The Teen Idles-Minor Disturbance 7"

it's the last day of the month, time for Dischord's first release. this is a decent record, not one of my favourites thou. lots of bass on this. Nathan's voice is also as irritating as ss decontrol's Springa (but they do grow on you). it's a good thing Ian switched to vocals and formed minor threat with Jeff. Nathan went on to form youth brigade (pretty bad band) and they released only one ep as well, which i will review soon.

1. teen idles 5/5 (best song, fast. too bad the rest of the record doesn't sound this good.)

2. sneakers 1.5/5 (weak song, slow too.)

3. get up and go 2/5 (what is this, the ramones.)

4. deadhead 3.5/5 (decent song, weird sound on the break down.)

5. fleeting fury 4/5 (good, faster.)

6. fiorucci nightmare 5/5 (yes, back to the great stuff.)

7. getting in the way 5/5 (it bleeds with the song above, so it's pretty much the same song, therefore 5/5.)

8. minor disturbance (too young to rock) 1/5 (bad live track.)

overall: 5/10 lightly recommended

better than a lot of hardcore records out there, but not nearly the best. you would have to spend tons to get the original 7", so get the 12".

Why No Downloads?

all these releases can be found somewhere on the internet so no point in putting them on this website and claiming them as my own rips.

Minor Threat-In My Eyes 7"

yesterday was my birthday so i'm posting my favourite band again, MINOR THREAT. great 7" here. only thing i don't like is the sound of stepping stone. it's really kind of quiet at any volume (it's weird, good song thou). i have to go now, so i'll keep this short.

1. in my eyes 4/5 (vocals are decent. you'll see what i mean.)

2. out of step (with the world) 5/5 (possibly the best minor threat song.)
3. guilty of being white 5/5 (ian is NOT racist. read the lyrics, "i'm guilty of being white" don't judge me by the colour of my skin. it's so CLEAR!)

4. stepping stone 3/5 (good, but the sound.)

overall: 8/10 strongly recommended

get the 12" (much cheaper).

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Bum Kon-Drunken Sex Sucks 7"

this is the biggest picture that i could find of this great (thrash?) record. there was a great little colorado hardcore scene along with "frantix" and "white trash." they didn't release much after this, but all their recordings can be found on the recently pressed "drunken sex sucks" 12". alright.

1. bum kon 5/5 (too short to be bad.)

2. locked away 4/5 (nice slower thrashing.)

3. drunken sex sucks 4/5 (great.)

4. the draft 5/5 (#3 blends into this masterpiece.)
5. slow death 1/5 (exactly.)

overall: 7/10 recommended (but impossible to get.)

so get the 12" only bad song on their is "slow death".

Meat Puppets-EP 7"

great hardcore record. very talented musicians. all the drum beats are the same, du ta du ta du ta. i guess that's it, oh wait, i haven't listened to anything of theirs past this, so.

1. in a car 3/5 (decent.)

2. big house 5/5 (excellent vocals and music.)

3. dolphin field 4/5 (raging vocals.)

4. out in the garden 4/5 (spongebob squarepants.)

5. foreign lawns 3/5 (good closer. nice tempo.)

overall: 8/10 strongly recommended

copies on eBay go for like 30 bucks (a little to much $ for me).

School Jerks-EP 7"

((remastered post)) good punk from toronto's school jerks (2008). not much to say, sounds a lot like the first bands starting out back in the 80's. not too slow, not too fast. you can visit their band site here: http://www.myspace.com/schooljerks and get their 7". look out for their new 7" coming soon. ((their new 7" is out now so go get it at their myspace page.))

1. nothing else 5/5 (great opener.)

2. stray 5/5 (fastest song on here.)

3. passed out 5/5 (surprising.)

overall: 10/10 strongly recommended

Lognhalsmottagningen-Oron Nasa 7"

(((remastered post. i scanned in my copy of the cover. mine's #168/300, how bout you?))) great NEW (2008) hardcore from sweden. try and pronounce the name (even hard to pronounce for swedes). only two different people on this album, one for vocals, and one for all the instruments. this album is all treble, the bass sounds like another guitar. apparently they're in the process of making a 40 song LP, wow. i'm in the process of trying to get this album (kbd).

i don't know what any of this means (language).

1. svenssonliv 5/5 (great opening song.)

2. kola a stalar 5/5 (yes.)

3. javlar igen 5/5 (nice.)

