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PUNK Music Draft - Now Ongoing post awesome punk songs thread (1 Viewer)

15.xx   Avengers - Open Your Eyes

The best of the first wave of SF punk bands.   Live version from when they opened for the Sex Pistols' final show at Winterland in Jan 1978.  Penelope Houston would be a much bigger star in a fairer universe.

 
16.xx MDC - Dead Cops/America's So Straight

Staying local in SF for one of the hardest of the 80s hardcore bands.  Their shows were insane. 

MDC originally stood for Millions of Dead Cops but they changed to Mega Death Corporation after Crass (of all people) complained about it.

 
17.xx The Nosebleeds - Ain't Been to No Music School

This is the first punk record I ever bought.  I graduated from High School at the start of UK's summer of punk in 1977.  I distinctly remember watching this NBC News segment with my HS friends that summer--they were mostly appalled but I thought it looked kind of fun. 

I went off to college that fall with my crate of mostly prog and fusion records.  At the end of my first semester we did a secret Santa thing in the co-op I was living in.  I drew the name of a rather punkishly named guy named Larry Wilde, who happened to be a music major.  I found this single in a cheap import rack and figured Larry would appreciate the joke in the title.  He did and it got blared in the halls during finals week.  My musical tastes changed during the second semester of Freshman year.

The Nosebleeds were a Manchester band that never amounted to much.  Their notoriety comes from this song and the fact that Morrissey was their singer briefly in later years.

 
Eephus said:
17.xx The Nosebleeds - Ain't Been to No Music School

This is the first punk record I ever bought.  I graduated from High School at the start of UK's summer of punk in 1977.  I distinctly remember watching this NBC News segment with my HS friends that summer--they were mostly appalled but I thought it looked kind of fun. 

I went off to college that fall with my crate of mostly prog and fusion records.  At the end of my first semester we did a secret Santa thing in the co-op I was living in.  I drew the name of a rather punkishly named guy named Larry Wilde, who happened to be a music major.  I found this single in a cheap import rack and figured Larry would appreciate the joke in the title.  He did and it got blared in the halls during finals week.  My musical tastes changed during the second semester of Freshman year.

The Nosebleeds were a Manchester band that never amounted to much.  Their notoriety comes from this song and the fact that Morrissey was their singer briefly in later years.
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Intestering. Orchestral clarinet.  The demons name Alice Cooper.  

 
Eephus said:
16.xx MDC - Dead Cops/America's So Straight

Staying local in SF for one of the hardest of the 80s hardcore bands.  Their shows were insane. 

MDC originally stood for Millions of Dead Cops but they changed to Mega Death Corporation after Crass (of all people) complained about it.
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Weren't they Millions of Dead Children, too? I thought they were just MDC, frankly.  

eta* Just reading up on it. Seems like both both are true, with Millions of Dead Cops being the first name. 

 
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I thought that someone took Sonic Youth somewhere, but no?  In any event, for female singer cat:

20.14 - Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (1990)

I assume that I first saw this on 120 minutes, which was like a freaking godsend for my teenage self.  This website has the playlists and video links from every episode: https://120minutes.tylerc.com/

I guess when I was like 14 or 15, I got poison oak or something in the summer and felt so hot and terrible all the time and all I could do to soothe the torture was watch tapes of 120 minutes and headbanger's ball all day (that I taped every week).

 
18.xx The Mekons - 32 Weeks

Sounding very IDLES here in 1978.

Of all the Class of 77 bands, the Mekons' musical journey perhaps went the furthest from punk.  Many artists got stuck down the stylistic blind alley but the Mekons sound jumped across oceans and cultures.  Fear and Whiskey is a sensational album but has very little to do with punk. 

We saw Jon Langford perform a few months back.  He's doing this folk rock thing now with two incredible female singers.  Langford is still hilarious and a great storyteller, even by the high standards of Wales.

