Punk Rock Playlist (No Arguments)

[ardgedee]

Youngstown, OH's finest: Sister Ray


Brilliant band whose punk cred was secured by zigging when every one else zagged... in the 80s they were leaning into Brit pub rock (though way noisier) when the rest of the punk world was going hardcore, and in the 90s they were going fast and loud while everywhere else punk was getting poppy.

 

[saltymonkey]

One of my two favorite Minutemen songs. I love playing this bass line. Simple but it kicks major ass and completely drives the song.

 

[saltymonkey]

I saw both the Mekons and Butthole Surfers so many times in the 80's and early 90's. Mekons were generally drunken, smiling sing along affairs that made you glad you were alive. And the Butthole Surfers were for a number of years, IMO, the best and tightest live band in America.

 

[bolophonic]

I wandered into a random show in Richmond 30+ years ago and saw these guys doing the punkest thing I’ve ever seen in front of an audience of three or four people. A show that helped shape my entire opinion of music. Just a wild, chaotic wall of sound.

 

[bolophonic]

Youngstown, OH's finest: Sister Ray


Brilliant band whose punk cred was secured by zigging when every one else zagged... in the 80s they were leaning into Brit pub rock (though way noisier) when the rest of the punk world was going hardcore, and in the 90s they were going fast and loud while everywhere else punk was getting poppy.

Another one that I’ve never heard before. That first song kinda reminded me of the Dead Boys.

 

[definenredefine]

Henry Rollins has a show on public radio in Santa Monica. I listen to it every week via webstream in my office at work. Good mix of classic punk/new wave and newer stuff, along with more obscure (often non US) stuff.

Henry Rollins | Audiophile Music Radio Online | KCRW

 

[Michedelic]

Youngstown, OH's finest: Sister Ray


Brilliant band whose punk cred was secured by zigging when every one else zagged... in the 80s they were leaning into Brit pub rock (though way noisier) when the rest of the punk world was going hardcore, and in the 90s they were going fast and loud while everywhere else punk was getting poppy.

They knew their roots by naming themselves after a VU song.

 

[ardgedee]

They knew their roots by naming themselves after a VU song.

I know, right?

Ironically, or hilariously or both, most of their catalog is on Youtube but you'll never find it without knowing any song or album titles, thanks to the maybe-half-dozen more recent bands also calling themselves Sister Ray.

 

[saltymonkey]

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Grinderman]

I saw both the Mekons and Butthole Surfers so many times in the 80's and early 90's. Mekons were generally drunken, smiling sing along affairs that made you glad you were alive. And the Butthole Surfers were for a number of years, IMO, the best and tightest live band in America.

Same. I lived in Chicago (Wicker Park, East Village, Ukrainian Village) in the late '80s and through the '90s. Sally Tims and Langford were around, we had a lot of mutual friends, including Sally's ex, Fred... yes, that Fred. Same with Touch & Go bands and people. I knew Cory and Lisa Rusk, various people who worked there, etc... all that. I saw a lot of things those days... right place, right time... lots of stories.

 

[Grinderman]

I can't stop watching/listening to this. It still cracks me up every time.

 

[Grinderman]

This one still amuses me too.

 

[saltymonkey]

 

[saltymonkey]

More Kim Salmon.

 

[saltymonkey]

 

[Grinderman]

Happy Flowers - Mom I Gave the Cat Some Acid - YouTube

I have a few of their records that I bought in the '90s. TBH, I'd forgotten about them, it's been so long.

 

[ardgedee]

They were one of those bands that you could be pretty sure was a joke, but never sure how much of a joke.

 

[ardgedee]

As far as I know, Man only had one album and it's a pretty harsh one. (He had to change the name to Man Inc. after some band from the 70s named Man made legal threats.) Arguably there's only so much a one-person punk band can do with a bass and a kickdrum and he did most of it.

Things have happened since the mid-90s that have put a heavily loaded spin on that chorus, huh?

 

[bolophonic]

They were one of those bands that you could be pretty sure was a joke, but never sure how much of a joke.

I had the “They Cleaned My Cut Out With A Wire Brush” 7” back in the day. I feel like I listened to it a lot, considering what it was.