just wanted to make a thread about the greatest music/lifestyle ever...PUNK!!!
not talking about fake crap like good charlotte or avril or ashlee simpson...those guys are trendys draggin the good name of punk through the dirt to sell merch...anyways i would like to know peoples opinions on REAL punk...and bands and what not...

I was a punk in the 70's The only punk music i will play are .....The sex pistols, The stranglers, The clash, Siouxsie and the banshees,sham 69 and stiff little fingers to me this was and still is punk rock.I'm also in to Public image ltd Lydon is god ( top guy)

I like punk stuff, although I don't subscribe to the lifestyle much. Misfits (old and new) are my fave, I also like Damned, The Cramps, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ramones, Devotchkas. I think that the whole 'anarchy/smash the state' thing is a little redundant nowadays, so I really don't listen to the bands with those messages. I do have to say that Sex Pistols are overrated, they were good at the whole shock tactics thing, but as far as musicianship goes, very average.

Hoagy

I was a teeanager in the 80's but that was my punk music too. Add to that Peter and the Test Tube Babies and Angelic Upstarts and you have my faves. PIL was my least favourite though. Joe Strummer was my hero.

Real punk isn't played on the radio IMHO and definitely not M fracking TV. That's nothing but pop-rock.

A couple of my favorties are Atreyu and Ragtime Revolutionaries(which has since changed its name to Deathwish Nine.) Ragtime provided a real treat for me because they did the theme song to one of my favorite cartoon shows, MEGAS XLR. Southern California seems to breed a lot of good punk bands.

I like the Dropkick Murphys, too ... they might be considered punk I guess, some people do.

Ok dude, you probably won't believe me, but my dads cousin was in Stiff Little Finger way before they ever made it big. The used to practise in my great aunts attic. I like them, they are cool, and I have a soft spot for bands from my Home Town.

I love the Sex Pistols and The Clash, The Kinks, The Misfits and old bands like that.

Didn';t know that, coolies.

I never thought of telling you. I've told nat enough times, though!

It's not really something I tend to think about, I never even met the guy, but I do remember my great aunt telling me every time Stiff Little Finger is mentioned.

actually, now that you mention it, the drummer in my band, his dad was the original drummer for Twisted Sister (I love them too!). Unfortunately I don't have any family links to any bands, although I did live with a former member of Cradle of Filth for a few months.

...back when they were good...


Hoagy

*slightly rippled with a flat underside*

Cradle of Filth are quite big now, aren't they? I read in Kerrang! about the lead singer guy, but I'm not too familiar with them. I must look them up.

Your links are better than mine, I never met this guy I'm talking about, lol!

Yeah, Filth are big now, and that's why they went all limp and poopy-like.

*sighs* (I guess we better get back on topic ) *ahem* punk, yes. I have met The Misfits a few times, that was cool! I also met the Dickies back in the UK, those guys are nuts, but very friendly!

Hoagy

Moved to music forum.

Wow! I'm only a wee young thing, so I have never met any one famous yet

I think I met some gay politician dude, but I didn't know what they were way back then.

Were The Misfits all covered in their make up when you seen them?

Dead kennedys
ramones
new york dolls
television
the damned
the slits
the dickies

even the skids

Got an education from an old roadie who was and still is heavily into Punk

Kennedys was great music to skate too.(in the 80's )

Yet i never rated the Sex pistols even though they were the "flagship" group.All too contrived.
BUt thank the LAWD for them.they shook things up and change the Music scene.

You met Them??? can i touched the hand that touched the Dickies??

(a little creepy now i have read it back)

The Pistols weren't even that good on stage, it was just their whole presence and attitude, it really was what the teenagers were waiting for, and that is what made them amazing, that and their kick ass lyrics.

Haha! I have a picture taken with the singer, I really should post it!

yar, reeet enough yee should.

Yeah, they had just come offstage. Mike Graves still had his skull makeup on too. They are the friendliest guys ever. Jerry Only stayed back until everyone had their stuff signed!

Hoagy

Here is an old picture of me with Jerry Only and Dr CHUD, that's me and my good lady wife in the middle, take Sept 2000:

awww! I find really annoying when famous people are too stuck up to talk to their fans.

Hey you are both little Punks! How sweet.

yeah, I guess so! I am 27 now, and I still have the devilock haha!

who wants to grow old gracefully? not me!