4. bodybuilder 5/5 (best song on here. fast, powerful.)

5. snacka gar ju 5/5 (great song.)

6. va e poangen 5/5 (slower, but not that slow.)

7. sicken skit 5/5 (decent ender to a great album.)

overall: 10/10 strongly recommended

this 7" was released on 4 labels, two in sweden and two in usa. it was limited to 300 copies and was soon sold out. there are some spare copies floating around so get them while they're cheaper. (i got a feeling this will become a rare kbd record in the distant future)

below is a link to their first show at popfest. the song is "bodybuilder" and from their you can get the rest of the show. the singer hadn't even learned the lyrics yet, he's holding a lyric sheet. also he messes up the timing on most of the songs (it's great).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oHUrZwSKmQ

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http://www.kbdrecords.com/
http://www.7inchpunk.com/
great download sites.
http://www.killfromtheheart.com/
great punk info
www.operationphoenixrecords.com/archivespage.html
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Zero Boys-Livin' In The 80's 7"

this is surprisingly bad. all the songs sound exactly like the ramones (crap). the zero boys next two albums are GOLDEN. definitely pick up their other albums but not this one.

1. livin' in the 80's 0/5
2. stoned to death 0/5
3. stick to your guns 0/5
4. i'm bored 0/5
5. a piece of me 0/5

overall: 0/10 strongly not recommeded
(if you like the ramones, then you should pick this up, for about $500.)

Stains-John Wayne Was A Nazi 7"

yes this is MDC. first called stains but changed their name to MDC because of LA's stains. well some great stuff here. actually, half of the records say MDC-stains on them and the others just say stains. their next two releases and comp tracks are pretty good too. these two songs appear on their LP as well but different versions. "john wayne was a nazi" is better on the LP and "born to die" is better on this 7". their still going today (big mistake).

1. john wayne was a nazi 3/5 (good song but better version on their LP.)

2. born to die 5/5 (great song, much better version than the one on their LP. the LP version is actually too FAST, you can't understand what he's saying, i didn't even know it was the same song.)

overall: 7/10 recommended (but good luck, their going for over $500.)

Minutemen-Paranoid Time 7"

well, minutemen or the minutemen, put out a decent first 7". this stuff is gold. his is their fastest stuff, it's pretty short too (but all their stuff is). their next album is good, and double nickels on the dime, but the other stuff is forgettable. so.

1. validation 5/5 (good fast. weird stopping points.)

2. the maze 5/5 (the guitar kind of gets annoying.)
3. definition 5/5 (first half, nothing, second half, good.)

4. sickles and hammers 5/5 (great instrumental song.)

5. fascist 5/5 (best song on here. really crazy.)

5. joe McCarty's ghost 5/5 (nice.)

6. paranoid chant 5/5 (good instruments.)

overall: 10/10 strongly recommended

thanks to sst records you can buy this 7" the exact same way it looked back then. (same codes even.)

Bad Brains-Pay To Cum! 7"

great band, musically. not a fan of their views, but this album was out way before that. i recommend their s/t album as well. once they started doing more reggae songs and grew long dreadlocks i lost interest. there are several versions of the song "pay to cum!" out there and i like this one the best. my god, this record has to be one of the most expensive 7"s out there. they're going for over $2000, crazy.

1. pay to cum! 5/5 (great song and best version.)

2. stay close to me 3/5 (kind of a weird song by them, it's pretty good though. i can't define the genre.)

overall 7.5/10 recommended for just "pay to cum!"

i just bought one for $10 (yeah, a bootleg, but it looks like the original.)

Beastie Boys-Polly Wog Stew 7"

yes, the beastie boys, before their hip-hop crap. the beastie boys started has a punk band that worshiped the bad brains (Beastie Boys-Bad Brains, same initials.) not much to say, its a good album. i can't listen to it really loud or it kills my ears. so much treble and the singer's high voice.

1. Beastie Boys 5/5 (great, fast, tight.)

2. Transit Cop 5/5 (good vocals.)

3. Jimi 1/5 (useless.)

4. Holy Snappers 5/5 (aggression.)
5. Riot Fight 5/5 (fasted song, therefore the best.)

6. Ode To... 2.5/5 (decent.)

7. Michelle's Farm 3/5 (good opening with all the farm sounds.)

8. Egg Raid On Mojo 3/5 (good.)

overall: 8/10 strongly recommended

i've been trying to get this record but i keep getting out-bid.

only available on ebay (i guess).

