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Step on It

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Forget the imitators, Slapshot is THE Boston straight edge band. Anyone currently on the American Nightmare jock, take note: these guys not only did it first, but they did it louder, faster and meaner. If you can listen to this album all the way through without stomping a hole in your living room floor, you need to go buy a Sum 41 record... er, cd.

Another classic of the boston hardcore scene. Slapshot is simply a great band who gives during these 14 songs to its listeners, energy, faith, and more.
It's old school but, to my opinion, still valuable. A classic !

This CD would get four and a half stars, just for all the classics songs that are on it. Problem is, the production value, while not terrible, lacks punch, and the recording volume is very low. However, Slapshot's 2002 release, Slashes and Crosschecks, has all of the standout tracks from this album: "I've Had Enough," "No Friend of Mine," "Step on It," "Hang Up Your Boots," "No Time Left," and "In Your Face," plus 16 other awesome Slapshot tracks. Not only that, but the SAC tracks are rerecorded and remastered and, to my ears, completely blow away the originals. You also get digital versions of live performances. I'm not knockin' Step On It, it's a great album, but considering what you can get on Slashes and Crosschecks for the same amount of dough, you're better off buying SAC.

This is american Oi! the way it should be. Step on it is Slapshot's finest moment with classics like "You're not friend of mine", "(Straight Edge) In your face", "Hang up your boots" and the title track. Angry choruses, street punk guitar riffs without metal sound at all and the most outspoken and controversial lyrics vomited by the ever angry Choke Kelly. They have many other records out there, but with total different style: "Sudden death overtime" with a more mid-pace songs and towards the NYHC sound, the mid-nineteies "Blast furnace" and "Unconciousness" flirting with the groove-metal genre and their last recordings that definitively lean towards today's USHC standards.
But this records is where to catch Slapshot at their purest and rawest sound. Just get it.

Well, damn. Never heard of Slapshot? What rock have you had your head under?!? Slapshot is THE Boston hardcore band. This album represents their heyday, circa '86 to '88. These dudes used to play the Channel & you -would- get yer head stomped. These dudes put on some of the best shows I have ever seen. Buy it. Nuff said.

Classic straight edge hardcore from 'back in the day' Songs like 'Ive had enough' are just as much straight edge classics as Youth of Todays 'we just might' The tracks 'Hang up your boots' and 'No guts no glory' are what Stars and Stripes should have sounded like instead of that damn awful Whitesnake sounding pile of you know what.

Dont know about the later stuff and quite frankly dont want to know. This is the only Slapshot stuff worth listening to.