Post pics of the best/worst Battle Jackets and ILM will mark them out of 10

the rev said he would wear
http://i.imgur.com/eQHM9bq.jpg

and by "cool" I probably mean "would be a fun project" because no bald, doughy dude is gonna make that cool

I dont think anyone who wears battle jackets worries about being cool. It's not very metal.

i'm kind of psyched on this idea thank you AG

http://i.imgur.com/Ly9v7bi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sn1LPc0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YcUDvlA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2svmVQi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hGmCdwQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RxNIrih.png

http://i.imgur.com/PwDaXxb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OUpkzBt.jpg

http://aux-www.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Brown-jacket.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrnvvK1EI1qmgnmfo2_400.jpg

ahead of the game:

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/missy-elliot-motorhead.jpg

check out the presumptuous garbage rant that leads the article that photo is from

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/%E2%80%9Cfinely-aged-dishrags%E2%80%9D/

i expect kids to be stupid, it's always disheartening when you see adults doing it and presumably getting paid for it

Musicfans can be very territorial

http://i.imgur.com/GThGYyg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GoVy5Ur.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/H2ZSxeP.jpg

the back of this one I posted earlier
http://i.imgur.com/Bpxx5ay.jpg

http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/Heavy-RnB-Battle-Jacket

http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/Heavy-RnB-Prototype

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2011/09/artist-james-jirat-patradoon-explains-his-rappunk-denim-vest-project

i dunno if the goons would read this thread so perhaps whiney might want to post those pics/links elsewhere

Musicfans can be very territorial

yeah i don't think this is v. justifiable for adults

SPOT THE ODD PATCH OUT

I wouldn't have said Foo Fighters (though they do suck); what caught my eye was the Mago de Oz patch. They're a weirdo folk-metal band from who've been around for about 25 years.

tbf i never heard of them

btw from that rnb jacket guys tumblr

t's an exploration of the music industry's relationship with fashion and branding, I intend to raise questions about the power of a brand, what a musician or a band means beyond the context of just their music, what they represent culturally or emotionally to people. When one becomes aware of this power, and re-arranges and recontextualises these symbols, it can open up new meanings and questions.

Music also has the ability to mark personal growth or change, life stages, tastes, subcultures etc. I grew up during the late nineties and early noughites when it was pretty common to just be labeled one thing, punk, goth, homie, etc. depending one what you listened to. Why limit yourself to being so one dimensional?

I also have a vested interest in exposing the hypocrisy of punk, it seems the movement (if you could call it that) was so much about 'Fuck everything, do what you want EXCEPT listen to hip hop EXCEPT go to university EXCEPT get a nine to five job EXCEPT eat meat.' I began to see it as a mini fascist regime, and the negative reactions from music fans on both sides about this project just go to prove this. That was exactly my intention."

Foo Fighters wouldn't be the odd ones out with Audioslave and RHCP on that jacket as well, to me.

well I never noticed audioslave but my thinking was more along the lines of rhcp were around in the 80s and metal fans liked them whereas FF were more a younger alt crowds band. but i suppose audioslave ruins that

i thought the odd one out was bon soddin' jovi.

I also have a vested interest in exposing the hypocrisy of punk, it seems the movement (if you could call it that) was so much about 'Fuck everything, do what you want EXCEPT listen to hip hop EXCEPT go to university EXCEPT get a nine to five job EXCEPT eat meat.' I began to see it as a mini fascist regime, and the negative reactions from music fans on both sides about this project just go to prove this. That was exactly my intention."

Interesting (but not surprising?) that the rap/rnb crowd criticised it too.
I knew a ton of people in the 90s who loved metal and rap. Did nu-metal kill all the goodwill on both sides?

US ilxors like sean and rocky were as much into rap as metal.

Ahh the guy who did the rnb jacket/vest is from Australia

When did punk -> straight-edge happen? Going off the 'except eat meat' thing from that guy. I guess Crass were vegan/vegetarian, but was it a UK thing or transported from US hardcore?

Minor Threat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OSnAPxyMzo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

Did that start the trend for abstinence or reflect/name an already-existing trend, though?

xp ah, right you are

Did you guys have those coke mirrors with metal album covers in the UK?

emil.y does brighton have a sXe scene still?

When I say "still" I dunno if there was a big sXe scene there but it seems the kind of place that would

I guess I consider 'hardcore' as a different genre to 'punk' so it seemed weird him talking about vegetarianism in the hypocrisy of punk. But maybe that's just the narcissism of small differences.

xxxp

AG - I wouldn't know about that sort of thing, hahahaha. There are punks of several stripes, though.

Late 80s everyone liked metal & rap

don't think I'd quite go that far, in the UK anyway. thrash metal fans did seem to be open to it thanks to Anthrax/Public Enemy/Beastie Boys/Slayer.

Battle of returning fashions

http://i.imgur.com/BBCWT72.jpg
versus
http://i.imgur.com/IsUpuMu.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2313/2476484672_bf4f6ebbe5_o.jpg

http://img1.etsystatic.com/005/1/5321094/il_570xN.401121727_pop2.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me211bV55R1rs4h5do1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/670b1cae3b9e1d160c5d163b3d456ec4/tumblr_micezdpKp51rdfjako1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c2fe5c42fe2aabf0ed58fd01886b9303/tumblr_mhvrnipC871rlfnn0o1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8c15ade697ab8d7855e1637b96a6e104/tumblr_mrszl6u30A1se40fpo1_500.jpg