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Let's see if it works better now. ;)

I only read the book and the Dead Kennedys are in it. I'm sure of it... in fact, there are even a couple of hilarious anecdotes.

Good job.

wherever Watt puts his hand, wonders always appear... I've been thinking about Seventh World for a while. we'll see :) probably the Sleepers were unfortunate to be ahead of their time. maybe just a year late and they would have been more accepted... but then again, maybe not. there's a story about empty Flipper concerts after the first song :) anyway, the story is always the same: you were a loser and you remain a loser. the Flipper were lucky to have Biafra as a great admirer... without his endorsement who knows. the purists of those years could even make Mission of Burma or Minutemen sound repulsive.

mmm... I think they're still waiting for me at the store :) no, downloaded and gone completely by memory... what a bunch of people, oh my goodness. let's do this, I'll send a review of a group of current slobs (the godsons of the Flipper), that you might like... just to not forget the sloppiness :)

true true... postponed to September. short holidays for this year :) The Sleepers are, to sum it up, the American and decaying Division... with a heroin addict so out of his mind that he's even excessive for the Flipper (he actually died in '92)... and with that, I've said it all. There's the 1996 compilation, The Less an Object, which gathers all the recorded material. Here (http://01fragments.blogspot.com/2008/10/sleepers-painless-nights-us1981.html) is Paintless Night from '81... their only LP.

Better a real estate agent than a rock star by profession. Legendary stoner Tasco Vee. He was the one who created the zine Touch And Go and dropped it right after because it was too demanding. Ah, what a time!

Yes, the term "kids" was a joke... can you imagine: hey kids, how are you? :) But back then it made sense... now it doesn't. I read the linked article rockenrollsuicide and it's really interesting. Maybe you should take a look at it too. And I also agree with Finnegan... it seems to me that the "Straight Edge" by Minor Threat talks about a friend of MacKaye who died of an overdose... I believe I read that detail in one of his interviews.

Yeah, it's cool... we agree. Look, the Bad Brains were homophobic (which many associate with their Rastafarian beliefs) and at a concert in Austin with the Dicks (the singer Gary Floyd was gay), they caused such a ruckus, stealing the concert's earnings and running off the next day after hurling curses at the Dicks and everyone else... they did the same thing a few days later with the Millions of Dead Cops (David Dictor, the singer of MDC, was also gay)... these incidents happened simply because they found themselves in front of homosexuals. It is said that after these events, they were boycotted by the Hardcore crowd and thus turned to doing different things for a different audience (I Against I). Anyway, yeah, incredible musicians.

Look, the song you mention by Minor Threat always follows one by Black Flag (White Minority), and Ian MacKaye has publicly said multiple times that living in a neighborhood and attending a school that was 80% populated by black kids who beat him up left him fed up... in the review, I didn't focus on straight-edge because until I have the blood and urine tests of everyone who claimed to be straight-edge, I won't believe any of it. The most famous example is Springa from SSD, who would show up three days late to rehearsals because he was high as a kite and then sang about not drinking, not smoking, and blah blah blah, dedicating all the lyrics to the same thing. The rightward turn of Hardcore and especially of the straight-edge movement is a real issue, unfortunately, but it didn't happen among the educated D.C. district... it actually happened in New York, among those street punks who somehow still had to believe in something... ah, the intolerant ones in the scene, paradoxically, were actually the Bad Brains :)