Lots of good bands mentioned already. Completely forgot Dead Kennedys, they''re great. Not all that punk but related; Television (Marquee Moon is their classic album). I can never figure out what bands are well-known, maybe everybody's heard it. Also, Soledad Brothers is some nice blues punk.
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Birthday Boy wrote:Siouxie & the Banshees
how did I forget Siouxie Sioux?!
By the way..I've always wondered..is Siouxie Sioux supposed to be prounced like Susie Sue? or more like..Sooey Soo?
If you want the cream go for all of the Killed By Death Compilations as well as the Bloodstains compilations.
Also, start digging up back issues of Maximum rock N' Roll.
Current stuff: I would say cruise Terminal Boredom for more garage based stuff and Terminal Escape for some raw demo tape street punk. Neither are related despite similar names.
I second Exploding Hearts. If you haven't heard that album, buy or steal/DL it NOW.
This all melodic rawk style stuff, not modern rock-core like Rise Against or pub-rock-folk...
More recent? The Briefs - 1st three or four LP's & singles collection The Marked Men
The Distraction's 'Calling All Radios' B-Movie Rats - 1st two LP's New Bomb Turks - 1st three LP + EP's Didjits - any Epoxies - total new wave power pop, but still pogo-a-gogo
Black Flag Minor Threat Bad Brains The Dopamines The Offspring (first 3 albums) Dead Kennedys Operation Ivy MC5 Buzzcocks Curb Slaughter Fuel Pump Terror Social Distortion Manic Subsidal L7 Subhumans The Adicts UK Subs The Exploited The Damned NOFX The God Awfuls 999 TSOL GBH X Circle Jerks OFF! Sham 69 Still Little Fingers Youth Brigade DOA
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John will also make a lot more sense if you listen to Neu! 75. and some Hawkwind and Malcolm Mooney-era Can.
for punk--though some people think of them as being at the front of post-punk--you've got to get the first Wire album, Pink Flag.
"punk" is a totally loaded topic because there are so many different interpretations of what "punk" is/was. there's the NY-centric Max's/CBGB version which is all about eyeliner, depressant drugs, and generally apolitical rock and roll which in retrospect doesn't even seem all that outre, e.g. Television's mix of 65% Quicksilver Messenger Service/35% Velvet Underground, the Dolls' seemingly redundant Rolling-Stones-on-hard-drugs routine, or Blondie's chromed-up girl-group pop. then there's the UK/Greil Marcus version which is all about the inchoate rage of Da Yoot, Situationist cant, and performance art, and which often related to rock and roll only in glancing off after colliding with aging pub rockers like Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, and Steve Jones. one axis had The Dictators and the New York Dolls; the other, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Buzzcocks. even at the time the two often didn't comprehend each other and shouted past each other, cf. Sex Pistols honcho Malcolm McLaren's infamous stint managing the end-stage Dolls where he dressed them in red leather playing in front of Soviet flags. and then there are the sectarian conflicts of punk after 1980, which make African tribal conflicts seem almost comprehensible. screen anyone's commentary and reviews through knowledge of these varied agendas and ideologies.
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important early stuff that hasn't been mentioned from the US also includes Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys, both of whom came out of Cleveland and could almost be classed as pre-punk. i'm particularly fond of Ubu's The Modern Dance, which is unusual as a US example of the performance-art school of punk in that it doesn't settle for the typical Wayne/Jayne County-style gender-bending of the time. once you hear "Heart of Darkness" your life will forever be changed for the better.
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if i was going to suggest one thing it'd have to be the Ramones, even though i'm not exactly a mad Ramones fan. the thing is that the Ramones were more or less the bridge between NY punk and UK punk, and the match that lit the fuse. when the Ramones first played in London they hit the scene there like the atomic bomb, and they were the inspiration for most of the semi-talented folks who took up arms and formed the punk bands of London. you kind of have to hear the Ramones to understand punk in the same way that you have to watch Hitchcock to get suspense movie-making...much of everything after is a variation on those basic tropes. check out live albums and concert tapes by punk and punk-influenced bands and note how many cover Ramones songs.
me, i'm all about the Husker Du. you can't go wrong with Zen Arcade; the following New Day Rising/Flip Your Wig are both excellent if a little spotty on Side 2; and the farewell double Warehouse is too long as a double LP but edits down to a truly magnificent single LP. my personal fave, though, is the Rhino reissue of the uber-rare Everything Falls Apart, which is more hardcore even than the second side of Arcade and includes some even rarer singles as bonus tracks.
and Iggy. Raw Power. that is all.
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One of those bands that gets in the punk door only because they were loud and discordant, but Mission of Burma is one of my favorite bands of all time. And their post-reunion work is great. I can't recommend them enough. See them live if you can.
jrmy wrote:One of those bands that gets in the punk door only because they were loud and discordant, but Mission of Burma is one of my favorite bands of all time. And their post-reunion work is great. I can't recommend them enough. See them live if you can.
OH FUCK YEAH
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how did I forget Siouxie Sioux?!
