24 Hours of Hardcore Punk
December 3, 2010 2:23 PM   Subscribe

The second edition of Steven Blush's American Hardcore: A Tribal History has just been published by Feral House. Additionally, Steven has posted 911 mp3s of hardcore punk as a soundtrack for your reading.
posted by battleshipkropotkin (33 comments total) 27 users marked this as a favorite
 
Landshark go!
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 2:27 PM on December 3, 2010


mp3 party tonight
posted by hackly_fracture at 2:34 PM on December 3, 2010 [9 favorites]


Holy shit!
posted by everichon at 2:35 PM on December 3, 2010


I wish there was a "click here to download all the tracks" button -- that's a lot of good music there.
posted by Forktine at 2:43 PM on December 3, 2010


Yo 'tine
posted by everichon at 2:45 PM on December 3, 2010 [2 favorites]


Nice collection. I was surprised to see Crucial Truth and the Misguided there, two early NYHC bands that not a lot of people remember today.
posted by cazoo at 2:48 PM on December 3, 2010


I can go to a hardcore show, and see F.O.D.
posted by adipocere at 2:48 PM on December 3, 2010 [4 favorites]


Yo 'tine

Wow. You are my new best friend. I'm sure all the cool kids knew about this years ago, but better late than never. Thanks!
posted by Forktine at 2:50 PM on December 3, 2010


Yay for N.O.T.A., Okie hardcore at its finest (okay, Brother Inferior may have something to say about that, but they didn't come around til the 90's). Thanks for this, battleshipk (though you have a tag in as "steveblunt", not "steveblush".
posted by Ufez Jones at 2:53 PM on December 3, 2010


At least Flipper got their due. "Ha Ha Ha" is genius.
posted by josher71 at 2:53 PM on December 3, 2010


Live Replacements covering Ace Of Spades? Sweeeeet......
posted by lumpenprole at 2:54 PM on December 3, 2010


Thanks Jones! tag fixed.
posted by battleshipkropotkin at 2:54 PM on December 3, 2010


Whoa. What a trove! Bookmarked. Thanks for this!

(Tangent: while looking for something else entirely, I happened to read "Metal" Mike Saunders (Angry Samoans, coined the term "heavy metal", punk icon) Wikipedia page. He's FIFTY-EIGHT. Holy shit. We all got old.)
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:57 PM on December 3, 2010


They call this a hardcore compilation? There's only 8 songs in the whole list with 'Reagan' in the title.
posted by "Elbows" O'Donoghue at 3:00 PM on December 3, 2010 [3 favorites]


*leaps off stage back into thread*
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:00 PM on December 3, 2010


cazoo- I was doing the same thing looking for old hardcore bands from the Pomona/San Gabriel Valley area in CA and there's a lot more than I expected. Pillsbury Hardcore, Flower Leperds, Decry, 2 songs from my buddies in Mad Parade - very nice. They even have Peace Corpse, which was Bill from Toxic Shock's band, icluding their song from the Noise From Nowhere ep when they were still Moslem Birth (though they have them listed as from OH.) Gonna be doing some downloading tonight...
posted by InfidelZombie at 3:01 PM on December 3, 2010


Awesome, thanks!
posted by shinyshiny at 3:03 PM on December 3, 2010


I think we killed it. :(
posted by Forktine at 3:09 PM on December 3, 2010


BEST POST STOP THE CONTEST
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:10 PM on December 3, 2010


I hope these make up for the fact that the only Canadian band on there is DOA.

Bonus!
posted by doublesix at 3:24 PM on December 3, 2010


CoC, MDC, Bad Brains, Flipper ... argh this is such a treasure trove. Thank you so much for this.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 3:38 PM on December 3, 2010


If you're using Firefox you can install an add-on which will allow you to easily download all the songs at once.
posted by williampratt at 4:17 PM on December 3, 2010


Author is doing a reading tonight here in chicago... I can't go as I am djing but will be playing some puzzled hipsters Inside Out and Chain of Strength as they quaff their $ 9 artisanal cocktails
posted by jtron at 4:18 PM on December 3, 2010


If you have any amount of shell savvy:

wget -rm http://www.americanhardcorebook.com/punk24/trax

If it stalls or errors out, just run the command again from the same directory. The -m flag is "mirroring" so it won't download it again if the file hasn't changed.

Consider adding --limit-rate=250k or something respectful. I got as high as 1MB/sec, but that could be swamping his cap.
posted by bafflegab at 4:41 PM on December 3, 2010 [1 favorite]


Yeah, the page is crashing under the weight of traffic. OK, everyone, stop visiting the page. Here's what we'll do: everyone gets a randomly-selected number, and we visit one at a time. Nice, single-file line, no cutsies.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 4:42 PM on December 3, 2010 [1 favorite]


I'm gonna start a hardcore band called 404 Not Found
posted by Hoopo at 5:00 PM on December 3, 2010 [1 favorite]


Too late!
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:11 PM on December 3, 2010 [1 favorite]


That sounds amazing. Maybe someone can post a mirror or torrent link?
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 5:13 PM on December 3, 2010


The command line bafflegab posted is working great for me in Terminal.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:42 PM on December 3, 2010


wget is deprecated in MacOS X and replaced with curl. I can't find equivalent options in curl to do mirror mode, and I don't feel like installing Fink just to get wget. Downthemall is terrible, I keep getting errors, something about temp files overwriting.
Yeah, he should have planned ahead and made a torrent. Can we take care of this for him?
posted by charlie don't surf at 12:24 AM on December 4, 2010


If you're on OS X and you want something that's a lot simpler than Fink, you might consider MacPorts. When you want to install wget, just do a 'sudo port install wget' and you'll be golden.

On the other hand, if you want to let a big multinational tell you what you can and can't do, maybe you should think again about what you're trying to download.
posted by bafflegab at 10:03 AM on December 5, 2010


bafflegab, your tired anti-Mac argument is inappropriate here. I decide what goes on my Mac, and I don't want to futz around with MacPorts or Fink. I've run them both on other machines and it is my decision not to run them on my current main Mac.

So who is telling who what they can and can't do?

In any case, I was able to eventually grab the files with downthemall, albeit with extensive retries, so the point is moot.
posted by charlie don't surf at 12:11 PM on December 5, 2010


please torrent
posted by battleshipkropotkin at 5:56 PM on December 5, 2010


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