Top 5 and top 10 lists make sense to me. They allow you to easily put something that may mean a lot into an easily identifiable list. I swear my brain thought like this before I ever saw High Fidelity. Without anymore bullshit, here we go:
5. Atom and His Package – the precursor to Nerdcore in my opinion. Catchy, snooty, keyboard laden silliness that makes you just want to smile.
4. One Dead Three Wounded – hardcore with a metal tinge to it. Dark, brooding, heavy shit that was just amazing. Only ever saw them once but they were definitely cool fucking dudes with a great attitude.
3. All Else Failed – While a different style of ‘core than One Dead, they are rad. Good harmonies from Luke, though standing near him at a show means the possibility of getting a fist in the mouth (unintentional, but the dude is fucking intense). I like how their style tends to deviate from most modern hardcore.
2. Ink and Dagger – No list would be complete without the Philadelphia vampires. I am so glad I got to see them 4 or 5 times before their singer unfortunately passed away. Shows were intense bouts of energy and violence, and reminds of me of the good old days before violence was a concern for me at a show. Definitely one of my top 10 bands of all time, and they deserve much more credit than they get besides from old people like myself.
1. Arms of Orion – Yea, technically they are from West Chester, but they were all living in Philly for a portion of their career. While most other bands were trying to fucking hard to be catchy, they did it without trying too hard. Maybe I’m biased because I went on tour with them, but they are good dudes who should have blown up, instead of that fucking piece of shit label Abacus not releasing their full length before going under. You can grab their full length at http://www.purevolume.com/armsoforion, it’s worth the download.
So yea, that’s my top 5. If this were all genres, The Roots and Boyz2Men would be in, and this list would be longer than 5. Since I’ve been listening to a lot of the hometown stuff I stuck with what’s been keeping my attention.
(This and the following posts were from my previous blog, which I thought I had lost. I’m stoked I found them.)
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