who's into punk?
 

here are some of my all-time favorites:

Nice list, some of my fave punk bands are: Bad religion, pennywise, anti-flag, lagwagon, the exploited, propagandi, and many more.

I'm picky with my punk. Some of it I really like, the rest I really hate. That's all I have to say about that.

im more into early 70s punk. very few bands after that were any good...

The Damned.

Cool shit. I was always into the more modern punk, like NOFX for instance. But the old stuff is great too, especially the Misfits

Early 70's punk? How early you talking? Ramones debuted around 1974. The UK punk scene was in it's earliest stages in '75, but once the Ramones played London in '76 and were seen by people like Johnny Lydon and Joe Strummer it really took of.

Bands that play on my iPod almost daily are the Ramones, Pistols, Misfits and DK. My 5 year old loves the Ramones.

Personally for me it started with the "Motor City Madness" bands like Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, etc who were playing around 1969. I was 13 or 14 when Iggy's "Raw Power" came out in 1973, and you can't tell me that isn't a punk album, although it wasn't called that at the time.

By the time it became popular and out of the underground, I would say there was a big grey area between Punk and New Wave, but most of the bands I remember from that era are somewhere on a line that runs from one to the other.

Malcom Mclaren (manager and to be honest, creator of the Sex Pistols) had seen the New York Dolls in 1972 ... by that time the CBGB thing was already well underway ... the owner of the bar was too cheap to pay for acts, so you got acts that could be anything from poetry readings to total mayhem.

Eventually the poets are up there singing, and total mayhem is playing backup.

In the meantime, I get my first job in the music business in 1977 at a snotty-nosed 19 years old. I still occasionally get a call to do sound, lighting, or stage if somebody is too busy or gets sick, even though I'm 25 years out of the music business. Last job I did was for Lamb of God. I worked the show when the Dead Kennedy's played here about 86 or so, and a couple of years ago when Pennywise and The Circle Jerks played at a club here.

The Ramones met the Sex Pistols and the Clash (who were both already playing) when they went to the UK in 76. The Ramones ended up at some punk club the night after they played their concert, and they were all there.

The Advert's "Gary Gilmour's Eyes" was the first punk song to break the UK top 20, in 1977. After that, you have the emergence of the LA punk scene, which is different again from the New York and London stuff.

I've managed to see a good number of those bands live, along with who-knows-how-many that were never heard from again. Saw Oingo Boingo and The Circle Jerks the first time I was in LA in '81, saw Richard Hell and the Voidoids in Toronto that same year, again the first time I was in Hogtown. Jayc72, I was just in Edmonton last month, specifically to see Bad Religion at Sonic Boom. Rise Against was the headliner.

My musical tastes are all over the map, but you can't get enough live music, in my opinion. I'm usually out every week checking out somebody. In my house, if there isn't a football game on, the TV is off and the music is on.

Dead Milkmen.

Wait, Rise Against was headlining and Bad Religion was not? I am off to see BR on the 29th in Myrtle Beach and might possibly go see them again on Halloween in ATL. They are by far my favorite punk band. Brain and I will literary have conversations only using their song lyrics.

someone likes to smoke banana peels.

that's because you have not the capacity to answer me...

Only because the Voice of God is Government.

Where is the pic of baby braineack on his drums when you need it?

you cant even handle it....

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._7961005_n.jpg

Lol, I make that look so much better =P

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We were the best punk band ever. Cant believe we didn't make it big time.

probably because you have a paste ride and a zildjian (Z custom?) crash.

the metallica version of "die die die my darling" is way better than the Misfits..."don't fry tomatoes baby!" hahaha love it.

Bad Religion's new album is decent, same as all their other stuff. They don't change, and that's why I like them after all these years even though it's not spectacular.

