515 Crew

Nickyouredead wrote:Champion, and Backfire.

Big Fat Retard wrote:Post-Hardcore? Is Hardcore over with?

Bullet Tooth wrote:i cant really give you an pointers on that cause all of those bands suck.

Joe wrote:Worst thread.
Worst bands.

-Joe.

Big Fat Retard wrote:I read the post title wrong. never mind.

Positive hardcore
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Positive hardcore is a term used in the hardcore scene to refer to the branch of hardcore that is socially aware or focuses on values such as being inclusive, community-oriented, and anti-violence.

Song subjects can include

opposition to violence and conflict within the scene
Veganism / Vegetarianism
Straight Edge
Perseverance in the face of life's struggles
Promoting the general welfare of the scene
opposition to racism
Promotion of female participation in the scene, a type of feminism
The term "positive hardcore" may have originated in Youth of Today lyrics using the word "positive" and Youth of Today songs like "Positive Outlook"[citation needed].

Contents [hide]
1 Relationship to Youth Crew movement
2 Branch off Genre vs. Movement
3 Bands
3.1 Active
3.2 Inactive
4 American hardcore/metalcore bands that have written positive songs
5 See also
6 References


[edit] Relationship to Youth Crew movement
All the youth crew bands are more or less positive hardcore bands, with the possible exceptions being Project X and Judge. While Project X and Judge were composed of members of the original youth crew bands, their songs were closer to being general straightedge hardcore than strictly positive hardcore.

[edit] Branch off Genre vs. Movement
A current question being asked within the scene is if the emergence of positive hardcore, is a musical branch-off from the notoriously aggressive hardcore scene (as Pop-Punk was to Traditional Punk) or is it merely bands keeping the traditional feel of hardcore, but providing a more positive lyrical experience and atmosphere. As the scene is most likely to grow, the question will most likely be answered.

[edit] Bands
[edit] Active
25 Ta Life (New Jersey)
7 Seconds (Reno, NV - intermittently active)
Daggermouth
Comeback Kid (Winnipeg, MB)
Crime In Stereo (Long Island, NY)
Good Clean Fun (Washington, DC)
H2O (New York City)
Heads Held High (Cleveland, OH)
Ignite (Orange County, CA)
John Walsh (Cincinnati, OH)
Paint It Black (band) (Philadelphia, PA)
Stretch Arm Strong (South Carolina)
Stick To Your Guns (Orange County, CA)
This Fight (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
Score To Zero (Berlin, Germany)
Cervantes (Leszno, Poland)
The Geeks
On
Persist (Sydney, Australia)
[edit] Inactive
Better Than a Thousand
Champion (Seattle, WA)
CIV (New York, NY)
Have Heart (Boston, MA)
Gorilla Biscuits (New York, NY)
IDK (New Jersey)
Insted (California)
Kid Dynamite (Philadelphia, PA)
Saints Never Surrender (Ft. Wayne, IN)
Strength 691 (New Jersey)
Verse (Providence, RI)
With Honor
Up Front (New York)
Youth of Today (New York, NY)
Floorpunch
Ten Yard Fight
[edit] American hardcore/metalcore bands that have written positive songs
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A few other bands aren't called positive bands, but have written a positive song or two, demonstrating positive hardcore's influence, roots, and connectedness to the rest of hardcore and/or metalcore:

Bad Brains ("Attitude", possibly the first positive hardcore song, shouting "PMA" which stands for Positive Mental Attitude)
25 Ta Life ("Keepin' It Real," "Inside Knowledge")
Agnostic Front (songs about scene unity)
Breakdown ("Don't Give Up")
Descendents
Judge
Hatebreed ("Perseverance")
It Prevails
Kill Your Idols
Misery Signals
Proven (most songs are about brotherhood and community, lifting yourself up, working hard and never giving up)
Ten Yard Fight (would almost be a positive hardcore band, except that they had a lot of songs either berating some person for alleged failings, or about how they wanted to beat up some person for one reason or another)
Terror
Warzone (arguably a positive hardcore band because of a lot of positive-style songs and work outside the band for promotion of positive causes and stuff to help the scene, but no one really calls them positive hardcore)
Waterdown ("Moshpit Etiquette")
[edit] See also
Straight edge
Hardcore punk
Peace Punk
[edit] References

tylerjames515 wrote:Daggermouth fucking rules.

Nick wrote:That Wiki article actually lists some pretty good bands. Some I had forgotten about.

That Champion band is really effin' good though. More of that type stuff.

Nick wrote:That Wiki article actually lists some pretty good bands. Some I had forgotten about.

Warzone (arguably a positive hardcore band because of a lot of positive-style songs and work outside the band for promotion of positive causes and stuff to help the scene, but no one really calls them positive hardcore)

Joe wrote: What you're looking for is youth crew.