PUNK: THE COMPILATION (Which of these tracks is the most UNpunk?)

yeah i think the unlisted tracks deserve consideration

I'm curious about the release date in relation to when songs like "I Wanna Be Sedated" started getting more popular.

good luck with that xp

I looked yesterday and I can't find a bit of info anywhere about this thing other than this commercial on youtube. I want to know what else was on it as much as anyone.

I'm pretty sure "Rock The Casbah" has maintained its popularity pretty consistently ever since its release...

I guess I'm just wondering what songs that constitute actual "punk" could have been reasonably considered for a comp like this.. Probably released around 1990/1991

i dunno how cheap media buys were back then but my bet is each of these compilations would have had to go gold to break even.

If I had more time (and talent) than I do, I'd record and upload the punk cover of "Harden My Heart" that's in my head right now. Just imagine it played at 2x speed, repetitive fast staccato bass notes, lose the swing-y triplets, and add frenzied fuzzy rhythm guitar and frenetic drumming.....

someone with some spare time do some archeologic digging for punk/hardcore covers of these songs

No way 'Eyes w/o a Face' is the least punk of these unpunk tracks. All kinds of punk happens in the horrible give-the-guitarist-some 'rap' section. He's 'readin' murder books, tryin' to stay hip!'

Based strictly on the tracks themselves I'm leaning Thompson Twins. I don't care if they started as a tribal-industrial collective.

Here's a property listing for the building at the address shown in the advert. Can't get much more punk than this place!

Evidently it's vacant.

someone with some spare time do some archeologic digging for punk/hardcore covers of these songs

can't decide whether to thank or damn you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOv35nyUVI

xp We need someone in Colorado to go get a tour of that property and see if any boxes of tapes or cds are leftover in a dark corner in the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thpcHuDYwik

everybody's gonna really love this one

this one sounds kinda like death rock actually...it's terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu2tlWAvPFA

this one will give General Whiney some bad flashbacks - make sure you make it through the chorus at least once, just so you can call yourself an asshole for ever listening to me about anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaGAJk79ank

Florida Ska Core
The Upsiders- Talking In Your Sleep (The Romantics cover)
from the album Cutting The Hand That Holds The Blade
Swamp Cabbage Records 2007

All of these are bad, but these last two especially.

hold that thought Johnny Fever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTK5u1LGu4

I'm so glad these three dudes from the Kay Jewelers in suburban Oklahoma City can live their dreams!

GAH incompetent pop-punk covers of amazing pop songs are my PERSONAL POISON.
POISON

honestly, they had me "Conflicting Plaid"

this could be a lot worse tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqcULdDQmR0

GAH incompetent pop-punk covers of amazing pop songs are my PERSONAL POISON.
POISON

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, April 30, 2012 3:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously. This stuff makes me so depressed.

there's only ten songs left unlisted, we need a speculative list. ILX's 10 missing songs from PUNK

hang on for that first instrumental break, then murder me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1AntavzFq0

speculative #1: Pretenders, "Don't Get Me Wrong"

speculative #2: Billy Squier, "Everybody Wants You"

speculative #3: Bananarama, "I Heard a Rumour"

actually "Venus" would be better there i thinkg

This acoustic session is recorded live under a water tower in Kättsätter, Norrköping, Sweden.

why oh why was that water tower constructed so well

I dug through a lot of shit to really find the essence of what it means to cover "my sharona" and I think it's either this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24lHkXiIkPQ

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MSdbo6vr1s

I'm curious about the release date in relation to when songs like "I Wanna Be Sedated" started getting more popular.

― billstevejim, Monday, April 30, 2012 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well, the video was shot 9 years after the song's original release on the occasion of the Ramones Mania comp, and it seems like it's kind of attained its current pop culture profile only since then, although it was probably picked to promote the best-of because it was already one of their more popular songs, so that's a chicken and egg thing. i think it kinda became more of an evergreen alt-rock radio song in the mid-90s when they got all the farewell tour publicity, though.

that first "My Sharona" video

why is the little sister there

also who turned off the bass player's amp

can't defend the vocals but musically I feel this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgtoJ06-DgU

wait did they just stick 3EB onto the end of "My Sharona"

That drummer in Sister Paul is pure energy.

okay I think I'm just going to watch The Punks videos for the rest of the day, peace out

sister paul thing is crazy <3

i can't watch that sister paul thing without cracking up

O_O

so Sister Paul is basically "we're a hardcore band that loves Soft Cell"

this edges the Better than Ezra cover of the same song because of the insightful commentary from YouTube user krenZitapynk in the comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPQzaFIhmw

oh man the vocals on the "Jeopardy" cover are going to be a disappointment, aren't they

oh man NOT A DISAPPOINTMENT

these videos really demonstrate the dangers to punk's whole 'so easy anyone can do it' rule

okay loooooooooooooooooool @ krenZitapynk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V-6oAto6sg&feature=relmfu

Sister Paul is seriously my new favorite band, you guys.

oh man NOT A DISAPPOINTMENT

ha no if you got Fields of the Nephilim/Mission skeletons in your closet then the Greek "Jeopardy" cover is the clear class of the field here

I was pretty sure at one point he was singing about his llama named Jeffery

Sister Paul is seriously my new favorite band, you guys.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, April 30, 2012 12:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink