There were plenty of other songs from that early 90s San Diego Hardcore/Post-Punk scene that I could have chose (from bands like Drive Like Jehu, Clikatat Ikatowi, etc.) but I chose Line #1 by Swing Kids as it was from the first new and current (at the time) Vinyl Record that I had ever bought; their debut 7, Disease. This came out in early 1995, so I was 15 at the time. Any Music I had other than that was a few Vinyl records from older bands from the 70s or 80s. Any newer, current Punk/Hardcore Music I had was on either CD or Cassette, especially the latter as the majority of Local bands on Vancouver Island, where Im from, only really released Music in the Demo Cassette format. I bought Disease I think from a small basement distro run by an older kid called Jamie. He played in a Hardcore band called SCP with a group of guys that were two grades above us in High School. When I saw all those records in his distro I felt like I had stumbled into some vast Underworld of Music that you could only get at Hardcore shows in legion halls or buried deep in pages of Underground zines. In hindsight I think his distro was probably just enough to fill two milk crates, but it was exciting for me at the time nonetheless. Swing Kids were a bit more entrenched, a more straight-ahead variation of the San Diego Sound unlike their more Arty, crazier sounding peers like Antioch Arrow or Jehu, but they still packed a punch. When the track picks up into a thundering thrash beat right after the initial Intro I still get a bit of a sense of Whiplash when Justins Vocals kick in and it fires forward at a deadly pace. The Recording Quality is good too: everything it clear and punchy, but not Overproduced unlike the majority of Punk and Hardcore coming out these days. When should a Punk band ever be Over-Produced anyway?
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:45:58 +0000
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