Born Against

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Nine Years Later 00:00 Tools
By the Throat 00:00 Tools
Well Fed Fuck 00:00 Tools
Mount the Pavement 02:46 Tools
Born Again 00:00 Tools
Resist Control 00:00 Tools
Shroud 00:00 Tools
Mary and Child 00:00 Tools
Janelle 00:00 Tools
Movin' on up 00:00 Tools
The Good Father 00:00 Tools
Half Mast 00:00 Tools
Jock Gestapo 00:00 Tools
Go Fuck Yourself 00:00 Tools
Organ of Hope 00:00 Tools
Test Pattern 00:00 Tools
Eulogy 00:00 Tools
Xmas Eve 00:00 Tools
Mt. Dew 00:00 Tools
Murder the Sons of Bitches 00:00 Tools
Riding With Mary 00:00 Tools
Born Against Are Fucking Dead 00:00 Tools
Mary & Child 00:00 Tools
Poland 00:00 Tools
Witness to a Rape 00:00 Tools
Sendero 00:00 Tools
Albany Academy 00:00 Tools
Alive With Pleasure 00:00 Tools
Body Counts 00:00 Tools
Bit Part in a Bad Movie 00:00 Tools
I Am a Idiot 00:00 Tools
Wearing a Lampshade 00:00 Tools
This Trash Should've Been Free 00:00 Tools
Lillian 00:00 Tools
My Favorite Housing Project 00:00 Tools
Set Your AM Dial for White Empowerment 00:00 Tools
Five Dollars an Hour 00:00 Tools
A Whopper of a Tale 00:00 Tools
Footbound & Hobbled 00:00 Tools
Footbound and Hobbled 00:00 Tools
Foot Bound & Hobbled 00:00 Tools
This Trash Should Be Free 00:00 Tools
Set Your AM Dial 00:00 Tools
X-Mas Eve 00:00 Tools
Prank 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Good Father 00:00 Tools
04 - Born Against - Janelle 00:00 Tools
Born Again/Witnes To A Rape 00:00 Tools
$5 an Hour 00:00 Tools
5$ An Hour 00:00 Tools
Halfmast 00:00 Tools
Mary and Child (My Life as a Fetus) 00:00 Tools
06 - Born Against - Movin' On Up 00:00 Tools
05 - Born Against - Go Fuck Y 00:00 Tools
Mary And Child And (My Life As A Fetus) 00:00 Tools
[Untitled Track] 00:00 Tools
05 - Born Against - Go Fuck Yourself 00:00 Tools
06 - Born Against - Movin' On 00:00 Tools
Fuck Yourself 00:00 Tools
Intermission 00:00 Tools
Moutain Dew 00:00 Tools
Mary & Child (My Life As A Fetus) 00:00 Tools
We Won 00:00 Tools
Horkus Porkus Man 00:00 Tools
White Empowerment 00:00 Tools
Neil 00:00 Tools
Janelle (Screeching Weasel Cover) 00:00 Tools
Born Again/Witness To A Rape 00:00 Tools
Mountain Dew 00:00 Tools
The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hammered Down 00:00 Tools
talking 00:00 Tools
My favourite housing project 00:00 Tools
Well Fed F**k 00:00 Tools
This Thrash Should've Been Free 00:00 Tools
Movin' On Up (The Jeffersons Theme Song) 00:00 Tools
21 Go Fuck Yourself 00:00 Tools
Born Against/Witness to a Rape 00:00 Tools
Witness2Rape 00:00 Tools
14-poland 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Born Against Are F*****g Dead 00:00 Tools
Nail That Sticks Up 00:00 Tools
Go F**k Yourself 00:00 Tools
Go Fuck Yourself (Screeching Weasel cover) 00:00 Tools
15-sendero 00:00 Tools
Born Against 00:00 Tools
23 Five Dollars An Hour 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Lambshade 00:00 Tools
Mary and Child My Life as a Fetus 00:00 Tools
(Talking) 00:00 Tools
Dendero 00:00 Tools
donahue 00:00 Tools
Mount the Pavment 00:00 Tools
11-mountain dew 00:00 Tools
16 Movin On Up 00:00 Tools
22 Wearing A Lampshade 00:00 Tools
Born Again / Witness To A Rape 00:00 Tools
Murder the Sons of B*****s 00:00 Tools
Moving On Up 00:00 Tools
The Godfather 00:00 Tools
06-mary and child 00:00 Tools
12-footbound and hobbled 00:00 Tools
13-trash should be free 00:00 Tools
01 - Mount The Pavement 00:00 Tools
02 - Shroud 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 03 - Mary and Child 00:00 Tools
17-born against are dead 00:00 Tools
18 Bit Parrt In A Bad Movie 00:00 Tools
