Middle Class were an American punk rock band established in 1977 from Orange County, California.
[2][3] Michael Azerrad states that "by 1979 the original punk scene [in Southern California] had almost completely died out."
"They were replaced by a bunch of toughs coming in from outlying suburbs who were only beginning to discover punk's speed, power and aggression";"dispensing with all pretension, these kids boiled the music down to its essence, then revved up the tempos...and called the result "hardcore", creating a music that was "younger, faster and angrier, [and] full of...pent-up rage..."[4] The band's Out of Vogue record is widely regarded as the first hardcore punk record,[5][6] a view supported by author Steven Blush in his book American Hardcore: A Tribal History.
[8][9] The band pioneered a shouted, fast version of punk rock which would shape the hardcore sound that would soon emerge.
Their only LP, Homeland, is completely different, a skittering and complicated wonder that compares to the records of the Pop Group and Wipers.