#THE CRUCIFUCKS band

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO IMAGINE WHAT VERBAL ABUSE THOUGHT ABOUT THEIR SUPPORTING ACT.

NOTE: Dig the bass drum head in the back. But did VxAx perform before or after Doc Dart's shrill-voiced depravity?

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on one of the more unsung acts of the American hardcore punk era -- Lansing, Michigan's THE CRUCIFUCKS, with Doc Corbin Dart on vocals, playing live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, c. 1984. 📸: Michelle Strauss Ohnstad.

"Don't need a fucking cop to tell me what to do, Or grab me in the street whenever they want to. I haven't got a penny but I don't ever steal. If they hassle me again I'll show 'em how I feel.

So let's kill the fucking pigs If they get in our way. It'll set a good example For the children today. It'll keep kids out of trouble Shooting pigs after school. WASTING COPS WILL BE THE HERO'S GOLDEN RULE."

-- "Cops for Fertilizer" (1984) by THE CRUCIFUCKS

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3347027477371647730.

[green-alien-turdz]

Favorite singer? I personally like Destroy Boys

Ion really got favourite's of things. But I can list some mfs I listen to. I just burned a new cd not that long ago, so imma just list off some of the bands and some song recs for those (and I think I've heard destroy boys before. Not personally a fan, but their stuff seems pretty cool).

CRASS: They've got a bomb. End Result. Big A Little a. Systematic Death. Do they owe us a living?

VOID: My rules. Condensed flesh. Who are you?

Dead Kennedys: Dog Bite. Kill the poor. Holiday in Cambodia. California uber alles.

Poison Idea: In my headache. Its an action.

Capitalist Casualties: Greedy Bastards. Mouthfed. Violence Junkie.

Nuclear Man: Nuke-Man. Warhead.

Limp Wrist: Fake fags. Dead Weight. Just like you. Thick skin. Want us dead. Spun.

Subhumans: I don't wanna die. Rats. Apathy. Work-Rest-Play-Die. Mickey Mouse is dead. No.

Discharge: Why? Drunk with power. Ain't no feeble bastard. Does this system work.

Icons of Filth: Fucked up state. Why so limited? Mentally murdered.

T.S.O.L.: Abolish government/ silent majority. Red shadows. Flowers by the door. It's gray.

S.O.A.: Warzone. Gang Fight.

The Disrupters: Animal farm. Rot in hell. Pigs in blue.

Government Warning: Killing for fun. Slave labor. Factory line. Paranoid mess. Endless slaughter.

Disrupt: Protest.

DIRT: Master race. Eyes to see. Hiroshima. Democracy.

Negative Approach: What ever I do. Ready to fight.

Minor Threat: I don't wanna hear it. In my eyes. Seeing red.

ILL Repute: Book and its cover.

Conflict: From protest to resistance. The serenade is dead. Berkshire cunt.

The Shitlickers: Warsystem.

Suicidal Tendencies: Two-sided politics. You can't bring me down. War inside my head. Institutionalized.

Aus-Rotten: The system works for them. When you support those fucking bastards. (They also have a version of Berkshire cunt)

Ultra Violent: Dead gerneration. Where angels dare not tread. Crime for revenge.

Disorder: Fight the right.

Civil Disobedience: Manufactured citizens. Planet of the fakes.

The Crucifucks: Legal genocide. Annual report.

A Global Threat: Fucking racist maggots.

Urban Waste: No hope.

Feederz: Jesus. Gut Rage.

Black Flag: Nervous Breakdown. My war. Rise above.

[floornostroszek]

shout out to the time i was playing a show and the drummer in one of the other bands was wearing a crucifucks shirt so i like cornered him and IMMEDIATELY asked if he had ever listened to any of doc corbin dart’s solo albums. jumped right in!