10-murder the sonsofbitches 00:00 Tools
01 - good father 00:00 Tools
[Untitled] 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 04 - Eulogy 00:00 Tools
14 Poland 00:00 Tools
Set Your A.M. Dial 00:00 Tools
18-secret track 00:00 Tools
16-white empowerment 00:00 Tools
born against - 02 - the good father 00:00 Tools
Well-Fed Fuck 00:00 Tools
10 Murder the Sons of Bitches 00:00 Tools
03 - 9 years later 00:00 Tools
10-murder the sons of bitches 00:00 Tools
Half-Mast 00:00 Tools
Nail That Sticks Up / Eulogy 00:00 Tools
15 Sendero 00:00 Tools
this trash shouldve been free 00:00 Tools
17 Born Against are Fucking Dead 00:00 Tools
11 Mt. Dew 00:00 Tools
06-mary and child (my life as 00:00 Tools
12-foot-bound and hobbled 00:00 Tools
Shroad 00:00 Tools
01 eulogy 00:00 Tools
02 riding with mary 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 08 - Half Mast 00:00 Tools
Xmas Exe 00:00 Tools
Intro to Born Again 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 05 - Riding with Mary 00:00 Tools
05 - Test Pattern 00:00 Tools
07 - Jock Gestapo 00:00 Tools
16 Set your AM Dial For White Empowerment 00:00 Tools
09 - Well Fed Fuck 00:00 Tools
03 By the Throat 00:00 Tools
S.P.O. 00:00 Tools
04 - born again 00:00 Tools
15 - Sendero 00:00 Tools
11-mt dew 00:00 Tools
02 - eulogy 00:00 Tools
07 Jock Gestapo 00:00 Tools
Well fed Fucked 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 10 - Nine Years Later 00:00 Tools
Five Dollars and Hour 00:00 Tools
Mary Child 00:00 Tools
06 - Mary & Child 00:00 Tools
Bit Part In A Band Movie 00:00 Tools
A Whooper Of A Tale 00:00 Tools
Instrumental - Donahue Prank 00:00 Tools
born against - 01 - albany academy 00:00 Tools
born against - 03 - five dollars an hour 00:00 Tools
born against - albany academy 00:00 Tools
14 - Poland 00:00 Tools
05 - witness to a rape 00:00 Tools
05 Test Pattern 00:00 Tools
Shanks-Xmas Eve 00:00 Tools
01 Mount the Pavement 00:00 Tools
16-set your am dial 00:00 Tools
Witnes To A Rape 00:00 Tools
The Intermission 00:00 Tools
born against - eulogy 00:00 Tools
born against - 04 - my favourite housing project 00:00 Tools
born against - 02 - wearing a lampshade 00:00 Tools
Born Against - 09 - Xmas Eve 00:00 Tools
08 - Organ Of Hope 00:00 Tools
born against - witness to a rape 00:00 Tools
13 This Trash Should've Been Free 00:00 Tools
10 - Murder the Sons of Bitches 00:00 Tools
06 Mary and Child 00:00 Tools
Murder The Sons Of Bitches! 00:00 Tools
Shanks/X-Mas Eve 00:00 Tools
Resist Control (Life's Blood) 00:00 Tools
Born Against - Go Fuck Yourself 00:00 Tools
Born Against - Janelle 00:00 Tools
This Trash Should Have Been Free 00:00 Tools
06 - xmas eve 00:00 Tools
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Born Against was an American hardcore punk band from New York City, active between 1989–1993. In addition to their radical leftist politics, the group espoused a do-it-yourself message, and challenged the in-fighting they perceived as problematic within the underground hardcore punk community of their time. The group was founded in early 1989 by guitarist Adam Nathanson and bassist Neil Burke (both formerly of the New York hardcore band Life's Blood), vocalist Sam McPheeters, and drummer John Guzman, who was replaced in early rehearsals by a drummer named George. George's tenure was also brief, and he was replaced after a single show by drummer Nigel Schreiber in July 1989. This lineup recorded a demo cassette and a track for the Murderers Among Us 7" compilation released on McPheeters' Vermiform Records label before Burke and Schreiber left the group in