Cro-Mags have put out a new version of "It's The Limit" with Meg Mills of Turnstile on it, and with it the shape of the whole project: The Age Of Quarrel: 40 Years Of Quarrel, the re-recorded fortieth anniversary edition of the record, out on 13 November.
Those sessions had already produced a second recording of "Everybody's Gonna Die", and Mills is one of several guests on them. Re-recording an album that half of New York hardcore learned to play from is a risk with no upside for the original, so the guests are doing the real work here: the point is who shows up, not whether the new take improves on 1986.
Mills put it the way most of them would. "This is the greatest honor that could ever have been bestowed upon this NYHC fan," she said. "Wouldn't have ever started a band without this record... I can't explain how much this record means."
That is the argument for doing it at all. A band of Turnstile's size exists because a record like The Age Of Quarrel existed first, and forty years on the anniversary edition is the only form in which that debt gets paid out loud.