[vinylfromthevault]

The Crucifucks “Wisconsin” 1987. Alternative Tentacles Records, recorded at Smart Studios in Madison, WI. Just picked up this Midwestern punk album this weekend, though it’s actually a second-time purchase; I bought it back in ‘87 but gave it away as a Christmas present (nothing shows the spirit of holiday giving more than a Crucifucks record). If you weren’t in the Midwest in the 80′s, and into punk, you may not know of The Crucifucks (being from Wisconsin, we certainly did and they played all-ages shows around Northeastern Wisconsin). From Discogs: “The Crucifucks were a hardcore punk rock band from Lansing, MI, USA, formed in 1981 by vocalist Doc Dart. The group was known for Dart's shrill voice, anti-authoritarian lyrics, and extreme antagonism. Unusual for a participant in the mostly youth-orientated hardcore scene, Dart was 28 years old when the band started. The band's original drummer was Steve Shelly, who eventually ended up as the permanent drummer for Sonic Youth.” Wisconsin was the band’s second album and they broke up soon after its release, though Dart formed a new iteration of the band briefly in the 90′s and released their final album L.D. Eye in ‘96. 

Wisconsin is fast-paced 80′s punk with Dr. Demento-meets-Jay-Tiller (Tiller is from Wisconsin’s Couch Flambeau) level vocals, which is a bit off-putting, borderline ear-bleeding but it does make The Crucifucks unique. The musicianship is surprisingly competent, with lots of big rhythm and remarkable, almost prog-rock level hypnotic guitar riffs and solos (ie “Concession Stand”). There’s also some crazy experimentation, especially on the epic track “When the Top Comes Off” where all of the above-mentioned characteristics are present (and the screechy grating vocals are on overdrive). The tracks “Artificial Competition” and “The Savior” both have great grooves but for home-state solidarity, I’m going to say the title track “Wisconsin” is my favorite on the album though it’s probably the least-punk track on the LP with a rather delightful lilting jangly guitar that morphs into a great blues riff (but it still has Dart’s nails-on-chalkboard screech). 

[demolitonlover]

do you know any albums/bands similar to leathermouth? i think i maybe don’t have the right vocabulary to find any on my own because all i usually end up with when i try to look are bands like silverstein (i don’t like the sing-y vocals) and/or alternative bands that were popular around the time XO came out. any help is very appreciated! thank you!!

there are a lot of great hardcore punk bands out there but I’ve never been part of that scene. I just know a bunch of bands I enjoy... american nightmare, figure four, guns up!, eighteen visions, gouge away, cold world, madball, free, dare, some (only some!!) knocked loose and stray from the path stuff, suicidal tendencies, no bragging rights and blue monday (if these bands even count. idk)  but yeah..I don’t really know shit about hardcore punk, so I don’t have more info than that. when it comes to punk in general, I prefer stuff like subhumans, crucifucks, dead boys, gbh, breakdown, replacements etc? but I haven’t been to any punk gigs since I was like. fifteen? the bands I get genuinely passionate about and travel for are a lot softer, so to speak (like..I spent my 2017/18 tour traveling following rise against, pretty reckless, hot water music and the used)

(and I have no idea what was popular when xo came out tbh bc I was busy w/ graduating from elementary school)

hope this helped at least a tiny bit???

[uneasylisteningradio]

Creeps June 25 ,2022

stream on Mixcloud Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps

DJ speaks over Junior and His Soulettes - Thing, Do the Creep

The Fall - C.R.E.E.P. Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Liars Beware The Ink Spots - Don't Let Old Age Creep Up On You Melt-Banana - Creeps in a White Cake

DJ speaks over Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - The Creeper

Syd Barrett - It Is Obvious (Take 2) Jay Reatard - See/Saw Tones On Tail - O.K. This Is the Pops Thee Headcoatees - Dirty Old Man Heavenly - Mark Angel Northern Liberties - Night Crept In

The Crucifucks - You Give Me the Creeps The Edgar Broughton Band - Dawn Crept Away

Butthole Surfers - Creep In the Cellar The Coup - Sneakin' In Mo-Dettes - Dark Park Creeping The Voices of East Harlem - For What It's Worth Stevie Wonder - Creepin' The Soft Boys - Old Pervert Matriarkatet - Äckelgubbe På Tunnelbanan