The Dicks-Peace? 7"

here's another name for you to forget, but once again a great release. along with MDC and the big boys, the dicks made the texas hardcore punk scene. everything up to and including this record is good punk. only one more record was released after this and it has more longer "blues" songs (that's why i've neglected to listen to it.). all these songs center around the reasons for war (the dicks were against war, well the singer was anyway). they remind me of the band "big boys" because of all the different genres of music they play. also, they were almost 30 years old while playing in the band (pretty old for hardcore).

1. No Fuckin' War 2/5 (really slow but decent song. the 5 minutes just fly by.)

2. Nobody Asked Me 5/5 (great fast song.)

3. I Hope You Get Drafted 5/5 (get the album just for this song. not the chorus though.)

overall: 6.5/10 recommended (worth it just for the b-side.)

some reissues, but someone always puts an original up for auction on ebay (like every other week. so go for that.)

Koro-EP 7"

ok forget about the name, this is a great release. it's a lot like poison idea's first album, but with a better singer. a lot of people claim that the album was sped up during the recordings. it most likely wasn't (but extremely fast). even if it was who cares, the faster the song the better.

they were only together for 2 years and would have be forgotten if it weren't for this record.

1. 700 Club 5/5 (huge build-up.)

2. Selfless Johnny 5/5 (fasted and tightest song on here.)

3. It's OK 3/5 (it's ok)

4. Government 3.5/5 (all over the place.)

5. Dear Sirs 5/5 (great guitar riffs.)

6. Blap! 4/5 (fast and i think a little cowbell.)

7. Nauseous 2/5 (nauseous listening to it.)

8. Acid Casualty 5/5 (they stop and start the song about 4 times.)

overall: 7/10 recommended

tons of bootlegs (even recent reissues, so get that.)

Absurd-EP 7"

golden album. every song fast and sloppy with manic vocals. swedish so i don't know what he's saying but it doesn't matter. that's it.

1. Blodig Stad 5/5

2. Fred Pa Jorden 5/5

3. Bojkotta Coca Cola 5/5

4. Statens Maktspel 5/5

5. Anarki Nu! 5/5

overall: 10/10 strongly recommended

only about 200 released so closest thing you can get is a download.

The Sack-O'-Woes/Baby, I'm Born Old 7"

hey Dylan can you help me out with this one.

alright, this is probably the newest record that will ever be on this site. it was recorded in 2005. but it's good so. the band is not really well known, but if you contact them i believe you can get this record.

1. Baby I'm Born Old 3/5 (not the best song.)
2. The Men With Bogart's Face 5/5 (great song. good guitar.)
3. Afterlife 5/5 (best song on here. great chord changes.)

overall: 7/10 recommended
if you find it somewhere, GET IT!

Poison Idea

brutal hardcore!

Boston Hardcore

negative fx!

Agnostic Front-United Blood 7"

that's right, it was agnostic front. so, i've got no clue what this album is. it's so intense. when i first heard this record i listened to it nonstop. then i wandered off it. but lately i've been listening to it and found out why i played it so much in the first place. good, fast record. their second record "victim in pain" is really good as well. their third album "cause for alarm" is decent but anything after that isn't very to good. back to this record. the songs are really short (sometimes even complicated).

1. No One Rules 5/5 (huge "GO" at the beginning to start of the album.)

2. Final War 4/5 (most intense song.)

3. Last Warning 4/5 (good build up.)

4. Traitor 5/5 (fast.)

5. Friend or Foe 5/5 (great song.)

6. United Blood 5/5 (best song on here. slow-fast.)

7. Fight 4/5 (14 seconds long. every song should be this long.)

8. Discriminate 4/5 (nice.)

9. In Control 5/5 (AH.)

10. Crucial Changes 4/5 (singer, right at the end "blah".)

overall: 8.5/10 recommended, this album is pretty much one big song. most songs sound the same, but no complaints.

(i listened to this record about 50 times while writing this review, 51)

Who Is This?

do you know who this is?

comeback tomorrow for the answer.

Big Boys-Fun,Fun,Fun... 12"

when i first heard this album i thought it was really bad. but weeks later, i listened to it again and realized it was pretty decent. i'm not really sure why this is considered hardcore punk (besides apolitical) but it is, so it's on this blog.