I like the American Psycho album the best, and every song on it is equally my favorite misfits song. I like Graves over Danzig.


fwiw, this is my and my wife's "song":

hey, here they are covering one of the best Misfits songs:

my favorite band:



lolz

12 inches per foot two pints per quart why don't
we make it easy? The English system of measurement
must relate to history. We can use units of 10 and
convert with ease like all the other countries. I
am in command yes I am taking a stand from this
disease we must be free. good god! You're drunk
with your tradition that has no validity well I'm
intoxicated with sports in metrics come drink a
deciliter with me we want metrics we want it now
we know we can win I weigh 170 pounds that's 90
kilograms see metrics can even make you thin all
cool things are in metrics for example here's just
one I've got my 9 well that's 9 millimeters,
sounds cooler than my point two seventy inches
gun. The president will not exist and they will
call me communist and call me scum but its worth
it Canadians will think we are smart or at least
they will think we are not as dumb. your tradition
that has no validity well I'm intoxicated with
sports in metrics come drink a deciliter with me
we want metrics we want it now we know we can win
I weigh 170 pounds that's 90 kilograms see metrics
can even make you thin the revolution is here we
must overcome at last as we symbolically stick
their fucking foot up their fucking ass guitar!
Your tradition that has no validity well I'm
intoxicated with sports in metrics come drink a
deciliter with me we want metrics we want it now
we know we can win I weigh 170 pounds that's 90
kilograms see metrics can even make me thin

Yeah ... BR was below City and Color (watch as 5,000 people go get a pizza), then Wheezer, then Rise Against headlined.

BR is popular here but Rise Against is REALLY popular in western Canada, for some reason. It seems like they play here every six months for the last few years.

You'll love the BR show. It's their 20th Anniversary tour, by the way. Get a T-shirt.

holy shit atom&his package! First song I heard by them was "me and my black metal friends" and I was all 'wtf is this shit, it's so different'

They're great.

errrrday

So awesomely terrible

I have seen BR at least half a dozen times in the short span that I have been into punk. I do not expect to be disappointed at all by their show, I am seriously considering picking up a ticket to the ATL show and seeing them twice. I think it would be well worth it considering that they do not tour as much any more.

More BR



Some Descendents


Follow up with some NoFX

I grew up listening to punk but mainly listen to hardcore nowadays. Bands the got me started were NOFX, lagwagon, black flag, and the OG Minor threat.

Nowadays my listening consists of Have heart, Verse, Ruiner, The Carrier, Defeater and Bane.

I've seen BR 3 or 4 times. I remember how I got into them. It was somewhere between 1993-1995, I was like 10, and I was at the county library. They had VHS tapes and CDs so I was browsing CDs and came across BR's "Recipe for Hate". I thought it looked interesting, borrowed it and fell in love with it when I got home and put it in my walkman cd player lol my sister is 8 years older than me and got me into pennywise, offspring, green day, descendents, sunny day real estate etc.

I miss the early-mid 90s. So much.

Recipe for Hate was the first BR album I actually bought. I picked it up in um 03. I had a lot of their stuff from napster though.

I saw BR in 04' and was a little unimpressed. They're old now. They dont move around on stage much as if they're going to break a hip.

NoFX was badass. Antiflag has the craziest pit i've ever been in. Watched a kid make a new elbow in the middle of his forearm at my last anti-flag show. The vandals have been badass every time i've seen them.

i dont move offstage, so i dont care that they dont move onstage!

Yah NOFX is great in concert, I think i probably have just about all of their albums

Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer" ... classic



Circle Jerks ...



Tried to find a good video of The Vibrators "London Girls" but apparently there are none.

I'm old now ;-)

When I saw the Circle Jerks a few years ago ... they were about 4 bands down from the headliner, Pennywise ... they didn't move around much either (not like the video above, and not like they were in LA five years before that video).

I've got a buddy who lives in another city north of here ... he's got probably 5,000 punk 45's and EP's ... I feel pretty good when he plays a few and I know every tenth band.

One of the things that is a little sad about the digital age is so much music is gone forever ... 90% of what was out before the first CD arrived in '84 isn't on digital anything, and even with bands that are represented on CD, they pick what the record company considers "hits" and leave the rest in the vault, rotting.

