit.

I like it quite a bit too, and have since it came out, but I don't think it holds a candle to the first couple of albums or the In God We Trust, Inc. EP.

Too hard to pick one as this was one of my favorite times, but here's a few, sticking to one per artist at least, most of which have already been mentioned, but a few mostly forgotten...

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegtables
FEAR: The Record
TSOL: Dance with Me
Dicks: Kill from the Heart
Big Boys: Fun, Fun, Fun
Black Flag: Damaged
Minutemen: Double Nickles on the Dime
Husker Du: New Day Rising
45 Grave: Sleep in Safety
Legal Weapon: Your Weapon
Red Kross
X: Los Angelas
Kraut
Misfits: Legacy of Brutality
Circle Jerks: Group Sex
The Adolescents
Social Distortion: 1945
MDC:Millions of Dead Cops
Reagan Youth


And, a special shout out to perhaps one of the best documents of the era...the fantastic, but I believe sadly out of print (don't know if it ever made it to CD)

LET THEM EAT JELLYBEANS!

OK...I'll stop rambling with this list...even though I forgot to write Bad Brains, JFA, Flipper, Suicidal Tendancies (whose first album should absolutely be on this list) and the hundreds of nameless, faceless bands who played those gigs in the bad parts of town that lasted all night with 6-8 bands for 5 bucks and all the vodka and dope you could smuggle in.

And, by the way, punk was way more fun in the US before it was cool.

Holy shit! I left off the best of the Canadian wing with DOA and the Subhumans, which I just had to mention because, personally, I think the Canadian Subhumans are so much better than the English ones.

Nope...gotta go with Motorhead on that one.

This is the only album of theirs that I've heard that I like. I like it quite a bit, though, so is anything else of theirs worth checking out? I don't like anything by them once they turned into a pop-metal group....

to me...not really..i loved the first one and then thought they turned to shit

but, then again, i was one of those guys who started getting really annoyed in the later half of the 80s when all the bands started sounding like thrash metal

others are bound to differ

From the same unearthed batch of recordings I mentioned in the phantom precursor to the "Big Star" tribute thread... here's an AF cover:

Victim In Pain

Cool thread i missed this.



Flipper all the way for me.

Love me some Bad Brains as well.

Or maybe...



And, I'm not so sure that Hüsker Dü wouldn't count. So, there is a third option for me, as well:

Which actually would be my #1.

Black flag, Bad Brains and Minor Threat are my favorite hardcore bands.

I love the Descendents but I don't really consider them hardcore as much as just stright punk