F-Minus - S/T

Nowadays I find it incredibly hard to get excited about any modern punk music. There seems to be a bombardment of NO-FX styled goofy, trying too hard to be funny bullshit and Crass wannabe acts. None of it makes me care, some of it even royally pisses me off. That's why F-Minus are so refreshing. This self titled LP is eighteen minutes long and twenty tracks in size. Fast, pissed off punk, the way it's supposed to be. Obviously they hold elements of some bands of yore but when this came out there was no one playing this fast and with this much soul.

They would later go on to release "Wake Up Screaming", a darker, much slower paced record produced by Steve Albini for that extra evil touch. The record sucked. I believe in bands progressing but this new incarnation completely ruined the spirit and sound of the band. Four minute sludge-punk tracks by a band that were fantastic due to their speed among other things does not cut it with me. Still, we have this self titled LP another full length and a few splits so at least we have the memories.

Hostage
Dragons Teeth
Class Machine

Expired