Punk Ass Shit

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

found a mix CD in my car that was chock full of Dead Kennedy's, Flipper, The Cramps, Dead Milkmen, Black Flag, etc.  Nothing like driving to work and cranking up some "Terminal Preppy" or "too drunk to fuck" while the suburbanites stare at me at stoplights.... 8)

thoughts on punk music?  any love for social distortion or the above mentioned old skool?

[EC]

found a mix CD in my car that was chock full of Dead Kennedy's, Flipper, The Cramps, Dead Milkmen, Black Flag, etc.  Nothing like driving to work and cranking up some "Terminal Preppy" or "too drunk to fuck" while the suburbanites stare at me at stoplights.... 8)

thoughts on punk music?  any love for social distortion or the above mentioned old skool?

An old old boyfriend of mine was in a punk/thrash band called Damnation about a hundred years ago.  That was the only time I was really surrounded by punk.  From what I remember, I really liked Dead Milkmen, The Cramps... ah...  I do like the Sex Pistols.  Is Blondie considered punk?  Siouxie Sioux?  I dig those ladies.  

I LOVE getting in my Mom's car when I'm visiting and going for a drive and blaring music out the windows and having all the SUV-ers stare at me.  It's especially fun when it's someone from highschool who is wearing a suit.  Hot!

Oh crap, I forgot to say John, there's a film premiering here at the festival all about metal.  I'll try to get more information for you.  I think it's even Canadian.  (It's not supposed to be good, though....)

[Tree]

I love afi!!!

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

I want any and all information on Canadian Metal!  Love me some Canadian Metal!!

[EC]

Jesus.  What a cover!

I'll check it for you when I get home.  :)

[EC]

from NOW magazine (although I'm typing it because I couldn't find it online)

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
"Headbangers might find this look at the history of heavy metal compelling, but it's too bad the directors didn't employ more creative filmmaking techniques to showcase this oft-maligned genre of music.  It's a standard talking-heads doc , with a checklist approach to ideas and themes.  The crew travel the world tracking down members of Steppenwolf, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and others, but there are few insights from the subjects or from gushing narrator/anthropologist/co-director Dunn.  It's one Midnight Madness selection that could use more madness."

There you go.  Something to give you a pain in the neck, John.



hahahahahaha.  Shit, I'd better get my neck back in shape for October!!

[primushead]

I want any and all information on Canadian Metal!  Love me some Canadian Metal!!

Canadian Metal...isn't that an oxymoron?

[EC]

Canadian Metal...isn't that an oxymoron?

Umm, that'd better be a big fat joke, dude. We take our metal VERY seriously up here.   ;)

(Don't you remember the Thor website?!)

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

notables like the aforementioned Coney Hatch and Fastway were 80's examples of Canadian Metal.  Rush, in it's proggiest, By-Tor and the Snowdog moments were certainly metal, and one could call Mr. Neil Young "metal" if you listen to say, Cortez the Killer or Like a Hurricane (esp. on "Live Rust).  

Triumph was also a 70s-80s metal product.  And here's a stretch, but if you listen to Loverboy's "You take me to the top", it is metalesque (esp. the intro, whooooo boy).

So there's lots of Canadian Metal.  Coney Hatch remains my favorite of the lot (for pure metal, that is...NY remains one of my all time favorites) as "Monkey Bars" has become, to me, one of the greatest rock/metal songs of all time.  So cheesy, so loud, so snotty...so rawkin'...so METAL.  

That's it, I'm going to lunch and crank up Monkey Bars!

[EC]

I think I need to have you make me the ultimate Metal mixed cd, John.

In return, I could make one for you of the saddest songs on the planet.   :'(  (hahaha - but I could, if you wanted)

And again, I've taken a thread far far from it's origins.

Punk is cool, who agrees?

[Jellyfish]

When you mention punk rock,The Ramones should be the first that come to mind.RIP,Joey,Johnny,Dee Dee.

[marktwain]

I had the same experience this week, JC.  Found a punk/hardcore mix tape in my back seat, with Dead Milkmen's "bleach boys" among others.  Louisville's own Falling Forward made an appearance on the tape, too.

I came along a little late for punk, and was somewhat sheltered growing up in small town KY, but in middle school my best friend's older brother turned us onto Violent Femmes, Vomit Spots, Bad Brains.   A couple of years later, I ran across the Buzzcocks, Husker Du, etc.

It wasn't until I moved to Louisville that I started finding current punk and hardcore bands (hadn't even heard of Fugazi or Minor Threat before '95!)

[TheLink]

i am from Boston and we consider the Dropkick Murphys punk.  is this a correct genre, or should they just be considered loud crap.  I like em, but bagpipes and all that with yelling Irish dudes, what the heck is it?  anyone?

[Specialist]

The Fall, Iggy and the Stooges, The Ramones, Suicide, Joy Division?

i'm not sure if those are "real punk," but that's all that comes to mind.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

I got Susan this kick ass live Joy Division from 1979 in Paris, and if that's not punk, then I'm Anita Bryant.

Dropkick Murphy's are a variant of ska-tinged, Irish punk.

The Ramones are first and foremost the granddaddy's of punk, of course.

and tundra, "bleach boys" was also on my mix cd.  hmmmmmmmm.....

"we're not a drunken bunch of frat boys, drunk on beers...or a stoned bunch of hippies with no careers..."

hhheeeehehehheheh

[ratsprayer]

Triumph was also a 70s-80s metal product.  

triumph is excellent, i think.  i grew up on that shit.    ;)

[tomEisenbraun]

Triumph is canadian? yes!!!

[dragonboy]

Used to love a bit of punk when I was young & angry! Misfits, Black Flag, Social Distortion & the Pistols etc. You've prompted me to dig some out & give them another listen.

Any Misfits fans like Glen Danzig? Is that guy for real? They used to call him the Evil Elvis in the UK Metal Press.  ;D