Ten Grand was brought back to my attention after recently conversing about them with some friends. It was like a light bulb went off in my head, "oh yeah, I have to post that album on my blog". And so, here we have it, Ten Grand's last full length album, This is the Way to Rule. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to see the band live, though they toured relentlessly. Just a year or so shy of when I would have been exposed to them. Which, despite a friend's telling of their sloppiness live, is rather unfortunate due to the singer's tragic death in 2003. Now we only have the stories of their machine-like touring ethic and their sarcastic music to live by.
So, remember late 90's hardcore/screamo, made infamous via Ebullition records? For some people, it was the golden years. For others, it spawned countless numbers of mediocre bands resulting in the modern day mainstream screamo with all of it's prepubescent scenester glory, and the current wave of underground screamo. In other words, those others of us want to entirely forget the genre ever existed. Hide your Yaphet Kotto and Still Life records friends, some kid with flashy, bright clothing is going to take a shit all over them. Anyway, Ten Grand played that wonderful version of hardcore, albeit a little more crazed, frantic, and wonderfully sarcastic. It seriously is the finest take on the genre. Long live Ten Grand.
Tracks:
- Hands Off the Merch
- Wedding Song for Steve and Angie
- R E S P E C T Me
- Let's Wreck the Van
- I Will Seriously Pay You to Shut Up
- Scary Movie 4
- Get Out of My Dojo
- This isn't Heaven, This Sucks
- Fuck You Guyses Team
- Now You Got What I Got
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