Hoagy

I wanna stay young forever! I mean, how the hell can you mosh with a zimmer frame???

Can any one tell me any other cool 70's punk bands? I wanna get some new music.


Many thanks, from The Sexy Goddess of Thongs

Read that Filth article again last night, the lead guy Dani or something is the biggest poser ever! I don't mean as in wannabe-poser type, I mean he poses for photographs like a wee model! So funny, it mad me laugh a lot to see this rocker guy with long hair in his typical English house, only the odd skull and creepy things here and there.

Wow, that is really depressing...

What is?

Um...how is that depressing?

When all of these hard rock guys have normal homes and normal decorations, and things like that. I expect coolness, but I guess they are just people like the rest of us...
We are talking about Cradle of Filth here right?

Yeah, but the little skulls look quite out of place in some posh English house!

You make a very good point.

So, what sort of Punk bands are you into, abs? (if any, lol!)

Not many, I am more of a rock person. I like hm...Anti-Flag, NoFX, well, that's about it actually. Like I said, I am more of a rock person.

Edit: I listen to the odd ones here and there, but no names come to mind.

I like NoFX, the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Kinks...I think I said all those before.

I'm not really a Punk person either, I like a whole mix of rock.

i was a punk when it started.
the ramones were the masters of punk, and saddly are now dying off, jonny, joey, and deedee.
i liked siouxsie and the banshees, hong kong garden, spellbound.
i never considered the clash punk, they were just brilliant, and many of their songs have a ska beat, so for a punk purist, they did not fit the bill.
anyone remember lords of the new church, and the lead singer stiv bators, now there was a prime example of the punk lifestyle, i think the guy died in his 20's.
now i download the odd tune.
saw the ramones in ottawa in 1984, that was LOUD.
i mean you walk out from a lot of concerts with the ears ringing, but that made me deaf for a week.

Jeceris, did you ever see Forgotten Rebels?

no dot, never did.
the name rings a bell but i can't remember any of their songs.
did you see them in toronto? how were they? where are they now?

The Clash aren't really 'aggravated' punk, but I love them. And the Kinks were more pop, but they rocked.

yeah, that's a good way to describe the clash, starchild.
they are one of favourite bands, and rolling stone magazine picked london calling the best album of the 1980's, they were spot on there.
i saw the clash once in toronto, but it was just after strummer had left the band and it just wasn't the clash, if you know what i mean.

It's just not the same when band members aren't there. Whether it is a drummer or singer it doesn't matter, you can always tell the difference.

I hate to think what Queen will be like with out Freddie!


Music today sucks so much, it is unbelievable. When was the last decent punk band???

The Forgotten Rebels were a Toronto Punk band. Click on the link you might remember them from the old days. I never saw them but I had some of their albums. Do you remeber the BFG's aka Bunchafuckingoofs aka the Goofs? The used hang around Kensington Market and Queen west.

hard to say who was the last good punk band.
nowadays i like bands like radiohead, and muse, and there's some punk undertones to their stuff.
but any punk now is nouveau punk, and won't come close to what started the whole movement.
good discussion on punk, wish i could add more, but i'm shuttin it down at work here, i'll check later to see if anyone still wants to discuss the "ol days"

Im so jealous of you guys! You got to live in some cool times, dudes!

here's some stuff for you to check out:

The Flesheaters (not sure if they have a site or not) good old skool punk.

Official Gotham Road Website - Michale Graves (formerly of the Misfits) this is his new band.

Dr CHUDs new band cool groovyness

Mister Monster can be seen HERE

or THE MASSACRES can be seen here (self promotion time!!)

Also, check out Michale Grave's band he was in after the Misfits, before his new one, with Dr CHUD HERE

Have fun, fiends

Hoagy

Oh thank you Mr.Marmite, I will be very busy legally(of course!) downloading songs all night!

gooooood!

Have you heard of Baby Shambles or the Libertines? Don't know if they are big were you are, but my uncle was an old 70's punk, and that is the kinda thing he is into now. Quite good, not that punk-y though.

i myself am not into punk. i like more emo and hardcore stuff, which came from punk. i listen to few punk bands every now and then, since none are that good these days. in my opinion, i think punk died when the ramones and the sex pistols took it mainstream. i'm not that big into either band though.