What It Meant: Complete Discography

Judge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Revelation
• ASIN: B0009NZ3E6
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,687 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it only if you don't have their CDs already, August 8, 2005

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Alex Faber (Northern NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What It Meant: Complete Discography (Audio CD)

Judge was a groundbreaking hardcore band, taking the standard 87 style sound and coupling it with metal riffs and tempos years before the metalcore sound was prominent in the scene. If you've never heard the band before, or lost all your vinyl copies years ago, you should get this now.

However, if you already own the "Bringin It Down" CD and "The Storm," there's no need to get this. As far as I know, the recording isn't remastered, the unreleased song "Holding On" is already available on the Rev Rarities CD, and the main selling point, the inclusion of the "Chung King Can Suck It" LP (the original recording of "Bringin' It Down"), isn't worth it. The Chung King material may be good to listen to once, but isn't something I would find myself playing repeatedly. Actually, the biggest surprise is the sound quality of the Chung King LP. Despite the group's well-documented dissatisfaction with it, if you listen to contemporaneous hardcore albums like Bold's "Speak Out" or Misfits' "Earth AD" for comparison purposes, the sound really isn't that bad.

Finally, the layout leaves something to be desired. It's full of photos and has decent liner notes, but could have included more photos and art from the original releases, and the CD itself looks pretty bad: just a picture of a speaker or something with double-exposure of an image of an X-ed up hand on part of it ... something like that. I know the design won't matter to everyone, but if you're going to do a discography, memories and, subsequently, photos and images, become more important. Rev should've followed the example of similar CDs, such as Turning Point's discography, or Mad Parade's "Reissues" CD as far as including artwork from the past releases.

Overall, this is a great package, and it's nice to have everything in one place, but if you already have most of this, it's far from essential, and you should spend your money elsewhere.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You need this CD!, July 18, 2005

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Gogol (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What It Meant: Complete Discography (Audio CD)

There is not a weak track on this CD. Judge where one of the best 'metal' sounding hardcore bands of the time. Tracks that stand out are Where it went, Bringin' it down and like you but realy, there is nothing you can say against any of the tracks on this CD. Even their cover of Warriors by Blitz is better than the original. The big bonus of this CD is that it is a complete discography of all of Judge's stuff so you need not get ripped off buying 'rare' albums on e-bay etc.

Nice little biography of the band also included along with some pointless pictures (well you have to complain about something)

Anyone who likes Sick of it All, Madball, Suicidal Tendencies (first 3 albums) or any late 80s hardcore needs to buy this CD.

A classic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic, August 22, 2007

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KH "[e-mail]" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What It Meant: Complete Discography (Audio CD)

Judge was one of those bands whose reputation preceded them. Their shows in the late 80's were often tense, unpredictably explosive events; complete with floor clearing brawls and crews battling for supremacy. What none of us knew then was just how influential Judge would end up becoming. Along with Sick Of It All, Judge (who never got enough credit) really did introduce a more metallic musical style to hardcore, a style that still influences hardcore to this day. In an era when punk was the musical anchor for hardcore, Judge took their guitar sound and made it bigger, crunchier and harder. Every track on this release is hard n heavy. The music still stands, even if some of the sentiment seems a bit foreign to kids in today's more commercialized scene.