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Buy the box set called "No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion"

Also, buy the Misfits boxed set, and buy "20 Years of Dischord"

Some of my favorite punk bands

WIRE
The Misfits
Big Black
Mission of Burma
Fugazi (and bands that led up to it- Happy Go Licky, Rites of Spring, Minor Threat)
The Ramones
The Stooges
Gang of Four

oh, also buy everything from the Stooges and the Velvet Underground and the Ramones.

Also, search high and low for IMPORT comps from small labels with maybe one recognizable punk band on it and a bunch of other stuff. I got a comp from the late 70's with Gang of Four, Mekons, Human League (before they sucked), 3.2, Scars, and the Flowers on it.

AWESOME stuff. The more obscure and the less material a band put out (IE Scars, Flowers, Crime) the better.

Edit: I noticed someone mentioned Naked Raygun- Basement Screams is a {censored}ing awesome album.

Awesome Naked Raygun promo video:

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I made a mixcd filled with early punk stuff that i sent out to some friends in Kansas City a few days ago it is:

Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso
the Pop Group - She is Beyond Good and Evil
Talking Heads - Drugs
Mink Deville - Let Me Dream if I want To
Johnny Thunders and the Heart Breakers - Chinese Rocks
New York Dolls - Trash
Television - See No Evil
The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy
James White and the Blacks - Stained Sheets
Captain Beefheart - I Love You, You Big Dummy
the Damned - New Rose
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
the Mekons - Where Were You?
Pere Ubu - Final Solution
the Fall - Wings
The Stranglers - Peaches
Liliput - Ring-a-ding-Dong
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Richard Hell - Blank Generation
Lou Reed - Waves of Fear (my favorite solo ever, courtesy of one of my favorite players, Bob Quine.)
Johnny Thunders - It's Not Enough

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take a look here. it's bunch of mp3's from TONS of old punk bands. A lot of them, but maybe not all of them, are good. I'd reccomend you some specifics but really you're better off just going down the list and listening untill you find things you like. there's a lot, including a bunch of what was already mentioned here. enjoy. :)


http://punkmodpop.free.fr/mp3.htm


also, The Exploding Hearts (pretty new, not on that site) are an excellent band if you like the '77 style power pop punk.

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Originally posted by Klisk

New punk bands that sound exactly like old punk bands really aren't very punk rock at all.
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They're a really solid, great band. There a bands there are much more derivative and deserving of such criticisms than those guys.

Besides, some of them have Drive Like Jehu under their belt!

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Originally posted by llllllllllllllllllllllll

They're a really solid, great band. There a bands there are much more derivative and deserving of such criticisms than those guys.


Besides, some of them have Drive Like Jehu under their belt!



I just make jokes. :wave:

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also:

La Peste (they were on a really good Boston Comp., on Rhino's DIY series; it was called Mass Ave & can be found at amazon)

Chrome ('79-'83)

Plasmatics
'Oi poloi (sp?)
english dogs
virus
sin34
fear

Modern Lovers- She Cracked
Killing Joke
The Sound-All fall down


Originally posted by fearofnightmare

Get this album NOW.


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This is all you need to know about Punk, and Rock music in general.

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Originally posted by llllllllllllllllllllllll

I made a mixcd filled with early punk stuff that i sent out to some friends in Kansas City a few days ago it is:


Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

the Pop Group - She is Beyond Good and Evil

Talking Heads - Drugs

Mink Deville - Let Me Dream if I want To

Johnny Thunders and the Heart Breakers - Chinese Rocks

New York Dolls - Trash

Television - See No Evil

The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy

James White and the Blacks - Stained Sheets

Captain Beefheart - I Love You, You Big Dummy

the Damned - New Rose

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer

the Mekons - Where Were You?

Pere Ubu - Final Solution

the Fall - Wings

The Stranglers - Peaches

Liliput - Ring-a-ding-Dong

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Richard Hell - Blank Generation

Lou Reed - Waves of Fear (my favorite solo ever, courtesy of one of my favorite players, Bob Quine.)

