Punk Fuckin Rock



This a very underrated hardcore punk band from the 80's/late 90's. I ended up buying Spread Your Filth - The Bourbon Years, now I lack only the other album.

Song lyrics very a propos still to this day. It's almost creepy what these guys in the 80's saw that now is only talked about a bit if at all but the global consciousness is getting to know by itself.
 
But to me, countercultures that are perceived to be diametrically opposed to one another (punks and hippies, for instance) have a shitload more in common than either bunch would want to admit.
I have a strange tendency to be acccused of being a punk (among hippiess) and a hippie (by some punks).
It's silly, but funny.
I just like energy and good music. es, no tribalistic stereotypes. I just wanna dance to good music in good company....preferably in a snappy outfit, on good drugs :)

Sweet energy. Yep.
I always loved its ethics-in-your-face energy.=D Like Jehovah Witnesses; but no bullshit, common sense, angry and louder. ;)

Not considered punk but nevertheless...


Preachers that challenge ones headspace yet afford one the emotional space/freedom to agree/disagree and make their own mind up - thats punk imho.
 
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I like the Dead Boys too.
I really love the original recording of "ain't it fun", by Rocket From the Tombs.

I love Pere Ubu as well, another band that formed out of members from Rocket From the Tombs (like the Dead Boys)

I love Lydia Lunch.
This is probably considered No-Wave, or post-punk to some people.

But imho those are just different subgenres of punk rock.

[video=youtube_share;qHCEH1izAjE]http://youtu.be/qHCEH1izAjE[/video]
 
One of my first exposures to punk was a Pearl Jam cover of sonic reducer

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Adrenalin O.D. that song wakes my ass up when I can't get started to this day. 1984 NJ Hardcore Punk that doesn't take itself seriously. Instrumental track to their fucking amazing first LP. There's a song on this album that is VERY popular for some reason, it's really good yeah, but unlike this and other A.O.D songs which have 2k listens, "Rock 'n Roll Gas Station" has 84k, it must have been in some movie or video game.




It only works with the second track though, as most intro songs so...


I was born 12-15 years too late. I got all of that rare shit nobody's ever heard of in FLAC, I do buy cd's and vinyls but much less so since the CAD dropped to where it is now, quasi-parity/worth more/more or less equal to the USD helped, but then also USPS jacked up prices on shipping to Canada like if we were in Paraguay and the Euro rebounded when it was just 1,07 CAD a few months ago. I'd be screwing my credit margin up much more if I could so, it's annoying to have been born so that when I was a teenager, most people bought cassettes, vinyls were not in stores anymore except for the skater clothing/headshop place we had in town, and the music area of that store disappeared quickly, it was around for maybe 2 years I heard, they also sold cd's. Then...

fucking Cargo went into bankruptcy in the US in the late 90's, which was a small label distributor, it was hard to find anything, and the small stores were all like "we're angry too, all that sort of music was our biggest selling stuff (think of 1994's-1997's sudden acceptance of real punk bands on indie labels..I guess they wanted to replace Nirvana or something, the demand was there it seems) selling platinum records all of a sudden, they were all legit except for the always horrible and chick-punk shit that Green Day always was, I only tolerate the album they made after Dookie (which was a major label release, they had just gotten signed for some reason), I guess when Bad Religion, without selling out music-wise, went on Atlantic Records in 94...2 classic albums on that stretch, but Mr.Brett's absence was felt, he was shooting up all that delicious H he got from all the sales of The Offspring's - Smash which was on a then medium sized indie label, thankfully him and Wackerman from Suicidal Tendencies and others came back in 2002 and saved BR, Graffin was only able to write a whole album once, well, with the help of previously-Minor Threat, Dag Nasty etc. Brian Baker who replaced Brett, No Substance and The New America made me do the whole dishonest stopping of listening to BR totally because of their 2 albums out of 4 on a major label that made it sound like their current drummer couldn't be helped even with the best recording studio, no wonder he quit after the last one and then BR went back to Epitaph, Brett rejoined and Wackerman replaced Schayer. The 2002 album by BR is actually amazing and goes up there with Generator, Against The Grain etc. to me, The Process of Belief.

