Favorite punk albums?
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Topic: Favorite punk albums?
Posted By: TheGrandWazoo123
Subject: Favorite punk albums?
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 00:49
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Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts is definitely one of the most underrated albums in history. Of course, the Ramones' debut is my favorite (I'm sure that goes without saying), but I love the big LC, too. ------------- "When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else." - Frank Zappa |
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 01:06
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At the Drive In - Relationship of Command Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come These Snakes Are Arms - Tail Swallower and Dove The Clash - London Calling Mihai Edrisch - l'un sans l'autre Mihai Edrisch - un jour sans lendemain Thrice - Artist In the Ambulance Thrice - Vheissu ------------- 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 01:34
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Dayglo Abortions - /wiki/Feed_Us_a_Fetus - Feed Us a Fetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayglo_Abortions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayglo_Abortions
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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 03:09
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My favorite punk album is Seige - Drop Dead. Awesome hardcore band that plays fast and uses odd time occasionally.
YDI - A Place in the Sun E.P.
Negative FX - NegativeFX/Last Rights split
Urban Waste - Urban Waste
Deep Wound - Deep Wound
Void - Condensed Flesh
SSD - Power
I really love me some good hardcore.
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 03:15
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I'm with Grand Wazoo. You can't beat the first Ramones album.
It's like one of three punk albums I like...and the other two are by the Ramones.
 EDIT: I take it back, I just remembered Damaged by Black Flag ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 03:21
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Posted By: Floyd1990
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 06:37
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The Clash - Debut, London Calling The Damned - Damned Damned Damned Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Ramones - Rocket To Russia Talking Heads - 77 (not classic punk but from the classic year...) Modern ones: Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (Dance punk) Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code (Celtic punk) Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (Gipsy punk) |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 06:46
| Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and Plastic Surgery Disasters by Dead Kennedys. |
Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 09:30
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Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy NOFX - White Trash, Two Heebs and a Been I like punk, but I still have a lot to discover. ------------- "Es ist übrigens unmöglich, eine Meinung zu haben, ohne dass es unerfreuliche Überschneidungen gibt. Die Grünen sind für den deutschen Wald, die NPD ebenfalls." |
Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 09:30
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Oh, and all the punk Sodom albums. xD
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 11:18
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The Adicts - Songs of praise
Ultravox - Ha!Ha!Ha!
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
The Misfits - Collection II
The Stranglers - Raven ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 12:23
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Not huge on the genre , but I definitely have to give props to: The Boomtown Rats - a Tonic For The Troops The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 13:50
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The Ramones first three
Crass : Feeding of the 5000
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
X-Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolescents
Stiff Litte Fingers: Inflammable Material
The Ruts: THe Crack
Damned: Damned and Machine Gun Etiquette
The Undertones: S/T
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 14:30
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows (12" single - never released an album)
Snatch - All I Want (7" single - never released an album)
Penetration - Moving Targets
The Raincoats - s/t
The Skids - Scared To Dance
The Slits - Cut
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 14:39
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The Ramone's Rocket to Russia.
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 18:21
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Most of these aren't "pure" punk, but.. Television - Marquee Moon Wipers - Youth of America Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance/Dub Housing The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 18:50
That little band from San Pedro CA. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 19:55
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Ramones ~ the debut and the Ramones Mania comp
The Clash ~ London Calling
Dead Kennedys ~ Fresh Fruit
X-Ray Spex ~ Germfree Adolescents
Bad Religion ~ No Control and Against the Grain
NoMeansNo ~ Wrong
Dropkick Murphys ~ Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Misfits ~ self-titled comp
Jello Biafra & D.O.A. ~ Last Scream Of the Missing Neighbors
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: June 10 2010 at 21:12
| The Clash-London Calling |
Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: June 11 2010 at 08:55
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Oh yeah, I forgot Bad Religion's Against The Grain and Suffer.
