The Big Apple Rotten to the Core
The Big Apple Rotten to the Core is a hardcore punk compilation album that was released in 1982. It was the second release by S.I.N. Records, and distributed internationally. Produced by Bob Sallese. It was one of the first hardcore punk compilations from New York City (along with New York Thrash from the same year), and included six bands who regularly performed at A7, a Lower East Side after-hours dive bar that gave the new hardcore bands a forum. The compilation's cover photos and PR were provided by Scott Eisner, one of the first writers to use the expression "hardcore punk" (in a review of The Mob). (Eisner later jumped off the Throgs Neck Bridge, which links Queens to The Bronx.) The popularity of the album prompted WLIR to start a weekly broadcast called Midnight Riot, which featured the other bands on the album as well as many other local hardcore bands. It also prompted the station to put other hardcore songs into regular rotation, such as Black Flag's "TV Party." The bands Ism were from Queens. Their songs "John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Foster Done to You?)" and "Moon The Moonies," both of which were featured on the