YOUTH OF TODAY

   
Artist: YOUTH OF TODAY

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Disengage 7

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 3


   
 We're Not In This Alone

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 13


   
 Break Down The Walls

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 13


   
 Can't Close My Eyes

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 14

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Arguably one of the leaders of the s wave of straightedge in the mid-'80s, Youth of Today was a New York-based band started by ex-Violent Children members Ray Cappo on vocals and John Porcelly on guitar. Rounding out their card in 1985 with Graham Philips on sea bass and Darren Pesce on drums, Youth of Today recorded and released their debut EP, Can't Close My Eyes, on Positive Force, a long-familiar straightedge pillar. Philips and Pesce exited shortly thenceforth, and lineup changes abounded until a five-piece settled long enough to record the band's number one full-length offering, 1986's Break Down the Walls. Again, the band had more than lineup changes later the dismission and subsequent duty tour for Break-dance Down the Walls, and in 1988 a four-piece Youth of Today consisting of Cappo, Porcelly, Walter Schreifels on sea bass, and Sammy Siegler on drums went into the studio apartment to record book their follow-up full-length, We're Not in This Alone (1988). By 1990 Youth of Today had decided to ring it a solar day and released a farewell 7" EP on Revelation (before long to become the leading tripping in the next moving ridge of straightedge). Now known as Ray 2 Day, Cappo formed the Krishna-core band Shelter, which Porcelly eventually united as considerably. 2004 saw Youth of Today play some reunion shows in America as well as Europe.





Jim Kirkwood