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Who likes punk rock? I think punk rock is pimp, I love it. I couldn't live without it.

 

Love,

Sebastian the Bastard

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Guest CoreyLazarus416

When it's good, it's really good...but when it's bad, it's downright unlistenable.

 

I can listen to it, and I find myself liking it more and more each week (mainly because of overexposure from all of my friends, who are punkers)*. DropKick Murphys own all.

 

* = Being one of the only metalheads in a sea of punkers is a hard thing to do...

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Guest Invader3k

I love punk...have loved it ever since '99 or so when I first got into the Ramones via "Ramonesmania". I even hosted my own punk rock show on UW-Whitewater's campus radio station this past year.

 

Some of my favorite groups:

 

- Ramones

- Sex Pistols

- The Clash (gotta have the holy trinity at the top)

- Dead Kennedys (they're going on tour again, but without Jello..what's the point?)

- Rancid

- Social Distortion (saw them last Monday at the Rave in Milwaukee, it was a great show)

- Nofx

- Misfits (classic stuff is great, but newer stuff like "Famous Monsters" is pretty enjoyable too).

- AFI (great sound...love the vocals. Put on a great live show too, which is what got me into them).

 

I guess I tend to like the older groups more than newer stuff...a lot of the newer groups just seem too derivative and unoriginal.

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Guest redbaron51

Ramones and Fugazi are probably the only punk bands I listen too, the odd time Black Flag.

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Guest Insanityman

It's my favorite type of music, with grunge/alt. coming in a close second. I went to Sonicnet one day searching for some HARDCORE~! Blink 182 music (sarcasm) and then I began to listen to real punk, then the classic. Then I was hooked. My favorites? Rancid, Anti-Flag, Operation Ivy (more of ska but whatever), Dropkick Murphys, Misfits, and etc.

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Guest Sebastian_the_Bastard

Lagwagon is the best punk band ever. Lagwagon is pimp as hell.

 

Love,

Sebastian the Bastard

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Guest saturnmark4life

I've never thought much to lagwagon. when they're good, they're great, but some songs are just crap. i think Nofx is the greatest punk band ever. i also like

rancid

misfits

guttermouth

mad caddies

swingin utters

AFI

descendents

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Guest Coffin Surfer

I also like punk. Fav. Bands:

 

Misfits

Clash

Dead Kennedys

At the Drive In

Hot Water Music

Boy Sets Fire

Bad Brains

Black Flag

Television

Minutemen

Dickies

Descendents

Stooges

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Guest Sebastian_the_Bastard

Here are some punk bands that I think are pimp...

 

Juliana Theory

Thursday

Taking Back Sunday

Lagwagon

Bad Astronaut

Fenix TX

Bad Religion

Box Car Racer

Saves the Day

and some emo and pop-punk... that's pimp too

Blink182

Simple Plan

Rufio

Starting Line

Dashboard Confessional

Green Day

Get Up Kids

Ataris

 

 

Love,

Sebastian the Bastard

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Guest Sebastian_the_Bastard

Hell.... how could I forget Cursive and Hot Rod Circuit?

 

Cuz they're some pimp ass bitches.

 

Love,

Sebastian the Bastard

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Guest chirs3

Some people say Green Day is punk, some say not. I don't think it's punk, but I'm not sure what else to call it.

 

Anywho, if we're allowing them as punk, they're my favorite. Other than that, very few punk bands consistently entertain me. They each have one or two good songs only. It's odd because Punk is becoming one of my favorite music types to listen to, but there's no one band I really like.

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Guest Kinetic
Here are some punk bands that I think are pimp...

 

Lagwagon is pimp as hell.

 

Cuz they're some pimp ass bitches.

 

 

Find a new adjective, you bastard.

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Guest EricMM

I associate myself heavily with Goldfinger, New Found Glory, MxPx, Some Blink 182, Greenday, some NoFX...

 

Pop Punk I suppose.

 

ESPECIALLY Goldfinger. Is it somewhat Ska? I dunno. But I know Carlita is like one of my favorite songs.

