Punk Bands for the Prog Ear?

Also this:-

Murray Street
Sonic Youth

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BaldJean wrote: probably the Dead Kennedies. the Stranglers have always been wrongly branded punk, since they were one of the few bands who could actually play polyphonic. an interesting little known punk band with prog attitudes is Inner City Unit, a band in which Nik Turner of Hawkwind played. if any band is prog punk it is definitely them. their best albums are "Pass Out", "Punkadelic" and "The President Tapes". "The Maximum Effect" is a bit tame, and "New Anatomy" doesn't quite convince me, but they deserve being checked out. here a link to their homepage: http://www.doremi.co.uk/icu/

Punkadelic's a great album - "Watching the Grass Grow" and "Space Invaders" are really progressive thinking songs.

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I think that record is borderline prog IMO.  Absolutely superb.  Some lyrics from the title track...

"Look at those c**ts on MTV
With their cars, and cribs, and rings and sh*t
Is that what being a celebrity means?
Look, boys and girls, here's BBC
See corpses, rapes and amputees
What do you think now of the American Dream."

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I would have to disagree and say that those lyrics are pretty bad. I mean going about talking about the corruptions of MTV and the American Dream by calling them c**ts is immature. I would advise to look at many other songs on the same theme before that one. The lyrics are so bad it makes me think there is sarcasm in the statement.

Something like

"I can't wait for the day
When I hear us all screaming,
HERE COMES THE REVOLUTION.
When every race color and creed
of militant human beings, stand up
With fists together for substance and true meaning
Because right now we got our feet stuck in cement
We're too caught up in
A material status quo punishment
And one thing is for sure
And that's the sun will always set,
Darling you can bet our moon is quite the opposite
So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire
Just cause you can't see your cage
Doesn't mean that you are free
When there are laws against nature
But its ok for you to be
Addicted to over the counter prescriptions
And magazines that dictate all our human relations"

-Rx Bandits, Overcome (The Recapitulation)

Now those are some really good lyrics on a very similar topic.