I'd say 3-4 SW albums stand up as all-time classics within the genre, and there is a shitload of great material scattered throughout the other releases. He was always kind of an asshole, but I have to grant him some measure of grudging respect for having the balls, in the moment to call the cool kids on their shit.…

I agree except for that weird Henrietta Collins and the Wife-beating Childhaters album, that was kinda funny.

I remember this transition which happened almost overnight, presumably sparked by the sudden availability of psuedo-"grunge" clothes in mall clothing outlets…suddenly the cool kids had argyle socks and overpriced flannel and price of converse jumped from $10 to $40. I can't speak for everyone, but in my area the punk…

I like a lot of ska-punk records still, but that shit definitely wore out its welcome. There was a brief period where every show had at least three awful ska bands on the bill and there was an endless stream of shitty "NOFX with horns" type albums from completely forgettable bands.

I suspect you're out of touch with your own punchability.

There's no cred to be earned. Hating this shitty band is a universal human experience, with the exception of a few severely affected and mildly retarded hipsters. This is like suggesting someone who enjoys sunny days or temperate weather is just trying to be cool.

The "type" of person who finds the Dirty Projectors unlistenable is a broad swath of humanity sharing only common trait: the misfortune of having listened to the Dirty Projectors. Except for this asshole right here.

Sincere homage, my ass. I remember hearing the frontman of this musical abortion talking about this record when it first came out..claiming that he hadn't listened to the tape since he was like 15 and that the album was his attempt to recreate it strictly from memory. The fact that the lyrics are complete and exactly…

This would be a good point if any actual punk ever called Joe Strummer a poser for being on a major label. But they didn't, because the Clash was on a fucking major label before Joe Strummer even had a solo career. Also, he continued making listenable music and the Dirty Projectors haven't started yet. So yeah, keep…

No, fuck them because this sucks. They're not victims of some ill-informed bias, they're a bunch of pretentious turds in pastel who made the choice to transform a classic hardcore record into a sackless, unlistenable mess. I don't give a fuck about why they did it, and their background would be irrelevant if it were…

@avclub-ca4fc44a59d0201cc7d4f760153cb00c:disqus You should go again. North Carolina is pretty awesome if you go to the right parts. Although I also love Maine, so one of us has poor judgement here.

@cpjones79:disqus It doesn't help.

I'm too old to have any idea what that is. Emocore was a very broad term back then, I heard it used to describe anything from Rites of Spring to Texas is the Reason. It only narrowed down when the shitty Get Up Kids rip-offs started morphing into Fall Out Boy and what not and folks decided to distance themselves from…

I remember this being a minor "hit" on college radio, in the sense that the stations I listened to would play it at least twice a week for a few months. There wasn't a big difference between indie, post-hardcore, and emo in those days, so the similarity to Cap'n'Jazz or that sort of thing didn't seem so weird back…

@avclub-9acf7344ec50993b012999f76196c4c6:disqus I loved how every NYHC song started with a shout to Raybeez for a while.

I feel like Beat Happening paved the way for all this shitty folk punk stuff and fake sensitive hipster scumbag bros. Fucking unlistenable horseshit.

They wouldn't be the first punks to migrate into the jam band scene…there were lots of Deadheads with Black Flag tattoos in the nineties.

I'm hoping in a few years they hit all the NJ/PA bands…Doc Hopper, Lifetime, Weston, Deadguy, Plow United, etc…there was some great shit out of that area for a stretch.

Post-hardcore is a really old term that refers to something pretty specific. If anything, it's more useful now since it used to be used interchangeably with the term "emocore", which is truly useless now thanks to Fall Out Boy.

Hahaha….Metalcore was really the worst. I love mocking all my friends who got suckered in and walked around wearing jerseys for a while.