Open it up to the full genre.
1) The Clash - The Clash
2) Misfits - Walk Among US
3) Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
4) Jawbreaker - Dear You
5) New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
Different discussion than best granted. But curious what some of the you all like.
Brian Eno - Here comes the warm Jets
Pretenders self titled first album. The original band before a couple of unfortunate deaths. Also Psychedelic Furs self titled first album. Both of these would probably considered more rough alternative but definitely not the poppy sound most associate with these bands.
Big Clash fan here, probably saw them live 15 times back in the day. My dog is named Clash!
Kudos to whoever mentioned X, a very underrated California punk band.
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
The Repo Man soundtrack was a great punk starter kit
Billy Zoom from X is 76 years old. No matter how many times I think about it, that still seems impossible.
Bands like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Fear, etc. I always considered hardcore (more of an offshoot of the original punk movement.)
stylistically their music infuses many different genres, but the messaging stayed consistent from (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais to Straight to Hell.
Bands like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Fear, etc. I always considered hardcore (more of an offshoot of the original punk movement.)
Sure.. but hardcore is punk. I regret not seeing Black Flag and DKs in the 80s. early Clash are a defining punk band, but I wouldn't say the definition of punk. They are up there with the Ramones, the Pistols a few others. Punk starts in New York, flourishes in London, then hits like a jackhammer in LA. It's all punk. I know Brits like to say they invented punk. They didn't. They copied punk and it had its first mainstream expression in the UK.
Clash London Calling
Social Distortion..They are all great
The Heartbreakers LAMF.
Television Marquee Moon
I have my own little hypocrisies. A lot of the skate and pop punk from the 90s/00s I find totally soft and it makes my skin crawl.
But then I think of how a Black Flag or DK fan looks at the Meteors or Batmobile or even the New York Dolls. Is Dave Johansen dressed up like a lady or even better as Buster Poindexter punk?
I have my own little hypocrisies. A lot of the skate and pop punk from the 90s/00s I find totally soft and it makes my skin crawl.
But then I think of how a Black Flag or DK fan looks at the Meteors or Batmobile or even the New York Dolls. Is Dave Johansen dressed up like a lady or even better as Buster Poindexter punk?
To me the Dolls really aren't punk, but they are a direct precursor to punk. Punk starts with CBGBs, The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. It's a downtown NYC art scene movement. And McLaren takes his experience managing the Dolls and watching the CBGB scene and starts the Pistols. Then we're really off to the races.
More than anything, it started with the Stooges, because that's who inspired Johnny Ramone.
My fave on the album is Pretty Vacant
JohnG might remember the local bands The Morons and The Misfits (Albany area band, not the more well known one)
I do remember those bands being around.
I don't "think" I saw them, but some of that era is a bit "foggy" for me. *grin*
I worshiped Fugazi/Minor Threat growing up. Now Ian MacKaye lives on the same block as my brother. They have casual neighborly conversations now and then. Life is funny sometimes.
Saw them many times including City Gardens in the early '90s. Drug a huge VHS camera there and got permission to record the show. Up on YouTube now. Great memories.
999- Separates for favorite punk record that hasn't been mentioned yet.
What's wrong with you people?
What's wrong with you people?
Who?
What's wrong with you people?
My Chemical Romance ain't punk and they are usually lumped with the Emo bands. But I actually like them, which is unusual since I can't stand their contemporaries (Fallout Boy, etc.).
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My Chemical Romance ain't punk and they are usually lumped with the Emo bands. But I actually like them, which is unusual since I can't stand their contemporaries (Fallout Boy, etc.).
I like a few of their songs but I agree that they're not punk. Not sure what to call them besides a very glammed version of the real thing. I figured that they would get a bigger reaction out of the purists than using Fall Out Boy, Debra Harry, or the the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
I worked once or twice at CBGB's as a bouncer before it closed but that was for long after the heyday.
This.
Period.
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Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
What's wrong with you people?
My Chemical Romance ain't punk and they are usually lumped with the Emo bands. But I actually like them, which is unusual since I can't stand their contemporaries (Fallout Boy, etc.).
I wrote it as punk influenced, which it definitely is IMO. That's a damn good album. I'm not embarrassed to say it. It's a whole concept from start to finish.
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
What's wrong with you people?
Great album
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
I missed out on that one - two friends went though - but I saw them in Vegas and it was every bit as good as I always dreamed it would be
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
Social Distortion in 2001 at Irving Plaza about 2 months after September 11th.