Johnny Thunders - It's Not Enough

 

 

 

good news, i'm in KC

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"punk" album essentials (sez me, with some postpunk thrown in)

the who: sing my generation; meaty beaty big and bouncy

velvet underground: the velvet underground: he velvet undergound and nico; white light white heat; loaded

alice cooper: love it to death

iggy and the stooges: the stooges; fun house; raw power

new york dolls: new york dolls; too much too soon (also david johansen's first solo record: reeeeall goood.)

jonathan richman and the modern lovers: the modern lovers

sex pistols: never mind the bollocks
(mojambo has most everything right, but there's no way you can overrate the pistols, and the proofs in here...)

dammned: dammned dammned dammned; the black album

stranglers: rattus norveigicus; no more heroes; black and white

the jam: in the city

undertones: undertones; hypnotized; positive touch

that petrol emotion: manic pop thrill

vibrators: pure mania

heartbreakers: l.a.m.f

stiv bators: diconnected

magazine: real life; secondhand daylight

saints: I'm stranded; eternally yours

only ones: (usa record special view will do to get you started)

chris spedding: hurt

richard hell: blank generation; destiny street

mc5: kick out the jams

pere ubu: modern dance (at least)

rocket from the tombs: the day the earth met the...; rocket redux

television: marquee moon; adventure

dictators: go girl crazy; manifest destiny; bloodbrothers (probably best to buy these in reverse order)

minute men: double nickels on a dime

husker du: flip your wig

curtiss a: courtesy cutiss a

reigning sound: time bomb high school

replacements: let it be

real kids: real kids

generation x: generation x

wire: pink flag; chairs missing; 154

mission of burma: signals, calls, and marches

gang of four: entertainment

xtc: black and white; go2

bill nelson: red noise

vic godard and the subway sect: what's the matter boy

orange juice: the orange juice

joy division: unknown pleasures; closer

swell maps: international rescue


...all i can think of now....a good start tho fer sure...

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Originally posted by Televator

Punk's O.K., but post-punk is more my preference; think of it as applied punk (like applied science). How about:


Mission of Burma -

Signals, Calls and Marches
or
Vs.


Gang of Four -
Entertainment!

 

 

Post-punk to me is part of the natural progression of punk.

 

In the late 70's, the theory of punk was to do your own thing how you wanna do it, not follow some punk-rock rubrick or something.

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Originally posted by theweight

The entire SST catalog of the early to mid 80s was genius. Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Descendents, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, Meat Puppets. The only thing that even comes close to that amount of talent is early Dischord.

 

 

SST and Dischord were pretty different entities- Dischord was regional, SST was national.

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Originally posted by SpectralJulian

SST and Dischord were pretty different entities- Dischord was regional, SST was national.

 

 

If you want to get technical, sure. But most bands on SST came from California. I was only talking in a sense of how much talent a label puts out. By your scale, Dischord has it all over SST in that all their acts were part of a small scene, and that's fine. What was the big LA label back then? Alternative Tentacles? Eww.

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Originally posted by SpectralJulian

Post-punk to me is part of the natural progression of punk.


In the late 70's, the theory of punk was to do your own thing how you wanna do it, not follow some punk-rock rubrick or something.

 

 

So,.... we're in agreement then?

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Originally posted by theweight

If you want to get technical, sure. But most bands on SST came from California. I was only talking in a sense of how much talent a label puts out. By your scale, Dischord has it all over SST in that all their acts were part of a small scene, and that's fine. What was the big LA label back then? Alternative Tentacles? Eww.

 

 

Not saying Dischord is better, but that it is hard to compare them because they are different animals. Dischords discography is like a cultural and historical record of a group of people in DC and that fascinates me.

 

Sonic Youth is my favorite band of all time though.

 

Touch and Go was another cool 80's label, and it still has good stuff to this day.

 

 

 

And yes Televator, we're in agreement. I'm just sort of pointing out how the difference between post-punk and punk at the time wasn't as big a deal as it is now.

 

When I think of punk, I always think of music with that attitude more than music with that sound.

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