June 11, 2007

CRASS



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

well now i wanna bust out the one crass record i actually own. i really liked the "motherearth" one...

- dan

Anonymous said...

soft pink truth included crass's "do they owe us a living" on their punk cover album. then, one of my favorite music blogs, 20 jazz funk greats, put "walls" on their post. crass must be in the air. i've been trying to tell people for years there was more to crass than gutter punk patches. go listen to how ridiculousy cheesy and lame the "poetry" on black flag's "family man" album is and tell me who holds up better over time. i just watched the documentary "american hardcore." (that's where i got the old bad brains version of "pay to cum".) i've been tracing the slide from old school punk to tough guy ny hardcore. (which is maybe more confusing to me and strange than even accounting for emo...) i've been listening to negative approach who are like the missing link between minor threat and all that terrible metal/hardcore, if you can picture that. never could get much into that whole thing, though negative approach has its moments and is far better than their progeny. i can't even tell you what agnostic front means to people. they always confused me. they have a song (ironically? i cant tell..) celebrating bernard goetz. wtf? maybe they're on some meatmen/nig heist joke-offensive tip? remember the cro mags, that krishna (even before youth of today and all that crap..) hardcore band ? harley flanagan is on youtube talking trash about bush and muslims simultanously. sure, he's from ny whatever, just seems like a lummox without an interesting perspective though. anyway, i'm just being a crasshole...

Anonymous said...

interesting stuff, hustles...

yeah, i remember watching "decline of western civilization" and thinking a lot of those bands were either idiotic or sorta frighteningly right-wing. i guess the whole trend lately to revisit no-wave and disco punk and all that has been a decent forum through which to re-experience some good, overlooked punk. funny how disco punk is almost always better than metal punk, etc.

i just wrote a bit about the clash's "sandanista!" on my journal last month. i think that record is in a lot of ways the ideal approach to unrestrictive songwriting. it's like they don't give a shit what they look like, or whether they're still punks or not. i think it's that kind of freedom that i'm drawn to more and more, musically. and maybe in general.

- dan.

p.s. blogger doesn't like it when i try to log in.