Suicidal Tendencies: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Suicidal Tendencies are a punk rock band, formed in 1982 in Venice, California.

Sometimes regarded as the progenitors of skate punk, they later incorporated significant heavy metal music thrash elements.

The underground buzz regarding Suicidal Tendencies grew too loud for labels to ignore though, as the quartet signed on with the indie label Frontier Records - issuing Mike Muir & co's classic self-titled debut in 1983. The album quickly became the best-selling hardcore album up to that point, as its best known track, "Institutionalized," was one of the first hardcore punk videos to receive substantial airplay on MTV, and was eventually used in the Emilio Estevez cult classic movie Repo Man, as well as in an episode for the hit TV show Miami Vice (for which the group made a cameo appearance).

See Also: Infectious Grooves

Discography

• Suicidal Tendencies (1983)
• Join The Army (1987)
• How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? (1988)
• Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu (1989)
• Lights...Camera...Revolution! (1990)
• F.N.G. (1983-1989) (1992)
• Art Of Rebellion (1992)
• Still Cyco After All These Years (1983-1988) (1993)
• Suicidal For Life (1994)
• Prime Cuts (1983-1995) (1997)
• Friends & Family, Vol. 1 (1997)
• Six The Hard Way (1998)
• Freedumb (1999)
• Free Your Soul And Save My Mind (2000)
• Friends & Family, Vol. 2 (2001)