Well It's week three in my look at classic 80's Hardcore/thrash albums, on my radio show.
This week I'm playing an album by one of the most influential bands in punk history,
Discharge. the name of the album is "Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing. It came out in
1982, and besides just influencing punk(exploited, GBH),
hardcore(COC,Amebix),Metal(Antrhrax, Metallica), and Grindcore(NapalmDeath, SoreThroat),
they actualy spawned a whole sub-genre of bands that sounded just like them(Disclose,
Diskonto, Discust, etc.).
This is a review of the album I found while researching
AMG EXPERT REVIEW: A punk rock landmark if ever there was one, Discharge's Hear Nothing,
See Nothing, Say Nothing is one of the most bleak, angry albums to ever grace the
underground. The album is important on all sorts of levels, from what it did to the British
hardcore scene to the long-lasting effect it had on heavy metal. And the worst part is that
time has slowly erased the album from the minds of punk rockers, although the heavy metal
tendencies of the band had always made them outcasts in their own scene. But this is the
real thing, filled with bitter tirades against the government and predicting all-out
nuclear destruction with chilling detail. The unrelenting pound of the music would create a
huge movement in the hardcore world, starting first in their own country where bands like
the Exploited would bring the metal sound into their music. Within a few years, bands like
DRI, Agnostic Front, SOD, and Suicidal Tendencies would make similar metal-flavored punk in
the States. On the other side of the spectrum, the
brutal chugging of the guitars would be a huge influence on the developing thrash metal
scene.
Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer were its earliest champions, while later bands
like Helmet and Pantera would also credit the band with inspiration. Time has hardly dulled
the effect of the music; this still sounds as relevant as it did in 1982 if only because
the song topics are fairly timeless. Tracks like "Protest and Survive," "Hell on Earth,"
and "Free Speech for the Dumb" are not only incredibly catchy and simple, but pack their
maximum impact because of this simplicity. The terrifying screams of "Cries of Help" may be
one of the most
haunting moments on any hardcore album, while "The End" is an excellent ending track that
sums up the message of the album perfectly. The re-release from the mid-'90s appended
several more excellent tracks, including the savage "Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles" and
"The More I See," a song that possibly has the catchiest riff they have ever written. Their
music before and after this point is quite unpredictable when it comes to quality, but this
moment in their career was a very vital one that left an enormous imprint on music, even if
most people do not realize it. -- Bradley Torrean.
Check it out.
My show comes on 11:00-2:00, Tuesday nights on chmr. If you can't pick up chmr where you
live, you can listen on real audio at www.mun.ca/munsu/chmr/
This week I'm playing an album by one of the most influential bands in punk history,
Discharge. the name of the album is "Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing. It came out in
1982, and besides just influencing punk(exploited, GBH),
hardcore(COC,Amebix),Metal(Antrhrax, Metallica), and Grindcore(NapalmDeath, SoreThroat),
they actualy spawned a whole sub-genre of bands that sounded just like them(Disclose,
Diskonto, Discust, etc.).
This is a review of the album I found while researching
AMG EXPERT REVIEW: A punk rock landmark if ever there was one, Discharge's Hear Nothing,
See Nothing, Say Nothing is one of the most bleak, angry albums to ever grace the
underground. The album is important on all sorts of levels, from what it did to the British
hardcore scene to the long-lasting effect it had on heavy metal. And the worst part is that
time has slowly erased the album from the minds of punk rockers, although the heavy metal
tendencies of the band had always made them outcasts in their own scene. But this is the
real thing, filled with bitter tirades against the government and predicting all-out
nuclear destruction with chilling detail. The unrelenting pound of the music would create a
huge movement in the hardcore world, starting first in their own country where bands like
the Exploited would bring the metal sound into their music. Within a few years, bands like
DRI, Agnostic Front, SOD, and Suicidal Tendencies would make similar metal-flavored punk in
the States. On the other side of the spectrum, the
brutal chugging of the guitars would be a huge influence on the developing thrash metal
scene.
Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer were its earliest champions, while later bands
like Helmet and Pantera would also credit the band with inspiration. Time has hardly dulled
the effect of the music; this still sounds as relevant as it did in 1982 if only because
the song topics are fairly timeless. Tracks like "Protest and Survive," "Hell on Earth,"
and "Free Speech for the Dumb" are not only incredibly catchy and simple, but pack their
maximum impact because of this simplicity. The terrifying screams of "Cries of Help" may be
one of the most
haunting moments on any hardcore album, while "The End" is an excellent ending track that
sums up the message of the album perfectly. The re-release from the mid-'90s appended
several more excellent tracks, including the savage "Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles" and
"The More I See," a song that possibly has the catchiest riff they have ever written. Their
music before and after this point is quite unpredictable when it comes to quality, but this
moment in their career was a very vital one that left an enormous imprint on music, even if
most people do not realize it. -- Bradley Torrean.
Check it out.
My show comes on 11:00-2:00, Tuesday nights on chmr. If you can't pick up chmr where you
live, you can listen on real audio at www.mun.ca/munsu/chmr/