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Folk Punk
Traitorfish:
I like some English stuff, like The Levellers and The Men They Couldn't Hang, and there's a lot of good Celtic Punk, like Flogging Molly, The Tossers and The Real McKenzies (little of it, oddly enough, from anywhere near the Celtic Nations). I haven't listened to much in the way of American non-Celtic Folk Punk, but I've gotten hold of a couple of Against Me! albums, and, if they're any indication, I probably should.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 22 Sep 2010, 04:56 ---Folk is a method of transmission and a mode of composition more than anything else. I wouldn't really call a band 'folk punk' unless they were using trad tunes and words, doing old wobbly songs or something maybe, or at the very least engaging with, commenting on and building on the folk tradition. Not just they wanted to play punk but couldn't afford amplifiers.
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Even if you're using "folk" to mean "ethnic traditional music", I'd say it was more about musical style, than about direct use of traditional sources. A lot of Traditional-style folk songs are relatively recent themselves, such as the famous "The Fields of Athenry", which was only written in the 1970s.
Buttfranklin:
Wikipedia tells me that Devotchka is gypsy punk/indie folk.
leftandleaving:
--- Quote from: gospel on 30 Sep 2010, 01:17 ---I'm just going to leave this here
Rosa - I Mississippi You
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I'm assuming you mean like... peppy punk aesthetics with a twang rather than like "alt-country/folk". I don't know; I'm horrible at genres.
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Omg. I thought I might've been the only person who knew about how good Rosa were. I got their album a few years ago and whenever I listen to it, I want to jump on a passing freight train that'll take me who knows where so I can become a vagabond and live a life of daring danger. The swoons, I have them.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 29 Sep 2010, 08:18 ---Pope Funk is a way better name for a genre.
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i just want to say that alexander pope would never be funky. he had a hunchback
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: Traitorfish on 16 Oct 2010, 10:20 ---I like some English stuff, like The Levellers and The Men They Couldn't Hang, and there's a lot of good Celtic Punk, like Flogging Molly, The Tossers and The Real McKenzies (little of it, oddly enough, from anywhere near the Celtic Nations). I haven't listened to much in the way of American non-Celtic Folk Punk, but I've gotten hold of a couple of Against Me! albums, and, if they're any indication, I probably should.
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Uh, be careful there. Most people say Against Me! got really shitty after they signed with Fat.
I say their album on Fat was pretty alright, but then they got really shitty.
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