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Paco · Local time: Feb 19, 2007, 04:43 PM

I've always had a spot in my heart for The Clash but even they changed their sound a hell of a lot during the 80's. Even then, I consider London Calling one of the great albums of the last century.

Bad Brains, Wire and Mission of Burma are always brought up when discussing great punk bands but my favorite punk band of all time is The Stiff Little Fingers. Those guys were gritty right down to their sound and it always stuck with me. It's one of those bands I found out about LONG before High Fidelity came out (knkwzrd will know what I'm talking about) and got me into punk in every form.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Paco · Local time: Feb 19, 2007, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Vestin

After that I pretty much swore off punk as just that - a ridiculous fad.

I hope you don't mean to attach that "punk" label to all the emo kids running around like headless chickens.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Paco · Local time: Feb 19, 2007, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Dee

Punk for me has been given a bad rep, mainly from idiots like Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, MCR, and other black eyeliner, skinny pants, Converses, greased hair, Hot Topic, 30 something year olds.

HAHAHAHAHA! You're not one of those cats who actually THINKS that Panic! At The Disco is punk, are you?

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The only punk I know of well are the Ramones. If anyone wants to suggest bands of the same era, I am open to it (or "good" modern punk or rock, that is the challenge.)

Fo sho! I uploaded some Stiff Little Fingers for you guys to enjoy.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Paco · Local time: Feb 21, 2007, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by Iwata

The sex pistols were the Fallout boy of the 70's and nearly every interview i've read with people who were part of the punk rock scene attest to this.

I wouldn't go so far as to compare them to Fall Out Boy, but they were definitely more of a caricature than they were an actual anti-establishment entity. The reason why I couldn't ever get into the Pistols was because of their whole musical demeanor. What were they talking about half of the time? They didn't know eachother when they got together and the fact that they fell apart because they never had any true stage chemistry was a testament to that.

It always just seemed to me that they were put together for the sole purpose of selling a false punk image that was built upon the paving of bands like MC5, The New York Dolls, The Stooges and Velvet Underground, to name a few.

Where they were from doesn't matter to me as long as it was good music; but, to me, the Pistols definitely didn't fit this bill. :/

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Paco · Local time: Feb 21, 2007, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by RABicle

If London Calling came out today, it would be called a low fi I Am The Movie without keyboards.

Get out.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Paco · Local time: Feb 21, 2007, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by kinkymagic

... and this.

That's pretty much the single greatest moment in the history of music.

How ya doing, buddy?

Paco · Local time: Feb 21, 2007, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Yarbles

If you truly want to get technical about it, the Damned and their debut album (a self titled) was officially the first concious punk rock album. The Damned is one of the few bands that I can still stand to listen to. They're just stripped down rock'n'roll.

Agreed. But If I were to pinpoint one "first punk album", The New York Dolls' self-titled album would be at the top of that list followed closely by The Damned's own Damned, Damned, Damned.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

Now the Damned is an act that really doesn't get the recognition they deserve. I can't really get into anything they did after the Strawberries record, but those first five albums... some good shit.

Machine Gun Etiquette, baby!

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