Fairport Convention - Dream Song The Fugs - Dirty Old Man Long Knife - Move It Creep Blast Off Country Style - Tough Luck, Trashcan! Monnone Alone - Something Creeping

Social Distortion - The Creeps Thin Lizzy - Gonna Creep up on You Q4U - Creeps Kevin Dunn & the Regiment of Women - Creep Litige - Creepy Inside

Chumbawamba - Creepy Crawling

[lokifreign]

The Dirt

@sashimisurimi humbles and honors me so here’s a massive welter of personal information:

Nicknames: useda be “Rice Krispy” for like ever - for a short time it was “Crispix” which briefly mutated into “TimesTwo”, decades ago (brr) but if some younger cultists calling me “senpaiiiiii” doesn’t count, it’s just me 

Gender: Edward Gorey group-portrait

Age: fantastically old, ask me about the 70s 80s and 90s sometime 

Height: 6’5”

Build: skeletal

at the chime:  it is 2:27 am, Mountain time UPDATE: it’s 3:19 now UPDATE 3:30 bcs edited

Ethnicity: lapsed / nonpracticing goth

Current Location: denver CO 

Astro: my meat’s sun sign is The Centaur, which is said to represent my far-ranging ideas and tendency to say “oh thank you oh please yes don’t ever leave me” to the sexy, sexy scorpions leaping off my back & laughing

Chroma: I used to have favorite colors but now it’s all ingredients - pale yellow to desaturated dark purple gradient is a color/s that tricks the eye into seeing any number of other colors - you might think it was pink, or blue, or brown if you were walking by quickly. I like that!

Food: a sauce of hot tahini, salt, sweet vegetables and bitter greens, poured over something starchy

Music: I used to have favorite music but now it’s all science or magic or something. Billie Holiday, Christian Death, early Test Dept., Skinny Puppy, Marty Robbins, Laurie Anderson, Chopin - honestly? 2-5 drones from obsessed home-studio maestros on Soundcloud, played simultaneously, in dim green light.

Artists: I used to have favorite artists - now I like all art except that done by the ones that used to be my favorites. Remedios Varo Uranga is really kicking my ass lately. Have you seen her work? It’s like a fever dream, intensely meaningful but inexplicable.

Songs: uhhhhhh Veslemøy's Song, Beatrix (twins), She’s In Parties (haus), Human Disease SKUMM (puppy) Marching For Trash (crucifucks) Big Iron (marty)

Earworm: Separate Ways (journey) SORRY

the Last Film I Ever Saw: is a song by Kissing the Pink, which will also get stuck in your head until you have to cut it open

last show I saw: Gogol Bordello at the Ogden; one of the staff knocked me to the floor and I am pretty sure I will never be able to get myself to go to a live show again in this lifetime, unless it’s a sombre affair with cellos and very comfortable chairs

the last thing I googled: the name of the band that did “The Last Film I Ever Saw”

last book: CSLewis The Abolition of Man and gosh I would love to argue with that motherfucker

other blogs: ocularcannibal, radiosanity, radioattic, anarchistettin

do I get asks: people are afraid of me or disgusted by me on this site for whatever reason - the anarchist blog gets hatemail from terfs and (not kidding) angry Iron Man stans every day. With the Tonyists it’s easy to brush off, but I’ll confess: some of those terfs, the really fundie ones, threaten my composure a great deal. It’s hurtful as shit to watch feminism die in those clothes.

why the username: when I was in second grade I was visited by a (brain seizure? magical sending? avatar of brahman? heathen spirit-consciousness?) that gave me those names. I made a portmanteau of them. When the internet came about, it began to live there kind of more than in the world, which is slowly killing me and rendering all I’ve accomplished pretty much meaningless and stillborn. Hooray! Ashes, ashes.

