The SST hardcore group Blast!

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Bl'ast!

The most underrated group on SST? (Yes!).

A deriative Black Flag clone? (No!).

Easily better than late period Black Flag? (Yes!).

As good as any period Black Flag (Perhaps?).

The power of expression LP = best hardcore record of the late eighties? (Yes!).

Thoughts, please.

Thanks.

― I hate the apostrophe and refuse to use it, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't they have an apostrophe between the "L" and the "A" in their name (like Terence Trent D'Arby?) That's about all I remember about them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha. Oh right, they did (Alex looks at first word in question and feels more stupid than usual).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, "I hate the apostrophe and refuse to use it". W'T'F?

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Forget the damn apostrophe, who had the better use of an exclamation mark :

Blast!

Infest!

― I hate the apostrophe and refuse to use it, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

INFEST(!)

i need to delve into blast, though. strangely i've been thinking about them for the past couple of weeks, trying to remember what they sounded like.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

SUNROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

― Amon (eman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

The Power of Expression is a great album, which I thought I'd found for £1 in Camden MVE the other day only to get it open and discover it was some shit German metalcore band also called Power of Expression who had covered the entire album! Oh well.

I'm listening to Take That Manic Ride right now, their 3rd album. BAD production. It's got that horrible 80s gated drum sound and everything is tinny as fuck. Shame cos the songs sound like they'd be alright otherwise.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

The Power Of Expression record you're referring to is from a project with the same name, with some guys from the now-forgotten german deathmetalband Morgoth and some other guys related to the Century Media label. Not a really great record if I remember correctly.

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the band Power of Expression is basically a band called Urge playing the instruments with guest singers from Morgoth & Citizens Arrest. It was pretty shitty. It's on my sell pile now.

The CD said The Power of Expression on the front and "All songs by B'last" on the back and I recognised the song titles so thought I'd lucked out. Now I've made sure I know what the sleeve looks like so I don't make that mistake again!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Too right. Take The Manic Ride sounds fucking awful (I'm talking 'Come back Spot, all is forgoiven' awful), even though it's got some awesome tunes and killer riffs.

But their acme is It's In My Blood!, which is simply the best hardcore record of the late '80s, full stop. It manages the incredible feat of being both tight and sloppy at the same time, with songwriting quite ahead of its era (technical multi-part workouts with stop-start time changes -- a precursor to the late-90s Converge/DEP/Cave In/etc-type bands). How they were dismissed in their day as mere Black Flag clones I have no idea (only the Ginn-esque solos bear any resemblance).

― MacDara, Saturday, 29 December 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

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