The Middle Class

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Middle Class were an American punk band established in 1976 in Santa Ana, California. The band consisted of Jeff Atta on vocals, Mike Atta on lead guitar, Mike Patton on bass, and Bruce Atta on drums. The band achieved only local success, but has achieved slightly more success in recent years, enough to be included in the hardcore punk documentary American Hardcore in 2006. The band's most popular release was the Out of Vogue EP, released in 1978, particularly known for the titular song "Out of Vogue". It is still unclear whether Black Flag (who were known as Panic at the time) were the first band to play hardcore punk or whether Middle Class were, or whether either band originally began with playing hardcore. After a show, the band was approached by a young spectator, who claimed to also have a "fast punk rock" band (since the term "hardcore" was not popularized until 1981 by D.O.A.), as mentioned in American Hardcore. The young fan turned out to be Keith Morris of Black Flag, giving further question to which band was first to play hardcore. Their sound evolved from being a blistering, shouted, arty version of punk which would be extremely influential to the "modern hardcore" sound that would emerge in Minor Threat's records following their first release, the 1978 Out of Vogue 7". This record featured the title track along with three other songs. After this they released the Scavenged Luxury 7" in 1980 which retained the assault of the first record while introducing the in

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