Followers: 629 immensely tasteful and perceptive souls

Following: whoah 2,663 …… I need to trim out some shit I think

Sleep: right now it’s phases of 2 hours; hopefully I can do something more healthful soon

Lucky Number: 3, 9, 11, 17, 27, 51

instruments: piano, woodwinds, percussion, vox, practicing electric bass lately - ProTools is my best instrument imo but some like my piano thing better

what I’m wearing: I look horrible let’s revisit this when I’m in better shape

dream job: consultant that shoots down 100% of big studio ideas on the basis of insipidity, all the producers hate me, but every time they ignore my advice, they lose actual billions or just get arrested

dream trip: picture it: you, driving me, to the store, while everyone else is at work

Top three mythopoeic milieus (that someone other than me created): hm. The more I think about this the more I realize I really don’t want to live in those worlds, because I’m fantastically old and the idea of having to deal with any of that shit at all is tiiiiiring. IF I were to live in the Elder Scrolls universe, I’d make the best of it by selling a lot of those potions that have deleterious / mismatched properties but cost a lot. I assume they get you rightly fucked up? because why else would they cost that much. Dark Crystal seems like it would be nice - but, something would eat / infect me, I feel certain. Star Trek is a thought because the premise is that famine and war have been ended on Earth. That shit is pretty intoxicating. All that military shite, though. Oh well: at least there’s Tuvok there.

What’s My Deal: I want to build a residential community, serving a creative collective / collaborative studio, in a cannabis-legal place, to help make other mad creatives safer and more fulfilled, especially those with chronic illnesses and endangered demographical markers. I have some resources and a lot of experience with this kind of thing, from multiple angles. It’s why I’m still alive - the hope of such a home, not too far in the future.

tagging people scares me (because of my fantastic age and growing madness) but I might do it someday 

[nycpunkscene]

“There are few greater sights in rock than watching Lee Ranaldo and Moore hammering the hell out of their guitars to Kim Gordon’s raspy voice.” - New Music Express, February 26, 2001

SONIC YOUTH

1981-2011

“Formed in New York during the early-1980s no wave movement, Sonic Youth has spent well over two decades as the reigning lords of avant-garde art-punk. They create a unique squall of noise with their alternative forms of tuning and intentional dissonance, sometimes created via the use of drum sticks or screwdrivers applied to guitars. (Sonic Youth often used as many as 20 back-up guitars, each with its own tuning.) 

Sonic Youth formed in 1981 as an offshoot of the work that guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo had been doing with composer Glenn Branca in the late-1970s and early-’80s; bassist Kim Gordon (who married Moore in 1984) and drummer Richard Edson completed the original lineup. The first, self-titled EP (released on Branca’s label Neutral) was as noisy and dissonant as anything on Manhattan’s no wave scene, but few of its pieces actually had anything like traditional song structures. After Edson left to pursue acting (Stranger Than Paradise, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Platoon), Bob Bert took over on drums for the next few albums; he would later play for Pussy Galore. With the 1983 album Confusion is Sex, Sonic Youth began to find a middle ground between the seemingly competing drives toward noise experimentation and their love of pop and punk. The band’s creation of an entirely new form of pulsating post-punk or post-no wave would become incredibly influential on indie bands throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. Bad Moon Rising (1985) took a step closer to conventional rock and provided a look back at Sonic Youth’s past. (The song “Death Valley 69” featured no wave luminary Lydia Lunch singing with Gordon; the two would later form a side project named after the author Harry Crews.)

With EVOL, Sonic Youth added drummer Steve Shelley (formerly of the Crucifucks) and signed to SST, home to the cream of the mid-1980s indie music crop. At SST, Sonic Youth produced some of its most compelling music, including the epic “Expressway to Yr Skull,” which on the 12-inch single has a listed time of infinity, thanks to a well-placed flaw in the record that keeps the final drone playing in a continuous skip. At around the same time, Sonic Youth showed their love for pop culture by forming (with friend Mike Watt) the goofy side-project Ciccone Youth, as an off-kilter homage to Madonna (Ciccone being her original last name); they later released The Whitey Album in 1988. After the Master-Dik EP and the phenomenal 1987 album Sister, Sonic Youth jumped to Enigma for their breakthrough: the double-LP Daydream Nation. That record established them as one of the most important bands in the independent music scene and led to them being signed to major label DGC (later home of Sonic Youth fans Nirvana). 

