07 January 2011

FIRST STRIKE


All modesty aside, I think the last three comps I posted were total fukkn killers...and I see no reason to start making Fridays any less awesome today. BCT should need no introduction on a website dedicated to punk tapes, and First Strike was their first release, unleashing unknown US hardcore on unsuspecting punks combing the pages of MRR looking for tasty jams. The punks who mailed in their $4 (17 years ago and the price was the same as today - inflation still evades the punks) for this tape were rewarded with 60 near perfect minutes of blistering earnest hardcore. Milwaukee's CLITBOYS start the party with 8 songs, most of which can be found on their brilliant EP - political and punk as shit, especially considering their locale. FUTURE RUINS have a slight UK tinge, but their raucous thrashy punk is fronted by melodic USHC vocals and it works great - if you like to be confused (I do, so I place myself in the "fan" column). VIOLATION (from fukkn Maine), and VATICAN COMMANDOS (yeah, the band that MOBY played guitar in for a few months), are raging hardcore, the kind of shit that makes the genre awesome. SKOUNDRELZ are slightly more blah and more rock influenced, while MR. EPP take the hardcore approach and inject heaps of drugs into the mix (a good idea, at least in this case). POISON CENTER just fukkn rip, most of these songs are simply raw as hell (which is not a problem at all), while EAT THE RICH are San Jose's sunbaked-don't-give-a-fuck version Midwest hardcore and CULTURAL BREAKTHOUGH wrap shit up with three live and raw bangers...if you don't love hardcore after this tape is done, then you need to get your ears flushed.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm so bored, i'm so bored, so fucking bored
i'm so bored i'm so bored nothing to doooooooo....

Chris BCT is also such a nice bloke!

Anonymous said...

are those Poison Center trax everything they did? anyone?

Gatewood said...

absolutely essential

SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS said...

you get b.c.t. tapes from this site http://www.socialnapalm.com/other/distroBCT.htm they have almost all of the b.c.t. catalog

Andrew TSKS said...

Hah, your point about inflation is dead on. It was 27 years ago, though, wasn't it?

Tim said...

I hate to be unoriginal, but I'm going to copy Gatewood's comment above: absolutely essential.

Alan Dunn said...

trying to contact Chris BCT to ask about including a track on a comp, does anyone have a good up to date contact please? big thanks. Alan