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Originally Posted by DJ Rick
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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very spot on, but they called it noise rock because it was noise rock, i mean, noise rock is a very open genre, most of the bands sound wildly different from one another except for the fact that they make noise. but im just talkin texas here because they really were one of the first scenes in which punk rockers started to embrace lsd. in the early punk days, the drugs were speed, heroin, pills, and booze, and then the hardcore kids carried on this tradition, or shunned upon drugs all together. anyways, my top 5 bands from texas:
1. butthole surfers
2. millions of dead cops
3. 13 floor elevators
4. cherubs
5. fuckemos
i know mdc and the elevators dont apply, but i LOVE those bands.