Punk Rock thread.

[The Coat Is My Father]

Double Nickels On The Dime is obviously great, but I think their second album, What Makes A Man Start Fires?, is kind of overlooked even amoung their fans.

Nothing on Youtube like you said, but Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs and The Only Minority are jams.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

'History Lesson Pt. 2' is my favourite Minutemen song, but I suppose that's not really punk at all. Have you guys seen the documentary We Jam Econo? Pretty good, as far as music docs go.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Yeah, it's excellent. I could listen to Mike Watt talk for hours.

This is my favorite punk song of the 90s:

Heavens to Betsy - Me & Her

This is my second favorite:

Dead Moon-It's O.K.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Jawbreaker - Boxcar

YOU'RE NOT PUNK, AND I'M TELLING EVERYONE

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Screeching Weasel - Cool Kids

This is really fun to get the DJ to play at Toronto shows where everyone is more concerned with posturing then enjoying the show for what it is.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Love that Screeching Weasel tune. & Jawbreaker are one of my favorite bands, natch.

The Kansas City punk scene is pretty refreshingly free of pretension and posturing in my experience. Lawrence, on the other hand, was a haven for trust fund crusties, but had more and better shows.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

I'm not suggesting that the whole Toronto scene is like that, as the scene is super diverse and I'm not pretentious enough to comment on the scene as a whole. It's just in my experience the last few years, everyone seemed way more cliquish and condescending than I enjoy. I'm at a point where I like what I like, and I don't have time for bullshit posturing from bands or show-goers, yeah?

Friend of a friend has started throwing a party every Tuesday at 751 Queen Street called 'My Friends Over You' after the New Found Glory song. It's a mix of straight punk, pop-punk, hardcore, etc. The DJs they bring in have seemingly everything you could ask for loaded and ready to go, and the best part? No matter what song, everyone sings along and has a good time. It's refreshing to see something that's completely ego-free, and reminds me of why I got into the scene in the first place.

 

[Gary]

I've always had a spot in my heart for The Slits.

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

The Slits "New Town"

The Slits So Tough 2009 Remastered

the slits - shoplifting.wmv

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

The Slits are amazing. Cut is definitely one of the greatest albums that could be sheltered under the large umbrella of "punk".

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

The Kansas City punk scene is small enough, and I've been in/out/on the fringes of it in varying degrees since I was about 15, so I feel like I can comment on it pretty well. The worst part is the prevalence of straight edge hardcore Floorpunch shirt wearing tough guys who like to punch each other in the face at shows, but even most of them are pretty nice guys in a non facepunching context.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

trust fund crusties

This just reminded me of a story. So, The Dungeon, right? There was this group of 'punks'( I grew up in a pretty well-off suburb of Toronto despite not being so well off myself) who went to my high school, whom I hung out with briefly until we had a falling out over something stupid. Afterwards, they told me I was 'banned' from shows at The Dungeon. One time, we ended up crossing paths at the same show there, and one of the kids calls me a fag as he's walking by me with two of his friends. I grab the kid and throw him across the room into the rest of his friends. I'm immediately told I'm dead, but nothing ever came of it. The kid ended up dropping out of school and getting a bunch of shitty homemade Korn tattoos.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

The Kansas City punk scene is small enough, and I've been in/out/on the fringes of it in varying degrees since I was about 15, so I feel like I can comment on it pretty well. The worst part is the prevalence of straight edge hardcore Floorpunch shirt wearing tough guys who like to punch each other in the face at shows, but even most of them are pretty nice guys in a non facepunching context.

There were a few of those guys a couple of years ago in Toronto, centered around a straight edge band named Liferuiner. I always got a kick out of the frontman Johnny lecturing people about living a 'healthy' lifestyle when he was probably 300 pounds and wore tight jeans that gave him a comically large man gunt.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Cut is great. I feel that if we count that as punk then An Ideal for Living era Joy Division should also merit consideration. I know this material has its fair share of detractors, but for my money it's better than any consecutive four song stretch on either of their albums.

Joy Division - Warsaw

joy division 'no love lost'

Joy Division - Leaders of Men

Joy Division Failures (1978) An Ideal For Living Track One

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (1978)

They used this as a bumper for Canadian MTV a few days ago. Odd choice to use a song written about a bunch of skinheads harassing immigrants for a talk show, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless (Hong Kong Garden is not to be confused with China Express, which is in Glasgow and sells pizza for reasons that were not explained to me when I went there.)

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I suppose my previous post suggests that there's something that's not particularly punk about those songs, when what I really meant to say is that they were quite good at it, despite being more famous for their later work. Oh well.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

I got it, bruv.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

getting a bunch of shitty homemade Korn tattoos.

Now that's tragic.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

The Soft Boys I Wanna Destroy You

If I were to get involved in a fight then I would almost certainly lose, but this is definitely what I'd listen to beforehand.

edit: oh yeah, also

Mission of Burma - That's when I reach for...

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Oblivians Bad man

Oblivians - Christina

Oblivians Part of your plan

Any Oblivians fans here? They're a pretty seminal band in the Memphis punk rock scene. Jack Oblivian founded Goner records, Greg is now a member of the equally excellent soul/garage/punk/R&B band Reigning Sound, and all three of them were mentors to a young Jay Reatard. I saw them last year at Garage Fest, but unfortunately they were the last band to play (besides a surprise midnight house show by The Spits and Human Eye), and by that time I was too drunk and dehydrated to really get into it. Luckily I saw Reigning Sound play a killer setlist loaded with Oblivians songs this February, and that made up for it.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I just felt the need to pop in here and say I love Toxic Narcotic and re-discovering their stuff almost 10 years removed from when I first heard them has been fun.

Toxic Narcotic - Drink

People Suck (personal fave)

Toxic Narcotic - Shut the fuck up

 

[Byron The Bulb]

this post brought to you by the letter X

X - Soul Kitchen

ready steady go - Generation X

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

Blondie - X Offender (live) [High Quality]

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

SONIC FUCKING REDUCER

DEAD BOYS - SONIC REDUCER

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Oh, byrone's post reminded me that Debbie Harry aged p. badly

 

[Gary]

Does Suicide count?

Suicide Frankie Teardrop

Suicide Rocket U.S.A.

Suicide Ghost Rider

Suicide Cheree

 

[Incandenza]

A couple of Hot Snakes songs for you:

Hot Snakes - Kreative Kontrol

Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

To follow that up, here are the proud parent bands of the baby Hot Snakes:

Rocket from the Crypt - Middle

Drive Like Jehu - Here Come The Rome Plows

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

And here's Rick Froberg's (guitarist/singer of Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes) new band, Obits:

Obits - You Gotta Lose (not the video)

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

ALSO ALSO, Byron totally fumbled the ball when choosing which X song to post.

X - The World's a Mess; It's in My Kiss

 

[Incandenza]

I wanted to post the title track to Automatic Midnight—my favorite Hot Snakes song—but all I could find on YouTube were dodgy-quality live videos.

 

[Incandenza]

Same goes for Homosexuals. Goddammit, YouTube.