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Subject: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: Rhiannon on 12/14/04 at 8:23 am
Not gonna do a poll on this one...there's just too many! Here are some of mine:
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Violent Femmes (folk punk ;D)
The Ramones
X
The Misfits
Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Sex Pistols
SNFU
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: sputnikcorp on 12/14/04 at 10:26 am
i have to go with the misfits and the ramones.
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: goodsin on 12/14/04 at 11:28 am
Hey, Sputnikcorp, just wondering if you'd classify SSS as punk? I was trying to decide which genre best described their music- 'Electro-punk' was the term I came up with, but people define punk so differently these days, just wondering if that term would be accurate?
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: Abercrombie86 on 12/14/04 at 11:54 am
yeah, there aren't many real punk bands out now. its all new millennium pop crap.
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: goodsin on 12/14/04 at 12:12 pm
yeah, there aren't many real punk bands out now. its all new millennium pop crap.
Yo dang right, 'crombie! I heard someone describe bands such as Blink 182 & the UK's Busted as punk the other day, what a load of tosh! In my opinion, the main feature of punk was it's anti-establishmentism, something very much lacking in the modern 'wannabe punk' genre. Nowadays we just get manufactured boy bands, chosen for looks rather than talent, pushing PC 'lyrics' aimed at teenage girls- somehow, some people think this is punk. Over Sid's dead body! :D
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: Rhiannon on 12/14/04 at 1:12 pm
Yo dang right, 'crombie! I heard someone describe bands such as Blink 182 & the UK's Busted as punk the other day, what a load of tosh! In my opinion, the main feature of punk was it's anti-establishmentism, something very much lacking in the modern 'wannabe punk' genre. Nowadays we just get manufactured boy bands, chosen for looks rather than talent, pushing PC 'lyrics' aimed at teenage girls- somehow, some people think this is punk. Over Sid's dead body! :D
Man...you are preaching to the choir! I so agree! The day Blink 182 and Good Charlotte become REAL punk is the day hades freezes over! ;) I mean, Avril Lavigne? Punk? Please! >:(
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: sputnikcorp on 12/14/04 at 1:47 pm
Hey, Sputnikcorp, just wondering if you'd classify SSS as punk? I was trying to decide which genre best described their music- 'Electro-punk' was the term I came up with, but people define punk so differently these days, just wondering if that term would be accurate?
well, there more new wave. tony james, the leader of SSS was a member of generation X so the punk ethos was there. then again, a lot of new wave bands started off as punk bands...since cyberpunk was an underground literary movement in the 80s, sputnik embraced the cyberpunk values of style over substance, extreme commercialism, computers and a love for anything japanese. so yeah, cyberpunk would be the term i would describe SSS.
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: Absolutely Vile on 12/14/04 at 2:20 pm
Sex Pistols
Er...The Sex Pistols were long gone in the eighties.
For me, punk was much more a seventies thing than eighties. That's when it had it's heyday and was really really awesome. But it was around in one form or another in the eighties and if I had to pick a favourite, it would have to be Dead Kennedys.
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: Rhiannon on 12/14/04 at 3:32 pm
Er...The Sex Pistols were long gone in the eighties.
For me, punk was much more a seventies thing than eighties. That's when it had it's heyday and was really really awesome. But it was around in one form or another in the eighties and if I had to pick a favourite, it would have to be Dead Kennedys.
Absolutely Vile
Yeah...this is technically true, although the Pistols are considered part of UK punk spanning from 1976-1981 (The Great Rock n Roll Swindle was released in '81).
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: kslack on 12/16/04 at 6:39 pm
70's punk was slower and more "hard rock" than it was punk in my opinion. you get bands like Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, JFA in the mix with the speed and/or political and social commentary in the mix....that's punk rock to me.
Subject: Re: Favourite 80s punk bands
Written By: whistledog on 05/31/06 at 1:08 pm
We had one in Canada called "Teenage Head". They had a loyal following in the early 80's, as well as several mainstream hits. Don't think they ever made it out of Canada though