Bands That Could Be God
Posted by Thurston in Bands That Could Be God, Boston Punk, Deep Wounds
Bands That Could Be God is a mix of Boston-area hardcore and post-punk bands. It was complied and produced by Gerard Cosloy, who did the Conflict zine (and later ran Madador Records), and released on Lou Giordano's Radiobeat label.
I read somewhere in a zine once where some guy said the only tracks of note on this compilation were by Deep Wound... I'll bet anything that he wrote that without even having listened to the record before. Deep Wound's "You're False" is an awesome and amazingly fast hardcore song, but their other song here is honestly pretty boring (and to be honest, that band is kind of overrated anyway). The best band on this comp BY FAR is Moving Targets. "Selfish" is better than anything Deep Wound ever did. The other two Moving Targets songs are great too -- melodic hardcore with an edge, reminiscent of early Hüsker Dü. Years later hundreds of bands (try to) sound like this, but Moving Targets were one of the first to explore the territory. Also great are the Outpatients -- two superb hardcore songs, really fucking tight. Sorry, too, deserves recognition. Like Moving Targets, they go beyond just straightforward hardcore, although Sorry is slightly less urgent and powerful.
More info available at http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/comps/bandsthatcouldbegod.html