the fall. Born Against would continue to be plagued by rhythm section fluctuation throughout its career. Six months later, the band reemerged with bassist Javier Villegas and drummer Darryl Kahan, the latter of the popular New York hardcore band Citizen's Arrest. This incarnation of the band produced its first two proper releases, the "Eulogy" single (whose anti-religious title track was controversially dedicated to Steve Reddy of Equal Vision Records upon his conversion to a Hare Krishna lifestyle) and a self-titled 7" EP, along with several compilation tracks. Late in 1990, Kahan was replaced by drummer John Hiltz, birthing the longest lasting incarnation of the band. The group toured extensively, and released a debut LP, 1991's Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children, on Vermiform. Villegas left the group in late 1991 – he would go on to play in the groups Iabhorer, Cattlepress, and Kylesa. He was replaced in Born Against by bassist Bret Blue. With Hiltz and Blue, Born Against continued its extensive touring, including a trip to Europe. By this point, the band's political message, sometimes seen as overly aggressive, and critique of their contemporaries had sparked much controversy. The band endured prominent animosity in New York City and beyond at the hands of their criticism of specific hardcore entities they opposed. They began work on a new record, which was stalled in July 1992 when Hiltz left the group. The final sessions that produced the resultant 10" record, Battle Hymns of the Race War, featured Melissa York (later in Team Dresch, The Butchies and Ex-Members) on drums, although York never performed live with the group. By early 1993, Nathanson and McPheeters had relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey and begun a new version of the band with bassist Tonie Joy (of Moss Icon and Universal Order of Armageddon) and drummer Brooks Headley (also from Universal Order of Armageddon). Although only extant for seven months, this was a prolific incarnation, who continued to tour and released split 7"s with Screeching Weasel (in which both bands swapped lyrics) and Universal Order of Armageddon. Born Against's radical leftist stance became increasingly drenched in cynicism, which slowly threatened to overtake their message – the results of this evolution are evidenced in the nonsense song "Lillian" and other non-sequitur pieces from this time. Their final release was a split 8" record with Man is the Bastard, and the group played its final show in July 1993. After the group's demise, members would continue to collaborate in future bands. Men's Recovery Project, McPheeters and Burke's absurdist noise rock outfit, featured occasional guest appearances by Headley, Joy, and Nathanson. Young Pioneers, Nathanson's proto-folk punk band, also saw membership from Headley and Burke. Joy's group The Great Unraveling contained Headley in its final incarnation. Most recently, McPheeters and Headley reunited in the Wrangler Brutes, a hardcore band extant from 2003–2004. Two posthumous CDs containing the entire Born Against canon (aside from their demo tape) have since been released – Patriotic Battle Hymns (featuring Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children and Battle Hymns of the Race War) and The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure (featuring all other material). Initially released on the now-defunct Vermiform, these records have since been taken on by the Kill Rock Stars and Prank Records imprints. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.