Rites of Spring

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There also exists a ballet named The Rite of Spring.

Rites of Spring was an emo band from Washington, D.C., often cited as pioneering the emotionally charged hardcore punk (Emo) movement.

1 Band
2 Album
3 Track listing
4 Recording details

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Band

Although they were only together from the spring of 1984 through the winter of 1986, they are often credited with helping to define the Emo genre along with the bands Dag Nasty and Embrace.

Following the band's dissolution, singer and guitarist Guy Picciotto, guitarist Eddie Janney, and drummer Brendan Canty formed One Last Wish with Embrace alumnus, bassist Michael Hampton. The three later joined former Rites bassist Michael Fellows for a quasi-reincarnation of Rites of Spring named Happy Go Licky, releasing an LP/CD of various live concert recordings though never producing any studio work. Picciotto and Canty eventually teamed up with the former Embrace singer Ian MacKaye (owner of the band’s label, Dischord Records) in Fugazi.

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Album

Rites of Spring was the band’s self-titled debut album from 1985. Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February of 1985, and released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records #16. The album was rereleased 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, Dischord #22. 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.

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Track listing

"Spring" - 2:32
"Deeper than Inside" - 2:16
"For Want Of" - 2:58
"Hain's Point" - 1:53
"All There Is" - 2:00
"Drink Deep" - 2:23
"Other Way Around"* - 3:11
"Theme (If I Started Crying)" - 2:11
"By Design" - 2:11
"Remainder" - 2:31
"Persistent Vision" - 2:37
"Nudes" - 2:32
"End on End" - 2:36
"All Through A Life"** - 2:27
"Hidden Wheel"** - 2:31
"In Silence/Words Away"** - 3:00
"Patience"** - 1:58

* Not included on the original release.

** Originally released as the out-of-press All Through a Life EP, Dischord #22, recorded in January 1986, released in May 1987 with the same lineup.

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