Social Unrest

Social Unrest were an early hardcore band from the East Bay area (Hayward, CA. to be specific). Despite some lineup changes the band produced a solid body of work between 1981 and 1988 ( A full band history can be found here). For me the best work is that of the original lineup: 1981's Making Room For Youth 7" and 1982's Rat In A Maze 12". "Making Room For Youth" is a punk rock classic with it's burning guitar and anthemic vocals. "Rush Hour" is a notch below but still solid. Rat In A Maze takes a more hardcore approach by shaking up the tempos and chunking up the guitar. The band would subsequently change vocalists and go on to release 3 albums of increasingly melodic material from 1985 to 1988. Sometime in the 90's New Red Archives reissued everything on two CD's.

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from Making Room For Youth
Social Unrest - Making Room For Youth.mp3
Social Unrest - Rush Hour.mp3

from Rat In A Maze
Social Unrest - Red, White, and Blue.mp3
Social Unrest - Thinking of Suicide.mp3
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