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Being as its Johnny Lydons 60th this weekend and the 40th Birthday of punk this Year. It would be remiss not to post our favourite punk/New wave tunes.
"What a Rotter.."
[Post edited 29 Jan 2016 17:25]
The Duke Of New York. A-Number One.
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Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 09:37 - Jan 31 with 2297 views
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 19:33 - Jan 29 by londonscottish
From my home town. 1978. I was 14 at the time.
Bloody good call. I saw them back in the 1970s as the Revillos and then as the Rezillos (or was it the other way round?). I remember them in crazy suits with lights on the shoulder pads. I just saw them a few months ago. They are certainly a lot older but it was a great gig -- about 200 people tops in a smallish side room of a pub.
If I am going to pick something, it'd have to be Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers -- I know a video has already been posted of them doing it recently and they still put on a great show. They have been here at least three times int he last decade. The crowd is always a weird mix of young teenage punks and middle aged blokes. Stiff Little Fingers live has more power than a case full of dynamite:
Wife and kids out. I've been having a 90 minutes Ruts revival. Loved that band. Great tunes and tight as fck. They must have been blinding live. Still remember when Malcolm Owen ended it. Very sad day.
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 18:58 - Jan 30 by CroydonCaptJack
Yeh, hard to believe Adam and the Ants were originally punks. They had some proper hardcore fans as well. I wonder what they did with their tattoos when he started on that Prince Charming stuff
He's still got his hard-core fans if the crowd who turned up at the Hammersmith Appollo is anything to go by.
Did the full Dirk wears white sox set before moving onto the later more pop stuff
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 09:40 - Jan 31 by isawqpratwcity
And something that pre-dated punk by ten years...
Ha!
I just opened this thread and as I scanned from page to page all I could think of was how no-one had put Television up. Beat me to it Isaw.
I loved punk as a kid. Was into Sex Pistols as a seven-year old (me and the hard lads from our village in second class!), but very little of it lasted with me. Once I heard ska, two-tone, Cure and indie, the punk fad ended for me.
The one band that I still listen to is Television, the one album is the imperious Marquee Moon. It's a thing of beauty. Raw, frightening, menacing beauty. Apart from the title track that Isaw posted, the album's full of gems.
Here's one more:-
PS. Great thread, Disco!
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"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 10:48 - Jan 31 by izlingtonhoop
Oh dear. I was wondering only half an hour ago when someone would make this mistake.
Thinking about it, as I haven't since that track came out - and I was actually in the fourth form - not only is this particular example of the Rats' excrable ouvre Bobby the Punk clown making an arse of himself, it's a load of men in their twenties singing about a 14-15 year old being sexy.
Don't think it would get far today...
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Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 18:55 - Jan 31 with 2109 views
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 18:03 - Jan 31 by izlingtonhoop
Thinking about it, as I haven't since that track came out - and I was actually in the fourth form - not only is this particular example of the Rats' excrable ouvre Bobby the Punk clown making an arse of himself, it's a load of men in their twenties singing about a 14-15 year old being sexy.
Don't think it would get far today...
Black Flag, 'kin love black flag, hugely influential in america.
This song still gets me barking the lyrics along with it after too many years...
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Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 19:08 - Jan 31 with 2089 views
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 17:09 - Jan 31 by BrianMcCarthy
Ha!
I just opened this thread and as I scanned from page to page all I could think of was how no-one had put Television up. Beat me to it Isaw.
I loved punk as a kid. Was into Sex Pistols as a seven-year old (me and the hard lads from our village in second class!), but very little of it lasted with me. Once I heard ska, two-tone, Cure and indie, the punk fad ended for me.
The one band that I still listen to is Television, the one album is the imperious Marquee Moon. It's a thing of beauty. Raw, frightening, menacing beauty. Apart from the title track that Isaw posted, the album's full of gems.
Here's one more:-
PS. Great thread, Disco!
[Post edited 31 Jan 2016 17:19]
I agree with you Brian but I've posted Marquee Moon quite a few times on music threads and I decided I'd sound like a stuck record if I put it up again.
Talking of stuck records I had the Germfree Adolescents album and my cousin had asked if I could record a copy for her to take back home with her after her holiday (many years ago - we were both teenagers). I left mum with the tape and the task of recording it. She didn't know the LP tracks and when I got back she said that one of the tracks had been really repetitive only to find out that the recording had got to the Plastic Bag track and the record had stuck on the 'My mind' bit of the line 'My mind is like a plastic bag' bit and she'd carried on till the tape ran out. So here's the unstuck version
I see that there is talk of who is more punk than who but that really wasn't the question - we could all name the most heavy punk track we can remember but the question was what were your favourite tracks and quite honestly, in my opinion, the more heavy stuff hasn't lasted the test of time to the older ear, only the more melodic stuff. I can't see that the early Ultravox is any less punk than some of the other stuff that it is acceptable to call punk so here's a lump of Throbbing Gristle
[Post edited 31 Jan 2016 19:44]
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Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 19:44 - Jan 31 with 2064 views
Middle aged Punk 40 this year. on 18:03 - Jan 31 by izlingtonhoop
Thinking about it, as I haven't since that track came out - and I was actually in the fourth form - not only is this particular example of the Rats' excrable ouvre Bobby the Punk clown making an arse of himself, it's a load of men in their twenties singing about a 14-15 year old being sexy.
Don't think it would get far today...
Oh .I wondered whether that's what you meant... I was in the 2nd form at that time so I was well in order.
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