The Age Of Quarrel

Another hardcore classic that I bought on CD back in the late 80's, but never have picked up the vinyl until I was pillaging Tim's old collection.

Cro-Mags were one of my first introductions to hardcore, and The Age Of Quarrel, alongside Agnostic Front's Liberty and Justice and Sick Of It All's Blood Sweat and No Tears, probably makes up my Big 3 for that time period. I was still very much a metalhead in the late 80's when I stumbled upon these records, and had no idea what hardcore music was. It had an intensity and realness that I'd never seen in music before, and it made all the metal bands that I'd been listening to start to feel a bit silly. Discovering hardcore was life changing.

I can't believe that it has taken me this long to finally add this classic record to the collection, but sometimes I feel like I spend most of my time focused on buying records that are in my ears at that immediate moment... and while there is no doubt that The Age Of Quarrel is a crucial hardcore record, I've just heard it so many times, that I don't spend a lot of time listening to it these days... and therefore I've never really put a lot of effort into buying a copy. However, seeing this copy in Tim's collection had me stoked to finally get my hands on one.