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Crack Rock Steady​/​Squatta's Paradise

by Choking Victim

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verucagash This album means so much to me. The track Suicide really spoke to me when I had decided to do just that. My husband Kelvin had just died and I wanted to "be with him," just wanted the pain to stop.
Today I am glad that the heroin overdoses didn't get me, despite my half-hearted efforts. Kelvin and FAR too many other beautiful souls unfortunately were not so lucky, and that is simply not fair. Favorite track: Suicide (A Better Way).
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emericanzr0 These dudes helped guide my musical punk journey. Favorite track: Suicide (A Better Way).
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Brackishpage339 Long live the crack rock steady beat Favorite track: Suicide (A Better Way).
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NatFrat What can be said about Chocking Victim that hasn't been said a thousand times before? Honestly, not much. Born to Die, Suicide (A Better Way), who knew nihilism could be so catchy? Favorite track: Born To Die.
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Death Song 02:33
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Born To Die 03:27
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The uber-hip environ that is today's Lower East Side couldn't be further from the stomping grounds of legendary squattingvagrant punkers, Choking Victim, whose personnel included future members of ska/punk legends No Commercial Value, and the infamous Leftover Crack. The band was formed and rehearsed in what was known as C-Squat, in the now fashionable Alphabet City neighborhood. This explosive and abrasive group expressed transient and drug addled lifestyles through its surprisingly satirical take on the Rocksteady style, which they dubbed "Crackrock Steady". Breaking up only a day after recording their full length, this band spawned many viable offshoots, and inspired countless others. The album that was salvaged from the wreckage of their sole recording endeavor is a testament to the raw talent of its members. Choking Victim was a band that endorsed vulgarity, drug use, spouted ironic Satanism and ranted on all it deemed society's ills: specifically against police oppression and America's grotesquely commercial and ruined values. And while drunkenness often got in the way of clarity, the Squatta's Paradise/Crack Rock Steady Split is a historical document of modern punk's raucous past. Not only does Choking Victim's lyrical content remain provocative even today for political punk fans, but fans of poppunk mainstays like Operation Ivy and Rancid find Choking Victim's guitar work to be surprisingly hook-infused. With rare exception, this is the stuff that leaves even the most jaded of expunkers wanting to pogo around their cubicle, reminiscing for the days of beer-soaked house parties, making out with "a smelly girl with the Chelsea haircut," and getting beat up for it when you were done. Since being persuaded to "compromise" by adding a barcode to a sticker on this release in 2004, it has sold thousands of copies. With the added promise of drummer Skwert's new project American Distress (whose new CD on Tent City spent a month as interpunk.com's top-selling title) touring consistently, there's no sign of sales of this seminal punk classic slowing any time soon.

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released January 1, 1996

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Choking Victim is an American punk band formed in New York City, which lasted from 1992 to 1998. They played a mix of hardcore punk and ska.

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