The Punk Rock Thread

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A dingo ate my baby!

 

I don't know if it's more funny or sad that the Dead Kennedys are still playing. They must be on their third scab replacement singer by now. I saw they were playing some shows in Florida this month and had a good laugh about it. I'm really dating myself here, but I saw DK with Jello maybe 3 or 4 times between 84 and 86 over in New York City. I was 13-15 at the time. I had just gotten into punk music at the time. I got to see Black Flag a few times before they broke up, but I really regret not seeing Minor Threat. I started going to shows less than a year after they broke up. A couple of my older friends who started going to shows before 84 got to see them. Got to see Fugazi a few times but it wasn't the same. One of my first shows was The Clash but it was in their twilight days, with Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon and god knows who on guitar and drums. Mick Jones and Topper were gone by that point and the band just really needed to die by that point.

I still listen to all that music today, even though I'll be 46 in a couple months. I love it as much as when I was a teenager. I'll admit that some bands haven't aged well with me. The Dead Kennedys particularly. They're like the coolest band in the world when you're like 13-16. Then Jello's voice just gets on your nerves after listening to more than one album by them every 3 or 4 months.

 

And Jello turned into pseudo intellectual SJW crybaby.
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Punk rock= talentless morons; single chord bangers, noise.
BRPPPPPPP!!!!

 

I think a punk rock threade in itself is a problem.

Barry we hepatitis riddled washed up punks will die of our diseases long before this threade does.

Saw Guttermouth in San Diego 1.5 years ago at a punk club. It's hanging on by a threade but not dead yet. Corny? Sure. Was I there with a girl that managed a hot topic? Yep. But it's not entirely dead. Especially not abroad.

Haha get it. Hanging on by a threade.

I'm really digging this younger folk punk that coming out. It's more musically mature and catchy. It's got a raw feel to it, like nobody has mainstreamed it yet.

 

Yeah, who knows??
I might even attend youz all funerals........but only if it is flat. If there is a swell running....sorry.

 

Yeah man, I'm a year younger, was big in all those bands as a teen, and the majority of the music in my collection is still old school punk. I'm glad a lot of the old bands are touring, I don't go to shows hardly anymore but once in a while I'll check out an old band, tickets are always cheap and venues are small giving it that old school feel. I have missed OFF! too many times, hope they keep it together, and when Keith Morris put Flag together I was pretty impressed at what I had seen on youtube, but missed them as well. I did see Greg Ginns last reincarnation with Black Flag, Ronnie Reyes on vocals, to sort of go against Morris's Flag, and had a blast at the show. Ginns other band Good For You, with a famous skater singing(can't think of his name) opened and killed it.
I did make a solid effort to make the Riot fest in Chicago for the Misfits reunion but work did not allow it to happen. Sucks being a responsible adult.
I agree on both counts about DK. A reunion without Jello sounded lame, and Jello himself is pretty lame. I bought Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables in the used bin a year ago, put it in once, and couldn't do a full listen through.
Even though punk dominates my collection, and I will always identify with it, it is probably the genre I listen to the least nowadays. I have a 7 year old little girl and that softens the edges bigtime, also not good date music, chill music, ect.. Getting pumped for a solid overhead swell though, fock yeah!

 

LOL! I'm guessing your a Seals And Croft pre sesh and Yanni post sesh kind of guy!

 

lolol!!!

 

You'd really like this genre, BC...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/books/12nowa.html

Not many people are even aware that it existed... but it did. It sure did...

 

nope. Punk Rock, even the music critics say, is garbage. In the world of music (which it isn't), when music critics label the sound as "cacophony", or "nihilistic" (meaning it won't last long), the sound is garbage. And they have been right. Punk has disappeared. It has been replaced by something much much trashier...rap and hip hop. Even worse.

But worry not....something will replace them all soon. Even a series of buffalo farts would be better.......<grin>

 

Punk has actually evolved into a multitude of genres. A lot of stuff we hear is an offshoot of punk, for better or worse.

 

What music critics? The ones from your monthly AARP magazine don't count. Punk is still here and doing well, Vans would not have a warped tour otherwise.
You know, the only time I surfed NH was because I went to this fine establishment called Wallys Pub to see a band called DRI (dirty rotten imbeciles). Solid chest high with offshores made for a great road trip.
For some reason I don't see you as a Wallys regular....

 

Funny how if a person likes something, he considers it "good" and doesn't like something, he considers it "bad".

Music, like everything else, is completely subjective to one's tastes. It does not make it "good" or "bad".

 

Without getting into the whole does punk rock music still exist topic which for me anyway is kinda pointless.....

The thing that blows my mind is how OLD a lot of punk rock is....Clash/Ramones/Richard Hell/Damned/Buzzcocks made some of their best music 40 years ago. It blew my classic-rock-listening mind wide open at the time.

But for me what's crazy is that the lethargic old classic rock bands (ELO, Yes, Beatles) that punk kind of booted in the ass were mostly only about 10 years old at the time.

In 1980, 40 year old music seemed like it was unearthed from some sort of time capsule, in no way remotely connected with any (then) current pop genre, and NO popular musicians were sounding anything like music from 1940.

So here we are in 2017 and there are 10s of thousands of bands, playing music that seems directly informed by, and sounding very similar to 40 year old music (motorhead, zeppelin, ramones, P-funk). I've been really digging the band Protomartyr lately. Their releases from 2015 and 2016 were on a lot of critics best of lists (not that I care about that) but they are absolutely CHANNELING Joy Division, The Fall, and the like...bands from 40 years ago.

No point being made, it just surprises me, and makes me a little suspicious when I think back to how the old punkers ridiculed MAYBE 10 year old "classic rock" at the time, calling the bands dinosaurs.

 

Our grandparents were fornicating to "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

As a kid in the 70's, listening to my parents "oldies" from the late 50's and early 60's seemed like light years away, although the music was less than 20 years old.

Everything is subjective and relative.

 

Yes, provided it is music, not noise.....

 

It's hilarious that they have become the aging rockers they used to ridicule.
A band I somehow missed and have only gotten into over the last 5 years or so are The Modern Lovers. I can't believe they were early 70's, even pre Ramones. I can't listen to anything anymore without drawing a direct line to that band. Everything is derivative. Hell, a lot of punk sounds like Chuck Barry to me.

 

Jonathan Richman is a genious. Some of the songs he wrote were PURE emotion and wit. That song he wrote about the non-drug-using straight guy, watching the girl he loves falling for "Hippy Johnny" cracks me up every time i listen to it. There's NO WAY he didn't write that out of personal experience.