Topic: Punk rock music

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Imaderule34

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Is anyone into punk anymore?

I've always like loud guitar music but never really gave punk a try until recently. I've been listening to Crass (big a little a is my favorite) but I don't know any other punk bands and it seems like punk might be a little dead...

Anybody know some bands and songs from that genre I should check out?

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Phylax

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The entire Stations of the Crass album is a masterpiece - but its the parodic level where they often reach their best, referencing bits from the Clash, Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, and especially the disco scene that had just peaked. I really like what they pull off with Fun Going On, Pete Wright has a killer bass tone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJiKtF5jYU

You really can't go wrong with anything from Crass Records, everything from MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) to the entire Bullshit Detector compilation series is pretty much untouchable. Lately I've been getting heavily back into post-punk/coldwave and the last track on Vol. 3 by some french trio still sounds great in that regard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5BFUJttAU

Clay Records and the whole Discharge oeuvre is also awesome over on the d-beat side of the spectrum (so long as you stay away from their glam period...the less said about Grave New World the better)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgMTr88RhU

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Hudson

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The_Diggler said:

I barely know what punk is. I wanted to know you're taste in the genre.

Anything from Lapfox Trax, and a couple of other labels. Not much else though, especially not the crap you hear on radio channels.

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TheDarkInfinity

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If you want to get into punk music, bands like The Offspring, NOFX, and Bad Religion are always a good place to start.

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Imaderule34

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TheDarkInfinity said:
If you want to get into punk music, bands like The Offspring, NOFX, and Bad Religion are always a good place to start.

Cool, I'll check them out

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Phylax

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All the links are dead but this acts as a handy collation of some of the better pre-84 stuff.

What's funny (besides the fact that their sentiments toward animal liberation are expressed like some weird hybrid) is that it mentions A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums, a chapbook of discourses published by the label "and described herein":www.zisman.ca/openroad/1983-Spring/pages/P7.pdf (which, if you don't get the title, is reappropriated from a critic saying that was all they had to offer).

It's pretty much the holy grail of punk lit, and thus extremely hard to source and commands some ridiculously exorbitant prices - such as the one on amazon for $658. However I did find one person who was bootlegging photocopies at non-profit cost, and noticed something about the covers.

They're identical to the copy I have. Same creases, torn binding, even the little piece of paper next to the £1 price (oh how times have changed). This amuses me to no end to think how widely this one little book has circulated before finding its way to my shelf...at least they had the foresight to have scanned it before passing it on (which might explain why the pages are so loose)

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