Video “The Glorious Pile-On”
posted by on November 9 at 10:28 AM
Somehow, the subject of hardcore dancing came up in conversation yesterday, perhaps because I was talking to our resident straight-edge/hardcore art director, Aaron Edge. I mentioned “Pickin’ Up Change,” and he was impressed. I mentioned this video for Sick of It All’s “Step Down,” and he was stumped.
My hardcore friends in high school hated the band, called them “Stuck Up Is All.” I never understood the politics—my friends were DRI fans (aha! that’s how Edge and I started talking about hardcore: there’s a piece of art in next week’s ish that resembles the DRI logo) who for reasons I don’t remember had a beef with the Sick of It All fans from another school. What I do remember is this video from a few years later, which spelled out a lot of the hardcore dance moves of the early ’90s.
They made fun of emo kids even back in ‘94!
Sick of It All missed “Grabbin’ the Golf Tee,” a goofy variation on “Pickin’ Up Change” that came from the Lookout! Records scene.
Hardcore: Still funny after all these years.
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Gorilla Biscuits.
That is all.
Say what you will about Sick of It All, but at least they never turned into a shitty metal band like DRI did.
— Oh, how I love my Sick Of It All tattoo from 1990 and you, JZ.
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YES!
I saw that Sick Of It All video on Beavis & Butthead when I was a young teen, and I remember B&B doing their own titled dance moves. It was pretty hilarious.
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