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I’m fine. Work has been busy, daughter had Covid, been umping a lot of baseball games in the evening and spending a lot of time working with my son so that he can hopefully make the little league all star team.
He had that raw 70’s-80’s punk sound, but his songs are depressing AF. I’m a huge fan but can only take it in small doses because of how dark it is.
That's okay.
I would say that is bad, but sounds like she's through it. I hope there are no after effects or long COVID.
Very cool, but time-consuming, I'd imagine. Best of luck with the umping and the aspirations.
Yeah. That's a good point. You can tell which one? I don't regret it; it just doesn't flow with the list at all. I probably could have picked a different song from that artist, but that artist has always been more "artist" than "punk" so I'm not sure even a change of songs would have worked. That artist was just important enough to be there because of the scene they were in. Then again, I did leave off one band because even though they were CBGB regulars, they strike me as infinitely more jammy and jazzy than punk. Plus, they're legends that don't need to be on any crummy dilettante list, you know?
Luck was on Lydon’s end in the beginning. He was the last to join and if McClaren is to believed he hired the wrong John. Vivienne Westwood suggested John Ritchie(Sid V) but thought she meant Lydon.
By the way, DRI was considered for the countdown but I decided against it. They always had a foot in the thrash/metal world. They were certainly crossover, and even named an album after it (crossover being the metal and hardcore crossover genre). I tried to shy away from bands that became metal, but that became nearly impossible because, well, the eighties and the author's limited knowledge.
Always good to hear Pistols history. I never sat down with the definitive biographical book like otb did, but I'm always interested in that particular time and that particular scenario.Luck was on Lydon’s end in the beginning. He was the last to join and if McClaren is to believed he hired the wrong John. Vivienne Westwood suggested John Ritchie(Sid V) but thought she meant Lydon.
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To me punk has always been something different so hard to separate into categories like that but I see you trying to.
, i've never heard anything like the tone he achieved - his hand blessed metal axes had a ton to do with that, sure ... but he is an other wordly virtuoso, and one of the most intriguing chaps of the entire era.
Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Brian James. I could see myself being friends with them. The Sex Pistols and The Clash? Not so much, though I think I'm less hard on Joe Strummer and his political stances than you generally seem to be. I don't think I could stand Lydon for more than fifteen minutes. He'd call you a poser all over, call you out, but cry about your rejection of him on his death bed.
I heard a cover of this on my way to L.A. recently. I had no idea it was Damned-adjacent.
It may have been the original by Elton Motello. Or maybe a cover by my favorite San Diego band - Crocodiles.
Wow. Really? "Commando" or "Pinhead," huh? Gabba Gabba Hey!
Nope. Different cover by a different band. I looked at it while playing because I thought I'd be getting the full Bertrand and instead got...that.
Mentioned in the "no power pop" section, if I'm not mistaken. The Muffs were a favorite of mine in college and beyond, and I still love their records.
No sweat, rail. Sorry to have aborted the mission half of the way through, but I think this is generating more discussion anyway. I'll post more updates if people are interested. The list is now fixed, though. Can't change that. I'd like to hear anybody chime in with other bands they can think of that are meritorious. I know we had Eephus and Flipper, Leroy Hoard and Magazine (that I know scorchy covered in his post-punk list because I remember them), I'm guessing otb would have definite suggestions, trogg78 thought of Eater...anything you think should have been on here, give a holler. It's now just really a place to talk about punk rock.
First rule is, 'The laws of Germany'SECOND VERSE/SAME AS THE FIRST
yeah, i go Commando, baby ... title of Johnny's auto, and the best melding of dumdum boiz lyrics and driving downstroke - FIRST RULE ... IS
The Meatmen penned some of the dumbest and most vile anti-social crap to ever grace my tape deck, yet I can still sing along to almost every word 35 years later.
A bit of a tangent, but definitely got into TT the Bears without a ticket before for a ska show. Went to a show at the middle east next door (probably punk or hardcore) and it ended early. We went to TTs when it ended, showed the Xs on our hands, and they let us in. Thinking the ska show was Skavoovie and the Epitones.
I was in eighth or ninth grade and had a copy of the Meatmen album where they did a cover/send-up of "Dance To the Music." It's the best thing on the Crippled Children Suck album, IMO, by far. I would advance in years to come to find out that the song was a blast-off hit by another artist with a full and competent backing band, and that the Meatmen had introduced me by way of a poor cover version in comparison to the resplendent Sly offering.
otb loves the omission. "All This and More" is less of a sonic onslaught and is a grittier, nittier song. Gets you right in the #### when you're doing the deed.
So glad you're in the thread. I easily would have had that. Did you read my extensive rules? No proto punk, NYRAGE. No MC5. If there was proto-punk, not only the MC5, but the DC5 would be there, too.
Tell her I'm a swimmingly nice guy.