Their 1990 DGC debut Goo was a very hook-driven work that still had its epic washes of classic Sonic Youth guitar noise and fragmented poetry. However, better production and some catchier songs led to the band gaining more popularity through MTV, particularly via the album’s single “Kool Thing” and its video (featuring Chuck D. of Public Enemy). Sonic Youth appeared in the film 1991: The Year That Punk Broke--which documented the increasing popularity of bands such as Nirvana (shown in the film as a little-known band opening for Sonic Youth on a European tour). In 1992, they released the popular album Dirty, which, though given plenty of gloss by Nirvana producer Butch Vig, featured an uncharacteristically raw cover of the Untouchables’ “Nic Fit” and some ripping guitar work by Ian MacKaye on “Youth Against Fascism,” a commentary on the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. 

During the mid-1990s, Sonic Youth started working on more obtuse and experimental records that lost them a considerable share of their growing fanbase even as it allowed them to both expand musically and return to their orchestrated-noise roots. As the decade wore on, Sonic Youth became less concerned with success and more interested in the experimentations of their youth, leading to a host of collaborations and an adventurous series of compositions that they released via their own label, SYR. The band flowered creatively when frequent collaborator Jim O’Rourke joined as a third guitarist in 2002, contributing to the albums Sonic Nurse and Murray Street (the latter named for the downtown Manhattan location of their recording studio, almost destroyed in the 9/11 attacks); he left in 2005. With their boundless innovation and penchant for championing obscure bands, Sonic Youth serve today as the revered elders of an increasingly fragmented scene, their contributions to modern atonal music almost too numerous to catalog.”

- Brian Cogan, The Encyclopedia of Punk, (2006)

Essential Albums

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (1985)

[leviathan-supersystem]

the crucifucks are the best political punk band by such a wide margin it's not even funny

i have never wanted anything more in my life than for john hinkley and doc corbin dart to form a band together

[blog-generic-flipper]

Other | full set 6/21/2017

new band, first show. visceral, unsettling post-punk/industrial in the vein of The Crucifucks, SPK, No Trend, The Ex, Minimal Man, etc

we are other…

are you?

[wendellbartonn]

pics of Steve Shelley’s pre-Sonic Youth band The Crucifucks @ CT’s The Anthrax in 1984

“We also played CBGB’s on this trip - where Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo caught our set,” says Steve. Continue reading… pics of Steve Shelley’s pre-Sonic Youth band The Crucifucks @ CT’s The Anthrax in 1984 published first on https://soundwiz.weebly.com/

[blog-generic-flipper]

what do you consider similar to no trend's too many humans? A lot of bands say they sound like it when they completely don't

that’s probably since most people wrongly think it’s a hardcore punk record because according to popular belief, all US punk that came out in the 80s is automatically considered hc lol. but anyway, you’re gonna want to look into post-punk and noise rock. I’d recommend:

Spike In Vain

Drunks With Guns

Stick Men With Ray Guns

The Sickness (pre-Kilslug, Upsidedown Cross)

Will To Live

Saccharine Trust

Public Image Ltd

Hose

some of Happy Flowers’ stuff

The Crucifucks

Blight

obviously Flipper

there are definitely others, but those are the closest I can think of at the moment. I’m pretty sure I’ve posted all of these bands, so you can search them on my blog and they should come up. also funny enough, the guys in Spike In Vain never listened to No Trend which is wild considering the similarities. 

[floornostroszek]

tonight’s show was SO GOOD and the other bands were SO GOOD and i’m really proud to be part of it but tonight was also exhausting because i just do not know how to socialize like a regular person. someone came up to talk about my guitar technique and we talked about throbbing gristle, and i cornered a guy with a crucifucks shirt to talk about the crucifucks and i can talk about that stuff and be fine but anything other than that i am just LOST and it’s really embarrassing and so i just hide and try not to bother anyone.

[floornostroszek]

every couple years i just stop in my tracks and am fucking astounded at what an incredible band the crucifucks were.