LIHC

Just the other day me and my friend were making references to Long Island Hardcore of yesteryear.

I mentioned Milhouse as a personal favorite.

Milhouse - Obscenity In the Milk. Mike. Used.

Resumé

Release. Ressurection. 108. The Judas Factor. 108. (Eshas.)

People tend to treat The Judas Factor as the bastard son of the Rob Fish resumé. The band is rarely discussed.

I agree. It's not his best material, but I think the Wreck-Age EP is pretty great.

The Judas Factor. Used.

Think of Them as Forgotten Gems, Diamonds in the Rough or Plain Old Coal

Mark liked Stillsuit.

He was the only person I knew who liked them. Stillsuit.

I had forgotten about them. Long ago.

I owned it briefly. Mid-nineties.

Wreck-Age Records. Again. Mid-nineties.

A lot of releases are written off. Barely remembered. If so. For nostalgia's sake.

Some. Better than others.

Better or worse. Always worth owning.

Stillsuit - Green Spock Ears. Princeton Record Exchange. Sale rack.

Gavin from Burn

When I got into hardcore I never had a huge interest in New York Hardcore. Outside of the Revelation standards.

I knew a lot of the older bands. I loved Agnostic Front. But this was from a time when punk was punk. And the hardcore sub-genre wasn't even on my radar.

I knew Cro-Mags. Warzone. Murphy's Law. But in the mid-nineties. My interest wasn't there.

But mostly. I was listening to the popular sounds of the day. Vegan metal. Ebullition screaming. Generic "emo." I can think of myself as a victim of the era. But I don't.

I still loved Mouthpiece. Turning Point. 108. And even Shelter to a lesser extent. So I knew better options existed.

I've come to love New York Hardcore. Beyond Revelation. Yet I still wax nostalgic for things considered less than hardcore by most. Earth Crisis. Snapcase. Struggle. Still Life. Unbroken. Chokehold. A broad base of listening. I don't see the point in limiting hardcore. To a certain time. Certain bands.

What I did ignore during the nineties. Until about pretty recently. Meaning this past year. Is a lot of New York Hardcore of the nineties. Wreck-Age-centric.

I recognize most of it. As not being very good.

Bad Trip is one.

Die 116. The other.

My searching. My purchasing. Has not gotten too involved. But I hope to find more bands. In compact disc form. To add to my collection.

Die 116 - Dyna-Cool. A Very Distro purchase. On sale. More Wreck-Age NYHC recommendations welcomed.