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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: What're Your 2 Favourite Punk Rock Albums of All Time? |
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Something about summertime makes me like punk rock more than I usually do. I'm a little disenheartened by the fact that all my favorite stuff comes from so damn long ago, but what the hell...
Anyway: what're your two favourite albums?
Mine are (and I'm going sentimental on the hometown heroes here)...
NOMEASNO: 'sexmad + you kill me,'
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the Dayglo Abortions: 'Feed Us A Foetus,'
with Minor Threat: 'Out of Step,' and the Angry Samoans: 'Out of Samoa' close behind.
Obviously this is just a troll for recommendations. I'm a shameless download pirate always looking for stuff to steal.
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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hem haw, hem haw....
X Wild Gift - for the quality of the product
Jealous Again Black Flag - its the ground zero punk record, fully denuded of everything but complaints
Punk records &uck. Punk is like poetry, its gotta be live to be worthwhile entertainment. I wanted to Say Rocket to Russia because its the one Ramones record I'd pick if I had to pick just one forever and Slip It In since that tour was my first intoduction to the genre and punk scene. It was a 2,000 man mosh pit/slam dance in Hollywood that was ended with LA riot cops, armored vehicles and police helicopters. Fond experiences don't qualify as quality. I've heard of the Samoans and NOMEANSNO so I'll check them out.
Violent Femmes - hometown heroes |
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milkweedma
Joined: 15 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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U.K. Subs "Another Kind of Blues".
Vice Squad "No Cause For Concern".
Have to agree Black Flag with Rollins' at the helm was fantastic. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Too hard for me to decide. I go through music and always find new favourites. I'll separate my answers into foreign and domestic.
_Foreign_
1. Wednesday Night Heroes, self titled
2. Mayday! (a compilation of Canadian streetpunk)
_Domestic_
1. Suck Stuff, City Rebels (I'm in the chorus on two tracks)
2. a tie between Captain Bootbois, "All For One" and We are the Punx in Korea compilation
Also you can't talk about punk without mentioning reggae.
1. Dancehall '69, A Collection of Skinhead Reggae Rarities
2. (White Man) Inna Jamaican Style |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| How in tarnation are punk and reggae related? Did I miss something during the last 20 years? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
| How in tarnation are punk and reggae related? Did I miss something during the last 20 years? |
You have to go further back 30 or 40 years.
When punk was young in England, they didn't have that many records produced yet that they could DJ in clubs where punks hung out. At the Roxy, one of the main punk clubs, the DJ Don Letts played mostly reggae. It's been said many times that reggae music was the soundtrack to the early punk movement. The first punks were all huge dub fans and worshipped Big Youth in particular. They respected reggae for its social message which was parallel with what punk was doing. If you listen to the Clash or Stiff Little Fingers you hear strong reggae influences, and they even cover reggae songs like "Revolution Rock," "Police on My Back," "Roots, Radics, Rockers, Reggae," and the slightly less reggae song "Police on My Back."
When Bob Marley first moved to England, he hated punks, but then he saw the similarities as well, and made the statement "See all those people with a safety-pin stuck through their ears? I like to see a man who can suffer pain without crying." Shortly after he recorded "Punky Reggae Party."
There's also the skinhead connection. Skinheads first appeared in the late '60s when British mods and Jamaican rudeboys started to mingle their styles, and most skinheads became heavy consumers of Jamaican music. It's partly thanks to them that reggae gained any hold in England. When punk was born skinheads came back and helped revive the old sounds, which eventually became known as two-tone.
And of course these days every decent reggae or ska band that doesn't do dancehall has a few punks in it (with the exception of Dr Ring Ding, a German who's a great dancehall singer) and has a big following among punks. |
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that guy
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
Location: long gone
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Hard to say. My favourite:
1. Shellac - At Action Park
2. Big Boys - The Skinny Elvis (compilation of first few ep's)
Runners up.
Nomeansno - Wrong
Minute Men - Double Nickels on the Dime
As an aside:
Anyone read the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life" (title from the Minute Men song "History Lesson Part 2")? The book chronicles the days of DIY from the late '70s (Black Flag) to the '90s (Dinosaur Jr.) in the US.
swetepete, are you from Victoria, too? Dayglo and No in the same list. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm from Victoria. I grew up out by Mt. Doug. You too eh?
The first Dayglos show I saw was in 1985, back at the old Rat's Nest. Opening bands were, as I recall, MOC and the Resistance.
Pretty hard to top Nomeansno, though, for live shows. Those guys, superb musicians all (and not booze-addled, drug-mangled thugs like Bonehead and them), can always be counted on to kick it down proper.
What part of town are you from, That Guy? |
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that guy
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
Location: long gone
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Well slap my a$$ and call me susan. I grew up in Gordon Head but moved around a lot. My dad was navy but lived most of my life in on the rock. I went to high school in Brussels but my sister graduated from Mount Drug. I was one of the low life skate boys near the Mc Ds. in the '90s. Moved on from then - well still skate.
Best show I ever saw was Nomeansno at the Icehouse, 2000(?). For those not from there. The Icehouse was a strip club by day and had great shows on the weekends. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:28 am Post subject: |
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No doubt we know some of the same people then.
The skater kids at the McD were a li'l bit younger than me but I know a few of 'em...Injun Ray, Freestyle, the Ancient Dustin Schwam, Mattlocke (tho he wasn't really in that scene at that time, he's all Jaks now), Judah Oakes, plus some various other reprobates, like Andy ('None-Of-Your-F***ing-Business') Kerr's little sister Dori, Mike Ratcliffe, that evil scumbag Evil Jamie, and so on...mostly I knew the skater folks by first names, but since then some have become pretty good friends of mine, and are still, at least when I'm in that part of the world.
A few of those people are doing pretty well, as far as I know; others, not so good.
Yeah, the Icehouse was good, wasn't it? Hanson Bros shows from around that time were a good stomp as well, as I recall. |
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amberflannery
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| oh i'm so dissapointed there is no mention of social distortion. i'd pick them for my top 2 albums. |
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R-Seoul
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Location: your place
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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The Misfits - Walk among us
Busted - Busted
Classics that have stood the test of time. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| amberflannery wrote: |
| oh i'm so dissapointed there is no mention of social distortion. i'd pick them for my top 2 albums. |
Suck Stuff has been starting to sound a lot more like Social D recently. I can hear a lot of similarities with their new album and Social Distortion. Personally I'm not a fan of Mike Ness' singing voice. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
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Descendents - Milo Goes to College
My handle on the old Dave's board was Milo Ackerman. Long live Milo! |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Bad Brains- Banned in DC
The Germs - (GI) |
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