Krishna-Core: What was that all about?

Other people's religion = oddball

Mantra was a good album.

Really Whiney? A strawman for the first response?

Equal Vision Records is still going pretty strong

Really Whiney? A strawman for the first response?

-- Ben Boyerrr, Monday, June 25, 2007 3:15 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It was really just a set-up for someone to go "other people's oddball religion = oddball"

Also, 108 just put out another album.

it is somewhat strange - I think the chain of reference was punks who became vegetarians who ran across Iskcon people and were attracted to the austerities of the Vaisnava teachings who then sorta mix-n-matched on those (punk = self-expression without limits, theoretically, or at least "as it's understood by many of its participants; punks who've become Vaisnavas = express their Vaisnavism through punk rock)

musically both Shelter and 108 are kinda good if you go in for the early nineties sludgy-doomy vibe, which I do, and if you get a charge out of people who're totally immersed in whatever it is they're into, which I also do.

Worth saying that the guy who cites "people whose lives were ruined when Ray Cappo drank wine" is a guy who doesn't get to then bitch about other people raising strawmen eh wot

I saw Shelter once.

One of kirshna-core's primary breeding grounds was the East Village in the late 80s. Its seems to make sense on some level. Like hippies finding Jesus in the early 70s, straight edge kids digging Youth of Today, Revelation, and Positive Force Records find religion (while other hardcore dudes descend into drugs and booze).

re: "people whose lives were ruined when Ray Cappo drank wine" ,
There wasn't a flicker of judgement from me there - I was quoting directly from one of the old hardcore threads I was reading. More to the point, I didn't even know who Ray Cappo WAS when I typed that (I've been reading about this stuff for the last hour, having previously only been faintly aware of it, and that was an anecdote that kept being alluded to vaguely in the pieces I was looking at). It wasn't intended as being flippant about people devoted to straight edge or anything like that, so apologies if it came off that way.

I was just wondering if anyone had any personal experiences with this scene why because it look intersting. It was poor form to even use the word "oddball," even though I was referring to the seemingly unlikely mix of hardcore music and this religion that is often reduced to a punchline.

Fucking hell, ILM can be exhausting sometimes.

(x-post; thanks QuantumNoise)

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i saw 108 live, they were good

straightedge to krsna ain't that much of a leap.

Fucking hell, ILM can be exhausting sometimes.

haha, well I knew what you meant. Cro-Mags (face value) + Hare Krishna (face value) = oddball union.

Next time you go and make a brief first in order to catch everyone's interest, make sure to tag on another 2,3 paragraphs of every whichaway ass-coverage. There's a word for those prefatory ass-covering remarks, but I forget what it is.

i had forgotten until the other day that i saw shelter on their first tour, whenever the hell that was.

I saw Ray Cappo giving a reading of his lyrics Rollins-style in The Hague once

it was exactly like you think it was

awful?