well, im sittin here in me ole bedroom listening to AFI and I thought I would ask what punk bands people are into?

misfits!!!!
sex pistols, ramones, clash, black flag,duh.

oh of course the pixies too.

so, AFI's very proud of ya is one of my favorite punk records.

The Ramones, Black Flag, the Stooges, Sex Pistols, old COC... Pretty much anything garagey.

punk bands?

well, my favorite band of all-time has always been the clash, even though i dont listen to them as much as i used to(and i wouldnt even really call them "punk"...their first album is "punk" but "combat rock"? i dont think so).......and of course i love bands like The Jam, Television, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Buzzcocks, Pere Ubu, etc.

i was always a big fan of "pre-punk" bands like MC5, The Monks, The Stooges, The Velvet Undergound, The Modern Lovers, Rocket from the Tombs, The Flamin' Groovies......

Flipper... the cd "generic" was rereleased last fall (2001).... ahhhhh the sounds of my youth in delightful low-fi!!!!

(Edited by Peace Frog at 12:46 am on Jan. 23, 2003)

punk is a pretty loose term. wire, gang of four, pere ubu(before i met david thomas), e.c. & the attractions, the buzzcocks, magazine, devo, the jam, mission of burma, the clash, liliput, the raincoats, television, the stranglers, vangelis, kitaro, any number of new age bay area musicians, boney m, & bang tango. i don't know.

true, punk is a loose term, but that opens the question a little more. i forgot the dead kennedys. i LOVE me some dead kennedys. i also like the dead milkmen a lot, if you consider them punk. i just like dead things.

if you like punk read please kill me. its a good book with interviews with television, the new york dolls, blodie, iggy pop, etc. perty good shtuff.

the dead milkmen rule. your mention of that book got me thinking about "our band could be your life", which got me thinking about husker du.

a very good book....a fucking great book to be exact...i just bought it about 3 weeks ago and i cant put it down....i love the chapters on beat happening and husker du and mission of burma, in particular....

THE MINUTEMEN!!!

Devo
Ramones
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen (You're all just a bunch of Art Fags!)
Pixies
Big Black
Wire
The Clash

I forgot about the New York Dolls somehow. Shame on me.

I never listened to punk much. I have somewhat of an appreciation for it, but it just never moved me. I do dig on some Ramones like everyone else (in fact, I'm listening to some right now).

I'd also like to add to the list earlier work by Suicidal Tendencies and Faith No More (Chuck Mosely era).

I always thought "Institutionalized" was a funny song: "all I wanted was a Pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me. Just one Pepsi."

I know next to nothing about punk aside from the obvious, but the DEAD MILKMEN FUCKING RULE ME! I remember the first mix tape my fiance ever gave me had a DM song on it about eating pork sausage & I played it in the rental car on a family vacation, not realizing that it also had lyrics about pussy on it. They thought very highly of him after that. Classics include Beach Party Vietnam, The Thing that only Eats Hippies, Bleach Boys and, my all-time favorite, Stuart. My first email ever was gorrillagirl@aol.com

i really think the misfits should be right up there with the ramones, sex pistols and the clash. they're criminally underappreciated.
i just recently started listening to mission of burma. "that's when i reach for my revolver" sounds alot better when it is not sung by moby.

that's great. did you notice my new signature, by the way? RC's mom is a classic. its from beelzebubba, the same record with punk rock girl on it.

gon' beat my wife!!

and the misfits are one of my fav. bands of ALL time.

my family used to get angry when i sang "stuart". if the features were cooler they'd be able to pull off a cover of "bitchin' camaro".

Do you all realize what the queers are doing to our soil?

I didn't notice your sig until you pointed it out, stalker- that's so funny. And peacefrog- I have a live version of Stuart where Rodney Anonymous says "Jumpin Jesus on a fucking pogo stick! Everybody knows that goddamn burrow owls live in a motherfucking hole in the ground!"

the features are cool enough. which two members would opt to do the dialogue though?

<--that's me just imagining it

I dunno.... I may be with ELT here. I don't think they are cool enough for Bitchin' Camaro. Maybe Taking Retards to the Zoo.

Roger & Rollum, who d'ya think!

they would do a superb job of course....i was just kinda hoping parrish could get in on the action somehow. matt would just stand by uncomfortably. it would be hilarious.

well that's it, the new cover song I opt for is bithcin camero. takin retards to the zoo would be cool, but the feastures aren't punk enough to pull it off. thougyh defintaely cool enough.

Speaking of punk bands and goofy songs... anyone remember Stormtroopers of Death? THey had a song called Jimi Hendrix or something like that, that was nothing but the opening to Purple HAze... the "dant dant ...dant dant...dant dant...) then they say "Your dead"... freaking hilarious

Hmmm...a few I didn't see mentioned...

UK Subs
Stiff Little Fingers
Wire
The Fall
Mission of Burma
Reagan Youth
X

and the Distillers for good measure. I really can't get into new punk but this band has shown alot of promise. I'd also add Dead Moon to the mix for new bands that aren't terrible and cliche.

(Edited by somethingman at 1:50 am on Feb. 19, 2003)

good call on the stiff little fingers. I've also been listening to hella new york dolls lately. another classic punk band. i also dig the queers.

the undertones

There are alot of great punk bands that have incorporated traditional celtic/Irish/Scottish tunes into their repertoire. The Real McKenzies (check out "Loch Lemond"), Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys fall into this vein. Good stuff.

jeremy

The Distillers are also worth checking. Newer band out of California I believe.

hahahahaha

rhinestone cowboy's got me on this.

my name is brody i'm from blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
hey heeeaaaay i've blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah it's gonna be the last time

are you reeeeaaadddyy to be liberaaated?

the distillers reek of skank and i wasn't suprised at all that brody's married to tim armstrong. they make me wanna throw soap and toothbrushes at them.

i agree with you, sina. the distillers are horrible.

floggin molly is alright, but i like the dropkick murpheys more.

oh yeah, and fuck the distillers.

I think this may be a sign of the Apocalypse.

Indeed... Fuck The Distillers.

sina and i agree on some things......others we don't. thus is the circle of life.

That made me think of Elton John.

that was my intention.....

ah yes, but did you thrust a baby lion upward into the air after you typed it?

(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 9:32 pm on Feb. 25, 2003)

sina just hates the distillers cause she's mad Tim never wrote a song about her.

ooohhh fo' real...she's in love with tim...///she has every punk rock magazine from 1995 just for the tim pictures.

"ooohhhhhh lorrrddy lorddyy o h lordy...with yo' head HAAANNGGinnn belowww the GRROUUUUNNNDDD"

yes indeed... I love that album to death. in fact i found a copy of that on blue marble vinyl just this past weekend. it's such a great record, although I like Answer That And Stay Fashionable slightly better because of the song Cereal Wars.

I would say that my favorites include The Descendents, GBH, Stiff Little Fingers, The Vandals, H20, Fugazi and The Pinkerton Thugs.

i always say that the misfits are underappreciated but that too many people enjoy listening to their music. i know, it sounds contradictory... I just think that less people should like them more. I think a lot of people listen to them just because they are the misfits, not because they really enjoy the music.

and new misfits suck ass.

oh my god, the new misfits suck so much. i think i might like them ok as a completely different punk band if they just didn't call themselves the misfits. its fuckin theivery. no one will ever compare to danzig. i would like to say i really like their music; im not one of those "misfits poseurs", ya know?

uh uh

tim is missing some teeth and shit.

tim is cute...SHUT UP!