I love Dischord for many different reasons. That's why it's all the more sad I have so few of their records. I guess my excuse for this is my reasoning that Dischord always keep their releases in print, so I could pick up Dischord records practically at any time, and for a fair price, too. That's why I probably kept focusing on other records all the time since a lot of records by other labels are 'sold out' at one point sooner or later. So speed is the key if you want to have them. However, if I'd stuck with this reasoning, I'd have never bought any Dischord records at all. I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, because if you really want to change something you can always start today, but I'm planning on buying a lot more Dischord stuff in the next twelve months and beyond.
Dischord recently released the first demo recordings by Fugazi on vinyl. Seeing that I don't own any Fugazi records (see above), I thought that their demo recordings would make for a good start. It's not like I've never listened to them, I just didn't own physical copies of their releases. No need to talk about the importance or awesomeness of this band.
The second Dischord release I got is Gray Matter's mini LP Take It Back. This repress also features the four songs that were originally released on their s.t. 7". Whenever I think of Gray Matter I see Ali Boulala skate to Burn No Bridges in the original Flip skateboard video. Perfect fit. Maybe it's because this was the way I was introduced to this band, but I like this song the best. The record came out in 1986, when the whole DC summer thing was about to happen. That probably explains this seemingly strange mix of traditional hardcore-punk songs and more calm, emo-core songs. Although I have to agree with Guy Picciotto, singer for Rites Of Spring, that 'emo-core' is a pretty stupid genre name, seeing that hardcore itself is already pure emotion.
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