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Posted: December 21 2013 at 11:09
The Melvins' earliest LPs from back when they were more of an eccentric punk band than a heavy psychedelic rock group, Gluey Porch Treatments and Ozma, are worth a listen too. It's sort of the same "slow punk" style as later Black Flag, Flipper and early Swans but with Captain Beefheart's surrealist vignette approach to songwriting. Bullhead has a bit of that too.
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The Clash Stiff Little Fingers Anti-Nowhere League The Exploited Sham 69 Peter & The Test-tube Babies
These bands should all have been mentioned before now, surely?
"Peter & The Test-tube Babies"?? With a name like that I'm definitely checking that one out.
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Hmm, trying to think who hasn't been mentioned.....
X-Ray Spex - the late Poly Styrene was the godmother of the "riot grrrl" movement D.O.A. - they were to Canada what the DKs were to America Napalm Death - the genesis of grindcore, heavily influenced by punk - try Scum Bad Religion - No Control and Against the Grain were their peak
I'll see if I can think of any others.
I totally forgot about Scum, an album I have enjoyed but never owned in any format. I do have a slight interest in the thrash/grindcore/death metal scene, but that's another topic for another time.
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I believe that Killing Joke's finest work would be 'Night Time', a great LP, much better than their first two albums.
Siouxsie and the Banshees debut LP is also highly recommended.
Don't forget Television's 'Marquee Moon' and Swans' 'Children of God'.
"Eighties" is my favorite KJ song, good reason to check out Night Time.
I do have S&tB's debut (the only Siouxsie in my collection actually), it reminds me of The Cure's debut which was also quite Punk in it's sound.
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 11:47
I also guess this is the best thread possible to mention that the Boredoms' Onanie Bomb Meets the Sex Pistols is the greatest album in human history.
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:23
The Boomtown Rats - A Tonic For the Troops (1978). Their first album was straight up punk but by Tonic, their second, their sound was growing more adventurous and varied. Punk/NewWave awesomeness.
The Pop Group - Y (1979) . Debut album by a really out there Post-Punk band.
Then the obvious punk/post-punk bands to recommend to progheads ... starting with XTC - Black Sea (1980):
Cardiacs - A Little Man And a House And The Whole World Window (1988). Pronk (prog-punk)
And This Heat, a post-punk band who are actually listed on PA under RIO/Avant, their album Deceit (1981) is fantastic:
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TheGazzardian wrote:
The Boomtown Rats - A Tonic For the Troops (1978). Their first album was straight up punk but by Tonic, their second, their sound was growing more adventurous and varied. Punk/NewWave awesomeness.
I think that by 1978/9, a raft of UK bands which had started out with stripped down, anarchistic punk intentions ala Sex Pistols had jumped the shark and become more mainstream, such as The Boomtown Rats, Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Damned, Tenpole Tudor, as they saw the New Wave paycheck beckoning...
I'm no Punk expert, but lived through this period in the UK, in a locality where Punk was a far more vibrant scene than metal. Anyway, bands like SLF and The Clash tended to stay true to their roots, during this period.
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 13:01
I was a big punk/hardcore fan in the 80s before I was a prog fan, so I have a lot of affection for that era of music. I'd also urge you to get into the Minutemen right away, they were one of the greats, even though they barely resembled "punk" at times. They were just really original.
My favorite punk album is by a band no one (I think) has mentioned yet, the Subhumans (UK), and their album "From the Cradle to the Grave". It features an excellent side-long epic (the title track) so that should excite your prog glands as well. It's just an all around intense, deep, incredible album.
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 13:04
Other great American groups not a lot of people mention
Naked Raygun ("All Rise" is my favorite)
The Effigies (most of their stuff is out of print, but if you can find "Remains Nonviewable", a compliation of their early stuff, get it. Also their recent reunion full-length, Reside, is quite good).
Both from Chicago
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Horizons wrote:
Another suggestion would be Slint's Spiderland. It's cited as a proto-math rock album plenty, but it's also a very post-punky album in my opinion.
Anyone agree?
Slint actually grew out of a hardcore/proto-emo band called Squirrel Bait, so they've definitely got their roots in that scene. Slint was one of the main groups to provide a bridge between two dissimilar kinds of music I enjoyed.
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Posted: December 22 2013 at 06:57
Here's a few recommendations:
The Gun Club - 'Fire Of Love' (from 1981, the original & coolest pollination of angry punk and bluesy American roots music...'Miami' is great too) The Germs - '(GI)' (by one of the first California punk bands; from 1979 it features legendary train-wreck Darby Crash as well as Pat Smear who would much later become quite rich with The Foo Fighters) Big Boys & The Dicks 'Live At Rauls' (split album from 1980 with Big Boys on one side & The Dicks on the other, great stuff with Big Boys funk inflections and The Dicks raging blues (huge influence on Mudhoney)) Suicidal Tendencies - self titled (early 'crossover' classic, it has "Institutionalized"...'nuff said) D.R.I. - Dealing With It (hyper-fast hardcore aided by Kurt's wildly enthusiastic vocals)
I could go on...went through a punk/hardcore/crossover stage growing up.
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