DOGHOUSE FIFTY Various Artists 1997

 

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Compilation on the hardcore/punk label Doghouse

 

Tracklist

1	The Get Up Kids–	Don't Hate Me	2:57
2	Hot Water Music–	Better Sense	3:13
3	Chamberlain (2)–	Everything Here	3:47
4	Tramlaw–	All Those Times	5:08
5	Joshua (10)–	Your World Is Over	5:19
6	Omaha (2)–	A Night Of Mystery	4:53
7	Metroschifter–	Alphabetical	4:55
8	Eleven Eleven (2)–	Watch Me	12:39
9	Threadbare–	In Effigy	3:35
10	Cable (5)–	Sick Little Ritual	4:23
11	Old Pike–	Surface	3:08
12	Falling Forward–	Great Union Divide	3:30
13	Colossus Of The Fall–	Brick By Brick	3:52
14	Endpoint–	Pencil Break	2:57
15	Transcend (4)–	Anacronism	3:21
16	Majority Of One–	Quarry	3:17

INITIAL RECORDS CATALOG SAMPLER DISC NUMBER ONE Various Artists 1998

 

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Killer comp of emo/hardcore bands on Initial Records

 

Tracklist

1	As Friends Rust–	Home Is Where The Heart Aches	2:28
2	Botch–	John Woo	3:15
3	Boy Sets Fire*–	The Fine Art Of Falling	2:58
4	Cave In–	Moral Eclipse	2:05
5	Chalkline–	Present Tense	4:40
6	Chamberlain (2)–	Go Down Believing	4:03
7	Coalesce–	A New Language	2:14
8	Corrin–	Seed Of Cain	2:40
9	Darkest Hour–	Reflections Of Ruin	3:50
10	Elliott–	Suitcase And Atoms	3:53
11	The Enkindels–	Florida Trash	3:30
12	Fastbreak–	Fast Cars Fast Women	2:03
13	Get High–	Darkness Divider	1:35
14	Give Until Gone–	Fors	3:38
15	Harvest (3)–	Epicure	3:02
16	In My Eyes–	The Way It Was Left	2:02
17	Indecision (2)–	Dream Come True	1:57
18	Ink And Dagger*–	The Fine Art Of Original Sin	4:04
19	Jazz June*–	When The Drums	5:25
20	Jejune–	This Afternoons Malady	4:20
21	Keepsake–	Infinity Road	2:37
22	Metroschifter–	The Name Of A Street	3:46
23	Stalag Seventeen*–	Margin = 1	2:45

ANTI-MATTER Various Artists 1996

by request

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Tracklist  

1	–Quicksand (3)	Shovel	3:08
2	–Gameface	Everything I Do Is Wrong	2:26
3	–Outspoken	Spark	3:47
4	–Supertouch	Better	4:33
5	–Farside	Moral Straightjacket	5:53
6	–108 (3)	Arctic	2:31
7	–Snapcase	Vent	3:30
8	–Threadbare	Weatherman	2:44
9	–Civ	Don't Gotta Prove It (Live)	3:19
10	–Garden Variety	New Guitar Parts	5:17
11	–Undertow (2)	Kill	2:52
12	–Strife	Circuit	1:43
13	–Chamberlain (2)	Magnetic 62nd	3:47
14	–Sense Field	Shady Day	2:24
15	–Lifetime (2)	Theme Song For A New Brunswick Basement Show	2:11
16	–Mouthpiece	To The Side	1:18

SPLIT LIP For The Love of the Wounded 1993

 

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Artist Biography by Ryan Downey

