20 YEARS OF DISCHORD box set: Your thoughts?

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I personally cannot stop playing "Destructor" by Fidelity Jones, "Summer" by the High Back Chairs, "What Kind of Monster are You" by Slant 6 and "We All Fall Down" by Egg Hunt.

What're your thoughts? A bloated package big on scope but light on quality or required reading for any student of American hardcore/indie?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

related thread (just for info):

Your Favorite Tracks from the 20 Years of Dischord Box

― zebedee, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

That thread never really got kickin' so we might as well start again. The box is not required, but definitely a fine introduction. The first half of Disc 1 is a great intro-DC hardcore, second half a wonderful look at the dawn of emo. Also, the box makes Ian Sevonious sound more like a total Guy Picciotto rip-off in this context. Disc 2 feels muchless crucial (once Blueprint's out of the way). And 3 has a few nice tracks. I'm glad I have it. I'll take Embrace's silly verse-jive over Egg Hunt's silly gregorian chants and you can have Fidelity Jones (waaayyy tooo jam bandy for my tastes). My fave tracks are by One Last Wish, Dag Nasty, Embrace, Fugazi, High Back Chairs, and Lungfish. Great liner notes too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Could somebody post the tracklist for those of us who don't have it/haven't seen it?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

it's nice to have, especially since i've previously mostly been exposed to the more revered and/or recent Dischord bands, so it's cool to get a full picture of all the different bands they've had through the years. but i think i've only listened to the whole thing twice in the month i've had it. i like going through the liner notes and soaking up the history. as i get into the unfamiliar stuff more, some of it may make it onto my shopping list (Rites, early STT, maybe NOU) but nothing's grabbing me very urgently yet.

also, it's fun to hear the original recording of "Nic Fit".

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

That Fidelity Jones song sounds just like Phish.

The Dischord box is fantastic. Disc 1 is all the stuff the 14-yr-old DC punk kids (like I was) still listen to (it's a time warp), disc 2 is everything I liked when I realized I looked stupid with green hair. It's all good. Since buying it I've dug out my Smart Went Crazy, Gov't Issue, etc records that had been collecting dust for ages and rocked out a little. "Teenager In a Box" (on GI's "Make An Effort" 7", I think) may be hardcore's greatest achievement.

How bland are some of those bands near the end of disc 2 though--Crownhate Ruin? Woo.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Here you go, h:

20 Years of Dischord

Recorded 1980 - 2000
Released October 2002
available on cd, $25

TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE :
1. Teen Idles Get Up and Go
2. The Untouchables Nic Fit
3. State of Alert Public Defender
4. Minor Threat Screaming at a Wall
5. Void Dehumanized
6. Youth Brigade Barbed Wire
7. Government Issue Rock 'n' Roll Bullshit
8. Scream Fight/American Justice
9. Iron Cross Live for Now
10. Red C Pressure's On
11. Deadline Stolen Youth
12. Artificial Peace Suburban Wasteland
13. Faith Subject to Change
14. Skewbald Sorry/Change for the Same
15. Marginal Man Missing Rungs
16. Gray Matter Oscar's Eye
17. Rites of Spring Drink Deep
18. Beefeater Just Things
19. The Snakes Snake Rap
20. Dag Nasty Circles
21. Embrace Money
22. Soulside Punch the Geek
23. Egg Hunt We All Fall Down
24. One Last Wish This Time
25. Fire Party Cake
26. Ignition Rebuilding
27. Three Domino Days
28. Shudder to Think Red House
29. Happy Go Licky Twist and Shout

DISC TWO :
1. Fugazi Blueprint
2. Lungfish Friend to Friend in Endtime
3. Fidelity Jones Destructor
4. The Nation of Ulysses Spectra Sonic Sound
5. Holy Rollers Perfect Sleeper
6. Jawbox Motorist
7. Severin People are Wrong
8. The High-Back Chairs Summer
9. Autoclave I'll Take You Down
10. Circus Lupus Pop Man
11. Branch Manager Mr. Weekend
12. Slant 6 What Kind of Monster Are You?
13. Hoover Cable
14. Trusty Goodbye, Dr. Fate
15. Smart Went Crazy A Good Day
16. The Crownhate Ruin Piss Alley
17. The Warmers Poked it With a Stick
18. The Make-Up They Live By Night
19. Bluetip Castanet
20. Faraquet Cut Self Not
21. Q and Not U Hooray for Humans

DISC THREE : (unreleased)
1. Teen Idles Get Up and Go
2. Teen Idles Deadhead
3. Untouchables Stepping Stone
4. State Of Alert Draw Blank
5. Minor Threat Straight Edge (live)
6. Minor Threat Understand
7. Government Issue Snubbing
8. Government Issue Asshole (with Ian)
9. Minor Threat Asshole Dub
10. Youth Brigade I Object
11. Rozzlyn Rangers Rozzlyn Rangers
12. Void Black, Jewish and Poor
13. Void Authority (take 1 and 2)
14. Scream Search for Employment
15. Deadline No Revolution
16. Faith No Choice
17. Marginal Man Manipulator
18. Dag Nasty All Ages Show
19. Fugazi The Word
20. Fugazi Burning (live)
21. Shudder to Think Drop Dead Don't Blink
22. Circus Lupus We Are The One
23. Slant 6 Are You Human?
24. Interview
- 6 live video clips (Teen Idles, Untouchables, S.O.A.,
Faith, Void, and Deadline)

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite like The Crownhate Ruin, thank you very much. I find them (and their father band Hoover) much less generic than say... SOA, Deadline, Iron Cross, Teen Idles et al.

My favorites are the aforementioned CHR and Hoover tracks, "Blueprint" (of course), "Friend To Friend In Endtime", "Drink Deep", "Punch The Geek", the songs by Happy Go Licky, One Last Wish, Minor Threat... but most of that I listened to before. I hadn't before heard Three, Circus Lupus, Autoclave, High Back Chairs, and they all range from good to great.

The version here of "All Ages Show" sounds much better than the previously released version--much rawer, and with the better of the vocalists.

I would have picked a different Embrace song, personally. Maybe "Dance Of Days"?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm happy to see that they chose "circles", my favorite dag nasty song, on there.

― gygax!, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"That Fidelity Jones song sounds just like Phish."

I haven't honestly heard enough Phish to refute that, but I know I don't like them based on their fan base alone, so for that, Adam, I shall have to smite thee repeatedly with a large frozen sea-bass until you repent and take this comment back!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

some faves from that list:

Faith, "Subject to Change"
Skewbald, "Sorry/Change for the Same"
Marginal Man, "Missing Rungs"
Dag Nasty, "Circles"
Embrace, "Money"
Soulside, "Punch the Geek"
Ignition, "Rebuilding"
Lungfish, "Friend to Friend in Endtime"
The Nation of Ulysses, "Spectra Sonic Sound"
Hoover, "Cable"
The Crownhate Ruin, "Piss Alley"
The Warmers, "Poked it With a Stick"

I woulda put more than one Lungfish song on there. Also, Crownhate Ruin were AWESOME, esp. their first two OOP singles (when Vin/Vic/I forget his name was the drummer).

― hstencil, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, hstencil, want to throw those two singles on a cassette for me? ;) I've been trying to get ahold of them for ages, but they rarely appear on eBay or Skylab. I've got the third single and the LP, which are great--and for some reason I thought Vin was on those too.. though I could be wrong, I guess.

― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Ian, I don't have those singles, unfortunately. I've just heard 'em.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

wtf why was i hating on crownhate ruin

this boxset still rules, rock it in the car

― adam, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 02:01 (twelve years ago)

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