Been Listening to Some Punk Lately

[Lhalo]

Rehashing some of the old songs from my youth. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Nice. Pennywise and NOFX is also on my regular rotation of music. 

Met a guy at my friends' Halloween party, an unassuming white upper-class looking dude, who, after talking with him, LOVES Dead Kennedys. I randomly played a DK song and next thing I know he's my best friend, talking all about the band, what he knows, shows he's been to, drugs he's done, etc. It was great. 

[Jason]

I'm willing to admit that I will listen to Christmas music during the holidays and I like this one 

Edited December 23, 2020 by Jason

[Brandon]

Still one of my favorite albums. Funny thing is the guitar player for Guttermouth worked in a building next to me. He was in the mortgage industry. Had a few drinks with him at Prego back when it was on Von Karman.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Brandon

[Jay]

 

[Lhalo]

9 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I’m sad nobody is calling anyone else a sellout so far.  Well, at least me with Enema and American Idiot.  

I think that’s why I love Lagwagon.  The least pretentious punk band of the era.  They never got huge so no “I was a fan before Double Pladinum” crap.  They acted and dressed like dudes just plucked from a dive bar.

I removed my “like” of that post because I didn’t realize how bad it sucked. It’s the holidays and I’ve been drinking.
 

Love me some pre-Double Pladinum Lagwagon. If you like the shit after that you can stay in Oregon forever. 

[Lhalo]

Great song even though Fat Mike did the backup vocals. I hope that guy dies in a fire. 

 

[Brandon]

I'm too old for the sellout shit. If anything like that, I remember it more being new school versus old school and then there was a punk versus ska thing.

I actually liked and grew with Bad Religion for being old school and transitioning with the times that was probably around The Gray Race album. Same with AFI, I was really big into them.

Others were probably standard.....Pennywise, Descendents, Guttermouth, Voodoo Glow Skulls. I got a The Queers album and used to always get in trouble for wearing the shirt to school. There were a bunch back in the day. I remember a lot of DFL (Dead Fucking Last) and I dated a chick that was cousins with someone in Homegrown, so listened to them quite a bit.

[Jay]

I never thought of Green Day as punk.

 

[Tank]

i never thought of green day as interesting.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

When I was in sixth grade the kids who were into punk were wearing doc martens, had spiked hair, jackets with band patches and it was a smaller group.  Then Green Day came out with Dookie and that was the type of “punk” that MTV and major radio stations could sell and play. I had friends that introduced me to Bad Religion, Pennywise, Rancid, Propagandhi, Guttermouth, NOFX, Blink 182 and so on.  

Among other albums I owned Out Come The Wolves and Dude Ranch which got more radio play and some criticism for selling out but they weren’t the only ones.  Blink 182 only kept going more radio friendly and I never owned Enema of the State but they did okay without my money. Some years back Brandon or someone else posted a link ranking the top punk albums of all time and I had to laugh seeing Enema of the State being Blinks top ranked one but that was because of how many albums it sold.   

I remember buying How To Clean Everything at the Wherehouse off PCH in Seal Beach, still have the album and listen to it. Bad Religion was always my favorite and I still listen to a lot of their stuff along with Pennywise. I like that even in recent years whenever they come out with new music within a few seconds of hearing a song start you know it’s theirs because of their sound. I did go to the Punk in Drublic concert 2-3 years ago in Sunset Beach that was worth it just for all the beer alone. Graffin’s voice definitely sounded like he’d been doing it for 35+ years but they still put on a good show.  It was cool seeing all the 40-50+ year old punks show up for the concert. I’m sure quite a few dug some of their old clothes out of the garage for it while others just went to their closets. 

[Jay]

I had forgotten about Rancid. I listened to that album many times back in the day.

I guess the album was ...And Out Come The Wolves.

 

 

[Brandon]

21 hours ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

When I was in sixth grade the kids who were into punk were wearing doc martens, had spiked hair, jackets with band patches and it was a smaller group.  Then Green Day came out with Dookie and that was the type of “punk” that MTV and major radio stations could sell and play. I had friends that introduced me to Bad Religion, Pennywise, Rancid, Propagandhi, Guttermouth, NOFX, Blink 182 and so on.  

Among other albums I owned Out Come The Wolves and Dude Ranch which got more radio play and some criticism for selling out but they weren’t the only ones.  Blink 182 only kept going more radio friendly and I never owned Enema of the State but they did okay without my money. Some years back Brandon or someone else posted a link ranking the top punk albums of all time and I had to laugh seeing Enema of the State being Blinks top ranked one but that was because of how many albums it sold.   

I remember buying How To Clean Everything at the Wherehouse off PCH in Seal Beach, still have the album and listen to it. Bad Religion was always my favorite and I still listen to a lot of their stuff along with Pennywise. I like that even in recent years whenever they come out with new music within a few seconds of hearing a song start you know it’s theirs because of their sound. I did go to the Punk in Drublic concert 2-3 years ago in Sunset Beach that was worth it just for all the beer alone. Graffin’s voice definitely sounded like he’d been doing it for 35+ years but they still put on a good show.  It was cool seeing all the 40-50+ year old punks show up for the concert. I’m sure quite a few dug some of their old clothes out of the garage for it while others just went to their closets. 

How funny, I actually recently came across that thread from the Avenged Sevenfold posts recently. The posts I cut from were that thread. It was the top OC bands of all-time and the big debate in the thread was bands that were OC and not OC.

[Junkballer]

On 12/23/2020 at 10:27 AM, Angel Dog and Beer said:

Nice. Pennywise and NOFX is also on my regular rotation of music. 

Met a guy at my friends' Halloween party, an unassuming white upper-class looking dude, who, after talking with him, LOVES Dead Kennedys. I randomly played a DK song and next thing I know he's my best friend, talking all about the band, what he knows, shows he's been to, drugs he's done, etc. It was great. 

California Uber Alles!