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Originally Posted by Pookie
I'm talking about original ST (ie the first album) and pre-Crossover DRI. In which case the comparison is accurate.
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I used to play their theme song off the Suicidals 1st album on my radio show back in 85 but there wasn't a hell of a lot else on it that really fit on my hardcore show because it was so metal rock whereas I could play a whole side of DRI.
But one thing that stuck with me from the American Hardcore movie is that the Suicidals really had a local umm gang if you will and we always saw them as being kind of a party band while DRI were serious anarchists - of course these are just conclusions based on rekkids and interviews and projecting their fans' behavior onto the band. DRI were a serious squat band, one of the infamous San Frn Vats squatters (we all missed out on that!) while the ST had to deal with the issues of being hispanic in the KKKUSA and a tough WC scene where the white kids from OC often weren't that nice.