Video: Killing Time, 9/29/2018

Oh my goodness! Hot damn are these guys tight right

here! 

 

⚒️JUST ICE 2017 Demo Cassette⚒️

I'm digging this!  The first song starts off with a weird/eerie, but cool, sample of a woman singing then sets off into tough hardcore that sounds a lot like TRAPPED UNDER ICE, with a different type of gruff vocals.  Lots of melodic/singing back up vocals on every song.  
Good stuff!!

The Pain..... (an original poem & a SOIA song with it...)

.....it still lingers.  It probably won't  ever  go  away.
It's like a blanket I wear around me, all the time.
It's heavy. 
It hurts.
There is no "out."
What do others do?
What do YOU do?
My uncle took his life in 2011.
Some say he didn't end his pain.
He just passed it along to others.
I don't think he had the answer.
Who does?
What is it?
I look in the mirror & I see nothing.
Empty.
The Mirror of Emptiness.
It's gone.
It fled.
It left me behind.
The pain it still lingers.
God knows. 
God knows it still lingers.

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this sums it all up...SOIA  SICK OF IT ALL

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Hardcore: Love It Or Leave It--

Great quote here.  Stolen from the Radio Silence site--

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In the late 1960s, two bands hailing from Michigan laid the groundwork for punk. The Motor City Five and The Stooges aren’t the center ring on punk’s tree, but they stand as the most recognizable starting point. Both bands’ revved-up version of the blues garnered attention, major label deals, and devout fans, but the landscape wasn’t yet ripe for a revolution. Ultimately, a shitload of heroin and the typical cast of clueless suits caused both bands to end prematurely.

And while wearing swastikas for shock value, disrespecting the Royal Family, and displaying a disdain for anything considered “normal” was punk’s calling card, its roots remained firmly in the streets of New York, the art scene of Los Angeles, and London fashion; places totally foreign to kids in suburban America. As romantic as it was to be a starving artist living like shit in New York City most kids just fucking hated their parents and liked to light fires in the woods.

As punk migrated to the suburbs the sound and attitude changed. Something snapped in American culture; kids who loved the speed and fuck you attitude of punk took hold of its spirit, got rid of the “live fast, die young” bullshit and made a revision: hardcore. It wasn’t a direct fuck you to punk’s aesthetic and sound, hardcore was moving too fast to give a shit. With an actor elected as President and a defense initiative named after Star Wars, the decade was as dire as it was absurd. Cocaine was huge, AIDS surfaced as global epidemic, and the suburbs were really fucking boring. Hardcore’s direct and naïve stood out as the most honest commentary put to music at the time.

- Anthony Pappalardo, Instinct and Attitude: The Art of Necessity

BAD BRAINS Live in Florida,1987--

-----> Edit June 22, 2013: Here we have an incredible set from BAD BRAINS in 1987!!!  This show starts off with an extremely pumped up HR at his finest! He knows all the lyrics, sings them just like on the album, & is chock full of energy! I love it! This video is about a year before I got to see BAD BRAINS for the first (& only???) time, here in Detroit at the legendary St. Andrew's Hall! I remember going to the show with, I think, Marshall Grady, Josh Rousseau  and Tatha Carli (R.I.P.).  Yeah, it was '88 or '89....That was such a fantastic fun-filled night! The club reeked of marijuana smoke, and there were positive vibes amongst all the punks, skins, hardcore kids, hippie-ish pseudo rasta's, and various other folks in the crowd. BB were at their peak, IMHO. The played a set, took a 15 minute break and then played the rest of their set! I remember a guy I knew from Ann Arbor was in the pit barefoot!!! LOL, yeah kinda' weird. Only at a BAD BRAINS show! Everyone knows that they kinda' went downhill after that. Not immediately after, but soon enough. HR lost his mind and went off the deep end. 
About ten years ago a friend saw them play and HR was wearing a motorcycle helmet singing to an imaginary bird in a birdcage he was holding! Haha!!! Also, HR doesn't seem to remember his own lyrics or even care enough to try miming them.  I will say that the rest of the band still seem to rip just as hard as they did in 1982! 
OK friends, enjoy this video.  I've got a bunch of stuff to do here at the MASS//RETALIATION HQ, sorting through thousands of books & fanzines from the past 30 years of my life.  I'll post more about this later. m//r
 

