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Lead Performance: Bad Brains; Genre: Punk

By Tom Sinclair

Tom Sinclair

Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)

BAD BRAINS Black Dots (Caroline) This never-before-released 1979 recording captures the seminal Washington, D.C., hardcore band as they began to cohere into something special. With early versions of the mosh-pit anthems ''Pay to Cum'' and ''Banned in D.C.'' (and a great Sex Pistols rip, ''Redbone in the City''), Black Dots could serve as a primer for neophyte punks. Come to think of it, the current incarnation of the band -- whose recent work has been spotty -- might do well to study this. A

Posted Oct 25, 1996

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