Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Sick Of It All - Built To Last
I could not resist. I love everything about this album, this band. They've been around forever and they're musically as tight as it gets, for this genre. An insanely, amazingly good band, still going and still very influential. If you don't know them, you should. This is as great as any other album and yes, yes Rise Against did cover the title track "Built to last", and yes, yes somehow they did make it sound pretty much identical. Either way, get your lugholes round this. It'll make you go "Woohoo".
Betrayed - Suffering (EP)
This EP is great, simply put. Dedicated band. Dedicated to sounding like '80s youth crew bands and keeping the tradition in flow. The vocalist of Betrayed is Aram, he runs React! Records and has played in such bands as The First Step and Champion before. All are great.
The title track of this EP is very experimental for their sound, I'd go as far as to say the vocals resemble a more shouty Jawbreaker, or some bands from 1234-Go! Records (namely a band called Whiskey Sunday, in the song "Radiation Kid") either way, it's experimental but they pull it off amazingly...
There's a thread on the React! Records message board where the posters just type about how amazing that one song is, to give you a clue. Either way, listen for yourself.
Trial - Foundation (EP)
Trial was a majorly influencial band to a lot of people throughout the world. Greg wrote heart-felt lyrics for this band, most noteably in the release "Are These Our Lives?". I've posted this EP to keep in the vein of the youth crew sound of this blog, which is my aim by the way. Trial are known for their half music, half spoken word message format on stage. Unfortunately we will not see them live again, RIP Brian. I was fortunate enough to catch their set at Fluff Fest 2009, shortly before long time bassist of Trial passed away as a result of a motorcycle accident. Great band, great message.
Sidenote: Greg Bennick, the vocalist, is involved with an amazing campaign that he set up. It's to help those in Haiti who are STILL suffering due to the earthquake that the world seems to have forgotten about since the media packed up and moved on a month or so after the event. so yeah, check that out: http://onehundredforhaiti.org/
Youth Of Today - Disengage (7'')
This is the band who single handedly pioneerd the sound of youth crew as a whole. much like Ian MacKaye was responsible for coining the term "straight-edge", YOT were responsible for coining the term "Youth Crew". It was the title of one of their songs. So you have them to thank, great band, great message: Vegetarianism also makes an entrance ;-). Great dedicated band members also were involved with: Project X, Judge, Bold, Shelter, Better Than A Thousand, Ray & Porcell... and most probably others that skip my mind right now. No-one seems to know the official name of this 7" but everyone seems to call it the "Disengage (7'')" so we'll stick with it!
Critical Point - Demo (EP)
Critical Point are an awesome vegetarian straight-edge youth crew hardcore band from Faro, Portugal. They share members of Pressure and Rafael played drums with Broken Distance (also posted here), on one tour. The song "foundation" is a massive rip off of "straight-edge revenge" by Project X but shhh, don't tell anyone.
Monday, 23 August 2010
Mindset - Real Power (7")
Mindset is one of the most influential of the bands playing youth crew revival hardcore, today. This 7" rip is a recording that is definitely worth your while. End.
http://www.mediafire.com/?xci6a4mmf4qlb59
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