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Topic: Help me build a Punk music collection
Posted By: catfood03
Subject: Help me build a Punk music collection
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:37
After I am done shopping for others this holiday season I am looking to start building a nice collection of classic punk albums for myself. I know this style of music is often considered the antithesis of what progressive music is all about, but it is my hope there are enough of you with appreciation for both

Here are the first punk albums on my list I am looking to purchase...

Black Flag - Damaged
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
Descendants - Milo Goes to College
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People (is this "punk"?)

I am primarily interested in recordings from punk's inception (including any proto-punk recommendations) up to around when Green Day became famous (I actually love many GD's songs, but I am trying to fill in the gap before punk got absorbed into the pop charts)

The specific albums I listed above are a bit more hardcore/"pure punk", but post-punk suggestions (Joy Division, Wire, PiL, etc) is also welcome.

I'll reveal if I already own some of the more popular suggestions.



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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:41
At the Drive-In is a band i immediately suggest.  

Relationship of Command is their pinnacle. 


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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:45
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

At the Drive-In is a band i immediately suggest.  

Relationship of Command is their pinnacle. 


Good suggestion. An appropriate one for this site since the progressive-minded Mars Volta was spun from that band.


Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:47
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

At the Drive-In is a band i immediately suggest.  

Relationship of Command is their pinnacle. 


Good suggestion. An appropriate one for this site since the progressive-minded Mars Volta was spun from that band.

Exactly, my good sir. 

TMV is my favorite band so it's practically automatic LOL


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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:50
Rites of Spring
Dead Kennedys
Converge
Refused
Touche Amore
Drive Like Jehu
Defeater
Circle Takes the Square

A lot of these aren't pure punk, but are most definitely influenced by (and part of) the genre.


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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:53
Also: Would i be bad to mentioned The Smiths? Clown

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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 22:54
I am partial to post-punk, although it often strays pretty far from punk quite often. I suggest any of the Fall's 80s material (particularly This Nation's Saving Grace, Wonderful and Frightening World of..., and Hex Enduction Hour), Killing Joke's first two albums (s/t, and What's THIS for...!), and Savages newest (Silence Yourself).

If you're willing to get pretty far from trad punk I might also recommend This Heat and Chrome.

At the Drive-In is a good suggestion. If post-hardcore/emo is in the diet, Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu are great bands as well.




Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 23:02
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I am partial to post-punk, although it often strays pretty far from punk quite often. I suggest any of the Fall's 80s material (particularly This Nation's Saving Grace, Wonderful and Frightening World of..., and Hex Enduction Hour), Killing Joke's first two albums (s/t, and What's THIS for...!), and Savages newest (Silence Yourself).

If you're willing to get pretty far from trad punk I might also recommend This Heat and Chrome.

At the Drive-In is a good suggestion. If post-hardcore/emo is in the diet, Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu are great bands as well.




I have those first two Killing Joke albums, both are indeed fantastic.

I don't yet have any music by The Fall, so I will have to investigate their massive discography.

Chrome is awesome (I have a nice box set of their music)


Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 23:03
Originally posted by Luna Luna wrote:

Rites of Spring
Dead Kennedys
Converge
Refused
Touche Amore
Drive Like Jehu
Defeater
Circle Takes the Square

A lot of these aren't pure punk, but are most definitely influenced by (and part of) the genre.


Those are all new names for me (except DK).


Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 23:10
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Originally posted by Luna Luna wrote:

Rites of Spring - classic post-hardcore band of the late 80s
Dead Kennedys
Converge - 50/50 punk-metal, the loudest, angriest band you'll ever hear (late 90s-present)
Refused - kinda post-hardcore-y but also with experimental edges (mid-late 90s)
Touche Amore - emotional post-hardcore with incredibly short songs with emphasis on lyrics (10s- present)
Drive Like Jehu - key inspiration for At the Drive-In. Melodic with meandering sections (mid-late 90s)
Defeater - modern post-hardcore with conceptual albums (10s-present)
Circle Takes the Square - post-rock + screamo (00s-present)

A lot of these aren't pure punk, but are most definitely influenced by (and part of) the genre.


Those are all new names for me (except DK).
In that case, I'll elaborate on each band's style a bit.


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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 23:12
Minutemen

They were one of the best. 



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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 04:28
My countrymen Iceage are worth a listen, they're a new band strongly influenced by The Fall, Killing Joke and Wire. I even wager they would be as famous as those three had they been around back in the late '70s/early '80s. As far as the noisier stuff goes, you'd do well to check out Nick Cave's old band The Birthday Party and (if you can get used to the weird vocals) Scratch Acid as well as their later incarnation The Jesus Lizard.

