― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
gay
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(directed at the thread, not the genre)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
punk is gay too, though.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Only if you're Pansy Division
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
or any number of other flaming bands. though it is gay in the other bad way, too.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag. Most punk is dull and drunk and thuddy. I prefer taut and sinewy and volatile. In college I used to get annoyed at the cultural hegemony of punk among non-frat white kids, but I went to school in lolJersey.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Every once in a while I'll throw on ramones first album, dead boys, stooges, germs. It's all dumb fun, and mixes things up from the other stuff I listen to.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I obviously missed this thread (I was out of the country) but I would have said probably a lot of the same stuff I said here:
are there still punks?
I think USA people have a really different experience of current punk subculture because our scene's origins and history are as much 1980 hardcore explosion as 1977 Britain. Also, especially in the peace punk world there have been a lot of feedback loops over the years between scenes. I like hurting's analogy and prefer stuff of a similar stripe, or else weird political peacecore like Crass or Poison Girls.
The house I co-own booked all-ages alcohol-free punk shows for the last six years. We just stopped (not really for any particular reason other than general burnout) although we would still do some shows under very special circumstances. It has been very interesting for me as an older dude (41) to deal with shows involving lots of kids (and their parents! and grandparents! and younger siblings!) and to watch them grow up and find their own voices. The punk experience is in large part what you make of it and it was cool to watch these kids check it out. Lots of frustrations (drunkenness, apathy, boring bands, idiocy, but notably almost no violence) but also rewards (successful benefits for people in prison, great random bands, turning people on to information/history/music).
There are many reasons why it sucks. It still has a lot to offer as history, as music, as philosophy and aesthetics. And perhaps more importantly, it is a potential gateway to a vast world of subculture, some of which might still have something of value to offer in the face of world-blighting commodification.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
it is a potential gateway to a vast world of subculture
― robotsinlove, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, dada, situationism, that whole weird Autonomous Mutant Festival thing, you know.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Another reason punk sucks is this horrendous new CD single by Mick Jones and Tony James' new band whose name I will not speak.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1978-Now-Subway-Sect/dp/B000PHVXTA
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I was born in 1979
Well, there's your fuckin' problem right there, twerp.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah real punks are old and reverent for old music
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't recall saying that.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Has any musical movement had as many books written about it, aggrandising it as some kind of revolutionary force, as punk?
Try Hip Hop.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the idea of not liking genres is sort of weird in itself.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Punk."
Lol @ "hating punk."
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 15 November 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
a young kid starting a crappy punk band and calling it Minor Threat without having heard of the more famous Minor Threat is way more punk than anything on this thread will ever be.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 15 November 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
you know what really sucks though? getting ebola
― latebloomer, Thursday, 15 November 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
you know what sucks brilliantly? bobby joe ebola and the children mcnuggets
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 15 November 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link