I always found punk to be similar to the hippie movement... an awful lot of unworkable ideals put forth by passionate yet naive young people. Consider Black Flag's song "TV Party" and the fact that Henry Rollins went on to gain mainstream fame on MTV...
I guess there's a large portion of that "flaw" in all music, and maybe all art.
Digression sorry.
I love Minor Threat:
And the band their leader went on to form, Fugazi:
Was glad to see leighton bring up TSP, pretty definitive from my perspective
And while punk is not everyone's cup of tea, damn if I didn't have some fun in that scene in late 70's while loitering about downtown Chicago.
Used to go to a club called lamiere de Piere. Place was off the hook
Went to see Lou reed at Beginnings ( club opened by the band Chicago) opening act was Ian Dury and the Blockheads
They stole the fing show, worth checking out for those that enjoy this genre of music
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
WOW, I thought I was the only person left who remembered the "Jim Carrol Band". What a raw talent. Saw him in person twice, once with the band, once at a midnight poetry reading in the Tenderloin, SF.
Originally Posted by Deerwhacker444
Not the best Punk band, but IMO the best Punk Song.!
Yes, The Clash , like Blondie and Talking Heads were punk influenced, ( i.e. 'NY new wave' punk, rather than good old junk yard dog London punk.. )
actually punks root were started in the US in the 60's with groups like the stooges then were later picked up in England (like rock, blues) by the great groups sex pistols, the damned, johnny thunders, buzzcocks, clash , ramones, slits, black flag, dead k's, misfits etc
i used to listen to all these groups in the 70's. i vividly remember when the sex pistols came to the US started listening and read more about the movement.
Amen; Green Day is to "punk" what Air Supply is to "rock".
GAY DAY is what my Ramones-t-shirt-wearing 8th grader calls em!!
Now someone mention The Misfits and I say "amen" to that too they're the Alice Cooper of punk or at least they were till Glenn started to believe his own BS and became the freak he played on stage. No matter; they ROCK and I'd take Glenn over that homo lead of Green Day any day of the week!
