Search - Discharge :: Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

Now THIS is a band

Garbageman | the other side of California | 01/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I can't seriously think of a better band than Discharge. They are tighter than a crab's [back] and the formula is intact: riff, riff with verse, riff #2, riff #2 with chorus, then repeat twice, then end abruptly. AWESOME. I mean, don't cut corners. When this album was in my collection in high school, I deliberately played it to piss people off. Listen to the bass solo on "The Final Bloodbath" at about the :39 mark: it's going so fast, it disintegrates into total unstructured noise, AND IT'S ONLY A ONE-NOTE SOLO. Good God. "State Control" is one of the top 10 punk singles ever. And "I Won't Subscribe" is the blueprint for every punk song in history. Rancid should be servicing these guys after a show, they are so brutal. Nothing even comes close. "Drunk With Power" is almost unintentionally funny it's so good. This album is worth it for the small (they were bigger on the LP) photos of the band alone, playing their instruments in some live setting: the lead singer Cal looks like he is screaming his freakin' lungs right out of his body. Also, the lyric sheet. Get a load of these profound poetic phrases: "Britain among others deal in death when selling arms to developing countries / to developing countries they sell death / where there is urgent need for medical programmes". And that's the whole song. No, really. I mean, why ramble on, get your point across and move on to the next one. I wish I could have sat around and watched these guys practice in their prime, I bet they would run through about 150 songs in an hour. Simply put, this album is loaded with extra tracks, has the lyrics, photos, supposedly it's remastered (not that it matters, it still sounds like a freight train of at least thirty overdubbed guitars playing the same riff). I seriously cannot think of one album in any genre of music that this couldn't obliterate with one song. What more could you possibly ask for? Buy it."

I can't believe they did this in '82.

x0r n3g4r10u2 | lost | 06/19/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"it's really just mindblowing. Bathory still had 2 more years before his debut, and you had Venom and Motorhead... buuut. This is just totally devastating. Discharge actually establish a HELLISH, BRUTAL sound that's not cheesy or takes any getting used to, you don't really have to 'gain appreciation' for it.



Discharge is just fkn hard."

The Last NEw Idea in Rock & Roll

R. F. Mojica | Staten Island, NY United States | 12/31/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I had this album on vinyl way back when. It's about 25 years old now, and you'd never know by listening to it. It sounds like it coulda been made yesterday.



Which maybe is the point. When I first heard Discharge, I knew Rock n' Roll music was finished. It had nowhere left to go.



When rock n' Roll started back in the 50s, it was pretty simple, rudimentary music. In the 60s, a lot of bands, especially the Beatles and their many imitators, tried to fancy it up and make it more technically and musically advanced. They might have suceeded in doing so, but, to my personal taste, I don't know if this improved the music any. Rock n' Roll is supposed to be basic and fancying it up, making it more "classical" or more "technical", defeats its very purpose. While the Beatles and a handful of others might have had the talent to pull it off, the "progress" of rock n' roll mostly led to real garbage like the Doors, Styx, ELP, ELO, Chicago, and every other really crummy rock group to come out in the late 60s and early 70s, and also the many other imitators that followed after.



Punk Rock was a reaction to this, and the course of Rock history has been the deconstruction of the music ever since. When I heard Discharge, I knew rock n' roll couldn't be deconstructed any further.



This album was basically noise with no real music whatsoever. It consisted of just two thing: fantastically loud and raw 3 or 4 note guitar riffs and a vocalist screaming at the top of his voice about world destruction and nuclear annihilation.



And that's what made it so great!!!!



Everything that has come after, all the thrash and grind and death metal has tried to deconstruct the music further, but it couldn't be done. They tried to make it more shocking by singing about mutilation and sadistic torture and murder and festering corpses, but what are all these supposed horrors when compared to the destruction of the entire planet and the death of all its inhabitants, human, animal and vegetable, by nuclear weapons?



In the days of vinyl records and $99 dollar stereos, this record was an absolute blast. And nothing that came after could beat it. As hard as all the thrashers who came after it tried to be so bad, no one has been as bad as Discharge. If you're into all the different hardcore type metals and punks that have come out in the last 25 years, take a listen to this. You will find that all your favorites never came up with anything new or really so bad. Compared to Discharge, they still all sound like wussies."