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starry-eyed pirate:
What is it ??

Valhalla:
Sex Pistols
The Misfits (but them I'm partial)
The Ramones

...waiting for Frod....

Anonymous:
Stooges, baby!  You need some Velvet Underground, and some Ramones, too.   Fuck the Pistols, the Damned are a much better band who formed before they did,  releasewd a record before they did, and broke up before they did.  The Pistols are the Monkees of Punk Rock--a contrived band calculated to sell records.  The Damned are the genuine article.

After those, you might want to investigate certain local scenes---NY had CBGB's and Max's Kansas City (two influential punk clubs) DC had their harDCore thing going on,  LA had a punk scene (that was cool until Orange County assholes domionated it), SF had their scene, and Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc. all had bands come out of their local punk rock scenes.


rtp2k3

Froderik:

--- Quote from: ""rtp2kE"" ---Stooges, baby!  You need some Velvet Underground, and some Ramones, too.   Fuck the Pistols, the Damned are a much better band who formed before they did,  releasewd a record before they did, and broke up before they did.  The Pistols are the Monkees of Punk Rock--a contrived band calculated to sell records.  The Damned are the genuine article.

After those, you might want to investigate certain local scenes---NY had CBGB's and Max's Kansas City (two influential punk clubs) DC had their harDCore thing going on,  LA had a punk scene (that was cool until Orange County assholes domionated it), SF had their scene, and Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc. all had bands come out of their local punk rock scenes.rtp2k3
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I wholeheartedly concur with The Stooges as well as The Ramones & The VU... All are quintessential American punk bands.

When normally a remark like that about The Sex Pistols might cause there to be broken bottles and some cuts and bruises, I'll go along with it to a point considering it's The Damned you're talking about. Fucking great band in their early days. Live Shepperton 1980 is a smokin' live album by them. Their cover of "Looking at You" on there (The MC5) is cool as shit!

I don't share the "Monkees" view of the Pistols; Never Mind The Bollocks is an undeniable punk masterpiece! Not contrived at all! It's the only thing they ever really did, but significant. But The Damned were a better band than the Pistols, all in all. The Clash are also good (mostly the early stuff).

The LA scene: Black Flag, Fear, The Germs, X, etc.
Rent "The Decline of Western Civilization" for a good exposé on this stuff. A good documentary as I recall; I saw it in 1981 or 82, but I think I'd like it almost as much today..

Anonymous:
Yeah, Never Mind the Bullocks is a great record, but again, their Monkees-ishness seeps through in the fact that they fired Glen Matlock, who wrote all the songs, and replaced him with Sid Vicious, who was all image and no ability.

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