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What's your favorite kind of punk?

post #1 of 42
11/6/07 at 5:57pm
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It's hard to choose, but you must.
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post #2 of 42
11/6/07 at 5:58pm
Brewster
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post #3 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:02pm
Thread Starter 
Fuck. I thought I backed out before I pressed submit. This is a bad thread (that at one point, had a bad half-assed poll) and I apologize for it. I wish you were allowed to neg-rep yourself.
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post #4 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:04pm
bald?
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post #5 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
I wish you were allowed to neg-rep yourself.
Not to worry, we'll do it for you! j/k
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post #6 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:08pm
Scorpio.
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post #7 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:16pm
After some serious thought, I guess it's where hardcore and pop punk meet, right around Rancid/NOFX/Millencolin/Green Day/Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.
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post #8 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:17pm
American late 70's to mid 80's hardcore punk.
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post #9 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:52pm
And the award for only person who cares to answer this thread goes to...

The only logical answer is punks who didn't know they were punk.
The CBGB's scene and the Manchester scene, bands who just wanted to play ridiculous rock n'roll (Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc.) or were experimenting with what music was (Talking Heads, Joy Division).

Nowadays most people think punks have to smash shit and have mohawks and while that is one kind, punk will always exist for me as that version of rock n'roll that reacted to the 60's psychadelic and 70's pussy rock movements and and tried to reach back to the Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry types.
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post #10 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:54pm
Steam
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post #11 of 42
11/6/07 at 6:55pm
Smothered in rich brown gravy with a side of slaw.
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post #12 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:09pm
Daft Punk.
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post #13 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:11pm
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Originally Posted by Wadeisdead
And the award for only person who cares to answer this thread goes to...

The only logical answer is punks who didn't know they were punk.
The CBGB's scene and the Manchester scene, bands who just wanted to play ridiculous rock n'roll (Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc.) or were experimenting with what music was (Talking Heads, Joy Division).

Nowadays most people think punks have to smash shit and have mohawks and while that is one kind, punk will always exist for me as that version of rock n'roll that reacted to the 60's psychadelic and 70's pussy rock movements and and tried to reach back to the Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry types.
Certain strains of 60s psychedelic music were huge influences on punk (Television and Patti Smith, for sure, but also pretty much anyone who embraced the Nuggets-style garage rock psychedelia, which was pretty much everyone), and Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry don't even account for the sound of half of the bands you mentioned (Talking Heads and Joy Division). The basic, early rock'n'roll only really accounted for a few of the major NY and English bands.

Also, after the first couple years, it would be impossible to be punk or have punk roots and not acknowledge oneself as being, at least a little, indebted to punk. In other words, your definition excludes self-aware bands like X, Husker Du, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, not to mention pretty much anything that came after the term was coined and applied in England or in New York. Rest assured, when Joe Strummer abandoned pub rock to start up the Clash, he knew there was a name for the genre he was attempting.
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post #14 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:15pm
Celtic punk. Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Flatfoot 56, Tossers, and the Real Muhfuckin' McKenzies.
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post #15 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:16pm
It's interesting that were getting a lot of comments on punk music. But, Patrick wasn't specific in his original question.
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post #16 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:22pm
I like the political kind. Propagandhi or Bad Religion.

But the old school Buzzcocks (saw them last year live!) were pretty rad too.
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post #17 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:26pm
The (fat hairy bearded) Man can't stop me listening to Green Day, so he sends little red boxes instead.
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post #18 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:28pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
It's interesting that were getting a lot of comments on punk music. But, Patrick wasn't specific in his original question.
Yeah, he posted in Misc Culture, not Music.
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post #19 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:30pm
The Salt Lake City variety.
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post #20 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:39pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Fuck. I thought I backed out before I pressed submit. This is a bad thread (that at one point, had a bad half-assed poll) and I apologize for it. I wish you were allowed to neg-rep yourself.
Even when Patrick makes a thread that he id's as "bad" it turns into something worth reading. Color me jealous.
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post #21 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:43pm
Naked and bent over.
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post #22 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:45pm
Gutter. Sad to say, I miss them. Every time I walk around Saint Mark's without even smelling one iota of body odor, I wonder where they all went.
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post #23 of 42
11/6/07 at 7:51pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
It's interesting that were getting a lot of comments on punk music. But, Patrick wasn't specific in his original question.
The original subculture was a youth movement tied almost entirely to the music. You can append "cyber," "steam," or "splatter" or whatever to the word and make it about something non-musical, but it's not really the same thing.