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 04:38
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 05:33
There is a certain 'punky' attitude in Peter Hammill's 1975 album 'Nadir's Big Chance' and perhaps the late-70's incarnation of 'Van Der Graaf' - (minus the 'Generator'). Daevid Allen had a certain punk approach on things like New York Gong's 'About Time' album, and even 'Here And Now'. Again, late-70's Hawkwind ventures into Punk-like territory. Nik Turner (he of Hawkwind) assembled a Punk band called 'Inner City Unit' and had a blast !! These are Progressive artists dabbling in this wave of 'Punk' music and coming up with great results.


Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 05:49
Not to mention that Motörhead's a huge influence on the more metallic end of British hardcore punk, Amebix and Discharge in particular.

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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 06:17
Mudhoney

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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 06:36
Not mentioned yet:

Circle Jerks
Fear
The Damned
The Misfits



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Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 07:53
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I am partial to post-punk, although it often strays pretty far from punk quite often. I suggest any of the Fall's 80s material (particularly This Nation's Saving Grace, Wonderful and Frightening World of..., and Hex Enduction Hour), Killing Joke's first two albums (s/t, and What's THIS for...!), and Savages newest (Silence Yourself).

If you're willing to get pretty far from trad punk I might also recommend This Heat and Chrome.

At the Drive-In is a good suggestion. If post-hardcore/emo is in the diet, Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu are great bands as well.




I have those first two Killing Joke albums, both are indeed fantastic.

I don't yet have any music by The Fall, so I will have to investigate their massive discography.

Chrome is awesome (I have a nice box set of their music)

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'.


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 08:00
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?


Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 08:17
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.



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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 10:59
Don't worry about repeating others' suggestions. If anything, it indicates an artist/title I should check out.


Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date 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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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 11:16
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

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"?? LOL With a name like that I'm definitely checking that one out.


Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

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. Geek

Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:



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. 


Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 11:38
Don't forget The Stooges! And no mention of The Ramones? Also:



A great post-punk jewel from my country! Big smile


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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date 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 By: Jared
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:15
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Peter & The Test-tube Babies"?? LOL With a name like that I'm <span ="st">definitely</span> checking that one out


yes, check out their album, Pissed n Proud...


Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date 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:




Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:31
Parquet Courts' Light Up Gold is a good one from this year.

Mission of Burma is another great post-punk band.


Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:35


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:43
Originally posted by TheGazzardian 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.


Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:45
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? 


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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 12:54
Forgot about Big Black and Steve Albini's other stuff. Definitely worth checking out.

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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date 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 By: HolyMoly
Date 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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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 13:22
Originally posted by Horizons 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 By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 16:24
I always liked The Clash and the Sex Pistols....two originals in the game...and Television and The Stranglers.
Forgot The Buzzcocks, Husker Du, and of course...Green day. 


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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 17:29
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

and of course...Green day. 

... killl


killllllllllllllllll


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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 22:39
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

and of course...Green day. 

... killl


killllllllllllllllll
Oh my...those teenage hormones acting up again..?
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date 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.
 


Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 07:46
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:


Suicidal Tendencies
D.R.I.

You should point out that although both bands started out as hardcore punk, they both quickly morphed into thrash metal bands.


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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:03
This may be an outsider rec, but check out Suicide's first two albums. Electronic punk if there ever was such a thing. Gloomy, desolate, raw and strangely melodic - I also really dig the vocals. 
Anyway Suicide is one of the most influential, albeit oddly obscure punk artists from the 70s - at least from the American scene. I've seen many punk n post-punk acts mention them as a huge inspiration. I can't remember where I saw it, but there was also a film about the American punk scene, where Suicide was compared with The Velvet Underground - not soundwise though, It was suggested that every kid who went to a gig of theirs winded up making their own band.



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Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:16
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:


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. 
You should also get Tinderbox ,which is one of the best post-punk albums ever.



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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:16
Also check out Turbonegro, whose satire of not just early punk but also 1970s glam rock (early David Bowie, Slade, The Sweet etc) actually is on the same level of musical quality as the classics in the genres they make fun of. Surefire contenders for the title of funniest band in modern rock. (they got a new singer on their latest album, which might take some time getting used to)









They're the kind of "gimmick band" who wouldn't work anywhere as well without the central gimmick, something you don't find often.


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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:23
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:


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)
Yes, two more great ones I grew up with.  In fact, Suicidal T's debut was my first hardcore album.  I was working in a record store in Miami, and when the store was closing and the cashiers were tallying up their registers, sometimes they'd put that album (brand new at the time).  I was totally shocked and fascinated by it.  I wasn't even sure I liked it, but it was so thrilling I bought my own copy anyway.

