Thanks for reminding me of the Descendents. They're one of the classic punk bands that I never liked when I was younger, but upon recent reexamination, have found that I approve. I'm gonna listen to your videos right now.
So I've been listening to Punk Rock since I was 13 years old. However, I thought I was kind of in a rut and the thought that I was listening to the same bands for years now was kind of terrifying. So to actually explore the genre a bit more I bought a bunch of albums of bands I haven't had albums of be fore. A couple of those are really popular but I just never got into them before. Not all of them are good so don't take it as an endorsement.
Anyway, here's the list. The * next to some of the bands means that I listened to them before mostly on individual songs, but never a full album.
Cobra Skulls - Agitations Banner Pilot - Souvenir Leftöver Crack/Citizen Fish - Deadline Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out! Swinging Utters* - Five Lessons Learned The Hextalls - Get Smashed Face to Face* - Three Chords and a Half Truth A Wilhelm Scream - Party Crasher, Career Suicide Strike Anywhere - Dead FM The Flatliners* - Dead Language The Lawrance Arms - Metropole Betontod - Antirockstars The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt Pulley* - Matters Black Flag* - Damaged, Nervous Breakdown Youth Brigade - Sink with Kalifornija
I've heard a couple of songs by them on compilations and stuff you've posted around the forums, but never listened to a full album of them. They're on the list of bands I'll have to check out some time.
Posted By: Shadoworc01I'm convinced that music died with John Lennon.
Holy shit, I had that opinion for about five minutes in 2011 before getting into The Killers, and then (in a slightly modified way, believing the last truly great album to be Nebraska in 1982) five minutes in the beginning of 2012, right before Bruce Springsteen declared that we are now in a "golden age of music," but I immortalized the sentiment here. If I ever write an autobiography or memoirs, I'm clearly gonna have to read all my old posts to remember what I was like when I was 14+.
At any rate, how do you guys define "punk rock"? I've heard people refer to everything from Laura Stevenson to Gaslight Anthem to Johnny Hobo to Joyce Manor. It reminds me of what Lester Bangs said in the 70s about "rock" being stretched to the point of meaninglessness.
Meet the Family for their early stuff, that's right after they solidified their current lineup, then Forever Malcolm Young and Smoko at the Pet Food Factory, I suppose. It's all pretty good, but those are some solid picks. The latter two are the latest two, and are Frenzal at their most polished, well, as much you can call them polished.
What's the consensus on the first folk punk album? I know a lot of people cite the Violent Femmes or Meat Puppets II but they both sound more pop than folk or punk to my ears. I want to nominate The Acoustic EP by Against Me! but by then Plan-It-X had been putting out records for five years so I'm uncertain about it.
Yeah I consider Celtic punk as a different but relevant genre. Its like the difference between Chicago blues and rock n roll -- the latter draws so much from the former that you have to mention it.
What's the consensus on the first folk punk album? I know a lot of people cite the Violent Femmes or Meat Puppets II but they both sound more pop than folk or punk to my ears. I want to nominate The Acoustic EP by Against Me! but by then Plan-It-X had been putting out records for five years so I'm uncertain about it.
There were bands incorporating folk elements into punk rock much earlier than that. I mean, I see your point about Meat Puppets not quite fitting the definition—their first EP and LP were basically full-on drugged out thrash, and their later stuff drew way more on country and post-punk and West Coast psychedelia than folk per se—but skipping ahead a whole decade seems to be looking in the wrong direction. I would look into The Raincoats, personally, or Subway Sect. Not exactly the origin of the hardcore-inflected sound of today, but early ramshackle punk with an English folk influence, for sure.
Speaking of ramshackle, I really want to get more into that "chaotic hardcore" sound that emerged out of what Void were doing, but I'm not entirely sure where to start and what best represents the different flavours of that style.
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I still hate The Exploited, though.
Anyway, here's the list. The * next to some of the bands means that I listened to them before mostly on individual songs, but never a full album.
Cobra Skulls - Agitations
Banner Pilot - Souvenir
Leftöver Crack/Citizen Fish - Deadline
Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!
Swinging Utters* - Five Lessons Learned
The Hextalls - Get Smashed
Face to Face* - Three Chords and a Half Truth
A Wilhelm Scream - Party Crasher, Career Suicide
Strike Anywhere - Dead FM
The Flatliners* - Dead Language
The Lawrance Arms - Metropole
Betontod - Antirockstars
The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt
Pulley* - Matters
Black Flag* - Damaged, Nervous Breakdown
Youth Brigade - Sink with Kalifornija
At any rate, how do you guys define "punk rock"? I've heard people refer to everything from Laura Stevenson to Gaslight Anthem to Johnny Hobo to Joyce Manor. It reminds me of what Lester Bangs said in the 70s about "rock" being stretched to the point of meaninglessness.
On a related not, now I kinda wanna get back into folk metal.
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Speaking of ramshackle, I really want to get more into that "chaotic hardcore" sound that emerged out of what Void were doing, but I'm not entirely sure where to start and what best represents the different flavours of that style.