DRI Help

CR83 - 6-27-2009 at 05:08 PM

Because of Sippers's thread I have been looking into DRI. I never got into them. Acid Rain video was my only exposure.

do they have any sort of greatest hits album or anything close you all would recommend?

Thanks!

panzerkreuzer - 6-27-2009 at 05:36 PM

try the "dirty rotten" lp and "dealing with it" if you dig the fast stuff. both records are milestones in hardcore history. unbeatable.
if you want to try their metal days, try "4 of a kind" and "thrash zone". acid rain is on thrash zone, btw.
in my opinion you have to get all their records, every phase had it´s moment, but the first two mentioned are essential.

JawnDiablo - 6-27-2009 at 07:21 PM

dealing with it and 4 of a kind are my favorites.
not really into the others in their entirity but good songs throught them all.
never heard anything after thrash zone

Discipline - 6-27-2009 at 07:38 PM

They put out a best of, but I don't think it's a good enough in terms of covering their career. The "Dirty Rotten LP" and "Dealing With It" are essential. After those two, "Crossover" is my personal favorite.

Jason the Magnificent - 6-28-2009 at 08:34 AM

Dealing With It is my favorite album of all time. This has never wavered.

My cousin bought an extra copy of this for me in 85 when I was a little dork listening to my dads Judas Priest albums...it blew my fucking mind. I didn't anything about hardcore or punk or anything about any scenes....all I knew was this was the fastest, bestest most raw thing I ever heard. IMO one of few perfect albums...front to back.

Dirty Rotten LP is good if you like raw fast hardcore but I can see how it would turn some people off because of the real raw factor.

Dealing With It is probably the first true crossover album...I think AF/CFA came out about a year later...but unlike CFA this wasn't nearly as metal....it really just sounded like a punk/hc band with metal "bigness" or production. Those songs are still more hardcore than 90% of bands today.

Crossover is a comparable album but the songs started getting longer and slower....this was kind of thier bridge album into the later years.

Four of a Kind, Thrash Zone, Definition and the rest are all very very solid thrash metal albums with hardcore influence but theyre a shadow of the earlier albums.

CR83 - 6-28-2009 at 01:04 PM

You guys rule. huge fucking help. I'm going to do some digging.

DAK - 6-28-2009 at 01:43 PM

Dealing with is my favorite. But I like most of them.

clevohardcore - 6-28-2009 at 01:55 PM

One of the first bands I ever got into while skating as a youngster. I got everything up too definition. My favorite is THRASHZONE and FOUR OF A KIND. I prefer the more metal/thrash stuff they did to the more punk sound they had in the beginning, but I really dig that stuff too. The first record I heard was the dirty rotten ep and I still get good feelings of the old days listening to it. Brings back some good memories. I just think they were best with the sound they developed in the late 80's. It's simple and it rules. Pure and well......simple.
That being said i never heard FULL SPEED AHEAD but someone once said its like really really good DRI. The best mix of punk and metal they ever did. I got to pick that up. It's hard to find DRI stuff. I kow they re-released there stuff, but that is still hard to get.

check your u2u's holmes

Discipline - 6-28-2009 at 02:25 PM

Beer City records re-released a few of the old albums.

Clevo- Check out Full Speed Ahead. It's got some really good tracks on it and I think it's better than Thrash Zone, Four of a Kind, and Definition.

Murk - 6-28-2009 at 03:12 PM

DRI - Dealing With It

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 04:39 PM

im a sucka for live sets
the tracks from the you tube
live @cbgb's 84

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

live in los angelos 85

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

a few houston bands that ripped in the vein of dri

s.n.o.t. slaughterhouse ep

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

dresden 45 liberators ep
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

stark raving mad 1st lp

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

stark raving mad-mad ameirika
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

panzerkreuzer - 6-28-2009 at 04:45 PM

yes, stark raving mad. totally underrated band. but i think not everyone can stand the vocals.

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 04:49 PM

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yes, stark raving mad. totally underrated band. but i think not everyone can stand the vocals.

agreed i love'em

panzerkreuzer - 6-28-2009 at 04:52 PM

heard s.n.o.t. here for the first time. good stuff.
can you tell something about this band, releases and when they existed.

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by panzerkreuzer
heard s.n.o.t. here for the first time. good stuff.
can you tell something about this band, releases and when they existed.

they were around in the mid eighties in houston played lots of local shows put out an ep then broke up.i was good friends with a girl in jr high/highschool her uncle was the singer got lots of cool swag out of it.

panzerkreuzer - 6-28-2009 at 05:02 PM

thanks a lot for the info.
texas really has a good hardcore history.

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 05:08 PM

it really does its sad alot of the early bands jumped ship to san fransico..

panzerkreuzer - 6-28-2009 at 05:14 PM

we had the same problem over here in the eighties. every band wanted to go to berlin or hamburg, where the thought to have more success.

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 05:34 PM

another houston classic dak will know this thrash legend

dead horse-death rides a dead horse demo
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...
dead horse-horsecore an unrelated story thats time consuming
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9fcf9ef022f830fe19747bd91...

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 05:35 PM

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we had the same problem over here in the eighties. every band wanted to go to berlin or hamburg, where the thought to have more success.

by chance you have any spermbirds i loved that fucking band..

panzerkreuzer - 6-28-2009 at 05:45 PM

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we had the same problem over here in the eighties. every band wanted to go to berlin or hamburg, where the thought to have more success.

by chance you have any spermbirds i loved that fucking band..

i love them.
one of the best german hardcore bands of all time. they´re still active and every show of them is a killer. do you know their dvd? awesome!
for those who don´t know them give them a chance!
http://www.myspace.com/spermbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnGZ6EyIRC4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sRln2ReL_g&feature=related

sippers - 6-28-2009 at 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by panzerkreuzer
we had the same problem over here in the eighties. every band wanted to go to berlin or hamburg, where the thought to have more success.

by chance you have any spermbirds i loved that fucking band..

a good freind of mine shawn smash of total chaos turned my onto them in 91 he was born in germany i need to find that shit again he had it all on vinyl...

DAK - 6-28-2009 at 08:00 PM

Oh yea. I love dead horse. That's where the farm road 666 road sign is from. Wasn't Shawn in your band before Total Chaos.

random - 6-28-2009 at 09:14 PM

don't know if the links work, but this seems to help with the spermbirds stuff... http://www.taringa.net/posts/musica/2739043/%5BHC-Punk-d_-Al...

panzerkreuzer - 6-29-2009 at 06:01 AM

awesome link. it´s the whole discography.

XHonusWagnerX - 6-29-2009 at 06:48 AM

I like pretty much all the DRI, but 'Dirty Rotten LP' and 'Thrashzone' are my 2 favorites.

workinstiffs - 6-30-2009 at 09:30 PM

acid rain was off the album Def-i-ni-tion
which in my opinion was the best album never bought one after it

i85.photobucket.com/.../DRI-Definition.jpg