Punk Rock

[Bentley]

So who here listens to Punk. I know punk is supposed to be a bunch of crappy musicians, and even crappier music, but I love it. Maybe I just suck at guitar . Anyway, anyone check out the new NOFX singles?

[jtmdes]

I not a huge punk fan, but I did go and see Refused a couple of weeks ago in Toronto. First hardcore punk show I've been to. My friend had an extra ticket and asked me to go.

I really liked it and thought the music was fantastic, definitely worth checking out.

[mal paso]

Is that Punk? If it is, yes

[mal paso]

Or do you mean something like this?







dangerous stuff

[acoustic rob]

OneTwoThreeFour!

[joaopazguitar]

I posted this video on another punk thread a couple of days ago, but here you go! Here's an old punk band playing awsome and composing even better!



and this one's hard to beat

[mnutz]

NOFX is great!

How about the Methadones...

[Jimmy Jazz]

When I think of punk, I think of this:

[mpearce]

How about some old-school Boston hardcore.

[E5RSY]

[Stratburst]

Can't believe I'm the first to post this:



For some reason, the punk purists want to write this band out of the history. Probably because they wrote great songs:



And who can forget the Dead Kennedys?

[Brad Pittiful]

im down

[Telenut62]

Well if your going to mention The Stranglers...

[Lunchie]

The only punk im familiar with is the Irish stuff like Dropkick and Flogging Molly... but its great stuff imo

http://youtu.be/x-64CaD8GXw

[Maxwell Street]

Ramones. Sex Pistols. The End.

[joaopazguitar]

Originally Posted by Telenut62

Well if your going to mention The Stranglers...

...I'm going to bring also Nina.....

for those of you who don't knwo this next video, please watch it til the end... this is probably one the wildest singing ever done live!

[Gibson]

I think of the The Stranglers as more post punk/new wave. But that's me. Great band, nonetheless.

[ringodingo]

The really good Clash stuff and ..er.. the Pixies .. a little bit of Green Day. Sloan has some good stuff. I don't have any but Social Distortion has some cool stuff too.

[José]

Don't forget the Real Kids from Boston, their first album was pure punk garage rock and the young John Felice was also member of the Modern Lovers in the early '70s. Some of the Modern Lovers became famous later with others bands, the Cars, the Talking Heads.

[Muddslide]

Originally Posted by Bentley

I know punk is supposed to be a bunch of crappy musicians, and even crappier music...

I think you got it all wrong. This is very overgeneralized and simplistic.

Yeah, since the beginning there have been punk bands that were hacks slashing out 2-3 chords (all they knew) with someone shouting out snotty lyrics over the top.

But also since the beginning there have been punk bands who were very tight and which contained great players.

Bad Brains, Minutemen, Die Kreuzen, Mission of Burma, Meat Puppets, Beefeater, X and many, many others both from the US and elsewhere had some excellent musicians.

The "two sloppy chords and a screamer" meme that people toss about is for those who never really knew or understood punk but based their opinion of it on a very tiny bit of the music that they just summarily wrote off.