PUNKS NOT DEAD (do you like punk?)

[SleepyWitch]

do you like punk? please share your fave punk songs here.
I'll start of withWIZO a (gay? ), anarchist German punk band.
They did both political songs and fun punk.
Most of their songs are in German. I won't post the lyrics of their anarchist songs, but if you are really interested I can PM them to you. If you are really really really interested, I'll translate them for you.


Political songs (anarchist or anti-Nazi ones)
Kopfschuss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHizohSOzuU)
Kein Gerede (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrD5GVNs_nw&feature=related)
Nix und Niemand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehldYyVino&feature=related)
Raum der Zeit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZWAdmUUD4&feature=related)
Weiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o31BwbjqWaU&feature=related)
Doof wie Scheisse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPgUZonvSU)

"Love" Songs & Miscellaneous
Irgendwo- Nirgendwo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx979cx3Xtw)
9247 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGq0dm-_RaI)

WIZO - Quadrat im Kreis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRbUBneF60)
Gute Freunde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlLkTI3h1T8&feature=related)

Some English songs by WIZO (never mind their bad English :) )
Closet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3ZWKB-WLg&feature=related)
Nice Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5jvsBtxAuY&feature=related)
W8ing 4 U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzavQ0Yz2qo)
Stay Wild (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLA9L-IRyww&feature=related)

Fun Punk by Wizo
Pipi Langstrumpf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56z-imQquTc&feature=related) (Pippi Longstocking; the Astrid Lindgren character; this is Wizo's version of the theme song)
Katzenhass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW3G-wATkv8&feature=related) (about a guy who hates cats and wants to drown kitty in a lake or kick her with his boots)

[sprinks]

Yeah... I like some punk... Well... I think I do! I forget how all music genres are classified! Windows Media Player tells me that I listen to some punk though :p

[motherhubbard]

I like punk, but my kids would never believe it. I liked a lot of the music, but I never fit in with the crowd. But, punk was my generation! :)

[SleepyWitch]

I like punk, but my kids would never believe it. I liked a lot of the music, but I never fit in with the crowd. But, punk was my generation! :)

could you name some bands or songs that you like(d)? :)

[motherhubbard]

I'll have to think about that- you know my memories from those years are a little fuzzy :D:blush:

[Lily Adams]

Yeah, it's pretty good. But I think I only listen to like...two punk bands. DEVO and the Ramones. There are probably some minor ones in my musical library, though.

Havana Affair is my favorite Ramones song. I love it.

[Virgil]

I do think The Clash was a great band. But in general i'm not that fond of punk. Of course I haven't listened to any in decades. ;)

Lily - Do you consider Devo punk? I'm might have classified them as what used to be called "New Wave" in the 1980's. But I bet that term has disappeared.

[Lily Adams]

Lily - Do you consider Devo punk? I'm might have classified them as what used to be called "New Wave" in the 1980's. But I bet that term has disappeared.

Yeah, well...I don't consider them anything because they're just DEVO and they did so much it's hard to put them in categories, and they're really too amazing for categories anyway. But yes, DEVO is considered punk if you really want to put them in categories. And new wave. Their earlier stuff was more punk and by the time the Freedom of Choice album came along I think they were considered new wave.

[motherhubbard]

Jane’s Addiction (were they Punk?) and the Ramones are bands I still love. The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Social Distortion, Adam and the Ants, Iggy Pop, Violent Femmes, and Green Day were others I liked. Were Blondie or the Chilly Peppers Punk? I liked them, too. Then there were a lot of local bands that I would go listen to. I saw Skinny Puppy once, they may have been more industrial or something.

[Lily Adams]

Oh yeah, I like Blondie and Adam and the Ants, too. The Clash have some cool ones.

Punk, post-punk, new wave...all around that same time. Great era.

[papayahed]

Jane’s Addiction (were they Punk?) and the Ramones are bands I still love. The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Social Distortion, Adam and the Ants, Iggy Pop, Violent Femmes, and Green Day were others I liked. Were Blondie or the Chilly Peppers Punk? I liked them, too. Then there were a lot of local bands that I would go listen to. I saw Skinny Puppy once, they may have been more industrial or something.

I'd consider Jane's Addiction and the chilli Peppers more Alternative.

Iggy Pop? Social D? Holy Carp!!! MH you surprise me with that list.

[Taliesin]

Despite the fact that punk is perhaps the only genre you can play when you actually don't know how to play the instruments, some of the bands (Vennaskond) I enjoy are for some peculiar reason classified as punk. Beats me, why.

Anyhow, punk is a lot more than music, it is about ... well, buggered if I know, but it is not just about music. Or so they say.

Hmmm, in music school, the boy I sat next to is now a singer in a punk band which apparently is even known by some people. I have never heard it so I can't comment on the quality.

[kilted exile]

Punk might as well be dead. All these wannabe punk bands nowadays are doin' ma heid in.

[EAP]

punk rock plz

the clash all the way babe

[JBI]

Punk is dead; I went to the museum in Vienna, so that's proof enough. I guess all punk now can be deemed "neo punk" as the punk tradition is already subject to culture studies, as a past phenomenon. Either way though, some of the stuff I saw at the museum made me sick (especially a certain video, with graphic violence and sex, which really is not suitable for any audience).

