Hated Youth: Florida's Hardcore Scene Clocks In
After punk showed up and spit everyone out into a drug induced haze, the hardcore crews took over. There were obviously that top tier clutch of bands functioning during the first days of the eighties, but pretty soon a huge number of teenaged kids took up the cause. And while, for the most part, those better known bands hailed from densely populated, urban areas a number of smaller scenes began springing up in locations that hadn’t previously been associated with punkers.
Florida, even today, really isn’t the greatest place unless you’re a retired doctor, white trash or a vacationing, fake tanned business trollop. That being said, the relative isolation that such places in the panhandle afforded during the hardcore days offered up a setting for bands to make a run at developing unique styles. That’s not what wound up happening, but it could have. You know.
Either way, Hated Youth haven’t become the most revered performers from early eighties hardcore stuff. But the scant recordings associated with the band do add a bit of tossed off flair to a movement which quickly got over-run with tough guys – even the HY guys, figured that much.