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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:24
Speaking of crossover thrash, if you aren't put off by very "politically incorrect" lyrics check out the mighty CARNIVORE, the late great Peter Steele's band before Type O Negative. Basically, imagine what a collaboration between Manowar and GG Allin would sound like.


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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 08:25
^^^I've seen a few of gigs of theirs, and they were great - or maybe that was the booze talking. Roskilde festival shows are always hard to recollect, I find...  
Anyway I went ahead and bought an album of theirs based on the strength of that gig, Ass Cobra, and it wasn't what I was expecting. I don't think I've played it more than twice actuallyEmbarrassed 


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Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: December 22 2013 at 13:11
johnny thunders and the heartbreakers


Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 02:59
The Screamers. Another of the L.A. punk pioneers.

and anything with Jello Biafra including his spoken word albums.


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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 04:59
In the spirit of season I present a couple songs by Fossil Fuel, the dumbest band on the planet.








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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 05:02
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

^^^I've seen a few of gigs of theirs, and they were great - or maybe that was the booze talking. Roskilde festival shows are always hard to recollect, I find...  
Anyway I went ahead and bought an album of theirs based on the strength of that gig, Ass Cobra, and it wasn't what I was expecting. I don't think I've played it more than twice actuallyEmbarrassed 
Turbonegros live sounds is damn near closer to thrash metal then to punk in my (y)ears, very bottom heavy and dirty, more like slayer then a punk band

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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 05:04
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

^^^I've seen a few of gigs of theirs, and they were great - or maybe that was the booze talking. Roskilde festival shows are always hard to recollect, I find...  
Anyway I went ahead and bought an album of theirs based on the strength of that gig, Ass Cobra, and it wasn't what I was expecting. I don't think I've played it more than twice actuallyEmbarrassed 
Turbonegros live sounds is damn near closer to thrash metal then to punk in my (y)ears, very bottom heavy and dirty, more like slayer then a punk band

That's probably pretty accurate AgiSmile


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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 05:08
and they are alsp quite good musicians, Kurt Schreiner is a music genius and a seriously rock composer, sheck out the band Euroboys, very psychedelic and heavy

as for Punk try Norwegian acts Raga Rockers and Kjøtt (Meat)



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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 05:35
The bottom-end heaviness in TN's live sound probably comes from the early-1980s hardcore punk style which had a lot of musical overlap with the Motörhead/Venom type of speed metal that was popular at the time. (including to some extent the first Slayer LP) Not that much ideological overlap, mind you: There was a hilarious feud between Black Flag and Venom back then based entirely in each group finding the other's stage banter goofy as hell...

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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 06:04
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:


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)
Yes, two more great ones I grew up with.  In fact, Suicidal T's debut was my first hardcore album.  I was working in a record store in Miami, and when the store was closing and the cashiers were tallying up their registers, sometimes they'd put that album (brand new at the time).  I was totally shocked and fascinated by it.  I wasn't even sure I liked it, but it was so thrilling I bought my own copy anyway.


My intro to Suicidal Tendencies was from, believe it or not, the Repo Man soundtrack my friend had. I remember hearing "Institutionalized" and thinking, "this is insane...I need this!"

I'm a huge fan of 80s crossover acts, although despite being a metal fan, I actually prefer many of these acts when they leaned to the punk side of things (rawer & faster) than when they polished up their sound and grew their hair longer.

I'm also figuring out that my taste in US hardcore leans to the west coast far more than the east coast. I never could get into the straightforward brutish bands like Agnostic Front despite owning a couple of their albums.




Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 07:41
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

The bottom-end heaviness in TN's live sound probably comes from the early-1980s hardcore punk style which had a lot of musical overlap with the Motörhead/Venom type of speed metal that was popular at the time. (including to some extent the first Slayer LP) Not that much ideological overlap, mind you: There was a hilarious feud between Black Flag and Venom back then based entirely in each group finding the other's stage banter goofy as hell...
have you heard any Raga Rockers, or Kjøtt, ?, if you have Spotify i highly recommend Ragas first album The Return of the Raga Rockers, dark punk of gloomy post punky flavor 

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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 23 2013 at 12:50
Been recommended them, by a Norwegian associate of mine. (Lasse Holmberg Josephsen, who sometimes writes for Vice Magazine offshoot webzine Street Carnage)

Now, here's some more respectable stuff:

Syphilitic Vaginas


Brainbombs


Sockeye



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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 18:06
I want to say a big thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. There seems to be so many bands playing music in this style that I think we could easily populate a "Punk Archives" site. This is good. It means I have much to explore. Looking forward to more recommendations if anyone has any to offer.

