You've heard some of my songs. You can tell how much I'm influenced by punk. I wouldn't call myself punk because now aday's its a horrible label and trendy.

PUNK IS DEAD. Its been dead for 20 years.

You're right Green day is as hard as the fuckin' Monkees. maybe little less...

I love Minor Threat, The Clash, Fugazi (not really called punk), The Ramones, Sometimes the Sex pistols. Too me thats all real punk for the era

Fuck that. Im in denial. punk is alive DAMMIT!

Sorry kid, seriously its dead

fairies wear boots - black sabbath

just found out motorhead is coming in may \m/

ace of spades - motorhead

No Pride- Greenday

I also agree that they arent Punk. Still enjoyable bands however...well, maybe not Sum41 or Offspring...but I like Blink and Greenday

What the Ramones did was indeed a rebellion .. the same rebellion that the sex pistols waged in the UK.
It was a musical rebellion - back to rock and roll - fuck disco and the music that was high-tech soulless nonsense.
That was the real revolution - purely musical - back to grassroots.

and - i like the monkees too. and i like disco for that matter .

Post Sex Pistols i listened to the Dead Kennedys, DOA, Black Flag, Crass, bands like that ... (i never thought of the Clash as punk at all - maybe close on the 1st album - but they quickly became a ska band)

What passes for punk at this day and age is rediculuous .. at least the top 30 bands that people keep mentioning here.

I think there are still bands that are trying very hard to capture the origional punk look and feel .. but that is pretty much a direct copy - therefore serious unorigionality - therefore not punk... which was all about breaking the mould of what was happening musically back in the mid-late 70's.


and why are we discussing it ... because it's interesting ... gets people thinking.
why do we discuss anything here ?

For what it's worth - I think the Sex Pistols were one of the greatest bands of all times. I like the Ramones a lot - but the Pistols were miles above.

Dropkick Murpheys - Blood and Whiskey

Poison "Ride the wind".


hear it everytime i close down at work. It´s truely softcore metal. But i love it.:)

Eminem-Mocking bird-fm 97-


Pleaz don't ask!

RBL Posse-Bounce to This

Eminem-?idk the song!

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HB what is that spose to mean?

Pro-Pain - Fuck It

Dicks are for my friends - Mindless Self Indulgence

I love the Pistols too but they were really little more than a punk version of a "boy band."
Malcolm McClaren (their manager) dressed them, told them the names of songs to write, booked them in places where they would get lots of press coverage and signed them HUGE major label record deal$.

Again with the labelling...saying the Clash were "ska?"
Sure they combined elements of ska into their music but that doesn't make them a ska band.
And even if so, what's to say that a ska band can't have a punk ethic?

Crap...you've dragged me into this.
Today I've been listening to The Plimsouls. And The Posies in the car.

Krayzie Bone - Gemini

Freedy vs. Jason sound track

not a song



N.W.A (R.I.P Eazy-E March 26,1995)-Express yourself

the wicker man - iron maiden

'a' punk version ? THE punk version.
despite their origions - they defined punk.
not sure what you mean by HUGE major record deal either ..
they never made money.
I know what you are saying re. the packaging and the manipulation - something they made fun of themselves.
But unlike 'boy bands' as we really know them .. the pistols became something brand new - and had one of the best albums of the century.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were another example of a 'boy band' by your terms. They also hit with a great album, despite the fact that they were thrown together based on the look vs the ability to play music ... but they learned.

(to me a boy band is 4 or more pretty boys that do little more than synchronized dancing - i dont recall any of them actually playing instruments)

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Again with the labelling...saying the Clash were "ska?" Sure they combined elements of ska into their music but that doesn't make them a ska band. And even if so, what's to say that a ska band can't have a punk ethic?

everything has a label - 'rock and roll' is a label.
Very few bands sound like nothing else. They (or their labels) try extremely hard to make them fit into sellable niches.
Lord it drives me insane when people decry the use of labels when the rest of the world is obviously to sound or look like a very established - clearly defined 'type'.
To deny this is insane !!!
You think the record stores devide rock by genre because it's fun for them ? They do it because it's how the public ask for their music.
Goth, Punk, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Country, RnB, House, Metal (the 50 sub genres of metal), jazz, you honestly can tell me you dont believe that there is no way bands fit into any of these categories ? or should ?

sure there are some bands that fall between the cracks .. hybrids/fusion, whatever...

and yeah, the Clash combined heavy elements of ska into their music .. and eventually devolved into god knows what. Anyway - it became so bad it almost made me forget the good music they once made.

Curious to see how you define the 'punk ethic' by the way.
i'm not challenging - just curious.

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Crap...you've dragged me into this. Today I've been listening to The Plimsouls. And The Posies in the car.

I like those bands as well.

ratm - killing in the name

slow counter - Gorillaz

idk the songs on there so i just put that
and

Faith Hill-It Matters To me

Andre Nickatina-Killa Whale

Smells like teen spirit

drink fight fuck - bloodduster cover

You can't go wrong with a title like "Drink, Fight and Fuck" now can you?

its a fun song to get tanked to

12D3 - Gorillaz

I never knew that about Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
I really loved them back in the 80s, they freaked me out and the "Two Tribes" video with Reagan and Gorbachev killing each other in a death match was outstanding!

I guess by punk ethic I mean the d.i.y. attitude. Funny though, with the possible exception of maybe the Damned, most of the bands that we might consider "old school punk" really weren't all that much. They all had managers and scored major label deals. Oh, and check out that Sex Pistols doc. "The Filth and the Fury" to see how huge their record deals were. Of course the band didn't make a dime, but Malcolm McClaren made off like a bandit!

Today its Chad Rex & the Victorstands.... rootsy midwestern rock with a Buffalo Tom/Paul Westerberg kinda thing going on.

I thought it was GG Allin?

who cares?:confused:

last time i tried to rock your world - mindless self indulgence

Her Name In Blood- Strung Out

Murder Dolls - People Hate Me

Your mom...


OO BURN!

it is but bloodduster does an awesome cover of it.