Floorpunch-Goal Line Stand Demo
At the time, it seemed like few people remembered hardcore. There were good bands in 1995. But for every Mainstrike, Mouthpiece, Voorhees, or Devoid Of Faith there was an endless stream of craptacular Snapcase or Earth Crisis clones. Or worse.
During the summer of 1995, we heard rumors about a new band called Floorpunch. They were supposed to sound like the Gorilla Biscuits. Then, they were supposed to be really violent. Confused, an older friend, who was tight with the band, told us more about them. He described them as “Youth of Today meets Breakdown.”
Uh, wow. This blew our teenage minds. Immediately, piles of singles were stuffed into envelopes and sent off to In My Blood Records HQ. When we got tapes back, a few of us sat down on my bed and hit play. Everyone was really quiet as this heavy intro that recalled both Breakdown and Youth of Today. It was heavy, it sounded pissed off. There were dive bombs and a lot of mosh parts. The intro ends and I hit stop. We looked at each other and smiled. A few “whoa’s” later, I hit play again. The rest of the demo was just as good, with righteous Straight Edge lyrics, huge mosh parts, and generally the vibe we had been looking for but never finding.
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Deep Wound
I think I got this ad from Cooch awhile back, but man Deep Wound are incredible. I actually heard them first from a grunge kid in tenth grade. We were tape trading (I was turning him on to Black Flag and some NYHC) and he had copied me a Melvins album and some random Dinosaur Jr. songs. At the end he had a note saying that Dinosaur Jr. had a hardcore band, you’ll love it. Boy did I ever! Deep Wound are like Die Kreuzen and Void, only faster. In My Room, especially the mosh part, really foreshadows bands like Youth of Today and Bold.
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Youth Of Today In Thrasher
I’ve never been a huge fan of Thrasher. Skating had little to do with me getting into hardcore so it was just a magazine that sometimes covered hardcore (I remember buying issues in 1994ish that covered Killing Time, Vision, and Mouthpiece amongst others) and had decent coverage of skating. Sure Pushead used to do a raging column monthly for it.
Back in 1988 I would’ve subscribed for sure if I got a fresh copy of Youth Of Today’s We’re Not In This Alone LP along with it. That record is a monster, so fast and pissed off. The drumming is pretty savage, having to be remixed months after its release. By far it is my favorite Youth Of Today record.
In 1998ish it was reissued and remixed for the worst on Revelation Records. A few years before that, there was a bootleg CD with both versions of Can’t Close My Eyes, We’re Not In This Alone, and the Anarchy In Vienna live bootleg.
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Meat Is Murder!
This is typical of the sort of animal rights flyer you’d get in the mid-nineties at the show in New Jersey. As much as the whole Syracuse hardline thing turns me off I do wish animal rights was still a concern for the hardcore scene. I got into hardcore because of the animal rights stance bands like Youth Of Today, Cro-Mags, etc took. I was already a vegetarian for awhile and the fact that bands like that were too totally sold me on hardcore.
