On Saturday my 16 year old asked if “The Killers” were a punk group. After I got off the floor from laughing, I used
youtube to show her some of the great punk bands. Here are some of my favorite punk or post-punk. What are your favorite punk or post-punk bands?
Dead Kennedys (fav songs are “California Uber Alles”, “Too Drunk to Fuck” and “Terminally Preppie”).
Siouxie and the Banshees (actually saw her at a relatively small venue in Paris in 1982)
The Adicts, Black Flag, Husker Du, Teen Idles, Fear, The Exploited, Oxymoron, and The Circle Jerks to name a few old school punk bands.
My favorite punk stuff came from the 90s though. It was melodic but it still had the same hard/raw musical undertones and sociopolitical centrism that the old school stuff had. Bands like: Rancid, NOFX, Pulley, Op Ivy (not 90s I know, but close), The Casualties, A Global Threat, Bad Religion, H2O, Suicidal Tendencies, Millencolin, AFI (old stuff), Pennywise, the Distillers, etc.
Then of course there was the punk/ska hybrid stuff, which emitted its own brand of kickassery. Bands like Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The Bosstones, Voodoo Glow Skulls, etc.
I’m a punk rocker at heart and would love to discuss this stuff ad naseum if anyone does so desire.
[quote]A-Dizz wrote:
I’m a punk rocker at heart and would love to discuss this stuff ad naseum if anyone does so desire.
-dizzle[/quote]
What got you into punk? For me, I am almost the same age as
Biafra. You wouldn’t believe the shit we had to listen to on the radio in the mid to late seventies (or maybe you would). I mean, you had the 60s where this new music was born amongst the idealism , then in the 70s rock got pretty much co-opted and you had to listen to corporate rock. If I ever hear Peter Frampton again, I swear I am going to barf, so stay clear! This was the age of such <> as Barry Mannilow, Neil Sedaka, the Captain and Tanille (sic) and other butt-wipes of that genre. And, yes, this was the me-generation’s dizzying descent towards the Reagan “Revolution” in 1980. People were wearing shit like LaCoste sweaters to class.
Then I started hearing through friends these albums by groups like the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, the Gang of Four, the Ramones. Man, what a relief! They created a vortex that drew in youth like myself who were tired of the conservative worldview and the fucking boring, soulless music it was producing.
I can almost say that Punk music saved my soul, because I was feeling really alienated by the culture around me.
Minor Threat
Operation Ivy
Fugazi
Sloppy Seconds
Dead Kennedys
Dayglo Abortions
Bad Religion(up to and including Generator)
Screeching Weasel
Champion
7 Seconds
Rancid(first two albums)
Black Flag
The Descendents
Ripcordz
And so very many more…
My favorites are The Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Agent Orange, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Vandals, X, Guttermouth, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, and Strung Out. I was introduced to punk by a neighbor. When I was 12 he bought me a Dead Kennedys cd (Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables) and I was hooked from that point on. It was cool… there was this little place near my house called the Showcase (they closed recently) and because most of my favorite bands are from Southern California I got to see a lot of shows. Awww memories…
My dad actually got me in to punk - as entheogens said, growing up at that time it was either total shit music or punk rock.
The first time I took a sex pistols album home was probably the first time I remember hearing him swear - IIRC his words were (when he saw the new album) “Fucking brilliant!”
I still listen to lots of the old school bands - Pistols, Ramones, Clash, Siouxie.
I also like Carter USM - a semi punk band that got together to effectively put two fingers up to the shite brit pop music of the time.
One of my sons is a big fan of theirs…got me hooked on them. He beg me for over a year to let him have a mohawk…that was when he was 3 years old. No shit. We made him wait, and after that year he still wanted it. He’s had every color under the son and it was long as hell…liberty spikes over a foot long. Did a couple photos for a local punk store.
Anyway, went to see The Casualties when he was about 5 and he had a freakin’ blast. The band came up to him afterwards and were the nicest guys you’d ever meet. They invited him back and gave him all sorts of free merch. He still sleeps with his Casualties scarf 4 years later.
He’s since given up the mohawk, however, cause all the other kids at school started doing the same. He didn’t understand what the big deal was or why they all wanted to copy him. He said he didn’t want everyone trying to be like him.
[quote]A-Dizz wrote:
The Adicts, Black Flag, Husker Du, Teen Idles, Fear, The Exploited, Oxymoron, and The Circle Jerks to name a few old school punk bands.
My favorite punk stuff came from the 90s though. It was melodic but it still had the same hard/raw musical undertones and sociopolitical centrism that the old school stuff had. Bands like: Rancid, NOFX, Pulley, Op Ivy (not 90s I know, but close), The Casualties, A Global Threat, Bad Religion, H2O, Suicidal Tendencies, Millencolin, AFI (old stuff), Pennywise, the Distillers, etc.
Then of course there was the punk/ska hybrid stuff, which emitted its own brand of kickassery. Bands like Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The Bosstones, Voodoo Glow Skulls, etc.
I’m a punk rocker at heart and would love to discuss this stuff ad naseum if anyone does so desire.
-dizzle[/quote]
Don’t forget THE SPECIALS(ska)
And um, DANZIG…
I too ‘grew up,’ listening to all the above punk bands!