My dad gave me his perfect condition Technics turntable from 1987, all grey everywhere, but I only got 'bout 20 LP's....EP's and 7 inches are not too bad to import in, but they got to be really good ones for me to bother, like say, Cause For Alarm's self titled EP. I also got the last 3 Paint It Black EP's but they formed in the 2000's...one of the only band I give a shit about formed in the 2000's. Likely since it's fronted by Dan Yemin, who's a really fucking smart guy who goes back to the 80's (Lifetime if somebody knows 'em here, hopefully). He's got a big wikipedia entry, kind of a guy that's under the surface of the big known names of frontmans, and in whatever performance art, there's always these guys whom the big names look up to, Yemin is one of 'em. Like Dave Smalley...although Smalley later became a hard right idiot when his last band folded or was on hiatus..I think they're still around somehow. (Down By Law...meh...gimme D.Y.S or Dag Nasty where he was singing in the 80's).

I could talk more 'but the hydroxyzine has hit and I'm half-nodding now. But it wouldn't be needed, I don't think we should all just link to songs and not say a word, I understand the concept though so don't expect me to do this often heh.
 
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This is considered proto-punk, but Iggy is the Godfather of Punk whether he wants to be or not.

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I like the Dead Boys too.
I really love the original recording of "ain't it fun", by Rocket From the Tombs.

I love Pere Ubu as well, another band that formed out of members from Rocket From the Tombs (like the Dead Boys)

I love Lydia Lunch.
This is probably considered No-Wave, or post-punk to some people.

But imho those are just different subgenres of punk rock.

[video=youtube_share;qHCEH1izAjE]http://youtu.be/qHCEH1izAjE[/video]

Ah, here..labels (although boundaries are necessary) can be the worst means of oppression; in terms of quenching the spirit of the music. ;)

Never heard this. Will be keeping, in my folder, as it sounds beautifully cathartic,; saved for music to be enraged, sad and enlightened by.

Ok. L7. Punk in Spirit( they did justice to mainstream teenage kids that craved an outlet( hail to the bands that did)). Their tempo was usually rock and too slow to fall into the punk 'box', how and ever. -this is a personal favourite. Loved their humour.
 
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re; the dead boys - i'm surprised nobody posted this gem



if you don't already love the Saints, you should :)

 
.oh yes....I've been to many a show...
My favourite era of NOFX is definitely with Steve Kidwiller so...albums
'S & M Airlines'
'Ribbed' ...
Man he was laying down some thrash solos, really awsome, great riffs, New Boobs is awsome, don't get me wrong I love El Hefe, 'The Death of John Smith' of their Longest Line LP is one of the tightest punk tunes out there. I can't believe Smelly does what he does on a single kick pedal...just great....

...and being Canadian myself the song about Teegan and Sara is hilarious...
Great songs on that compilation disc there, of stuff that didn't make it to their albums...uh...uh...jeeze? It's got their cover of 'Vincent' on it...:45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records'..... Great tunes, 'Pimps and Hookers' with that wah wah....
Plus it has their cover of 'Last Caress' on there , love that tune, any version of it... I've seen NOFX live so many times, really fun shows...
The Misfits, any era, I love the two albums with Michale Graves on vocals...
'Saturday Night' off Famous Monsters, great old 50's early 60's progression , a love song talking about killing your significant other, pretty awsome.... And I don't need to say much about the Danzig era..... 'MOMMY? CAN I GO OUT KILLING TONIGHT!?!?' .... Just classic...

88 Fingers Louie. - Behind Bars , I've listened to on repeat so many times....and 'Back on the Street' bith great albums ...'Worst Man Won'... with the Joe Pesci in 'Casino' intro, pretty intense....

And I'm not sure if this should be here, but I've seen these guys live twice..
Babidiba...
IGGY AND THE STOOGES!!!!
bloody amazing, and I was graced to see them live the last time for free.... at NXNE Yonge Dundas Square......just unreal.....I think it was the Raw Power line up too, before the one Ashton died..
....the first time was at Massey Hall, people were jumping off the first balcony onto the stage to get up there with Iggy.....he came out and stage dived right off the stage into a seated venue, was great....

