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Figuring out what hardcore is, how to differentiate it from punk and deciding when it all came about is a never ending mess. American Hardcore – the book and the movie didn’t do too much to help either. Between the fact that Social Distortion is referred to as hardcore and that the Necros become a Michigan band over the course of the narrative is enough to make readers wanna rip up the whole thing and start over again. And while the Middle Class are aptly referenced in Steven Blush’s book, it doesn’t seem to have impacted the larger punk culture (weird to think in those terms, huh?).