New York Thrash

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New York Thrash
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Publication
(s)

1982

admission

1982

Label (s) Reach Out International Records

Format (s)

Cassette , CD

Genre (s)

Hardcore , punk

Title (number)

22nd

running time

50:10

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New York Thrash is a Hardcore - Sampler from 1982, considered pioneering documentation of the transition from Punk to New York Hardcore applies. The first edition of the sampler was released on Reach Out International Records as a cassette and contains 22 tracks by eleven bands.

Track list

  1. The Mad: I Hate Music (2:13)
  2. Herb : Getaway (1:12)
  3. Heart Attack : Shotgun (1:40)
  4. The Undead : Social Reason (1:35)
  5. Adrenaline OD : New Year's Eve (1:27)
  6. Even Worse : Illusion Won Again (2:50)
  7. The Fiends: Cry Now (3:06)
  8. Nihilistics: Here and Now (1:46)
  9. The Undead: Nightmare (2:03)
  10. False Prophets : Taxidermist (4:34)
  11. Bad Brains : The Regulator (1:09)
  12. Beastie Boys : "Riot Fight" (0:25)
  13. Nihilistics: Love and Kisses (2:07)
  14. The Fiends: Asian White (2:31)
  15. Herb: Last Chance (1:31)
  16. Even Worse: Emptying the Madhouse (1:21)
  17. Adrenalin OD: Paul's Not Home (1:56)
  18. False Prophets: Scorched Earth (3:14)
  19. Heart Attack: God Is Dead (1:22)
  20. The Mad: The Hell (2:29)
  21. Bad Brains: Big Takeover (3:01)
  22. Beastie Boys: Beastie (0:59)

History of origin

In 1982 the manager of the Bad Brains at the time , Dave Hahn, approached the tape label ROIR and suggested releasing a sampler with a cross-section of New York's hardcore scene, which was just emerging.

The multi-instrumentalist and producer Timothy Sommer, who was active in the New York punk band Even Worse at the time of its formation and later played bass for Glenn Branca and the organ for Hootie and the Blowfish , wrote extensive liner notes for the sampler in which he described the development from punk to hardcore in New York pointed out. Sommer explains that punk, which emerged in the USA from the mid-1970s, did not stand for youth and aggression, as in the rest of the country, but was more the music of the intellectuals and trendsetters. In 1981, a scene emerged in New York whose bands played "straightforward", unaffected music for a young audience. Influenced by the sudden wave of hardcore on the US west coast with bands like the Dead Kennedys , the Circle Jerks or Black Flag , a hardcore scene focused on "noise and speed" developed in 1981, the protagonists of which are partly united on the New York Thrash sampler . The sampler was also important for the bands represented because the New York bands, unlike bands from the flourishing scenes in Washington , Boston or Orange County, did not come from a financially well-off middle class, but came from poor backgrounds and thus had difficulties to produce their own sound carriers as part of the DIY practice common in hardcore .

In 1998 the album was re-released on CD ; Here the label ROIR added two tracks from the stimulators , MACHINE and Loud Fast Rules! .

reception

John Book sums up for Allmusic that New York Thrash is "a classic compilation of (...) New York hardcore bands that have got a lot of metal bands to incorporate punk into their sound". Ben Nader, in his essay Punk in Nyc's Lower East Side 1981-1991 , judges that New York Thrash is the release that "truly captures" the emergence of the second wave of punk in New York. The music journalist Matthias Mader describes the sampler as "perhaps the cradle of early NYHC". The music journalist Tony Rettman lists him at number one in his list of 15 “essential NYHC compilations”. Al Horner evaluates for the NME that New York Thrash sums up “the best of New York's thriving punk scene”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timothy Sommer: Liner Notes for the New York Thrash sampler
  2. ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A Tribal History, p. 199. Feral House, 2nd edition 2010.
  3. ↑ Allmusic.com: New York Thrash review. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ben Nader: Punk in Nyc's Lower East Side 1981-1991, Volume 1, p. 13. Microcosm Publishing, 2014.
  5. ^ Matthias Mader: Ney York City Hardcore - The Way It Was ..., p. 157. IP Verlag 2011.
  6. ↑ Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore 1980-1990, p. 380.Bazillion Points, 2nd edition 2015.
  7. ↑ NME.com: The Band Before - Beastie Boys When They Were Hardcore Punks. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .