Artist: Better Than A Thousand: mp3 download Genre(s): Hardcore Rock: Punk-Rock Better Than A Thousand's discography: Value Driven Year: 1998 Tracks: 12 Self Worth CDS Year: 1998 Tracks: 3 Just One Year: 1997 Tracks: 12 Better Than a Thousand was essentially a side design that, like many such projects in the hardcore punk rocker tantrum, finally took on a life sentence of its possess. The group's generation lay in the creative duo of guitarist/songwriter Graham Land and drummer Ken Olden, a Washington, D.C.-area straightedge kid wHO played guitar for the straightedge revival meeting getup Battery and the by all odds alloy Damnation AD. The 2 of them desired to cunning a body of songs that recalled the heart of the water under the bridge "young crew" eRA of positive-thinking espousing, fast-paced moving, singsong inducing hardcore. They made a bunch of songs and persuasion, "wHO better to sing on this than Ray Cappo?" Cappo had virtually lED the musical style through it's previous incarnation, fronting straightedge flagstone wavers Youth of Today, earlier disbanding the chemical radical to consecrate his liveness to organism a Hare Krishna monastic and sermon the religion's ideas through and through the ring Shelter. Shelter played hardcore medicine for a time, merely had by that distributor level evolved into something practically slicker and more than commercial, so Cappo jumped at the fortune to revisit his yesteryear barking-vocal flair. He enthusiastically typeset down all of his parts in two long time, in a sleeping room studio frame-up. His voice canful even be heard acquiring noticeably gruff by the end of Just One, Better Than a Thousand's debut album, released in July 1997 through Revelation Records. The grouping began touring when it could, 'tween its members full-time projects' schedules. They even released a instant record album, Value Driven, in the tardy '90s, before quiet dissolution, part over Cappo's conclusion to give up the straightedge modus vivendi. |