This Is The Thread In Which We Worship BREAKDOWN, The Great Lost NYHC Band

I just unearthed a copy of this band's 1987 demo, the thing for which they're best known. They didn't release a real album until 2000, and it was apparently kinda metal and forgettable (not as shitty as the third Cro-Mags album, but not for lack of trying). But remember when you threw on your copy of the Revelation comp New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is, and there at the end of Side One sat "Sick People," and every time you played it you were like "Oh my god, this is the greatest song ever! I must tear my shirt off and pummel my boys in the pit right now!" Well, this demo still makes me feel that way, except that now I'm 36 and tired all the time. Still, had I been in Brooklyn for their reunion show (at the Black 'n' Blue Bowl, formerly the Superbowl of Hardcore) a couple of weeks ago, I woulda gone apeshit with all the other old farts when they took the stage.