Jughead's Revenge vs. Moral Crux vs. Darlington

[Ass Invader]

Darlington used to be called Mess and had at least one good song during that period ("NASA").  Saw them with the Motards and the Boozers in Dallas.

[Dan Celebrity]

I remember that Mess song, "Braindead" or something.  It was on the Old Scars and Upstarts comp.  I always hated that song.

[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.

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

No, what happened usually is those kids get into skate punk at first (when they're 13 or 14) and start listening to Hip Hop later.  Wu-Tang were fucking HUGE in Quebec around the same time period.  HUGE (if some kid wasn't wearing a NOFX or Good Riddance T-shirt, he had a Wu-Tang or Wu-Wear t-shirt... which in retrospect is fucking awesome).

[the ayotollah of rocknrollah]

The Ist 2 Moral Crux records aren't the worst.I traded the 1st one for a stack of Jesse the body Ventura picture discs and I have the 2nd one in my for sale pile.

[goneoffdatlean]

Saw Moral Crux live in Pensacola...I've seen worse.

Nice guys,though...but most crappy bands are full of nice people.

[Dutchman]

I saw Moral Crux in the late 80's when their first album came out and they were a breath of fresh air back then--my best friend loved that record.  I was bummed that they got swallowed up by the pop punk thing in the 90's but they probably didn't have any decent songs left in the tank after ten years anyway.

I never owned anything by JR but I remember them starting out as something pretty aggro in the early 90's on a comp or something, not remotely poppunk at all.

Darlington looked completely abhorrent and I've never heard them--funny, they were the band that even people who dug that scene stepped all over.

-Ryan

[tony]

whoever said jughead's revenge and mystic hit the nail on the head. i was listening to sacred order just minutes ago and was thinking that if they were a little more metal/hard rock in a battalion of saints kinda way and if the vocals were gruffer they would be jughead's revenge.

i'll get shit for this but i always liked j.r.'s version of "L.A. Girl" better than the Adolescents version.

[Dan Celebrity]

Are you talking about Sacred Order's album on Mystic?  Or are you talking about their earlier stuff.  I like the early stuff quite a bit, but that Mystic album's pretty terrible.  I got a promo copy of it at the MSOE rummage sale for a quarter.

[tony]

Are you talking about Sacred Order's album on Mystic?  Or are you talking about their earlier stuff.  I like the early stuff quite a bit, but that Mystic album's pretty terrible.  I got a promo copy of it at the MSOE rummage sale for a quarter.

both. i think the mystic album has some charming qualities to it. "terminal bender" and "on your own" are both great in my opinion. "poor and radical" & "icky bitch" shoulda been covered by the mentors.

[rnld]

The 1st two Moral Crux lps are great. Ive never heard anything later and i prolly dont want to . I remeber seeing Jugheads revenge in like 1995 and being bummed out . . .

[payton g]

Darlington loses based on how terrible they are and the fact that they are still an actively terrible band.

[Scrod Prickknee]

Darlington hate never gets old for me. I guess it's because they deserve it + the fact that they were complete assholes when they played here.

[still stupid]

i love pop punk, i hate these 3 bands.

[blackhouserecords]

I'd say Jughead's Revenge. 


I play drums in Moral Crux.  Been playing with them for 6 years.


Hi.

[blackhouserecords]

Guess I should mention I'm new to the board.