Things were still weird in the City then (lots of cancelled and postponed shows), and I feel like Mike Ness was doing the City a solid by coming to town for that show.
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
I missed out on that one - two friends went though - but I saw them in Vegas and it was every bit as good as I always dreamed it would be
I've been to a million metal and punk shows big and small, and the wave of humanity for the Misfits actually made me a little nervous. Only show I've ever made my way back a little.
It was a surreal experience and everything I thought it would be as well.
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
Social Distortion in 2001 at Irving Plaza about 2 months after September 11th.
Things were still weird in the City then (lots of cancelled and postponed shows), and I feel like Mike Ness was doing the City a solid by coming to town for that show.
My best friend who sadly passed at 43 a few years ago was music journalist and spent a lot of time with Mike. He's without a doubt a really great guy. Not surprised to hear it was a great show.
One of my big highlights was the first original Misfits reunion at Riotfest years back in Chicago.
Was that with the original lineup when they reunited?
My best are mostly festival shows.
When I was younger I'd go to a lot of warped tours, lollapalooza, local radio station festival like shows, etc. and they always had a lot of punk bands.
1997 Warped Tour had Descendents, Pennywise, Social D, Bouncing Souls, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sick of it all, Blink 182, and more ska bands like Reel Big Fish. I went to the RFK show, I lived in DC at the time. More bands I'm probably forgetting.
I loved those all day shows on those hot summer days.
Strangely great festival with Morrissey, Rob Zombie, the Meat Puppets among others.
Even in my 40s I can still get behind a day of slow drinking and rocking out.
The Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
The Meat Puppets- Up on the Sun
X- More Fun in the New World
Alice Donut- Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an
Otherwise Meaningless Life
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Nip Drivers- Kill Whitey
DEVO- Are We Not Men
fIREHOSE- If'n
Ween- The Pod
Gang of Four- Entertainment
Talking Heads- More Songs and Fear of Music
Slint- Spiderland
Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Mudhoney- Mudhoney
Rapeman- Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Thank you for reminding me I need to listen to that record this evening.
The Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
The Meat Puppets- Up on the Sun
X- More Fun in the New World
Alice Donut- Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an
Otherwise Meaningless Life
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Nip Drivers- Kill Whitey
DEVO- Are We Not Men
fIREHOSE- If'n
Ween- The Pod
Gang of Four- Entertainment
Talking Heads- More Songs and Fear of Music
Slint- Spiderland
Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Mudhoney- Mudhoney
Rapeman- Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
A few of these are on my list, but Double Nickels by Minutemen is a favorite of mine and seems to be underrated.
I have heard...and I dont know the truth...After Boon passed both Watt and Hurley were not interested in playing music...
But this Ed Crawford kid changed their minds. AKA ed fROMOHIO
If'n is an excellent listen...Love the album cover
They were more thrasher in the early days..
I know cause I got high with them back in the day.
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I think one of the enduring themes of punk rock, and you see versions of it in hip hop and country, is the ongoing friction around defining the genre.
I have my own little hypocrisies. A lot of the skate and pop punk from the 90s/00s I find totally soft and it makes my skin crawl.
But then I think of how a Black Flag or DK fan looks at the Meteors or Batmobile or even the New York Dolls. Is Dave Johansen dressed up like a lady or even better as Buster Poindexter punk?
To me the Dolls really aren't punk, but they are a direct precursor to punk. Punk starts with CBGBs, The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. It's a downtown NYC art scene movement. And McLaren takes his experience managing the Dolls and watching the CBGB scene and starts the Pistols. Then we're really off to the races.
This is pretty darn accurate..
And in heignsight the it ended as the album was being pressed...if that makes sense
Bands like the Buzzcocks and DK were favorites of mine
How did I forget that one?
Still, got to see a few classic shows. Plasmatics and the Cramps were probably the best. Honorable mention to Mission of Burma and Ramones.
Got to see REM in this dive bar with maybe 50 people (which was close to full capacity) when Radio Free Europe first hit the college airwaves. They either ran out of songs to play, or didn't care, and just started goofing off about an hour into the show.
Still, got to see a few classic shows. Plasmatics and the Cramps were probably the best. Honorable mention to Mission of Burma and Ramones.
Got to see REM in this dive bar with maybe 50 people (which was close to full capacity) when Radio Free Europe first hit the college airwaves. They either ran out of songs to play, or didn't care, and just started goofing off about an hour into the show.
yes
Wendy O Williams!!!
With DEVO I concur with lono. First two albums really up there.
RIP
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