 

Although I listen to a LOT LOT LOT of Tool so who knows

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Guest Nevermortal

AFI, Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Tiger Army, and Ramones OWN ALL.

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Guest Zero_Cool

Let me make up my list...

 

Goldfinger

Less Than Jake (a bit ska)

Flogging Molly

The Bouncing Souls

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Guest Syxx

Punk is the greatest form of music out there my faves include

 

-Nofx

-Lagwagon

-Pennywise

-Gob

-d.b.s.

-Jugheads Revenge

-Green Day

-Offspring

-Guttermouth

-Another Joe

-Goldfinger

-Rancid

-A.F.I.

-MxPx

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Guest Sebastian_the_Bastard

Here are three bands that are nothing less than pimp that no one has mentioned...

 

Finch

Bad Astronaut

Juliana Theory

 

 

Any fans?

 

Love,

Sebastian the Bastard

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Guest What?

Well, just to name a few...

 

 

Dropkick Murphy's (Irish Pride, MOTHA FUCKA!!)

Misfits

The Clash (except Combat Rock...what a piece of crap)

Sex Pistols

Pennywise

Stalin's War (NorCal band. When you're in Santa Cruz or that area, check 'em out)

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Guest BottleRocket
Dropkick Murphy's (Irish Pride, MOTHA FUCKA!!)

Too bad their current vocalist is of Scottish decent...Oi!

 

Personally, I think they really lost something when Mike McColgan decided he'd rather be a fireman. After the first 7"s, "Boys On The Docks," and "Do Or Die," I think the band's releases went dramatically downhill. I mean, their split with the Business was almost unlistenable.

 

Al Barr was a better fit with The Bruisers and DKMs have now wandered off into pseudo-Pogues territory with their expanded, Ken Casey-controlled line-up.

 

Spicy McHaggis? Give me a break...

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Guest jtronx

Please stop saying "pimp."

 

Most of the newer pop-punk/emo stuff reminds me of music like Bread and the Carpenters, only not as threatening or powerful. I crewed a show last year with Saves the Day and Hot Rod Circuit. Saves the Day was pathetic, N'Sync could probably rock harder. HRC was great, though.

 

Anyway, here's a random list of bands, following suit (where's my CD book...):

 

Butthole Surfers

Frogs

Les Baton Rouge (from Portugal)

Zounds

Crimson Curse

the Ex

Dog Faced Hermans

Nation of Ulysses

1.6 Band

Daisy Chainsaw

Rorschach

Kiss It Goodbye

Halfman

Disassociate (who used to have fake-nWo shirts!)

Assfactor 4

Asshole Parade

Assfort

Ass Spatula

Assück

Drop Dead

Crossed Out

Black Army Jacket

Brutal Truth

Boogie Down Productions

Big Black

Rapeman

Shellac

Boredoms

Melvins

ALICE DONUT~!

Schlong

Pain Teens

Suran Song in Stag

Black Flag

Blatz

Filth

Rudimentary Peni

Cows

Crust

Cherubs

Festering Rinyanyons

Sockeye

Fat Day

Dickies

Spazz

Hell No

Hellnation

Unwound

A Minor Forest

God Is My Co-Pilot

Spitboy

Xtatica

Dead Kennedys

Agent Orange

Misfits

Naked Raygun

Bad Brains

TSOL

Teengenerate

Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live

Mukilteo Fairies

Locust

In/Humanity

MDC

BGK

FYP

The Pist

Jasta 14

Brutally Familiar

Mankind

BORN AGAINST~!

