Your favourite Punk albums? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

siLLy puPPy wrote:

What's grotesque is that this site crashes on me almost every time I visit it. The forum doesn't work, messages don't work etc etc etc

NEVER happens on RYM which is impeccably maintained and updated regularly.

It may be a question where these technical problems come from because I have rather rarely any.

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

To quote Logan's reply: "Does that include all post-punk and all music that you would consider to be punk related?"

My answer would be definitely not! I tend to like a lot of stuff that gets the post-punk tag, which sounds weird. I think the term probably gets washed away being overused by professional critics and journalists, that could be a reason why. But my problem is rooted in classic punk for sure (Late 70s).

I only liked Punk in its original form , when it got watered down it lost all credibility for me as well as that energy that made it what it was. I would say then British bands were the best. I loved The Stranglers up to about Black and White Album (plus that great cover of Walk On By) and the Pistols were a hoot. Wasn't so keen on the Clash mainly because of the 'London thing'. Siouxsie and The Banshees were easily my favourites and carried on making great music into the 80's. Peak a Boo is oustanding but also what a great song Israel is and it still resonates as hard as ever (sadly). Almost a bit proggy with that choir sound towards the end. I liked The Damned as well but mainly for New Rose and also a nice cover of Love's 'Alone Again Or'. The Jam were also another entry into great 3 piece bands of our time with a string of great hits. Also liked The Motors before they got commercialised with songs like Airport. Punk was largely done before it started but it had an annoying legacy with any Tom , Dick and Harriot thinking they could now be a rock star without the necessary work to go with it. That was kind of the point but it also lead to some later dreadful non musician producer driven crap. IMO

Edited by richardh - 5 hours 31 minutes ago at 20:56

richardh wrote:

I only liked Punk in its original form , when it got watered down it lost all credibility for me as well as that energy that made it what it was. I would say then British bands were the best.

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Hi,

I was thinking you might want to see Penelope Spheeris series of films "The Decline of Western Civilization" where you get to see LA really far out there and wild ... and probably more interesting ... the main difference was that America did not exactly have a periodical that helped "punk" along ... and that helped a lot of punk all over America fall off the news quickly ... not to mention that one thing that you get with Spheeris films is that here it comes off as bands that did not exactly gave a damn, and really had little to fight for ... and they did not exactly last very long because of it. Thus,m it is easy to say that the British were best, since they became known and associated for it ... LA and NY did not ... and they had many of these bands around! But in NY, you will never get a word anywhere, unless you sell a million so it becomes an "art" like so many others out there!

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