Here’s a classic piece of 80′s hardcore punk from Channel 3. CH3 was a bit more melodic than a lot of their contemporaries in that scene, but no less raging. I used to hear this on KALX. Always really liked this track, glad to find this and a lot of other 80′s punk classics from the awesome Posh Boy label, now up in the Intertubes.

Channel 3
“I’ll Take My Chances” (download mp3)
from “The Skinhead Years”
(Posh Boy Music)
“I’ll Take My Chances” (play)

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After long crawling under the international media radar unnoticed, Turbonegro became recognized as the greatest thing Norway ever gave to rock music. And then they were destroyed.

Turbonegro – Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed (mp3)

The Mistake – “Fight To Lose”

What’s in a title? What’s in a band name? Look, if I see a song titled “Fight to Lose” by a band called The Mistake, from an album called “Fuck What You Heard,” my expectations are for some serious punk rock. So I download the song, notice it’s only exactly one minute long. Expectations higher – this has to be some hardcore a’la early 80′s, when far from being scouted by major record companies, punk bands were more likely to be investigated by the FBI. The track does not disappoint, it’s an exploding minute of ferocious, tight, tempo shifting, call and answer hook-stuffed, desperate hardfuckingcore from the suburban wastelands of Orange County.

The Mistake
“Fight to Lose” (mp3)
from “Fuck What You Heard”
(Hellfish Family)

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