Better DCHC: Bad Brains or Minor Threat?

And with (c), yeah, but you know what, fuck it, because Frank saw Ian in a bar drinking a beer (and appropriatly bumped into him full throttle, and said, "Oh! EXCUSE ME, IAN!!", so the sXe thing ain't coming into play as far as I'm concerned. It's smash'em time.

On a side note, isn't it funny how HR went all crazy and now he's all rastaman to the max and just taunts all the punkers that come to SoulBrains shows and calls them "My Children". And he has parrots.

Like my Ctrl-C Ctrl V skills?

the contradictions in the MT sXe position are — if absorbed deeply and lived by — more likely to push u to somewhere difft than the contradictions in the BB position? (disclaimer: second par may not be true is it depends on assumptions about "depth" fandom which are themselves surely inherently contradictory)

cf: "of course the REAL fans aren't buying the record"

I'd rather listen to early Bad Brains but Minor Threat wins because MacKaye is on record as having said that his most important inspiration was a Ted Nugent show

Their worst was worse but their best was better. Jus a shame Bad Brains couldn't have mutated into a black Fugazi, now that would be something to see.

It's occurred to me recently that Ian MacKaye's musical career was lifted from Bad Brains. Everyone seems to agree that 1980 BB was a direct precursor to Ian's early hardcore stuff, but after revisiting I Against I for the first time in a decade, it seems to me that Fugazi stole all their best moves from it. Does this make Bad Brains the most important -- if not most consistent -- punk band ever, in terms of ultimate influence? Quite possibly, yes.

Bad Brains probably edge out Minor Threat in sheer musicianship, but I still prefer Minor Threat - a more consistent band with a more compelling sound, I think.

I guess with Bad Brains it's more a trickle down theory thing, as opposed to Minor Threat where there's every fucking town has a band (in some cases a lot more) ripping them off with no disguise at all

Bad Brains, but only by a hair

or dreadlock or whatever

4,344 strong right now, better join up. Or go blow bubbles,

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=93269030062&ref=share

They played DC election night (although according to this Washington Post review, HR was there in body but not exactly in spirit)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603683.html

Bad Brains

So, a freshly reunited, legendary, all-black, hard-core D.C. band plays to a sold-out crowd of rowdy punk rockers on the night that America elects its first African American president. How could this show be anything but jaw-dropping? When Bad Brains performed Tuesday at the 9:30 club, circumstances had aligned so perfectly in the band's favor that if guitarist Dr. Know merely showed up and strummed an open G chord, that alone would have been enough to send an unruly mob of fans spilling into the streets.

But what the band really needed more than a once-in-a-lifetime gig was somebody to make lead singer H.R. angry enough to perform -- somebody to jump onstage and pull his dreadlocks or give him a cheap kick in the shins. During the early '80s, when H.R. could still get his dander up, he was among the most unhinged punk-rock frontmen alive. But Tuesday night the singer defused the set by appearing positively zonked -- daintily wiggling his fingers in the air and mumbling inaudibly as the rhythm section chugged viciously, not to mention incongrously, away behind him.

To their credit, the other members of Bad Brains still tore it up, delivering precision takes of songs such as "Sailin' On" and "Re-Ignition." But with H.R. exhibiting all of the fury of a Carnival Cruise house band emcee, "Attitude" didn't really live up to its name. All said, when 2012 rolls around, maybe Bad Brains' people should start talking to Ashlee Simpson's people about acquiring that automated-vocal machine.

-- Aaron Leitko