 
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Long Ball Larry said:
I thought that someone took Sonic Youth somewhere, but no?  In any event, for female singer cat:

20.14 - Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (1990)

I assume that I first saw this on 120 minutes, which was like a freaking godsend for my teenage self.  This website has the playlists and video links from every episode: https://120minutes.tylerc.com/

I guess when I was like 14 or 15, I got poison oak or something in the summer and felt so hot and terrible all the time and all I could do to soothe the torture was watch tapes of 120 minutes and headbanger's ball all day (that I taped every week).
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Wow, awesome link. Thx

 
19.xx The Dickies - Hideous

I don't think this band has been drafted and @Dickies makes it impossible to search the thread.

Punk had a greater element of weird fun when it started off.  It got very serious for a while before letting some of that light back in.

 
haven't  checked the thread so if any repeats here, great pick by whoever chose it and i'll put a sub in:

16.6   The Gun Club  -  Sex Beat  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GAaH7gpSA

                not sure if this is true punk, but it is close. just looked it up on Apple music, apparently they are known as "Punkabilly"

17.12  The Vandals  -  Urban Struggle   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmQVPYVhDo&t=139s

                    - but of a classic. feel almost obligated to get the Red Dead Redemption 2 game and blast this while playing @AhrnCityPahnder

18.6   The Interruptors  - Take the Power Back  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ol-YDS4Jc

19.12   Minor Threat  - Minor Threat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smM_bphb6pU

                   would have taken Straight Edge, but both songs just kick as

20.6   Operation Ivy  -  Sound System    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGbgxbpsjs

21.12  Sublime  -  KRS-One     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNHk3xXmos

                 threw this one after round 20 cause i think Sublime is close to punk/ska, but not completely there. Wanted the more popular Caress Me Down, but a song dedicated to the #1 MC KRS-1 on a hit record speaks volumes. Was a fan of KRS-1 and Boogie Down Productions before Sublime so i was in love when i heard this song.

i can throw more in later. damn, just saw Larry took Straight Edge in 15th round. great pick....

 
Dickies said:
Pretty sure this was taken already
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cool. haven't seen any of the Me First and the Gimmee Gimmes, so we can give them a shot out. hard to decide which song to take, but i'll go with one of the first i heard from them:

18.6  Me First and the Gimme Gimmes  -  Never Tear Us Apart  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-9kNXOn58c

  they got a lot of good cover songs, so good band to explore for those who never heard of them

ETA: oh yeah, round 3. weird the find in excel file didn't pick it up

 
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Pretty sure there's a  seminal band that hasn't been taken or mentioned. Not sure if we're still waiting for some more picks, but if they dont show up after another day or 2, I'll post them just for the posterity of the playlist. It'll be HOF value from a couple UDFAs.

 
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I ended up with 12 songs from West Coast bands, 4 from the UK, 1 each from DC, the Twin Cities, Boston and Austin via Chicago.

 
I’m going to jump in here if you guys don’t mind. I’m just going to pound these out and I know I’ll miss some and take wrong tracks, but I didn’t want to miss out on this all together. And since I’m breaking the rules I might as well not be shy about it. I’m not jumping in at the end. I’m jumping in at the beginning.

Sebowski 1.1 - NOFX – The Decline

https://youtu.be/qnFVMkTWaBw

Ok, another rule broken. This was already taken. Last one I promise probably. This might be the greatest song ever written. I loe how the melodies tease each other throughout the song. And it does another thing I always love way too  much in songs. It doesn’t have a chorus. I love creative song writing and that is always a great sign for me. This song is a mood changer. And a time-killer. When I want to hear this song, nothing else will do.

2.## - Ramones – Oh, Oh, I Love Her So

https://youtu.be/X_-bVec4eOI

I decided not to overthink this draft. I just don’t have the time to do it justice. When people say “The Ramones thought they were going to be The Beach Boys”, this song that shows it. “We met at the Burger King / Fell in love by the soda machine” longing for innocence and naivety is just as punk as grit and spit.  So I’ll take this is my Ramones song.

3.## - Operation Ivy – Freeze Up

https://youtu.be/WuTQeu0w9Aw

Need an Op Ivy song and this one kicks ###.  One that could have been written this morning, but it was 1989 for cris sakes.

