Boston ruins everything.
Tom.
It's true. I don't want to jump on the anti-Boston bandwagon, as I've had a great time every time I've been there, and I largely resent NY these days anyway, but I just had a long conversation with a friend who is a lifelong Boston native and a columnist for the
Globe about 7 Seconds' "The Crew." I grew up loving that song and album for the feeling of belonging it gave me, however illusory, but to him it represented everything thuggish and evil about hardcore. Eventually he conceded that growing up in Boston, where there were real crews who routinely beat people up, forever ruined the song and concept for him, while for me, growing up in Jersey (and moving to a different town every couple of years, which is the worst of all possible worlds), the whole idea helped me deal with all that suburban alienation stuff.
I would like it, however, if every single person featured on a 92.3 K-Rock poster or billboard would retire, effecitve immediately (for non NY/NJ-ers, these include The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, The Foo Fighters, Opie & Anthony, Pearl Jam, and probably some others I'm forgetting).