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 10:56
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Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X ------------- 
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 11:44
I've never really considered Unknown Pleasures as a punk album. If I did, though, it would definitely be my all-time favorite of them all. -------------
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Arrrghus wrote:Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 14:18
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The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Wire - Chairs Missing X-Ray Specs - Germ Free Adolesence The Clash - The Clash Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream The Mekons - The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen The Ramones - It's Alive (Live) ------------- 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 14:31
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Gun Club - Fire of Love (for managing to combine Robert Johnson with punk)
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist (mostly for 'Jock-o-Rama', and for Penis Landscape which Super Furry Animals copped on Love Kraft) ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: June 13 2010 at 14:42
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Posted By: Niv
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 05:52
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The Sufferer And The Witness - Rise Against The Living End (selftitled) And I'm not sure if you'd call them punk, but I consider them punk: So This Is Great Britain - The Holloways -------------  |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 07:03
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Inner City Unit's albums "The President Tapes", "Punkadelic" and most of all "Pass Out". Here a few videos of Inner City Unit live: -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 07:11
You're free to disagree on the punkness of this: This album made me a music freak. Some other favorites:      I do love some Ramones now and then, but I'm more a modern punk fan. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 07:40
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Everything by The Saints especially The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
plus Offspring's Smash! ------------- 
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 08:33
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I always thought of punk as a 45s type music. I have a nice collection of punk 45s. All the same, here are some fave punk LPs
Black Flag - Damaged DKs - Fresh Fruit ... SSD - Get it Away Fear - The Record Germs - What We do is Secret Green Day - Dookie PIL - Metal Box VU - White Light White Heat Devo - Are We not Men |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 15:14
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The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers - No More Heroes The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Wire - 154 The Clash - London Calling The Clash - Sandinista Siouxsie & The Banshees - JuJu XTC - Drums & Wires ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 17:16
The Stranglers are not punk; they just rode on the bus. But show me any punk band that has true polyphony, like the Stranglers have in many songs. The terms "polyphony" and "punk" are mutually exclusive, because polyphony is a highly complex musical form while punk is by definition simple. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 17:49
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Cardiacs' Songs for Ships and Irons and A Little Man and A House and the Whole World Window
Débile Menthol's Émile au jardin patrologique and Battre campagne
I also like The Brains. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 06:28
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Well, the topic is not prog-related, so avoid all the jazz-punk and pronk, and let's focus on the raw punk :
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 14:22
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Good stuff lucas. I've been getting into Dead Kennedys and Discharge lately.
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 14:37
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Yes. Thanks Lucas for getting the thread back on track.
Juju / Drums and Wires/ Are we not Men? / Metal Box / London Calling etc not really punk. (debateable though)
I would argue that No More Heroes, is though. I don't think punk means exclusively 3 chords ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 15:03
Many albums mentioned so far are not Punk, including the XTC one above. And <London XCalling. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 15:15
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Surprised no one has mentioned bad brains.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 15:48
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 17:12
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Oh yeah and punk was about singles really!
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 17:32
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 17:35
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 19:30
Nice to hear from the punk purists 
Punks were notorious for always trying to be the punkest and write off everyone else. In the US hardcore scene a lot of the Brit '77 styled punk listed here was considered music for posers with safety pins, weekend mohawks and leather jackets, as well as the Ramones too. X were considered to be total sell-outs for getting with a major label. You guys shouldn't worry about what is punk, it was different things to different people at different times in different parts of the globe. How many of you 'experts' were at the clubs in the late 70s and early 80s seeing these bands for real with the scars to prove it, or up on the stage opening for many of these bands. 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 20:44
Nah man, I spent the late 70s riding easy in my Chevy V8 enjoying the punch of Steve Walsh, Brad Delp and Lou Gramm screaming through the pungent smoke that filled the cab of my car ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 20:47
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^ contrary to the front they put up in their 'zines', California punks weren't as 'straight-edge' as they pretended to be, ha ha.