1. Nervous 1/5 (bad way to start of the album. slow, goes nowhere.)
2. Apolitical 5/5 (best and most punk song they ever did. should have started the record with this.)
3. Hollywood Swinging 2/5 (nice bass at the beginning but the rest of the song is repetitive.)
4. Prison 3.5/5 (solid song.)
5. We Got Soul 5/5 (lots of horns.)
6. Fun Fun Fun 4/5 (back to the faster side.)

overall: 6/10 recommended (but good luck finding one.)
only reissue is on their "fat elvis" compilation on cd (i wouldn't get that if i were you.)

Battalion of Saints-Second Coming 7"

this is the only battalion of saints album i like, all the other ones are bad.

1. Second Coming 2.5/5 (to much screaming from the singer.)

2. Intercourse 4/5 (nice and fast.)

3. Solitary Is Fun 5/5 (best song on here. fast yet catchy.)

overall: 6/10 lightly recommended

if you're going to get a b.o.s. record get this one , and don't waste your money on any other album.

Coming Soon......

sin 34 anyone?

Eddie and the Subtitles-EP 7"

time for my first BAD review. this record is so BAD. everyone told me that it was their favourite hardcore punk band and album. so i went out and got it. WASTE OF MONEY! the first song is slow as can be and the second song has been covered SO MANY times already.

1. American Society 0/5 (slow,bad.)

2. Louie Louie 0/5 (it's been done.)

overall: 0/10 strongly NOT recommended

DO NOT BUY!!!

(((the cover's sick though.)))

The Middle Class-Out of Vogue 7"

THIS IS THE FIRST HARDCORE PUNK ALBUM OF ALL TIME, not black flag's "nervous breakdown" and it doesn't disappoint. EVERY SONG A++++. need i say more.

1. Out of Vogue 5/5 (really fast and tons going on.)

2. You Belong 5/5 (fast and loud.)

3. Situations 5/5 (a little slower but vocals make up for it.)

4. Insurgence 5/5 (holy god)

overall: 10/10 strongly recommended

YOU SHOULD already have this but if you don't GET IT!!!!!!

American Hardcore

this movie has been getting bad reviews and i don't see why. i think it's good. i got word of this movie from my brother who's friend had it and said it was all about black flag. when i watched it, i found out that it wasn't. if anything it was all about bad brains. the only thing i didn't like was the time on the movie that they gave to the middle class (seeing as they released the first hardcore punk album of all time).

but if you like hardcore punk go buy it or at least watch it (no matter what those critics say).

D.O.A.-Something Better Change 12"

not a fast as their following records but this is my favourite release. b-side is definitely better than the a-side, but the first song is really good.

1. New Age 5/5 (if you don't like this song "i don't believe you".)

2. The Enemy 3/5 (nice song.)

3. 2 + 2 4/5 (a little long but great chorus.)

4. Get Out Of My Life 4/5 (faster and more aggressive.)

5. Woke Up Screaming 2/5 (a so-so song.)

6. Last Night 4/5 (also great chorus, great guitar.)

7. Thirteen 5/5 (amazing song. when i bought this i played the b-side first, accidentally, and thought the record was all going to be that fast.)

8. Great White Hope 3.5/5 (slower song but good.)

9. The Prisoner 5/5 (best d.o.a. song ever recorded. amazingly fast for them.)

10. Rich Bitch 2.5/5 (filler song.)

11. Take A Chance 4.5/5 (great faster song.)

12. Whatcha Gonna Do? 5/5 (it's slow but for some reason i love this song. great on all instruments. like when joey comes in now and then to say "whatcha gonna do?")

13. World War 3 5/5 (great ending with aggresion.fast.)

overall: 7/10 strongly recommended (just for "13" and "the prisoner" alone.)

more on the slow side so don't expect it to be like ss decontrol's first album.

Black Flag-Six Pack 10"

second best black flag record. just recieved this in the mail and found out that it was a 10".

it bothered me at first but now i'm fine with it. so, dez takes the vocals on this one and is pretty good.

1. Six Pack 5/5 (best song on here. great build up in this song. then they kick it in.)

2. I've Heard It Before 3/5 (i don't like the intro where dez is chanting and greg is playing that winey guitar riff. after that it's good.)

3. American Waste 4/5 (nice tempo. do YOU see your place in american waste?)

overall: 8/10 recommened (lots of represses.) last, good black flag release, so get yours today.