Split Lip was probably the most important emotionally tinged hardcore band to emerge from the Midwest. Alongside Endpoint, Split Lip helped prove to an international audience that a band could effectively combine the chunky thrash of the coastal straight-edge hardcore scenes with the warm emotional depth of certain, more popular music, emotive drive, and political slant of D.C. bands like Embrace. Split Lip's songs were mosh-pit inducing, yet often elicited tears and scream-along empathy from audiences. The band formed in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, IN, in 1990, with vocalist Steve Dujinske, guitarist Clayton Snyder, bassist Curtis Mead, and drummer Charlie Walker. They recorded a poorly circulated demo, but didn't really get moving until vocalist David Moore and lead guitarist Adam Rubenstein came aboard. Still in their teens, this lineup crafted heartfelt, chunky hardcore songs addressing political and personal issues, making a demo tape and then signing to Toledo, OH-based label Doghouse Records. They released their Soul Kill 7" single in 1992 -- complete with an essay that was heavily critical of Christopher Columbus, in commemoration of the 500-year anniversary of the "discovery" of the "new world." In 1994, the band debuted their first full-length album, For the Love of the Wounded, which blended the guitar dexterity of Metallica with the passionate, affected vocal approach of David Moore and his increasingly more poetic lyrics, which set them apart from the pack. It is perhaps the definitive record of the emocore genre. The band grew in popularity, becoming a headlining act at Ohio's More Than Music Festival and touring with the likes of Samuel, Shift, and Colossus of the Fall. Split Lip released their second album, Fate's Got a Driver, in 1995, just before deciding to change their name to Chamberlain. The album signaled the gradual change of the band into a more roots rock-inflected, radio-oriented outfit. Split Lip's second album was remixed (with the vocals re-recorded) and re-released under the new moniker. The final Split Lip release was called Archived Music for Stubborn People: Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before and was delivered to fans in 1996. It is a collection of rare and hard to find tracks, including a compilation appearance, the out-of-print 7" single, three live songs, and three covers. The cover versions are of songs originally recorded by Midnight Oil (featuring Ashes vocalist Elanie Ritchie as a guest), Operation Ivy (complete with longtime roadie Matt Reece handling a verse) and Three. Former guitarist Adam Rubenstein's post-Chamberlain work includes material released under the name Adam Dove alongside members of Old Pike. Drummer Charlie Walker went on to make music with Sergio Vega, the Americans, and New End Original.

Tracklist

1	Anthem Boy
2	Sleep
3	Crestfallen (Intro)
4	Crestfallen
5	For The Love Of A Wounded Woman
6	Vintage
7	Upright Motive Nine
8	Show And Tell
9	Division Street
10	Untitled

CHAMBERLAIN / OLD PIKE Chamberlain / Old Pike EP

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Tracklist

Chamberlain	Magnetic 62nd	3:51
Chamberlain	The South Has Spoiled Me	2:28
Old Pike	Surface	3:10
Old Pike	The News	4:21
Old Pike	Everyone Is Leaving	2:33

CHAMBERLAIN Fate's Got a Driver 1996

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Artist Biography by Jonathan Cohen

The roots of Chamberlain are planted in the Indianapolis band Split Lip, a juggernaut of the Midwestern hardcore scene between 1991 and 1995. Signed to Doghouse Records when its members were scarcely able to drive, Split Lip (singer David Moore, guitarists Adam Rubenstein and Clay Snyder, bassist Curtis Mead and drummer Charles Walker) released the now impossible-to-find "Soulkill" single in 1992, followed by its debut album For the Love of the Wounded in 1993. The band gained a sizeable following via constant touring, and through Doghouse's strong European distribution ties, established an overseas fan base that would allow for a successful 1996 European visit. When Rubenstein began college at Indiana University in 1995, his bandmates moved south from Indianapolis to Bloomington and continued working on new material. Fate's Got a Driver was released in 1995 and supported with a lengthy U.S. tour, but the band opted to change its name to Chamberlain as its music began to mature beyond the hardcore leanings of its younger days. The band marked its new moniker on a split EP with Bloomington band Old Pike in the fall of 1996. A short-lived distribution deal with English label For All the Right Reasons followed, yielding the import-only Five Year Diary and Her Side of Sundown EPs but little else. Snyder and Mead left the band just after the release of The Moon My Saddle in the fall of 1998 and were replaced by guitarist Stoll Vaughn and bassist Seth Greathouse. Vaughn, the nephew of John Mellencamp guitarist Mike Wanchic, left the band in March of 1999. 

Tracklist

1	Her Side Of Sundown
2	Street Singer
3	Yellow Like Gold
4	Five Year Dairy
5	Uniontown
6	Surrendering The Ghost
7	Drums And Shotguns
8	The Simple Life