John Brannon tells you to get your shit together.
On the East Coast, particularly in the NY area I think, a lot of Hardcore from different areas of the country was kind of ignored in favor of round the way bands. I remember hearing about Negative Approach and what I heard from them was good, fucking amazing in fact, but I never got around to checking them out for real. My mistake.
I picked up Touch and Go’s reissue of N.A’s “Tied Down” a couple days ago. It was recorded in a period when the band had already started to get a little metallish, like a lot of HC bands did, and I generally don’t like that. But holy shit, this is a good fucking album. That John Brannon was not fucking around. At all. Every song he’s belting it out at you like you just killed his dog. You ever see Dr. Phil? Imagine Dr. Phil minus the southern accent, plus a foul mouth and in the middle of a psychotic breakdown. That’s about right. Negative Approach want you to straighten up and fly right, you been messing up here and there and they are not gonna stand for it any fucking more, ok?
I’m seriously sorry I didn’t get any of Negative Approach’s stuff back in the day. And evidently they are half back together, so maybe I’ll get a chance to see them. That’d be good cuz I’m not handling my life proper at all.
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