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Also, do people still really care about the Bad Brain’s homophobia? I’m not trying to justify it, and it’s great to stand up for your convictions, but I know a lot of gay Hardcore folks and in all my years, the issue’s never come up. Rock for Light, the Roir Cassette, Black Dots and I Against I have always just been considered mandatory by everyone.
yeah I've never really heard it brought up either. the best thing to come out of that situation is the band Bloodclot Faggots from Australia putting out one of the better hardcore singles of the decade.
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Where are you getting this information that Black Dots was released in 1978? Wikipedia says it wasn’t recorded until 1979. I can only find YouTube videos saying it was 1978.
And... Out of Vogue was released in January of 1979, recorded in 1978. Black Dots was recorded in 79, and wasn’t even released until 1996 (not taking away from how amazing and ahead of their time they were.... apparently they’re big influence was the Ramones which shows how original they were).
I’m sure there was other stuff recorded around or before... like the above mentioned SS. Shit, Discharge was playing in 77, 78 but didn’t release anything till 80.
Apparently Discharge started off by playing the Clash rip off type stuff. I can only imagine what that sounded like.
well hopefully it went over better than the Grave New World-tour!
http://truepunkmetal.blogspot.com/2012/07/discharge-live-at-farm-in-sf-sept-7th.html
Christ, those vocals.
EDIT: the second worst sellout record ever:
the SSD footage from this era is hilarious.
true confession: I actually kinda like Grave New World
BUT only if you think of it as a glam/punk album, and try to forget that it's Discharge. From a glam/punk perspective it's not bad... kinda like a more dark Guns and Roses or Hanoi Rocks.
The vocals are horrific, which make it sound a little more punk than say the above mentioned bands. Like I said, forget it's Discharge and a completely different genre and it's not bad.
another "try-and-bury-it" album from that era, Bad Religion's 'Into the Unknown'. They were never that great, a few decent songs, but I feel like they're more at home with this weird new wave proggy rock album. The Emerson, Lake, and Palmer-style synth noodling is hilarious. They tried to forget it existed for years but thanks (no-thanks?) to youtube it's readily available.
when all those hardcore bands tried to rock out and be better musicians it had hilariously disastrous results. I think Black Flag was the only band of that era that progressed into something kinda interesting.