New York Hardcore on Donahue

Clips from a classic 1986 episode of Donahue about a New York magazine cover story on New York hardcore by Peter Blauner, featuring members of Youth of Today, Murphy's Law, Agnostic Front, Token Entry and the Cro-Mags.

Download a PDF of the article in question here:
http://deeplinking.net/new-york-magazine-hardcore/

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• donahue
• hardcore
• newyork
• nyc
• television
• TV
• youthoftoday
• cromags
• agnosticfront
• 1980s
• 1986
• straightedge
• nyhc
• punk

[HoosierMF]

As soon as you start using words like "culture" and "scene", punk becomes meaningless.

The whole point of punk is that there are no rules. It's about individual expression and nothing else.  So all these bands making money from clothing lines, straight edge merch and limited edition vinyl are about as punk as hot topic is.

[MsTashaPeterson]

Talk to Complete Strangers about any religion

[ballpeenbaby]

Lmfao! The guy with the kangol hat.

[Petrrise]

who´s that guy in 6:30?? i think i saw him in AMERICAN HARDCORE :D

[heartlandhxc]

vinnie stigma is my favorite human being ever

[tumoip]

"I mean if people start misinterpreting our songs and sieg heiling our songs we'll stop. We'll stop playing and say, "What the fuck are you doing?" Or we'll leave. ... Vinnie had an uncle who was killed fighting the Nazis and he takes offence to it. I take offense to it because I'm half Jewish. Roger takes offense to it because he is Cuban and he's got people yelling white power in his face." (From a 1980s Agnostic Front interview)

[kuro1145]

@IzzyIsou Because it's targeted towards minorities? I'm black and mexican and I honestly think a lot of minorities abuse the welfare system, this is true where I live too. I've seen people on welfare who aren't even trying to get jobs, they're just lazy idiots. It's not just minorities I see whites do the same thing. And they didn't pay anyone, it was friends that wrote some lyrics. Haha keep saying whatever you want dude you probably got bullied by hardcore kids cos you're a straight hater ;)

[IzzyIsou]

@kuro1145 The're racist, right wing lyrics. Even more pathetic is the fact that they didn't even write the lyrics for this album -- they paid someone else to do it, to state they're right wing, fascist agendas. And why? Probably because they were too fucked up on drugs or too dumb... or both.

[kuro1145]

@IzzyIsou And if you read the lyrics carefully, the song is more about lower class minorities who were abusing the welfare system, not minorities in general.

[kuro1145]

@IzzyIsou For boneheads? You obviously haven't looked into it fully either, bands like Gorilla Biscuits and Have Heart changed my life and if you read the lyrics you can see that different bands do promote good morals logic over violence, if you wanna look into it and know more then congrats, doesn't mean you have to like it, but if you wanna sound like another ignorant asshole go for it. This is a lifestyle and it still goes on today.