VINYL FORMAT. Maybe the best hardcore punk record ever made! All material on this LP was recorded at 171-A Studios, NYC, during August, September and October 1981, except "Pay To Cum," "I Luv I Jah" and "Jah Calling Dub" recorded live at 171-A on May 16, 1981. Since the original release of this title on cassette format, the Bad Brains have achieved a certain immortality among punk and hardcore rockers that followed them.

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I Against I was for Bad Brains what London Calling was for the Clash -- the band's first fully mature work, one which successfully brought together all of its diverse influences while at the same time showcasing a singular vision. Also like London Calling, it was to be the band's masterpiece, in the original sense of that term -- a creative pinnacle which they would not reach again. The album opens with the title track, a blistering and musically exhilarating deploration of violence, and then   [ read more ]

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Surfacing out of nowhere in 1996, Black Dots turned out to be an archival release of the best kind, something truly rare and unheard that also captured a band at its best. The liner notes explain the origins of the release: In 1979, fellow DC locals the Slickee Boys heard an even earlier rehearsal tape from the Brains and suggested hooking up with now-legendary DC producer Don Zientara, who had recently opened his Inner Ear Studios in his house. The group duly booked time, set up in the fledging venu   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. I Against I was for Bad Brains what London Calling was for the Clash -- the band's first fully mature work, one which successfully brought together all of its diverse influences while at the same time showcasing a singular vision. Also like London Calling, it was to be the band's masterpiece, in the original sense of that term -- a creative pinnacle which they would not reach again. The album opens with the title track, a blistering and musically exhilarating deploration   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. "Surfacing out of nowhere in 1996, Black Dots turned out to be an archival release of the best kind, something truly rare and unheard that also captured a band at its best. The liner notes explain the origins of the release: In 1979, fellow DC locals the Slickee Boys heard an even earlier rehearsal tape from the Brains and suggested hooking up with now-legendary DC producer Don Zientara, who had recently opened his Inner Ear Studios in his house. The group duly booked time, set up in th   [ read more ]

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All material on this CD was recorded at 171-A Studios, NYC, during August, September, and October 1981, except "Pay To Cum," "I Luv I Jah" and "Jah Calling Dub," which were recorded live at 171-A on May 16, 1981. Since this album's original release (on cassette format!), the Bad Brains have achieved a certain immortality among punk and hardcore rockers.

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This is a black Bad Brains shirt in a size EXTRA LARGE featuring a graphic of lightning hitting the capitol building.

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Bad Brains were a beautiful mess of a band, a crew of black D.C.-area hardcore fanatics with Rastafarian leanings and an astounding gift for taut, aggressive, snarling blasts of punk. Banned in D.C. spans their Eighties work: Early tracks such as "Pay to Cum," "I" and "Banned in D.C." display a band in unrestrained fury -- quick, sinister guitar lines, unhinged drumming, lyrics just this side of comprehensible. Even when the group veered toward metal, on later songs such as "Re-Ignition," it never gave in t   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Their first proper studio full-length in over a decade featuring all original members of the group: HR, Darryl Jenifer, Dr. Know & Earl Hudson. Produced by longtime fan, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, this is a return to form for the band that helped define American punk & hardcore music.

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