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I dunno...All this music's great and all, but I've never thought that Austin's preeminence in this weird/noisy 80's HCpunk/adjacent scene was overshadowed. If anything, it's maybe a little overstated. A lot of the bands mentioned here were from other Texas cities, and some of them never moved to Austin.
And, really....This kinda shit was coming from everywhere at the same time just as kids into HC got bored and wanted to do something smarter or more-intentionally-dumb(-and-thereby-somehow-more-smarterer)...probably beginning with Flipper (San Francisco) and soon following with stuff like No Trend (Baltimore), Bobby Soxx/Stickmen w/Rayguns (Dallas (same state, but a whole other world)), Drunks With Guns (St. Louis), End Result (Chicago), Crucifucks and Killdozer (Wisconsin), early Sun City Girls (Phoenix), and even half the bands on New Alliance (mostly L.A.). Tons and tons more.
All this stuff is a logical progression from HC for kids that didn't wanna go "crossover" into speed/thrash-metal. It's a missing evolutionary link between HC and the wildly varied world of arty/experimental/psych-damaged stuff, and today's so-called "noise-rock." Funny thing is, they called this stuff "noise-rock" back then, too.
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