As a tradition, the sort of artificial nihilism that punk represented seemed to fail, in the sense that the practitioners grew up, and realized, "hey, I need a job, I want nice stuff. I can't waste my time like this anymore." Counter culture in this sense always fails, and its only significance is it leaves an imprint.

[Lily Adams]

As a tradition, the sort of artificial nihilism that punk represented seemed to fail, in the sense that the practitioners grew up, and realized, "hey, I need a job, I want nice stuff. I can't waste my time like this anymore." Counter culture in this sense always fails, and its only significance is it leaves an imprint.

Agreed-the punks, like the hippies, learned that rebellion is obsolete. But still some good music nonetheless.

[blazeofglory]

I like punks in the same way I like you and this is a matter of equanimity, that means to say I cannot hate anybody just because they are not palatable to me. Everybody is born of a different circumstance, grows in a different milieu, and a different backdrop is likely to fix or mold the patterns of his thinking and hippies are products of a circumstance and everybody if born of that circumstance is likely to behave in a similar way.

They are simple folks and why should not I like them after all? They have not harmed and if they have harmed any body still that can not be a ground for me to take disliking to them at all, for all of us have knowingly and unknowingly others in our course of living and there is a question of survival and you have to knock down others to rise and move in life.

[Bakiryu]

Even as it pains me to say it: Punk IS dead. It was beautiful and it's dead :bawling: Yet another subculture which I never got to experience since I wasn't even born then. Like the hippies, the Batcave. Now all that we have is the scene or the emos or maybe the hispters and ganstas and that's no life man.

[motherhubbard]

I'd consider Jane's Addiction and the chilli Peppers more Alternative.

Iggy Pop? Social D? Holy Carp!!! MH you surprise me with that list.

I know! I don't think I was really a wild child but I sure wasn't always a housewife ;)


Punk might as well be dead. All these wannabe punk bands nowadays are doin' ma heid in.

stinking posers!

[djy78usa]

Punk is hit and miss for me. I love some, I hate some. Some of my favorite punk bands are Social D, Dead Kennedys (my 'Holiday in Cambodia' shirt is one of my favorites), Black Flag, and The Clash. As far as modern punk(ish) bands go, I love Dropkick Murphys, NOFX, and Me First and The Gimme Gimmes (they do punk-version covers of popular songs, you should definitely check them out if you haven't heard them).

[Sweets America]

I love Hole, Courtney Love's former band. Now I'm not sure that's punk? I've always had trouble to understand musical classifications, I never really know which is what. :blush:

[LadyW]

Oh, I quite like Hole too; I think they were more Grunge? (Which is a subgenre of Punk rock anyway)

As for Punk rock in general, yes I do like it, but Punk is most likely dead I'm sad to say...

I think the (rock) music scene has been taken over by hoards of emos, indie rockers, and heavy metal-ers now. Not that I'm complaining mind. I guess it's just one of those things that we left behind in the last century, like the 90's fixation on boy bands (*shudders*) - for that, I am thankful.

[clumsy angelle]

i don't like punk...

[Sweets America]

Oh, I quite like Hole too; I think they were more Grunge? (Which is a subgenre of Punk rock anyway)

As for Punk rock in general, yes I do like it, but Punk is most likely dead I'm sad to say...

I think the (rock) music scene has been taken over by hoards of emos, indie rockers, and heavy metal-ers now. Not that I'm complaining mind. I guess it's just one of those things that we left behind in the last century, like the 90's fixation on boy bands (*shudders*) - for that, I am thankful.

Yes, I read that Hole was Grunge, too. Anyway. :p
I think that in a way, punk is not dead because it is still apreciated by many people. And something which is in the heart of even just one person cannot be really dead. :)


like the 90's fixation on boy bands (*shudders*) - for that, I am thankful

:D

Edit: I forgot to say that I love your signature.

[RoCKiTcZa]

If you would consider Red Jumpsuit Apparatus an example of punk music, being the punk rock band it is (or claims to be, if otherwise), I would say I really love punk and would certainly give a lot to listen to it. Their songs are totally amazing, and I am confounded by their lyrics (especially of Damn Regret, which I have never gotten tired of despite having pumped its tune into my ears for several months, almost every single day. Seriously! ;)), though I wouldn't exactly believe that they have the most outstanding songwriter (neither do they have an extremely talented vocalist, and the instrument people aren't nearly as good as those of acclaimed bands); still their songs have somehow found their way into my heart and for that reason (and many others, which I will no longer need to state :)) I applaud them. PUNKS ROCK. :p

(Sorry if my reply seemed rather late and off-topic. :blush: I just felt so strongly that I had something to chip in. Hope you don't mind! :D)

[LadyW]

I think that in a way, punk is not dead because it is still apreciated by many people. And something which is in the heart of even just one person cannot be really dead. :)
Yes I suppose you are quite right; it's not dead, it's just not in the spotlight as much as it was in the 70's/80's.


Edit: I forgot to say that I love your signature.
:) Thank you