Lifetime: Hello Bastards C/D?

Farside and Texas Is The Reason were the best out of all those sorta bands.

CLASSIC!

Lifetime were essentially my favourite band throughout my adolescence and "Knives, Bats, New Tats" is just below "Build Me Up Buttercup" on the list of my favourite songs ever. I'm still deciding whether to be happy that they're reforming, period, or bummed that they're doing it at Hellfest to a bunch of kids whose HC ground zero is Eighteen Visions.

PS: While Hello Bastards is obviously the better record, I won't hear any hating on Jersey's Best Dancers... Search: Theme Song for a New Brunswick Basement Show, How We Are & Turnpike Gates.

(side-question: T/S - Jawbreaker or Lifetime?)

Definately Jawbreaker.

I did not enjoy Texas is the Reason, seeing them live was 35 minutes of my life I wish I could get back. The amount of gel and self-importance on the stage was mind-blowing considering their mediocrity. I found them nasally, predictable and generic. Also, they wasted a great band name on a less than great band (see also split lip and L7). Rye Coaltition were a bit too thwanky and theatrical live, and their lyrics were over-precious and clever, and none of this was carried off in the way say, Nation of Ulysses managed with the same handicaps. Farside's first 7" was pretty okay, and I liked some stuff off rochabeau and rigged, but for me always lacked the underlying visceral quality that say, The Descendents, The Replacements (w/ Bob) or Fugazi capture perfectly: a freedom and fucked-upedness and punk energy feeding through even their most introspective and effete works. Lifetime had that, regardless of all their flaws. Live they were anywhere from totally boring, to baffling, to pretty all right. The first 7" and Background are abysmal. But Hello Bastards has a lyrical sincerity filled with images and comedy and punches and bummers- without patting itself on the back for being so adorable, guitar hooks like Buddy Holly or early Police and blood and guts frenetic drums on non-stop chase. It is immediate, it is close to the surface and it has the impulsive quality of something true.

Lifetime over Jawbreaker. For the same reason I like Lester Bangs' writing more than Robert Christgau's. Not because it is better per se, simply because it is not insufferably smug.

I heard tell that Lifetime was not going to get back together despite the silly amount of money being offered by Hellfest promoters($20,000). Mike Judge also turned downed some astronomical fee to front a Judge reunion. Now Lifetime is doing it "in order to raise money for the CBGB defense fund and another yet-to-be-named charity."
(aversion.com)

Can't get into Lifetime, never could. They were just too wussy and poppy - I'd go for Kid Dynamite's first record over anything Lifetime have ever done. Kid Dynamite knew how to balance toughness with melody.

pppp

signed! to decaydance, a subsidiary of fueled by ramen:

http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=16527&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

no else is disturbed/excited/etc by this?

Woah-- none of these bands are hardcore bands as I remember them. They were the beginning of emo. At the same time that TITR and Lifetime were whining away, Los Crudos and MK Ultra and the Rickets and shitloads of other bands were playing real hardcore.

Man, it's so fucking weird to argue the same way I did when I was thirteen. I don't even listen to hardcore any longer.

(PS-- Rye Coalition are awesome, though)

rye were sad the last time i saw them, like 2 years ago.

LOVED MK Ultra.

oh and Rye Coalition WERE awesome.

isn't decaydance the vanity label of the fall out boy dude?

p.s. i can't see this going anywhere good.

yes, thats his label.

hey youth, if i still listen to 'em, they're still present. charles bronson are fucking awesome, too, and better than all these other bands combined.