The Big Apple Rotten to the Core

The Big Apple Rotten to the Core
Compilation album by various artists
Released 1982
Genre Hardcore punk
Label S.I.N. Records
Producer Bob Sallese

The Big Apple Rotten to the Core is a hardcore punk compilation album that was released in 1982. It was the second release by S.I.N. Records, and distributed internationally. Produced by Bob Sallese. It was one of the first hardcore punk compilations from New York City (along with New York Thrash from the same year), and included six bands who regularly performed at A7, a Lower East Side after-hours dive bar that gave the new hardcore bands a forum.

The compilation's cover photos and PR were provided by Scott Eisner, one of the first writers to use the expression "hardcore punk" (in a review of The Mob).[1] (Eisner later jumped off the Throgs Neck Bridge, which links Queens to The Bronx.)

The popularity of the album prompted WLIR to start a weekly broadcast called Midnight Riot, which featured the other bands on the album as well as many other local hardcore bands. It also prompted the station to put other hardcore songs into regular rotation, such as Black Flag's "TV Party."

The bands

Aftermath

The album was the first New York City hardcore punk compilation made available to college and alternative radio stations nationwide. It quickly gained notoriety, but despite its success, the album seemed to be jinxed. Demand for the record's second pressing could not be met because the pressing plant would not release the masters and was bootlegging them in other parts of the country. The owner of the plant was eventually busted by the FBI for bootlegging Beatles albums.

A follow-up album, The Big Apple Rotten to the Core, Vol. 2, was released five years later by the Raw Power label, and included the returning Ism, Butch Lust, The Mob and The Headlickers alongside newer bands such as Ed Gein's Car, Bunker's Boys, Slime Puppies and The Six and Violence. Omer Travers (infamous for breaking into Yoko Ono's apartment and leaving love notes) appeared on this album with a song produced by Jism and Sallese. Travers and Jism were later invited onto The Howard Stern Show to promote the album.

References

  1. Newsbeat, September 21, 1981.
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