Signifying Nothing

Signifying Nothing Episodes Fourteen & Fifteen

By admin on Aug. 31, 2006.

Signifying Nothing Episodes Fourteen and Fifteen

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Voorhees-Heroin Is Fun
Discharge-I Won’t Subscribe
Discharge-Protest & Survive
Discharge-A Look At Tomorrow
Voorhees-Hinkley Had A Vision

Dead Nation-No Voice No Choice
Mental Decay-Leave Me Alone
Kiss It Goodbye-We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Get There

Turning Point-Insecurity
Born Against-Mary & Child
Rorschach-Checkmate

Burn-Decay
Citizens Arrest-Pain

Deep Wound-Sisters
Career Suicide-Stones You Throw
Discharge-The Beginning Of The End
No Hope For The Kids-Angels Of Destruction

Kanamits-Failure
Loud & Clear-A Bitter World
Nightmare-Refugee Of Logical Society

Disclose-Controlled By Fear
Lip Cream-Village Of The Damned
Doom-Nazi Die
Infest-Behind This Toungue
The Faith-Face To Face

Bikini Kill-Daddy’s Lil Girl
End Of The Line-Burning Down
Man Lifting Banner-Sister
Born Against-Body Counts

Black Flag-Wasted
Circle Jerks-Wasted
Void-Wasted

Infezoine-Sacrificare Lanimale
The Crucifucks-I Am The Establishment
Articles Of Faith-American Dreams
Midnight-Life Enhanced
Sleater Kinney-Turn It On

7 Seconds-Committed For Life
7 Seconds-What If There’s A War In America
7 Seconds-This Is The Angry Part Two

7 Seconds-Walk Together Rock Together
7 Seconds-Wasted Life Ain’t No Crime
7 Seconds-Racism Sucks
7 Seconds-The Kids Are United

Warzone-Wound Up
Floorpunch-Turn Away
Sunn0)))-It Took The Night To Believe
Straight Ahead-Stand United
Knife Fight-Fashion Parade

Ambulance-Crucified
Artimus Pyle-Party
Born/Dead-Final Role
Brain Handle-The Dilemma

Neanderthal-Fluids
Mind Eraser-Burn
Saint Vitus-Darkness
Sick Of It All-Pushed Too Far
Crow T. Robot-Kim Cattrall

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Wait In Vain-Demo 2005

By admin on Jul. 25, 2006.

Wait In Vain
Demo 2005

This is a new band for members of Champion and Trial that does not deviate too far from those bands. Energetic, slightly metallic, hardcore with way too much chugga chug and scratchy New Age Records, circa 1994, style vocals. The stop and go parts remind me of, of all bands, Sparkmarker. If you like Trial or Champion you will like this probably. I will pass on this one. This is the kind of stuff I thought bands like Devoid Of Faith and Floorpunch pushed to the side when they came along.

The promo sheet that comes with this is hilarious: among the ridiculous statements made on it include a note about selling one thousand demos “in a market that usually supports 1/10^th of that.” How are they doing in the males 18-49 demograph? Do soccer moms 35-50 enjoy it? I love the proclamation that Wait In Vain are “a return of hardcore that feels dangerous and potentially lethal to the status quo.” Yeah, sure it is. I can just hear the status quo trembling in fear. Maybe you will poll better with the “tween” market.

My favorite though is the comparisons to Burn and the Cro-Mags. Uh, no, not even close. 10/10 bands that are said to sound like either of those bands don’t.

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Robot Whales-Vehicle

By admin on Mar. 16, 2006.

Robot Whales
Vehicle LP
Collapse Records

Last year’s sleeper hit on the Revelation compilation returns with a new LP filled with mid 90′s style hardcore. Like I said last year, these guys sound like a breath of fresh air right now. If you like stuff like Quicksand, Lincoln, Burn, Helmet, and bands like that you will love this. Bonus points for covering Electric Funeral live. I’ve been spinning this one a lot lately. Check this and the other great records on Collapse Records out. Members of this band were also recently in Get Real.

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Signifying Nothing Episode Two

By admin on Feb. 24, 2006.

Signifying Nothing Episode Two

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Playlist
Leeway-Unexpected
Bad Brains-The Regulator

Get Real-Welcome To My World
Cockney Rejects-Fighting In The Streets
Black Flag-Account For What?
Void-War Hero

Agnostic Front-Hiding Inside
Beyond-Instrumental
Fu Manchu-Laserbl’ast!
Burn-Godhead

Husker Du-Makes No Sense At All
Flipper-Sex Bomb
Sheer Terror-Ashes, Ashes
Crossed Out-Practiced Hatred

Lion Of Judah-Trapped
Devoid Of Faith-Tear It Up
Bikini Kill-Strawberry Julius
The Clitboys-Gay’s OK

Fu Manchu-Nothing Done

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Top 100 Of The Eighties: Beyond-No Longer At Ease

By admin on Feb. 23, 2006.

Beyond
No Longer At Ease LP
Combined Effort Records
1989

This is another record, much like the Burn record, which really blew my mind.

Beyond were pretty legendary to me before I even heard them. Remember this is the days before file sharing, eBay, and CDR’s. If you were lucky you had cool people in your town or pen pals who hooked you up with classic records and demos. Thankfully I had a bit from column A & B so I got a video of Beyond when I was 16. I was floored by this band who played lightning fast and kept yelling BEYOND! BEYOND! over and over. Around this time someone dubbed me their demo (there was also a bootleg of it shortly after this that got around a lot too.). I was pretty impressed by them and, already growing a little bored with 1-2 youth crew style hardcore, their more technical songs really impressed me.

Later that year, on the way to a show, a friend put a tape in the car stereo. The feedback broke into this super heavy intro with a really cool bass break. I asked him who this was?! He told me to keep listening. Finally the vocals came in and immediately I knew who it was! He’d scored a copy of the Beyond LP! For us this was like finding an Antidote EP for $3. We must’ve listened to the album four or five times during the drive. On the way home we stopped at my house so i could dub a copy, which I still have somewhere in my closet probably to this day.

This record is pretty special to me. It reminds me of a time when I was beginning to be bored with the same old, same old, hardcore. This record, along with a few others, all came into my life at the same time and really changed things for me.

No Longer At Ease was reissued about five years by Some Records. I think it is out of print now, but I have heard there is a reissue coming shortly to coincide with Beyond getting together to play a couple shows.

Here is an mp3 of Effort & Ancient Head

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