A lot of my favourite music is not on albums.
Stand - True Romance CD mini-album - Probably my favourite metalcore record of all time. Intelligent, inventive and it has those great bits where he just speaks in a Grimsby accent.
Knifed/Limp Wrist - split 7" - Utterly raging queercore from the US and Eire. A superb team-up, and I love the skit on the Limp Wrist side.
Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon/xCanaanx - split 7" - Yeah, the xCanaanx side's a bit shit. But these are easily the best TSUA songs, that chuggy mosh part in Drone crushes skulls. Immense.
Discharge - Realities of War 7" - Best d-beat record ever. It's just so dirty and full of rage.
Caustic Soda - Femalevolence 7" - It's a bit like if Jawbreaker were a bunch of kids from Australia who made pop-punk.
Slint - s/t 10" - Not their greatest material admittedly, but it's leagues ahead of Tweez and a good addition to their discography.
Melt-Banana - 666" - I kind of love these weird formats, even if they are an arse for some people's record players. Talking of which...
Orthrelm/Trencher - 5" - Ridiculous nonsense that makes Hella sound pop versus casio abusing Londoners. Awesome.
Honey Honey - s/t 7" - This is the only record I ever heard of this band making. German I think? Brilliant hardcore/post-hardcore.
D.S.-13 - Thrash And Burn 7" - I wish I had the 6" version of this. Very hard to pick a favourite D.S.-13 EP, this one is very consistently raging though.
V/A - For Want Of... 7" - It has Torches To Rome, Christie Front Drive, Baby Harp Seal and In/Humanity on it. 'Nuff said.
The Male Nurse - My Own Private Patrick Swayze 7" - I forget what this is b/w, it's not brilliant. But the first side is amazing, a Scottish voice lazily tells us about how he uses the one foot high Patrick Swayze that lives under his bed over clanking music.
John Henry West - s/t 7" - A classic bit of Gravity styled hardcore that verges on emo.