favorite hardcore band
 

from the late 70s until now. it doesn't matter if it's chugga chugga metalcore band or a party thrash band that is a big trend now in hardcore.

aside from my top 3 (black flag, minor threat, bad brains). i will have to go with negative approach. their first ep is just perfect punk rock. fast, angry and noisey. i still think ready to fight is the most intense and best rock song ever.

i think gorilla biscuits would come after them.

I really like Fall Of Troy. They aren't my typical type of music by any means, but they have a great sound I love. And I know, they aren't HARDCORE hardcore, but since (1) thy are considered post-hardcore which must be some sort of derivative and (2) 7 Seconds is considered hardcore and there isn't a thing hard about them, I think I can count this one.

80's hardcore:
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Negative Approach
MDC
Minor Threat
Cro-Mags
Agnostic Front
Discharge
Minutemen
Husker Du
DRI
Void
Scream
Circle Jerks
SSD

Post Hardcore:
Rites of Spring
Nation of Ulysses
Fugazi
Karp
Drive like Jehu
Gray Matter

Power Violence Hardcore:
Charles Bronson
Dropdead
Man is the Bastard
Spazz
Fuck on the Beach

Contemporary Hardcore (mathcore, whatever you wanna call it):
Converge
Dillinger Escape Plan (first alblum)
Botch
Coalesce
Deadguy
Integrity

from what hasn't been mentioned:

NoMeansNo, Naked City.

you really think of naked city as a hardcore band?

they definetly have hardcore influences, particularly in the aggression in the songs.

i guess, i just dont think of hardcore having avant garde jazz rhythms and instrumentation, i consider them more of a free jazz grind band.

it's pretty much impossible to categorize them, they borrowed from so many genres, in a similar way to the Minutemen (but sounding completly different) who I wouldn't say sound like a hardcore band but they belonged to that scene.

yeah, minutemen and husker du

as for metalcore bands my favorite would probably be the first cave in record and then botch.

husker du and rites of spring would def. be up there as some of my favorites too. discharge is one of the only english hardcore bands that i like.

bad brains are my favourite. i've been listening to a new band from london called dirty money who are well worth checking out.

though Husker Dus first album is very much straight forward hardcore, but they evolved into something much more interesting/important.

Rob Instigator's fave hardcore bands

Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Janitor
The Red Scare

anyone want to buy my old deadguy shirt off of me for about 5 bucks (plus 2 dollars shipping)? it's in almost perfect condition and i never wear it. it's the "death to false metal" shirt. it's size small.

you get a rep for just reminding me about the red scare. i used to listen to their split with orchid a lot back in high school.

can u email me a pic?

alehrer1@email.arizona.edu

I don't think I like any one hardcore band that much more than other hardcore bands to claim it ass a favorite.

Bad Brains and Minor Threat are pretty good though.

the orchid/pig destroyer spit is dope

yeah, i will tonight after class and tutoring.

thanks

i sold that a few years ago with the red scare split for 40 bucks. people spend a lot of dough on anything orchid, or they used to.

you have all week?

I go in and out of being into hardcore drastically. I'm in the latter right now.

Though I still have Bad Brains, Husker Du, and Minutemen on my very unhardcore iPod.

i don't go in and out of hardcore since hardcore (well just punk rock in general) is my favorite kind of music, but sometimes i do go through a week without listening to any hardcore.

hahaha

I'm not a big hardcore fan, but Fugazi and Zu are among my favorite bands, are they hardcore ?

Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Teen Idles
Black Flag
Husker Du
Siege
Rites Of Spring
Cave In

i count fugazi a hardcore band just in the terms that they toured and made sure the door prices were down. they don't sound like a hardcore band but they actually practiced what they preached and to me that's makes them more hardcore than bands that play 30 second songs with super speed and charge over ten dollars at the door.

when i was 15-16 i was a little punk skater, and i refused to listen to anything but hardcore and hip hop. gradually, my tastes got more and more broad. but i still consider myself a punk rocker deep down.

i was almost the same way, but i was also into stuff like the stooges and einsturzende neubauten, too.

I was the same way but I got into pussy

does not mean I GOT pussy, but I was INTO IT, you know? ;)

Ok, nice, can we say that The Ex is also hardcore then ?

the ex didn't come from the same scene as fugazi did, but if you want to that doesn't bother me.

I'd say so, but I've gotten into trouble with "purists" for doing so. Which is funny because each of these new genres is usually a reaction to the purists by musicians trying to attain freedom again, and then it ends up with even more compartmentalism.

My all time fave: Minor Threat. My fave most likely to illicit "That's Not Hardcore!" responses (which the best hardcore bands often were trying to get...): Meat Puppets circa first album.

The Neos ... so good!

the ex is definitley not hardcore, theyre early stuff is even much more in line with crass type punk rock than hardcore, now theyre more of a noise punk band. one of my favorites anyways. and yea, while i was a hardcore kid fun house was secretly my favorite record and the velvets were secretly my favorite band (though that hasnt changed except for the secretly part).

yeah, the ex came from a crass anarch punk background, but i don't care if someone calls them hardcore.

funhouse was and still is my favorite stooges record.

I'm a Raw Power kind of guy, but really Raw Power, Funhouse and the s/t are all close to perfection.

tragedy

good choice. very underrated band. do you like catharsis?