4.## - Screeching Weasel – My Brain Hurts

https://youtu.be/mhyldG4kLro

This is another “not going to over think this”. There are probably Weasel songs I like better and I amy regret this if that’s a sing, but that’s the song that got me running back in the mosh pit when I shouldn’t be doing those things anymore.

5.## Fifteen – C (Tion)

https://youtu.be/oZTwFCv3zSM

Holy crap this draft is hard as ####, AF. I’ve never done one of these. How do you pick just one song? This actually makes my brain hurt. Jeff Ott probably deserves his own thread. I can’t do him justice. Just trying to share his brilliance. This is a slice.

6.## - Dead Boys – Ain’t Nothin To Do

https://youtu.be/t3n4wVajpn0

Last few pages had high school year book stories. I quoted this one on my page. I got on out of there. Weren’t nothing to do. That reminds me, I need to go back and visit. Really loved it there….

7.## - Johnny Thunders - In Cold Blood

https://youtu.be/0s6IRVBFgOo

This needs more Johnny Thunders. We all need more Johnny Thunders. Here he is probably after he and Dee Dee were hanging out. Holy #### he’s ####ed up here.

8.## - Dee Dee Ramone – I’m Making Monsters for My Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBV_uQQj9EQ

Dee Dee is as much “an idol” to me as whatever that word means. This album showed his potential in the solo world. His demons were too much though and the rest of his solo stuff just didn’t live up.  I wanted to link the whole album, so I just took the opening track.  You’ll hear a bunch of songs on here The Ramones covered. Wonder if the title track is about Johnny?  “You’re an artificial phony and a big instigator.  Maybe if you just drank some beer you’d just go to sleep”

9.## - Motörhead – Killed by Death

https://youtu.be/FL7-sbiGlzw

RIP

10.## - The Clash – Death or Glory

https://youtu.be/MwzMuuGOsVI

So many to choose from. This is my go-to on the juke. Nice and anthematic.

11.## The Copyrights – Such a Drag

https://youtu.be/LwVaoA1iVEo

I’m basically obsessed with these guys. I swear the songs were written from the corners of my subconscious.  This one sums up their energy and their existential sensibilities as good as the others.  “Running after carrots on a stick. One day you finally catch up to it. And it tastes. Just like. A carrot.”

12.## The Lillingtons – X-Ray Specs

https://youtu.be/_HpWX0ANd0E

I can only pick just one? Oh Jesus.  I’ll take this comic book inspired sing-along-er. And because I can see through your bull#### with my x-ray specs.

13.## Teenage Bottlerocket – Nothing Else Matters (When I’m With You)

https://youtu.be/YdRrN4xQ8zk

Hard to just pick one from these guys too. I like the weird song structure on this one.  Fun theme too stealing a Metallica title and then using a bunch of Metallica titles as lyrics. Oh ####! No one tell Metallica! You guys aren’t narcs, are you? You’d have to tell me if you were you know.

14.##  Rancid – Fall Back Down

https://youtu.be/CinJuVtdp3Y

This is peak song writing. He created something really beautiful out of what seemed a really tough time. I love Tim and I love this song.

15.## The Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant

https://youtu.be/VcauCclfytI

Are these guys underrated again? I feel like sometimes they are and sometimes they are just cool to call underrated.. This is my “this is the Sex Pistols” song.

16.## The Misfits – Bullet

https://youtu.be/AiTgDBNQ3lU

####. Actually if I thought of this one and didn’t want to break the rules this might be my 1.1 My jump-out absolutely favorite song from a favorite band. Masterbate me.

17.## The Undead – All You Need is Love

https://youtu.be/KW68xAgh1jQ

My cover song.  Kicked out of The Misfits Bobby Steele is now Undead. This is another song where if  the bassline earworms me, I just have to listen to it.

18. ## The Vindictives – Structure and Function

One of those bands that I completely love, but I totally get when people are like “WTF?” This is one of their catchiests, and you’ve probably noticed I like catchy.

