gtaylor@clkvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (08/03/84)
Okay. Here's a *new* topic: I just picked up the new 23Skidoo lp "Urban Gamelan", and listening to it, I got to thinking about the fairly wide variety of stuff that the current Brit situation winds up producing-Oi, Neo-Atavists, Neo-whatchamacallit, and those people with blue hair...alongside the folks you'd perhaps think of as hardcore (Crass, NewModelArmy-sorry if I get it wrong). Then I started thinking about the American version of it. The record bin is stuffed with American Hardcore, but it is pretty much the same stuff in terms of approach, content (though politically, it's slant varies) etc. The exceptions I can think of would be the *new* Black Flag (poor Henry Rollins-he's pretty much defied the hardcore orthodoxy, methinks), the Minutemen, Flipper, and some Big Black. How come it comes across to me as being so singulra in its form and focus in the Hew-Essay? If the retort is "you just haven't listened to....", then how bout some recommends? It's possible I may have neglected to mention them (Shockabilly?) Bye. ________________________________________________________________________________ If you ask me, I may tell you gtaylor@cornell it's been this way for years Gregory Taylor I play my red chainsaw...... Theorynet (Theoryknot) ________________________________________________________________________________