"Uncool" music you dig. Out with it!

My first exposure to punk (as a kid) was Repo Man, the movie and soundtrack, which was one of the first tapes I owned.

mine was sk8er boi

In early 80s Southern California, when I was growing up, punk was definitely still a big thing. People with mohawks and torn denim jackets held together with safety pins, wearing spiked dog collars etc. In my mind, it was primarily about a look and an attitude and only secondarily about a style of music. The important thing was a general aggressive vibe against authority and not giving a shit. If the music was fast and loud and the singer was sneering and shouting, it was punk.

I will die for Swedish dbeat. If you were Scandinavian and pacifist/vegan/antifa in the 80s, chances are your punk band is brutal and electrifying af

In early 80s Southern California, when I was growing up, punk was definitely still a big thing. People with mohawks and torn denim jackets held together with safety pins, wearing spiked dog collars etc. In my mind, it was primarily about a look and an attitude and only secondarily about a style of music. The important thing was a general aggressive vibe against authority and not giving a shit. If the music was fast and loud and the singer was sneering and shouting, it was punk.

― o. nate, Friday, March 22, 2024 11:35 AM (nine minutes ago)

Always loved that Black Flag (up until Rollins), Minutemen, Circle Jerks et al always looked (and sounded!) absolutely disconnected from any punk fashion imported from London/NYC.

iirc there's a bit Julian Cope's Head On where he talks about him and the Teardrop Explodes going to New York for the first time and the anglophile NY punks receiving them with great excitement, but then being embarrassed to find out Cope and company were still calling each other "man" and using other non-punk slang, and Cope being surprised when they take him aside to explain that it's not cool to do that anymore, and how Liverpool was kind of simultaneously out of the loop of what was considered cool and punk compared to NY, while also being defining what was cool for these anglophile Americans

brimstead, what's the best swedish dbeat to check out?

I was listening to Totalitär yesterday, and that's not a bad place to start tbh

Thanks, will check it out!

Mob47, asocial, crude ss, Riistetyt are some of my fav bands, the latter is from Finland tho..

modern bands, I like Dk7, destruct, physique, but I defer to colonel poo who knows way more I think!

D7Y not DK7 lol. This record

https://www.discogs.com/master/1534066-D7Y-D7Y

those are all great picks

Oh ffs ANTI CIMEX

Toy Dolls was the first punk band I ever saw, I think I saw Meat Loaf in the same week

Remembered after referring to them in the prog thread, that hands down the least cool music I'm into is Marillion. I even like the Hogarth albums, although it's been diminishing returns post-Marbles.

if you like hardcore punk, i made a 1980-1984 hardcore playlist on Youtube. it is free to the public at large. plenty of good euro/swedish stuff on it. #diy

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFgTJcv2kWOAoUr3t4distfZ

then you can listen to my french hardcore techno playlist for the double whammy of bpm mayhem.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFiWlUEb5uz-w_VmmGxgf0WE

XXXP - I was reading the thread and thinking that Marillion probably wins this for me, I liked them at the time when I was a youth but I can't listen to much of the Fish era nowadays as the lyrics and delivery are so cringe, I still quite like the Hogarth records though, and yeah after Marbles it's been a bit meh.