19.## The Travoltas – Can’t Be Wrong

https://youtu.be/KVPv2rOfssU

Crap. I’m almost out of picks and I haven’t picked one of my favorite bands ever yet.. These guys are The Ramones if The Ramones got talked in to trying one of Jeff Goldblum’s space machines and they didn’t realizing The Beach Boys were already in the space machine so when they came out of the space machine they were mutated with The Beach Boys. And they are from The Netherlands. I linked what might be my favorite song of theirs upthread so I’ll go with the opening track of their most complete album, Modern World (produced by Marky Ramone). ‘That the sun. Makes me smile. That it makes me want to write this song. And when I feel the ocean breeze. The life on the beach. I know I can’t be wrong.”

20.##  Minutemen – #### From an Old Notebook

https://youtu.be/7zjcut9IQRM

Not a chance I don’t take these guys. This whole album is one big poem if you ask me. Just love it start to finish.

21.## Television – Little Johnny Jewel (Live)

https://youtu.be/9dEv6XU1Dsw

I mentioned this song in a story about Mike Watt. Feel like it fits perfectly here as the bonus 21st pick. It is actually almost as long as The Decline, so watch out.

Ok, Immediately regretting not taking some bands…. Damnit.  Oh well. I’m going to leave this alone. Props to all of you for doing this. It was really fun. Hope me jumping in didn't ruin anything. Don't expect this to be added to the master list. Just needed the exercise after lurking in on a few of these. Damn this is tough. 

 
I know not everyone is finished, but I just wanted to say I thought everyone did fantastic in here.  Loved hearing the stories and the reasoning behind some of the picks.  Going into this I was pretty confident I would know 99% of the stuff being drafted, but it was probably closer to 90-95% which was awesome because I got to listen to a bunch of awesome music I had never heard before.  

 
Eephus said:
I ended up with 12 songs from West Coast bands, 4 from the UK, 1 each from DC, the Twin Cities, Boston and Austin via Chicago.
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Midwest 4, West Coast 8, East Coast 3, Southeast 1 , UK 3, Sweden 1

 
Thanks NV for setting this up and to everyone who was in the draft and/or thread.   This board is always a better place when there's a music :nerd: draft on the first page.

In retrospect, the minimal requirement for decades was the right decision.   A heavier theme on top of punk-only would have been bad.   Thanks for indulging my stories of a slightly misspent youth.  It was fun to reminisce and cool to hear that Cintra's is OK and still remembers me.

I mostly checked out on punk when it got too hardcore and was raising kids during the pop-punk heyday so there's lots of unfamiliar stuff in the mix.  I'll need to pick my spots for this playlist though; it's a pretty intense listen.  But it should be great when I'm climbing hills.

Throwing in one extra since I was sure I'd drafted it earlier but was mistaken.

22.xx  Swing Kids - Warsaw (Joy Division cover)

 
13.x Breeders - Opened. Great song.  Eat my ### if it isn't punk enough for you.  

14.x Sonic youth -  Kissability  

15.x Melt Banana -- Candy Gun  Y'know, because Japan. 

16.x unsane - slag 

17.x The Jam - private hell

18.x Kim Phuc - Razorblades (two members of newer Pgh city darlings The Gotobeds played in this band, at one point.)  CURRENLTY WITH THREE (count em) YOUTUBE VIEWS.  PUNK AS ####.   we're about to quadruple their online exposure. 

19.x Clowns -- Dropped my Brain   New stuff from this year.  (Thanks to whoever in the "best of 2018" thread pointed this album out -- love it. )

20.x Burn -- Out of Time  NYxHC, sup.

 
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Watched this really good doc about Youth Brigade today. Had zero idea they were the swing group royal crown revue who were in The Mask. Then they got kicked out of their own band. Anyway, great doc for those interested

 
Eephus took Swing Kids? HFS, I thought of taking them. Great pick, man.  That exact song. Brainwave...

 
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Sebowski said:
Just realized I didn't take a female led group. I had Interrupters penciled in and then replaced them when there was too many left out and maybe they have enough representation here. Give me:

Tilt - Unravel

https://youtu.be/iCZuEjCH5TY

Love the punk soul in her voice. 
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Everyone knows I'm on a crying jag/and you know that I do it all the time...well I can show you/I can easily show you

Such a fan of this pick.  

 
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