Anyways , there's lots more....I will add.. As time goes on...
 
has there ever been a better band than the Stooges?

(the obvious answer is no)

i've been lucky to see the line-up with Ron Asheton on guitar (approximately the line-up for the first self album and Fun House) , as well as the David Williamson line-up (the raw power line up), after Ron passed away.
fucking brilliant. Iggy is a machine.


i'm a really huge fan of this band, the Only Ones. not stereotypical 'punk', but a truly brilliant band from that era.
singer and songwriter peter perrett has one of the best voices in rock'n'roll (to my ear - it's an unorthodox voice) and writes brilliant songs. this is their best known single -


he's had a well-known struggle with addiction to heroin, coke and other drugs, which contributed to the band not being a commercial success - but he's just released a new solo record, and it's fucking incredible.

i posted this in EADD earlier, but what the hell - i'll post it here too :)

 
Iggy is amazing, even his solo stuff...
...
...that record he did where Williamson came back to him, and if I'm not wrong the first Iggy album since like....Funhouse to not have any Bowie involvement..... The record is ...
'New Values'.

Freaking amazing....

'I'm bored....I'm the chairman of the bored....'.

Classic, everything on there is great...
'Don't Look Down'. Awsome Iggy performance


I did see the Raw Power lineup at NXNE, free show, Yonge and Dundas Square, I don't think the mayor of Toronto knew who the STOOGES were because they let this free show happen and like 5000+ people showed up, it took me 30 min to get out of the pit and out of the crowd, just Punks as far as the eye can see, down every Street leading out of the square, it was amazing.... I was right up front...it was great, about three rows of people, then the pit, I was in the pit...Iggy's sweat got on me for bleedin sake....awsome
....I lost my shoe in the pit, and I thought 'ah fuck it, I'll never see it again, so I was slam dancing around with one shoe on, my foot got brutalised... But....but....
...hold on....., about 20 minutes later...I landed on something,.... I looked down, and it was my shoe....oh thank heavens , I thought, as it was my only pair of shoes, I got enough strength to get down there, pretty hard when you're surrounded by a mosh pit, with the pressure of 5000+ people on it, and grabbed it up, but there was to much pressure, to put it back on, so I just held it up in the air, and slam danced the rest of the concert.....it was awsome. There were friends of mine there who I didn't know were going, I didn't go with them, and when they talked to me about the show, they said they saw this guy right up front just holding a shoe in the air....ha....i said that was me....it was great.... And Iggy saw me, with the shoe, gave a good smile to me, and continued to rock it on stage, it was really awsome

Iggy man, Iggy, the cover of 'The Idiot' is just classic Iggy
 
About The Misfits....I was being facetious....All Hell Breaks Loose is an amazing song (made even better by Sick Of It All), but The Misfits and The Ramones these days have the highest amount of poseurs wearing their shirts. Walks Amongst Us is a great album. I can't take the Misfits without Danzig seriously though, especially since it's been about 15 years nobody from the original line-up is there and they overdress silly like if they were a black metal band in Norway.

Speaking of Sick of it All, that song makes me wanna rip out my home like Chuck in Better Call Saul :



That circle pit inducing riff when things pick up speed near the end, goddamn. All the new kids never ever came close when it comes to NYHC. SOIA also has a lot of oi/punk songs, I like how diverse they can be.

And about unorthodox voice...Jello Biafra will never be imitated, it did inspire Serj from System of a Down strangely enough. The crazy clown kind of voice, if another punk band came up with that they would be really hated, especially the singer. I mean, when The Offspring was legit (until 97 and then even until the drummer left, so the 2 following albums, take out the hits and it's just the same old Offspring with overproduction), you could recognize him right away, same like this dude you just introduced me to, unique indeed. There's guys like that who can't be thrown into "generic" vocals-wise, from Ray Cappo (Youth of Today) to Greg Graffin (especially in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th albums of theirs, where the harmonies made with him and the other writer Brett was a kind of voice of its own when sang as one) and so many others. One guy I love who's voice is like no other is Choke (Negative FX/Slapshot) singer/songwriter. When they covered C is For Cookie mocking his own voice I couldn't stop laughing, it's hidden at the end of Digital Warfare.
 
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