Hardcore Clips of the Week - Black Flag and Husker Du!

Been listening to a lot of my old hardcore records and CDs, so we'll make this scrabble rabble Friday one of the slammers.

One of Black Flag's old slogans was "What the fuck, fuck shit up!" Here they are doing just that, with early singer Ron Reyes singing, the great slammer "White Minority". Have a nice day.



And Husker Du started out in Minneapolis bending an ear toward the West Coast for its early hardcore statement "Land Speed Record". Here is the band doing songs from that era live - classic. You think your band plays fast? Think fucking again.



In a related note, did you know that Husker Du's Bob Mould predicted the Internet, cybercrime and Facebook back in the 1980s? That's a tip straight from the gent below, who wrtote that at Husker Du's Facebook page:

Andrew Barnes Rutherford (New Zealand) wrote
at 1:10pm on February 20th, 2009
Husker Du predicted the internet, cybercrime and Facebook!

Look at the lyrics for Divide and Conquer written in 1985, ten years before public access to the internet.

We'll invent some new computers
Link up the global village
And get AP, UPI, and Reuters
To tell everybody the news

We'll be one happy neighborhood
Spread out across the world
But who's going to stop that burglar
From breaking in my house
If he lives that far away

We'll be just like old friends
No means to your ends
The police state is to busy
And the neighborhood's getting out of hand

It's not about my politics
Something happened way too quick
A bunch of men who played it sick
They divide, conquer