Details:
Artist: Hated Youth
Album: Hardcore Rules
Format: Vinyl - 7"
Label: Burrito Records
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Track Listing:
1. Hardcore Rules
2. Ted Bundy
3. Army Dad
4. Ban the Bible
5. I'm Stupid
6. Fuckhead
7. Red Red Red
8. Fuck Russia
9. Total Control
10. Games
11. Fear Us
12. Kill a Punk
Probably the coolest band from Tallahassee, ever... besides DVC (Darth Vader's Church). I have heard that Hated Youth was the first hardcore band in Florida. That could definitely be a lie.
Even though Burrito Records put this out in the year 2000, it was recorded in 1983 down in Gainesville. 9 of these songs were unreleased and 3 were compilation tracks. Being in a band in 1983 when you were under 18-years-old had its setbacks, since they couldn't afford to release the material until almost 20 years later. Thanks Bob!
Hated Eric still lives in Tallahassee and runs an auto shop somewhere around the new "College Town". I've never seen him. I don't even know if he is the vocalist on this record because they had multiple. Supposedly he is hoarding a bunch of Hated Youth/Roach Motel LPs and Hardcore Rules 7"s which he brings in to Retrofit Records occasionally for local pick-up.
Seems like people usually talk about this band when talking about early "fast" hardcore. Bands like D.R.I., Septic Death, or B.G.K. and Lärm from Europe. Florida was actually ahead of the curve, once... I mean listen to the very first track. "My name is God. Fuck You." That shit is fast.
"As I'm sure you've heard before, things were different then. Tallahassee, FL was a complete conservative, racist, republican town. There were no such things as punks. Normal kids didn't have anything pierced. Just one earing was considered outrageous. Radio had no hint of "alternative." Just crap music, period. One time just walking down the street, an executive looking lady spit on me. Almost in the way america was so paranoid about communists, they were scared of us. In reality, we were just bored kids having some fun, but the people of that time were terrified of us. We had an intense power over people. It's strange to think of now, but people were just idiots back then.
Before we ever had a gig, the paper featured us and some other bands. Full page, mohawks, Circle Jerks tee-shirts. The town knew something bad, possibly the work of Satan, had arrived. Our first gig in Tallahassee (apart from parties) was to happen at a place called the Seminole Reservation, but after even more press and public outcry, it was cancelled and moved to another location. That location was the Union Green at FSU, a usual outdoor venue for concerts. The build-up was so big that I was even scared. The scene was surreal, cop cars everywhere. I'm not too sure what they thought was going to happen. From there we just branched out into other towns finding punk scenes to play for." - Gary
http://www.scenepointblank.com/features/interviews/hated-youth/
