Recommend me some punk?

[spoon_of_grimbo]

"destroy their future" by american steel.   fucking AWESOME.

[valley_parade]

Punk didn't begin and end in Britain in 1977.

That is when it stopped sucking though.

Shock Troops came out in 1982, what are you on about, Khar?

[Jeans]

If I'm reading this right, it looks like Khar says punk STOPPED sucking in '77, which predates 1982 by five years.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

I'll buy that.

the Misfits started in '77 and that's practically all i care about anyway

[spoon_of_grimbo]

dunno quite how i forgot this one, but i've just spun it a few mins ago, and goddamn if it isn't a fine slab of rough-around-the-edges punk rock awesomeness!!! it's like the logical middle ground between husker du and every hot water music-esque gainesville-hardcore band you've ever heard!  if you know of a guy with a gruffer voice than frankie stubbs, then you're a liar and i will fight you.



(album's called "mush" btw)

[boneykingofnowhere]

Fugazi. Thank me later.

[Jeans]

actually, seeing s how Fugazi is literally the best band in the world, you should probably give him an IOU card with 5 blowjobs straight away

[Kai]

Guys why can't we all just get along listen to the Dead Milkmen

[KharBevNor]

If I'm reading this right, it looks like Khar says punk STOPPED sucking in '77, which predates 1982 by five years.

I think veep might be implying that the first wave of British punk is kinda meh, and that things only got really awesome with the UK82 second wave of punk, oi and proto-crust, which is a position I can have some sympathy with, even if I cannot condone it.

Take your Fugazi and get out of this fucking thread NAO.

[pinkpiche]

I will fight you untill I die over Fugazi

[KharBevNor]

Don't worry. I have filled my heart with hate.

[sean]

pinkpinche you will not fight alone.

dc respect, yo.

[valley_parade]

actually, seeing s how Fugazi is literally the best band in the world, you should probably give him an IOU card with 5 blowjobs straight away

Fugazi are one of the most meh-inspiring bands in the world, if you ask me.

Also, yeah, I totally mis-read Khar's post.

[Alex C]

I'm tired of pretending it's my fault somehow for not liking Fugazi. Fuck those guys.

[David_Dovey]

Hey guys everybody chill out.

It is OK to not like Fugazi.

But they are the best band in the world and that is inarguable fact.

You don't have to like them, but to not do so makes you wrong. If you are OK with being wrong then I see no reason why we can't just all continue on with our lives.

[Scarychips]

I'm sorry if I change the subject a bit, but I've seen the genre "post-punk" being name-dropped a bit in this thread. What music is considered as post-punk and what is not? Is it only a historical assocation or an actual sound and esthetic? If it's too off-topic, I'll start another thread.

[Zombiedude]

Xiu Xiu is post-punk. That's the only example I can think of right now.

[Retrospectre]

That sad band with the epilepsy guy who died.

[KharBevNor]

You don't have to like them, but to not do so makes you wrong. If you are OK with being wrong then I see no reason why we can't just all continue on with our lives.

Nuh uh, it just means you've got a thing for interesting music, as opposed to boring music.

[Touch Me Im Sick]

[pinkpiche]

And for the guy who started the thread:

[Jeans]

Take your Fugazi and get out of this fucking thread NAO.

What a silly thing you said! Look what you have done. You've got silly all over you.

[KharBevNor]

Recommending Fugazi in this thread is about as relevant as recommending Nirvana.

[De_El]

I'm sorry if I change the subject a bit, but I've seen the genre "post-punk" being name-dropped a bit in this thread. What music is considered as post-punk and what is not? Is it only a historical assocation or an actual sound and esthetic? If it's too off-topic, I'll start another thread.

Post-punk is a name given to a variety of sounds. Historically, it refers to those bands that first started mixing punk rock guitar sounds and energy with other slightly different sounds, like Joy Division, with their synth washes and icy production, Gang of Four, with their funky bass and minimal dubby aspects. With American bands, a lot of the earlier punkier new wave bands are also called post-punk, like Devo and Talking Heads.  Pere Ubu are pretty post-punk; there's definitely some punky drums and guitar sometimes, but there's also bits of very minimal melody, saxophone, synths, tape sounds, etc. Do you get the idea? Some post-punk bands are very "punk and ____" but others are still very punk but something about the way it's done or produced is markedly different enough to maybe not want to just call it punk.  For a band like Xiu Xiu, which is I guess kind of post-punk, it's less "punk and ____" and more "____, and _____, and _____, oh and also a bit of punk."