Heroin

400 Years

Coalesce

Acme

Beyond

Grade

Nasum

Damad

Himsa

Kill Van Kull

8 Eyed Spy

James Chance & The Contortions

Distorted Pony

Shiv

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Pussy Galore

Sonic Youth

Diamanda Galas

Fantomas

Neurosis

Public Enemy

Cave In

Laurels

Carlos Projeckt

Lamb Bombs

Thinner

Victims Family

Double Dong

Wire

Dead And Gone

Creeps On Candy

Refused

Dayglo Abortions

Ruins

High Rise

Lightning Bolt

Melt Banana

Cop Shoot Cop

Throbbing Gristle

Crash Worship (the greatest band EVAR)

the Clash

Crunt

Ed Hall

William Carlos Williams (the band from Atlanta, not the poet)

Broken

Beer Scouts of America

3 Finger Demon

Battlecats

Pretty Ones

Mess-Ups

Out Of Orbits

 

 

 

anyway, those are some "punk" bands I like...

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Guest saturnmark4life

jtronx, i wouldn't consider all of them punk but melivins and butthole surfers are fucking awesome. Do you frequent the 'surfers forum?

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Guest evenflowDDT

What, no Minor Threat fans? Or even Damned?

 

Good punk, like The Clash, is some of the best, most meaningful music. Unfortunately, the majority of punk is crap. And Green Day isn't punk, nor the Ramones. They're pop punk, which has even less of a good music to crap ratio ;)

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Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics

I don't count anything recent as punk, certainly not in the last 15 years.

The best band EVER (Punk or not) = The Clash

other good punk bands are the Sex Pistols and Stiff Little Fingers.

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Guest jtronx

Yes, yes, yes. Stiff Little Fingers and the Damned (early stuff at least) rock. So do the Ruts and Minor Threat.

 

And Green Day isn't punk, nor the Ramones. They're pop punk, which has even less of a good music to crap ratio

 

The Ramones aren't punk?

 

What?

 

Saturnmark4life: I had no idea there even was a 'Surfers forum. I love how they have downloadable bootlegs on their site, though. Their internet radio station is good, too.

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yeah there's a link to the forum on the main page, full of fucked up people like me. And might i add, the ramones not punk?

 

WHAT?

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Guest evenflowDDT
And Green Day isn't punk, nor the Ramones. They're pop punk, which has even less of a good music to crap ratio

 

The Ramones aren't punk?

 

What?

Everyone always gives me that, but no, I don't think so. They're more punk than the pop punk bands of today because of their lyrical content, but the majority of their songs still had that poppy three-chord bounce to them and the perfect hooks that made them the first (and still one of the best) pop punk band.

 

Notice I never said they weren't good just because they're pop punk instead of punk. That's why I don't like genre classification, because it seems everyone is biased towards or against certain genres instead of the bands themselves.

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Personally, I think they really lost something when Mike McColgan decided he'd rather be a fireman. After the first 7"s, "Boys On The Docks," and "Do Or Die," I think the band's releases went dramatically downhill. I mean, their split with the Business was almost unlistenable.

 

 

Spicy McHaggis? Give me a break...

I actually really like "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" mainly because it was the first ACTUAL punk CD I had ever bought (before that, it was Blink 182 *ducks* and Green Day), but I keep hearing NOTHING but good things about "Do or Die" so I guess I'll pick that up next time I go to Wherehouse.

 

 

 

 

And Spicy McHaggis is KING!! WHOO!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, I can't back that up....although the "Spicy McHaggis Jig" is good for a humor song, IMO.

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Everyone always gives me that, but no, I don't think so. They're more punk than the pop punk bands of today because of their lyrical content, but the majority of their songs still had that poppy three-chord bounce to them and the perfect hooks that made them the first (and still one of the best) pop punk band.

 

Notice I never said they weren't good just because they're pop punk instead of punk. That's why I don't like genre classification, because it seems everyone is biased towards or against certain genres instead of the bands themselves.

But when the term "punk" was first coined it referred less to the musical style itself and more to the attitude behind the music. The Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group, and Blondie were all early "punk" bands that wouldn't be considered as such by today's standards.

 

You can retro-label the Ramones as "pop-punk" since they don't fit exactly into the current definition of the term, but I think that would do a disservice to the spirit of movement.

 

The Ramones are punk-- no sub-genre or explanation should be needed.

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