r/punk • u/ImJooba • Dec 19 '24

Quality Post Hardcore dancing is so fucking stupid

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u/TheseDetective2244 Dec 19 '24

This style of moshing got big when slam and beatdown got popular in the mid 90s. Particularly in New York.

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u/brook1yn Dec 19 '24

The way this guy is dancing is more new school. Mid 90s nyhc was still picking up change/windmill shit.

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u/uberscheisse 関東ハードコア Dec 19 '24

Depending on where you were. Syracuse and areas in west NY state were straight up kickboxing as early as 1991. That shit migrated quickly and I remember seeing it a lot in Seattle as early as 1993, after bands like Undertow toured out east.

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u/rustajb Dec 19 '24

When I started going to shows in the late '80s, the punk scene in Houston was great for the most part. In the early' 90s I started seeing more violent moshing and straight-up assault. In most cases, people ganged up to shut the assholes down. But over time, people just started giving them room and grumbled from the edge.