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Originally Posted by batreleaser
i and then there were those bands who got bored with hardcore and slowed their shit down and got nosier, like flipper and the melvins.
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flipper never changed they're sound, they started out slow and kept at it.
I have to challenge your basic assumption that all the hardcore bands started out from point A and the diverged - initially yeah there were a bunch of faster than fast bands, but at the same time there were slow bands and VERY slow bands and just plain freaked bands. The secret is that hardcore was essentially an offshoot of THE PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENT. The superfast bands is what you are told to remember, but at the time there were many different bands with many different sounds.
What really happened is there were all these different sounds and they basically all congealed down into the few genre types you mention. There was also a strong communist influence in the early hardcore movement that got weeded out real quick. Thats why there is such a longing for Black Flag but not MDC.