The Best Piece of Shit Vol. 3

by The Hated

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anabolic squirrel This is some melodic punk-hardcore that can be chaotic at best. At times the punk-vocal hooks are unbeatable, and at times the songs seemingly careen out-of-control. It would have been cool to see these guys play live because of the element of danger these songs seems to have. Favorite track: I Don't Like You.

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1.	Hey Mister 02:52	buy track
2.	I Don't Like You 01:44	buy track
3.	Somewhere 01:32	buy track
4.	(Intro) Your Mind 03:15	buy track
5.	Words Come Back 03:00	buy track
6.	No Meaning 01:04	buy track
7.	Hate Me 10:00	buy track
8.	The Good Old Days 02:50	buy track
9.	Touch It 00:31	buy track

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Draped in a flag of patriotic shame, The Hated stormed onto the scene just as D.C.’s Revolution Summer was swerving out of control. Channeling Bad Brains’ Black thrash and Hüsker Dü’s zen approach to hardcore, Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder, and Mike Bonner synthesized their own outsider entry in 1985. Their nine-song debut album featured The Hated’s first true moment of brilliance in “Words Come Back”—a stinging indictment of their home town’s Nam shrapnel and racist undercurrent set to a near-blast beat beat. Five-hundred copies of the semi-professionally dubbed Best Piece of Shit Vol 3. cassette were circulated around the greater Chesapeake area, and a legend was born.

Numero and The Hated have gone back to the original analog 1/4” tapes to present the cleanest version of these critical 1985 recordings made at Annapolis, Maryland’s LSP Studios. The shambolic beginnings of the earliest emo band that was nearly lost to time, now from the convenience of the cloud.

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released January 1, 1985

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