From reviewing all the posts so far it seems there is no one particular band that got an avalanche of recommendations, but I saw The Minutemen, At the Drive-In, Drive Like Jehu, Fear, and This Heat at least a couple times.

I have a couple of bands I'd like to offer as recent discoveries of my own...

I didn't see anyone mention Crass. The only words I can make out start with the letter F, but it sounds like my cup of tea.


I also recently saw the The Punk Singer a new documentary about Kathleen Hanna, the frontwoman for "riot grrrl" band Bikini Kill. I want to find more female fronted bands like her's.



Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 18:18
On a side note, if you want to dig some classic female punkish music, check out the first Nina Hagen album, it's great !



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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 18:54
Crass kick ass!Headbanger

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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 19:10
Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

On a side note, if you want to dig some classic female punkish music, check out the first Nina Hagen album, it's great !



Didn't know she was connected to the punk scene. I'll check her stuff out.


Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 19:41
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Crass kick ass!Headbanger

Totally!


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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 19:49
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Crass kick ass!Headbanger

Totally!


I'm looking at Feeding the 5000 or Christ - The Album to start with


Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 21:27
Here's a recent punk discovery from this now passing year. I like this! Thumbs Up



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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: December 24 2013 at 21:34
Metal and Punk fusion with death defying theatrics.
The Plasmatics.
Mature Audience.



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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 25 2013 at 03:48
So that's where Miley Cyrus got her new look from...

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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: December 25 2013 at 20:24
I just remembered that the first nighttime show I went to by a band with actual albums out was The Rhythm Pigs. An under-appreciated act and awesome live...when they did a cover of the Peanuts theme the pit went beserk. It didn't hurt that just before they started, the singer yelled out "Charlie Brown was a skinhead!" Their style leaned towards Husker Du, but had a hardcore base to it.

 


Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 26 2013 at 04:28
On the subject of female-fronted punk, what's the skinny on Melt-Banana? I've got my hands on their Charlie album but haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. (as you can see I generally prefer the noisier or more experimental types of punk over stuff that's too close to "normal" rock music)


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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: December 26 2013 at 06:50
Well, if you like the noisier & more experimental stuff, then Melt Banana certainly fits that description. Charlie is a pretty good introduction, although I prefer the followup 'Teeny Shiny' more as it's more eclectic yet still frenetic (what a raging sound for "First Contact to Planet Q"!) as well as the release prior to Charlie, 'Scratch Or Stitch', which is a more direct and faster assault on the senses...I think you'd dig that one a lot.

I haven't actually listened to their later releases as 2003 album 'Cell-Scape' was a shift in style I wasn't into as much...I should check them out someday as my music tastes have sorta branched out as well.


Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 26 2013 at 19:41
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

On the subject of female-fronted punk, what's the skinny on Melt-Banana?


They just released a new album a couple months ago called Fetch




Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 26 2013 at 20:05
Originally posted by Pastor Rex Cat Pastor Rex Cat wrote:

Metal and Punk fusion with death defying theatrics.
The Plasmatics.


They're quite... rowdy, even by Punk standards. Shocked


Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: December 26 2013 at 22:44
YDI - A Place in the Sun favorite hardcore 
Siege - most brutal hardcore
VOID - split with Faith great hardcore
Six Finger Satellite 
Arab On Radar
Suburban Lawns
Capsule
Koro
The Spits
Pink and Brown
Deep Wound (Dinosaur Jr. before Dinosaur Jr.)
X-Ray Spex
Memorial Voice - interesting mix of french coldwave and punk
pg. 99
Neon
Plastics - if you like Melt. Banana
Stereolab
iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook - screamo favorite
innards
saetia
Daisuck & Prostitute


Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 27 2013 at 18:49
^ Stereolab?


Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 27 2013 at 19:00
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

^ Stereolab?


Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 27 2013 at 20:01
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

On the subject of female-fronted punk, what's the skinny on Melt-Banana? I've got my hands on their Charlie album but haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. (as you can see I generally prefer the noisier or more experimental types of punk over stuff that's too close to "normal" rock music)


Mmm, love me some Melties.  Cell-Scape found them branching out with longer, less out-of-control songs, and its followup Bambi's Dilemma had a little of everything.






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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: December 27 2013 at 21:08
stereolab


Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 28 2013 at 09:13
then Stereolab it shall be Smile


Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: December 29 2013 at 02:52
D.O.A.
Since I missed their farewell show I may as well watch the video from that tour.



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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: December 29 2013 at 03:29
I remember this as being my first punk experience.
The Pretenders.



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