Rites of Spring is the first and only studio album released by influential DC post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. in the mid-1980s, known for their energetic live performances. A part of the D.C. hardcore punk scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with...

. The twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February, 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye and released on vinyl in June, 1985 as Dischord Records #16. released in 1985.

The album was re-released on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, "Other Way Around", as well as the four songs from the Rites' follow-up EP, All Through a Life

All Through a Life

All Through a Life is an EP by Rites of Spring, released in 1987 . It is regarded as the release that bridged the early DC sound of Minor Threat and Scream and the later DC sound of Embrace and One Last Wish.-Track listing:...

(track 14-17), recorded January, 1986 and released in 1987 (Dischord #22). End on End

End on End

End on End is a compilation album by the American post-hardcore band Rites of Spring, released in 1991. It compiles the band's first album Rites of Spring and their EP All Through a Life, along with an extra studio track....

features the same cover as the debut album.

The CD and cassette originally retained the number "16", while the 1991 repress, as well as the 2001 remastered version of the same seventeen songs, were numbered "16CD" and given the new title "End On End".

The album was listed at #30 on Kurt Cobain's top 50 favorite albums. Pitchfork named this album #96 on their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.

Track listing

(All songs by Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. in the mid-1980s, known for their energetic live performances. A part of the D.C. hardcore punk scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with...

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Side one

1. "Spring" - 2:09
2. "Deeper than Inside" - 2:17
3. "For Want Of" - 3:09
4. "Hain's Point" - 2:08
5. "All There Is" - 2:54
6. "Drink Deep" - 4:54

Side two

1. "Theme" - 2:19
2. "By Design" - 2:38
3. "Remainder" - 2:30
4. "Persistent Vision" - 2:21
5. "Nudes" - 2:48
6. "End on End" - 7:23

Recording details

• Guy Picciotto
  Guy Picciotto
  Guy Picciotto is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.He is most widely known for his role as the guitarist and vocalist of Fugazi, as well as Rites of Spring.-Rites of Spring & Early Projects:...
  
   - vocals
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  , Guitar
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• Eddie Janney - Guitar
  Guitar
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• Mike Fellows
  Mike Fellows
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   - Bass
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• Brendan Canty
  Brendan Canty
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   - drums
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• Ian MacKaye
  Ian MacKaye
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   - Producer
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• Michael Hampton
  Michael Hampton (punk musician)
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   - Producer
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External links

• http://www.southern.net/southern/catalog/RITES
• http://dischord.com/band/ritesofspring