Hysterically I’ve had people all year telling me hardcore’s “trendy”.
Usually I responded to thee people “yeah, right, lets wait till everyone publishes their #aoty lists shall we & then we’ll see if HC’s ‘trendy’ or not”.
People have now published their #aoty lists.
And I think my point’s been proven.
Altho even I couldn’t have imagined how few hc records we’d see in people’s “top albums of 2012” lists. Even what I’d have thought of as “bankers” like OFF!, Trash Talk & Flats are conspicuous by their absence.
And what about frigging Title Fight? Floral Green was sooooo good a record no? At one point (when it entered the billboard chart at 60 sumting) I was even thinking it had the potential to “Bleach” for them.
Jeez I can be an innocent twat I can be at times eh?
Of course I coulda just taken these people to a HC gig & shown them the audience ☞ lots of obviously long time devoted hardcore fans, pretty much all dressed / behaving the same (i.e. very much “in of step, with each other”) & definitely not dressed like “the cool kids” whoever they may be & however they may dress.
I’d have LOVED to have seen trendy indie bods in the audience for, say, the Hang The Bastard, Desolated & Natural Order gig in The Croft’s front room (one of the best gigs of the year in terms of music / atmosphere (not so much in other respects) when it well & truly popped off thanks to some “accidental hate moshing” (aka “losing ones balance while flailing like fuck fury”).
Anyway, such is life. I’ve got a top 100 i’ll bung on here some time soon. I’ve never done one before. Never had too. As I’m now part of the editorial team @ Louder Than War I kind of have too now. Rest assured it most definitely includes some hardcore. Lots. But not a disproportionate amount despite my love of the genre.
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PS - why the fuck dont add “moshing” to their machine’s built in dictionaries? Always with the changing it to “noshing” I am no matter how many times I asks it to “learn spelling”.
