Jughead's Revenge vs. Moral Crux vs. Darlington

[Late Twenties Steve]

Discuss.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Darlington were the worst of the "known" pop punk bands during that horrible p-punk period in the 90s. Moral Crux stiffed me when I ordered a demo from them before they put anything out (very early on, saw a review in MRR). Never heard Jughead's Revenge, but their name is an embarassment. Draw.

[vint]

I ordered Moral Crux's first LP right when it came out because I thought based on their name that they would be a hardcore band or something. Boy was I disapointed.

[Late Twenties Steve]

Darlington were definitely the worst "known" band pop punk band from that era. Their lyrics were so terrible I felt embarrassed just hearing them. I think every song I heard actually mentioned a popular lookout pop punk band by name, like "She's got chuck taylors and a leather jacket/joe queer would like her a lot" or something equally awful.

I've also never heard Jughead's Revenge, but I'm sure they were awful.

Moral Crux were merely shitty. They don't have shit on Darlington. 

[N]

I think I might actually have seen Jughead's Revenge, I definitely remember my cousin having their t-shirt... I'm gonna vote for them as worst because they were the most "skate", although I've never heard darlington

[shauuuun]

I'd rather get AIDS than listen to Jughead's Revenge or Darlington, but Moral Crux had some not-completely terrible songs on that split 7" with Boris The Sprinkler.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Yeah, those songs were OK. I heard that the demo wasn't really pop-punky but more punk-hooky and that's why it sounded interesting. They owe me like $3! Darlington, I almost punched one of 'em, just a buncha pricks and they sucked so goddamn bad.

[swastikat]

i saw jughead's revenge play at a skate demo in watsonville when i was 15 or 16.  i remember a lot of jumping up and leg kicking, cargo shorts and chain wallets.

[shauuuun]

I wasn't at the show, but Jughead's Revenge played a VFW hall in St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu (10 minutes away from where I grew up, just outside of Chambly) around 1998 or so and drew over 300 people.  This was a pretty regular occurance for bands of that ilk around that time, though.  Skate punk was huge in Quebec in the late 90s... Bands like Guttermouth and A.F.I. and Strung Out used to do tours of all the 50,000-100,000 person towns in Quebec back then, along with their obligatory shows in Montreal and Quebec City in front of 1,500 people.  No wonder those dudes in Simple Plan had superstar aspirations.

[N]

I wasn't at the show, but Jughead's Revenge played a VFW hall in St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu (10 minutes away from where I grew up, just outside of Chambly) around 1998 or so and drew over 300 people.  This was a pretty regular occurance for bands of that ilk around that time, though.  Skate punk was huge in Quebec in the late 90s... Bands like Guttermouth and A.F.I. and Strung Out used to do tours of all the 50,000-100,000 person towns in Quebec back then, along with their obligatory shows in Montreal and Quebec City in front of 1,500 people.  No wonder those dudes in Simple Plan had superstar aspirations.

I always noticed that about Quebec.  I figured it was down to the language barrier stemming the influence of hip-hop, turning the kids who would normally be wiggers towards skatepunk

[Mattfactor]

I was in a band called Varney a long time ago and our first show was opening for Darlington and the Huntingtons.  Darlington's songs don't age particularly well.  I could see where people would consider them one of the worst bands in the world but I'll be damned if I don't like a handful of their songs.  Never heard Jughead's Revenge, but that may be one of the worst band names I've ever heard.  Moral Crux, not too good, handful of decent songs from what I remember.

[Maltodextrin]

I got a promo copy of the first Moral Crux LP sent to my zine circa 1988, and dutifully went to see them when they pulled through town shortly after.  Not bad at all, just raw, tuneful punk rock that had a lot more in common with SLF or early DOA than the skate/pop/warmed-over-sub-Ramones fodder they're being compared to here.  I'd even buy that LP again if I found it used.  Can't comment on later records, and I can see them getting swallowed up by that stuff since they certainly didn't fit the predominant sxe, crossover, mohawk or crust scenes of the time, but they definitely deserve more respect than this thread implies.

[vint]

There first album was in '88. Nevermind then, it wasn't there first album I bought. It was the first I'd heard of them though.

[Dan Celebrity]

I'd probably take Moral Crux.  They were great live when I saw 'em.  Their records never totally got me, but the ones I heard always had some quality tunes mixed in.  That Boris split was great.

Darlington.  Shit.  Didn't like it, even then.  Throw it into the flames with 98% of the Mutant Pop catalog.

Never heard later Jughead's Revenge.  I'm sure it's terrible.  Heard a really early song of theirs recently.  It was pretty awesome metallic speedy hardcore.  It was like the late 80's bands that would have been on Mystic in the mid-80's if they had existed.  Ya know, the bands that would water it down and create the Fat/Epitaph sound.  A lot of those bands were at least somewhat listenable at first.

[Swampy]

I've never heard any of these bands.  Doesn't sound like I'm missing anything.