Just off the top of my head, and this is not "punk" but whatever .. we get J. Geils Band's "Centerfold" on CD but not anything from the album "Full House" (which is one of the best party records ever recorded anywhere ... period).

If anyone's not familiar with that album, it's pretty much the same as giving us The Who's "Squeezebox" as a "history" of that band, while burying "Live at Leeds".

I have been trying to find some FEAR albums online and have not had any success. I first heard "I love living in the City" in SLC Punk and have wanted to listen to so more. Would you happen to have any mp3's of them that you would mind sharing?

My buddy found a copy of Fear-The Record in an old ass record shop. I got a copy cd from him. It's around here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.

Let's Have a War, I Love Living in the City and New York's Alright are on it to name a few.

It would be amazing if you did. I need to get my server up and running again. I was sharing a ton of music around when it ran. :brain: got so much stuff from me.

Yeah, I'll look for it, it just might take a bit. I've got shit scattered everywhere.

Organized chaos, that's my motto.

Here is some more cool stuff for those that appreciate:

also this:

Some more Plasmatics:



Wendy was fucking awesome...

Wendy O was one of a kind, no doubt.

There's a Plasmatics DVD out there somewhere ... lots of good concert footage and those two ground-breaking MTV videos.

I worked with a guy on an article for a Rock'n'Roll magazine article on MTV; I shot photos of the screen and he wrote it up. It's tricky to take full-screen shots of a CRT ... there's a fairly specific technique you have to follow or you only get part of the screen.That was about 2 weeks after they went on the air via the big dish, sometime in 1981.

Here's some trivia for you ... MTV was originally owned by which company?

A: American Express

Update: Waddya know ... the DVD is on Google Video, in full:
Wendy O Williams -Google Video

If you watch it, I think I remember a few scenes where you can get a glimpse of what a "real" mosh pit was like in the early 80's ... think 'Rugby scrums' and 'Soccer Hooligans' ... You don't see any women in there ... at least no women I would want to fight ;-)

Fucking A! Thanks for the link - will check it out before I go to sleep!

And almost forgot what I wanted to post when I opened the thread earlier today:

You don't know if it's night or day
5:30 get up and you run, run, run
Then you work eight hours slaving under the gun
Your little world's based on lies lies lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied...
Healthy body sick mind

Seriously? No mention of Fugazi up in this shit?



Maybe some Snapcase?
OG Greenday (Kerplunk) wasn't all that bad.
Social D is win.
Descendants, old AFI (their new shit SUCKS), Assorted Jelly Beans, The Vandals, Pennywise.
That's the stuff I like...never been a big fan of stuff like Sex Pistols/Misfits etc...

god i used to love this AJB song:




but this gets into ska/punk where the likes of Mustard Plug



Suicide Machines



Voodoo Glow Skulls



Pilfers





I wish the vandals were still good. although I do still like this song:

This thread has me thinking of all my old-ish compilation cds....Cinema Beer Nuts, Short Music for Short People- 101 30 second songs, Vagrant Records- Another Year on the Streets, Vans "Off the Wall", Survival of the Fattest, and who knows what else that I have packed up somewhere...

Scott- I know you know this one...

I never liked the Gadjits.

I wasn't into ska/emo that much. All my friend who liked the Gadjits also liked Dashboard Confessional.

I went the Sick of it all, Pantera, Michael Jackson route.

best song on short music for short people:

I liked some of the Gadjits- Never went for the emo shit. I went the way of MxPx, old Blink, Homegrown, Suicide Machines, Unwritten Law etc...
I dunno..maybe more of the 'surf/skate' punk stuff. BTW SM's Destruction by Definition was a fucking win...Battle Hymns was OK and after that I stopped listening to them.

yep, after battle hymns it was lame.

sorta like Civ's second album. Such a let down.

Street Dogs - a Boston Irish Punk band, lead singer used to be in Dropkick.



Rancid

Bad Religion last night at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach. Was a pretty good show. They played 1.5 hours and I spent about an hour in the pit. I am so sore today.