View Full Version : One for Santos, er Hank umm y'know, the HC guy!
SydneyBomber
3 Aug 2002, 11:25
Alrighty, you want top 10 HC/Punk albums, you got it.
1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit (Absolutely NO correspondence entered into!)
2. Misfits - Walk Among Us (As above)
3. Ramones - Ramones
4. Suicidal Tendencies - Self Titled (hard to choose really, so many classics - Join The Army, How will I Laugh....)
5. DRI - 4 of a Kind (edges out Crossover IMO)
6. Biohazard - Urban Discipline
7. Prong - Force Fed
8. Misfits - Earth AD
9. Madball - Set It Off
10. Sick Of It All - Scratch the Surface
Honourable mentions to the rest of the DK catalogue - esp. the underrated 'Bedtime' album which contained some of their best stuff.
I was very tempted to put in SOD - 'Speak English Or Die', but thought a bunch of metal muso's doing a hilarious HC album wouldn't count. Otherwise it would surely be in there.
Granted you probably think some of this is more metal than HC (Biohazard, Madball, Prong etc), but to me they seem the other way round (more HC than Metal).
RE: Suicidals. Their debut was the most HC album they did, so I included that one for that reason, but I'm a big fan of pretty much 80% of the stuff they did, and their second last album 'FreeDumb' was great. A lot of their other stuff was more 'metal'.
From what I've gathered, you're probably a couple of years older than me, so I may seem like a 'Johnny come lately', but surely a list like this earns a little respectability for a 'metal queer'
;) haha.
Be interested to read yours.
Originally posted by SydneyBomber
RE: Suicidals. Their debut was the most HC album they did, so I included that one for that reason, but I'm a big fan of pretty much 80% of the stuff they did, and their second last album 'FreeDumb' was great. A lot of their other stuff was more 'metal'.
I think their partly metal sound is due to Rocky George on guitar being a great metal guitarist. I think the crossover into metal ends about there... I always thought of ST as a punk band with some great underrated noodling on guitar.
And I hear ya on SOD too! The boys from MOD/Anthrax/Nuclear Assault etc. are all big fans of HC punk, rap and other genres, and that first album and the Live At Budokan CD were great albums.
SydneyBomber
3 Aug 2002, 11:50
Originally posted by Darky
I think their partly metal sound is due to Rocky George on guitar being a great metal guitarist. I think the crossover into metal ends about there... I always thought of ST as a punk band with some great underrated noodling on guitar.
Yep exactly. Some of the riffs they used later on were such a great CROSSOVER of metal & HC, that spawned the whole Venice/LA scene.
A great great band.
Funnily enough, I heard that Rocky George is now playing with the Cro-Mags, which are a much more HC crossover type band, rather than a metal band.
And I hear ya on SOD too! The boys from MOD/Anthrax/Nuclear Assault etc. are all big fans of HC punk, rap and other genres, and that first album and the Live At Budokan CD were great albums.
Top album, and the 'Seasoning The Obese' album had some great stuff on it to: "Free Dirty Needles", "Seasoning", "Crackhead Song' ("Thanks to crack, you can get a blowjob for a buck!")
:D
"Whatever Happened to Celtic Frost,"
'Is it true that they got lost?
In the Pandemonium,
Never to be seen again,
Tom Warrior fell from a tree in Cherry Orchard,
Martin Ain drowned in a Cold Lake,
Reed St Mark went to Mega Therion,
Never to be seen again...'
If you know anything about CF, the song is hilarious!
Hank Jones
4 Aug 2002, 10:53
Nice list Sydney Bomber! I'll get onto this one and post a list shortly.
Although I may be a couple of years older than you, I certainly don't consider your opinions any less relevant or important. Man, this list is going to be hard!
Nice pickup with Prong, although my list will probably include 'Cleansing' rather than 'Force Fed', but we shall see.
SydneyBomber
4 Aug 2002, 11:42
Originally posted by Hank Jones
Although I may be a couple of years older than you, I certainly don't consider your opinions any less relevant or important
Spoken like a true teacher!;)
BTW, what's up with the name change?
Hank Jones
9 Aug 2002, 10:03
Originally posted by SydneyBomber
Spoken like a true teacher!;)
BTW, what's up with the name change?
I'll get onto this tonight. As for the name change.........I was posting on more forums as Hank Jones, so I thought it was time to introduce Big Footy to his ravings too.
pedrothelioness
11 Aug 2002, 01:23
These arent the most influential hc/punk bands, just a coupe of my favs
Husker du: zen arcade
Botch: we are the romans lp/ the unifying themes of sex, death and religion
Dillinger Escape Plan: calculating infinity
Converge: jane doe
Ensign: cast the first stone
Mindsnare: Credulity
Mid youth crisis: In happiness and authority
Panic/ American Nitemare: split ep
Refused: the shape of punk to come
Deadstare: sydney band
Identity Theft: new world odour
Neurosis: everything!
Pg 99
Other worthy mentions:
His hero is gone, caliban, drowningman, orchid, nora, trapdoor ****ing exit, poison the well, the locust, misfits, snapcase, boy sets fire (early), forcefed
SydneyBomber
11 Aug 2002, 10:38
Originally posted by pedrothelioness
Dillinger Escape Plan: calculating infinity
Amazing band. Still can't work out why they're popular with the hc crowd though - too teched out.
(Which I really like BTW!)
pedrothelioness
11 Aug 2002, 11:41
I saw dillinger escape plan in london going back two years ago, they played with cave in and botch and even though botch are one of my fav bands ever, they totally blew everything apart. They were soo ****in awesome, and this was just after they lost a member in a car accident.
DEP will be releasing some stuff with mike patton
on vocals for Epitaph Records in late-2002, and its highly anticipated full-length in December 2002 for Relapse. Fans of technical metal, hardcore, a bit of jazz, Deadguy, and violence need not look any further.