Which reminds me, I went to a punk club in Yugoslavia in 82 and it was a bunch of old hippies getting wasted on alcohol, in the US it would be young people with short hair and no alcohol at an all-ages club. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 15 2010 at 20:47
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I'm not much of a punk listener, but Walk Among Us by The Misfits is incredible. I also enjoy The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees quite a bit. ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:10
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^ yes the Misfits are great. And some may have forgotten that Beastie Boys were one of the major bands of the NY punk hardcore scene at their debut : Another fine US punk band Hüsker Dü (at least on their album 'Zen arcade' which is a pure wonder) : ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:44
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^ yeah the Beastie Boys were one of the few hardcore bands with a sense of humor, they also did a bizarre tour opening for Madonna, I suppose they were pals/associates in NYC. This was back when Madonna was the new disco/RnB singer with a punky look.
Some bands that came up through the San Francisco hardcore scene that went on to other things were PA's Nuerosis (originally Violent Coercion with glued up mohawks and everything), and Faith No Man (later called Faith No More with an added keyboard and more pop leanings). |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:46
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We Are the League - The Anti Nowhere League
False Gestures for a Devious Public - The Blood
Leather, Bristles, Studs, Sick Boys and No Survivors - (Charged) GBH
Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
It's Time to See Who's Who - Conflict
Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing - Discharge
Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited
Crash Course (Live) - UK Subs
New Day Rising - Husker Du ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:49
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^ Didn't known about the faith no man... Neurosis are somewhat cult in the hardcore circles. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:06
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London Calling by The Clash is so good.
Also, Boys Don't Cry is a bit post-punk but it's still good. ------------- Music is some kind of art. -- Anonymous |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:06
| I'm honestly just getting into punk music. Was never too big on much of it, but have been getting big into Dead Kennedys and Black Flag lately. I used to own that punk Beastie Boys album "Some Old Bullsh*t", and don't know why I got rid of it. It's quite an amusing album. |
Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:10
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The Wipers, The Buzzcocks and - if that still counts as punk - Nomeansno. I'm not much of a punk-head, more the post-punk type. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:11
Yes and we should stop debating 'what is prog?' while we're at it? I agree that peoples views vary but thats why we talk about these things? We like talking about these things. I think some of us just didn't want this to turn into another post punk thread as there are several of these doing the rounds at the moment.
I will obviously have to bow to your expertise!  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:23
I was going to write that The Misfits were the only punk band I was really ever into. Well, them and Athletico Spizz 80 (or Spizzenergi/Spizzles/Spizzoil/Spizz... they changed their name all the time), but they are quite complex. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 16:46
Ha ha, its all good. A lot of people don't realize how punk Devo was at first. Sure they were smarty-pants nerds and all that, but for their first couple tours they were very aggressive and in your face. While other new wave bands like T Heads and B 52s would stand on the stage like newby rock stars, Devo would mix up with the crowd, definitely not afraid of the gratuitous physical violence, they (at least their lead singer) loved it. After their first two albums they lost their edge. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 17:15
Yes you pick one of those impossible to define bands. I was lucky enough to see them in 78 on the bill with Genesis of all people! And at the time I thought they were punk - as did the fans who threw bottles at them!. Then if you look at their early recordings they could be seen as Artrock and then later they were pretty straight forward pop. They lost it completely.
They might have made a punk record with Are we Not men but I don't think so - even if they liked a scrap! I would have loved to see them at the time in a small club!------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 19:26
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^ I still think Slap your Mammy Down is punker than anything X ever did
I almost put Tallica's Kill em all on my list, that was number one with the west coast hardcore crowd when it came out. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 04:04
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London Calling (The Clash)
Outlandos D'amour,(the Police)
Rattus Norwegicus (Stranglers),
The Gift (The Jam)
Violent Femmes (debut)
The Modern Dance (Pere Ubu)
I'm sure I forget one or two as I write this. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 12:12
Ok I give in
Devo got punk sometimes! ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 19:04
| You know, that album with the disrespectful title by that self mutilating band... |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 19:13
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That narrows it down.
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: June 17 2010 at 19:18
"We Can't Dance" ? |
Posted By: jeniffer
Date Posted: June 18 2010 at 01:08
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The Dead Boys -- Young Loud and Snotty Minor Threat -- Complete Discography Bad Religion -- Suffer ________________ http://www.audiomicro.com/sound-effects/ - Sound Effects |