Slapshot - 16 Valve Hate Scarce Picture Disc Hardcore Boston Punk Smiths Cover
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One of the heaviest Boston hardcore records, plus its got a Smiths cover on it!
This is the record that brought Slapshot out of the 3 record slump they were in after they signed with We Bite. The ever amazing Mark McKay returned on drums and they resigned with Taang! and all was well in the universe again!
The only way to get this record on vinyl is this Lost & Found picture disc version, unless you can find a test pressing (which is on black vinyl), but I’ve only seen 2 of those in years of looking. I did hear a rumor that Taang! had considered releasing 16 Valve Hate & Olde Tyme Hardcore as a double 10? set years ago, but it never happened. I also heard that there may have been test press 10?s done, but I can’t confirm that. They did release a bunch of Bosstones stuff on 10? so its very possible that its true!
Slapshot not only were easily the longest-lasting of all the original Boston hardcore bands, but they managed to stay musically relevant much longer than, say, Gang Green. Released in 1996, 16 Valve Hate is a fully aggro blast of old-school hardcore, so defiantly true to the style's roots that it sounds timeless instead of retro. Original drummer Mark McKay even returns to the lineup to complete the circa-1984 picture. Songs like the barking "I Want You Dead" are standard-issue Slapshot, complete with Jack Kelly's familiar hoarse but surprisingly expressive vocals, but the standouts are the heartfelt and unexpectedly catchy title track and, somewhat surprisingly, a version of the Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again" that's not at all the usual hardcore mockery of some poncy British art-school band, but a complete transformation of Morrissey's original song into a brutal but shockingly apt hardcore beatdown. Seriously, who knew that a line like "Now I know how Joan of Arc felt" would sound so right in a hardcore context? That sort of thing is what made Slapshot more than just another hardcore band.
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