Current Playlist For the Soundtrack To My Life--

Do not be mistaken by this post, I am NOT suicidal.  Depressed some, maybe.  Pissed off & angry?
Yeah, some. I've been told by a couple of people lately that I seem to be "full of anger."  I wouldn't say that I'm full of anger though.  Like all human being, I am multi-faceted and at times a walking contradiction of myself.  I do want there to be love & understanding at every step of the way in my life.  I do want there to be peace everywhere in the world.  I do want for everyone to get along & work together for the common benefit.  But we all know that you can't always get what you want.  Even the ROLLING STONES knew that!  So some of the time I am extremely angry & bitter & some of the time I'm super positive, optimistic, happy & content.  I suppose that when I was younger, as a little punk rock teenager, I was very angry all the time.  That seemed to be the nature of being punk.  You were angry at society, the world, and the rulers of this fucked up system.  THAT's what punk rock was all about, or so I thought.
But now, today, being a bit older I don't necessarily see things the same way.  Also, being forced to play the hand I've been dealt has given me a different perspective on things.  However I suppose I'm a bit more outspoken when I'm angry, so I see how some friends could convict me of being "full of anger." Because, after all, when you stand accused of something, you must be ready to be convicted.
Still--as always--take care of each other & look out for one another. And enjoy the music here.
We're all in this together. m//r
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NEGLECT


COLD AS LIFE


NEGATIVE APPROACH



GBH


DANZIG

DEATH THREAT

SHEER TERROR " Love Songs For The Unloved "

Posted at least once before. But it needs to be posted again!!!

SHELTER " Progressive Man " from 'Attaining the Supreme'

Progressive  Man by SHELTER:

 " So we went ahead and did it.  Come on everybody does.  And you can't hold me responsible, it's just part of love.  A mistake, a miscalculation. Confirming statistics in our nation. Hey, look me in the eye.  I wish you wouldn't cry. And paint this picture of me as some horrible guy.  Well the joy of sex and the freedom of fun. But the burden lies on you.  You're just a kid and crazy if you have it. But it's your choice what you do! I'd like to stay around and hang out, but I got other things to do. Try to keep in touch. I don't write that much. I'm sure you understand.  Progressive man!!  In the guise of love and fun and happiness. I've never seen so much distress.   
Well it's past midnight & I don't want to fight, we should really get to bed. Don't tell your mother, your sisters or your brothers--they'll all want me dead! Responsibility--it never beckoned me.  Hey, I'm only 21, I'm practically a bum. How did all this mess come from harmless fun? (Are you sure I'm the guilty one?) I know I should care, I know it's not fair, hey it's easier to run.  Loneliness made me say I love you, I think I lied to myself.  Don't call - I don't want to hear it all.  Forgive me if you can, progressive man!   Well I just did what they all do, and everyone else is doing.  I've heard stories of romance & I wanted to take a chance to taste what they're pursuing!!  Love stories told to me --in books, TV, & magazines.  So excuse me if you can, but try to understand.  I'm a victim too... Progressive man!! "  [I swear these are some of the greatest lyrics ever written in a hardcorepunk song!!]

INTO ANOTHER " Running Into Walls " Audio Only, No Video--

My favorite INTO ANOTHER song! From their classic "Ignaurus" album. I think it was their third album. they broke up several years ago, after hoping on a major label, like a lot of hardcore & punk bands do. Didn't work out too well for them. They recently started playing shows again, and let's hope they release some new music! ♥ m//r

YOUTH OF TODAY live in Brooklyn Playing the "Disengage" EP Live All Three Songs--

Excellent sound, excellent video in HD! This was the second show they played that night, to a packed crowd at (I believe) an invitation only party-show hosted by Andrew WK.