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American Hardcore: History of American Punk Rock

Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
2	Out Of Vogue - Middle Class
3	Pay To Cum - Bad Brains
4	Fucked Up Ronnie - D.O.A.
5	Red Tape - Circle Jerks
6	Filler - Minor Threat
7	I Remember - MDC
8	Nic Fit - Untouchables
9	Kill A Commie - Gang Green
10	Boston Not LA - The Freeze
11	Straight Jacket - Jerry's Kids
12	Boiling Point - SS Decontrol
13	Who Are You/Time To Die - Void
14	Came Without Warning - Scream
15	Enemy For Life - YDI
16	Runnin' Around - DRI
17	Don't Tread On Me (1982 demo) - Cro-Mags
18	Friend Or Foe (1983) - Negative Approach
19	Bad Attitude - Articles of Faith
20	Think For Me - Die Kreuzen
21	I Hate Sports - 7 Seconds
22	Brickwall - Big Boys
23	I Was A Teenage Fuckup - Really Red
24	I Hate Children (1980 demo) - Adolescents
25	My Minds Disease - Battalion Of Saints
26	Ha Ha Ha - Flipper

Editorial Reviews

There'd be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys, or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Minor Threat. Hardcore was more than music; it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. Featuring twenty-six definitive tracks, this is the audio companion to the feature-length documentary, released by Sony Pictures Classics in September 2006. Artists include Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, Cro-Mags, Adolescents, Die Kreuzen, Flipper, Gang Green, Negative Approach, DOA, MDC, DRI, and more.

Product details

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 8.27 x 1.18 inches; 3.1 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Rhino / Ada
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 26, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Rhino / Ada
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000HWZ5XS
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #288,411 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #5,809 in Movie Soundtracks (CDs & Vinyl)
- #24,252 in Alternative Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #123,008 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)

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Excellent record...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2014

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A brief but excellent summary of punk / hardcore during it's heyday. This CD (and the DVD) would make a great present for someone just coming of the age that they are discovering music. I'm very thankful that I accidentally stumbled into punk in the spring of 1985 and was able to go to the record store in the mall and buy lots of punk records on vinyl. The guy who managed the record store kept the bins filled with punk records. This CD has a few things I've never heard before too - YDI, Really Red. If you do not own this CD and the DVD - do yourself a big favor - get them both right away!

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This is a fun album full of those good ol' frenetic punk tunes ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2017

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This is a fun album full of those good ol' frenetic punk tunes with tongue-in-cheek words. Takes me right back to the 80s when any garage band could get into the studio to make a punk record.

Good, cute and cheap.Great item, shipping so fast and well package.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2020

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Good, cute and cheap.Great item, shipping so fast and well package.

American Hardcore rocks!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2009

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American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986

This is one of the absolute best documentaries on Punk rock ever made. This focus's on the American bands that really started it all and not the British ones. Dont get me wrong, i love them too but the Americans were seriously underrated after the Sex Pistols and Clash made it famous.
I highly recommend you not only buy the soundtrack but watch the film its excellent.

3 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2013

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Admittedly not a punk guru. I dig about half of these, but that said,there is a very good cross section. Probably not a bad place to start, but, only if you are very unpunk.

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Jeannine Peterson

If you like punk, this is for you.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2008

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I saw a concert in LA w/Fear, Circle Jerks, and Black Flag. Wow this really brought it all back. If you like punk or want to get in touch with the punk movement of the 80s in the US this is for you.

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Thomas S. Maddux

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2013

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I'm pretty sure this is the sound track. Lots of great songs on this one from some forgotten bands. It's nice they're getting some shine.

Christopher M Tobin

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2015

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Classic Hardcore from back in the day

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Jason Parkes

26 track primer of American Hardcore

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 21, 2006

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The look back culture can be a great thing, from the post-punk emphasis of the last few years (Scritti Politti's Early, Rip It Up & Start Again, The Slits reforming, Josef K's recent compilation), to festivals like All Tomorrows Parties (which Flipper & Negative Approach featured here both played at recently in Minehead), and onto something like this. This is the soundtrack that ties into the upcoming documentary, based on Steven Blush's book 'American Hardcore: A Tribal History.'

This brand of punk rock, as is made evident in books like 'Get in the Van' or 'This Band Could Be Your Underground' or the Rollins sections in John Robb's Punk Rock reader, lasted much longer in the US than in the UK. Punk rock was probably created in the 1960s, probably the Sonics or The MC5 or The Stooges...this was the next step on, a full on punk influenced underground scene that emphasised the independent, that tapped into angst and a sense of hopelessness apparent to the Reagan-generation, and had a quality that became apparent in the faster side of metal: Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, even Metallica in their earlier incarnation. American hardcore, like No Wave, would lead to lots of alternative music later on in the decade - perhaps everything culminating with the double-edged success/failure of Nirvana, which sadly set the tone for pseud-punk to come. Watch the film, I'm sure it will explain things much more clearly!

This compilation takes in 26 tracks exemplifying this genre, the majority of which has aged quite well - though the odd track is a bit tedious, like a lot of thrashy fast stuff you need to be in the mood. There's plenty of great stuff though - Bad Brains' classic 'Pay to Cum', Untouchables' 'Nic Fit' (as covered by Sonic Youth on 'Dirty'), MDC's 'I Remember', Cro-Mags' 'Don't Tread On Me', a demo of 'I Hate Children' by the Adolescents, 'Nervous Breakdown' by Black Flag & 'Filler' by Minor Threat. There are other interesting selections - Scream's 'Came Without Warning', 'Friend or Foe' by Negative Approach, 'Out of Vogue' by Middle Class (which appears to feature Mike Patton, later of Mr Bungle, Faith No More & Peeping Tom), 'Red Tape' by Circle Jerks (who would appear in 'Repo Man', I'd have picked the classic 'Group Sex' personally), and the closing 'Ha Ha Ha' by Flipper - a band who Cobain nodded to by wearing a t-shirt and whose Novoselic is now bassist for. 'Ha Ha Ha' has a bass-line that appears to have been re-quoted in The Pixies' 1989 chestnut 'Debaser'; shame the band sound more like the second side of 'My War' these days...

There are a few acts who might have merited inclusion - The Germs, Dead Kennedys, early Replacements, Minutemen, or Husker Du from 'Land Speed Record' to 'In a Free Land', but you can't have everything! An ideal introduction and a reminder of what passionate music of a non-corporate variety is. These bands and this genre would go on to influence many in its wake - Nirvana, The Lemonheads, Fugazi, Mission of Burma, Moby, The Pixies, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, Graham Coxon, Dinosaur Jr, The Beastie Boys (see Tough Guy or Heart Attack Man!), Faith No More, Husker Du (for their period between the Ubu-sounding Statues and Metal Circus/Zen Arcade, which still contained hardcore traces), Jeffrey Lewis, Magnetic Fields, Ryan Adams, Rage Against the Machine, At the Drive In, Jeff Buckley, Nina Nastasia, Slint, Screaming Trees etc. Certainly one to check out...

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