Don't get me wrong. The term "punk" is practically meaningless, even when you're just talking about music. But there's an extra whiff of silly desperation when it gets applied to literary subgenres. "We're really pushing limits here, maaaaaan." This (especially in the hilarious term "splatterpunk") seems to misinterpret punk music as simply an exercise in extremes, which is complete nonsense. Stravinsky and Cage were more extreme than the Ramones and Blondie. Extremity wasn't necessarily the point.
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post #24 of 42
11/6/07 at 10:24pm
Any kind that's fast, melodic, and with a sing-a-long chorus. Examples include: Avail (just saw them at the Middle East in Boston...damn, that was a good show), Sex Pistols, The Descendants, and the Buzzcocks. The Chuck Taylor All-Stars were pretty good too.
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post #25 of 42
11/6/07 at 10:57pm
trick ass mark ass bitch made
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post #26 of 42
11/6/07 at 11:03pm
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post #27 of 42
11/6/07 at 11:04pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
The original subculture was a youth movement tied almost entirely to the music. You can append "cyber," "steam," or "splatter" or whatever to the word and make it about something non-musical, but it's not really the same thing.

Don't get me wrong. The term "punk" is practically meaningless, even when you're just talking about music. But there's an extra whiff of silly desperation when it gets applied to literary subgenres. "We're really pushing limits here, maaaaaan." This (especially in the hilarious term "splatterpunk") seems to misinterpret punk music as simply an exercise in extremes, which is complete nonsense. Stravinsky and Cage were more extreme than the Ramones and Blondie. Extremity wasn't necessarily the point.
I think what billylove may have been getting at was...well, let's quote William Burroughs' initial response to being questioned on the punk rock phenomena - "All I knew was a punk was someone who took it in the ass."
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post #28 of 42
11/6/07 at 11:44pm
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Originally Posted by ExarKoontz
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post #29 of 42
11/7/07 at 12:18am
Avril.
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post #30 of 42
11/7/07 at 12:32am
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Originally Posted by Chavez
I think what billylove may have been getting at was...well, let's quote William Burroughs' initial response to being questioned on the punk rock phenomena - "All I knew was a punk was someone who took it in the ass."
I opened 'em up and you send 'em packing.
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post #31 of 42
11/7/07 at 12:51am
Ya gotta admit, no one put more moxie on the word "Punk" than Dirty Harry.

"Do ya feel lucky. . . Punk?!"

Always been my favorite.
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post #32 of 42
11/7/07 at 12:56am
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
Ya gotta admit, no one put more moxie on the word "Punk" than Dirty Harry.

"Do ya feel lucky. . . Punk?!"

Always been my favorite.
And of course, when Dirty Harry used the word "punk" he was referring to someone who takes it in the ass, not Topper Headon.
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post #33 of 42
11/7/07 at 1:52am
probably crust punk or early 80's hardcore. the nastier the better.
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post #34 of 42
11/7/07 at 1:56am
"post-punk" too if that counts. Especially Wire, my favorite OG class of '77 punks and my favorite post-punk band as well.
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post #35 of 42
11/7/07 at 7:44pm
The one Dirty Harry blasts in "Dirty Harry"

Well, do you?
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post #36 of 42
11/7/07 at 7:45pm
Or the minutemen.
I can go either way.
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post #37 of 42
11/13/07 at 4:19pm
The kind made mostly of metal.
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post #38 of 42
11/13/07 at 4:32pm
"But Mersh, you hate punk."

"Funk, Gutter. Dude, weren't you a music major?"

All that aside, I'd say the best is usually the kind that tears you a new one using only three chord progression. And a strung out Iggy usually helps.
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post #39 of 42
11/13/07 at 4:51pm
The kind that gots to know.
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post #40 of 42
11/13/07 at 5:01pm
Cyber...and The Clash
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post #41 of 42
11/13/07 at 5:05pm
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Originally Posted by Banacheq
For me, the last honest punk record was At The Drive-In's Relationship of Command.

Awesome fucking album.
My little, crappy High School band actually opened for At The Drive-In when they came to Tucson on their first real tour. We had no idea who they were and the only people who showed up were my parents. Still they put on a great show for us.
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post #42 of 42
11/14/07 at 2:33am
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
Yeah, he posted in Misc Culture, not Music.
Which is why my answer is gonna be: the kind that get theirs in the end.

Little assholes!

I wonder how many people looked up "punk" in the dictionary before posting (or to 'get' some of the posts).

P.S. When I say "in the end" and "little assholes", that's NOT what I mean.

Edit: Probably onle me, since I didn't know "any prepared substance, usually in stick form, that will smolder and can be used to light fireworks, fuses, etc." was a definition of the word. Har, har!
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