August 28, 20232 yr I've made a conscious effort to stop (or at least slow) my hyping of this band, and you might not consider it "punk", but it sure seems like a packed roomful of kids in fucking Louisville KY dig it. I think music is more diverse now than ever, and young people like a wider cross section than ever. A kid can dig Jason Isbell and Kendrick Lamar and Royal Blood and The Beatles and nobody gives a shit. When I was a teenager, there were clear cliques and you were definitely judged if your tastes were too broad. Plus, Pat Smear and Jack White and Keith Morris and Donita Sparks and Kathy Valentine and Amy Taylor are big fans, so there's some punk credibility. Sounds like rock and roll to me [emoji1598]
August 28, 20232 yr I honestly think Nirvana was as much a pop band as a punk band. Their melodic and harmonic structure was WAY more sophisticated than the average grunge band.With disco drumming.
August 28, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Doing ABC News Breakfast says a lot about today's punk scene. Lol. Well, Jello Biafra went on Oprah
August 28, 20232 yr If you think punk rock is dead, the folks at Subaru would like to have a word with you
August 28, 20232 yr 16 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said: Punk isn't dead. It's just on Smoko. Never heard this song. Holy shit I love it.
August 28, 20232 yr Just now, FirstTimeCaller said: Never heard this song. Holy shit I love it. Same. Someone posted it unironically in another thread about a year ago and I've been a fan ever since. Hilarious.
August 29, 20232 yr Happy to report that my kid loves Smoko. So does his dad. Just waiting that call from his teacher today. "Little FTC won't do his work. Keeps telling me he's on smoko, but I don't know what that means."
August 29, 20232 yr Pearl Jam fans are just the worst. (Not you AL, you're cool). Quote Kurt Cobain was no phoney — but he wasn’t so sure the kids could spot one. ‘I do feel a duty to warn the kids of false music that’s claiming to be underground or alternative,’ he told Michael Azerrad.2 Cobain wasn’t speaking in the abstract here — he had one band in particular in mind — Pearl Jam, the Seattle-based five-piece whose debut album, Ten, had been released just one month before Nevermind. Krist Novoselic agreed. ‘Those guys are not an alternative band! They’re a hard rock band.’
August 29, 20232 yr I'd love to read a.... smart person discussing Kurt Cobain's comments (like the above, or famously how he felt about Nevermind and Butch Vig's production, etc), his actual music, and his ethos and identity. How those things played together, because from my not very studied and very much armchair perspective I think that Cobain had some weird cognitive dissonance between who he was and who he wanted to be. Or at least, who he felt like he was and how the actual music he made reflected on that. I can't find the original article in a ten second google but from here referring to some interview about the 10 albums that changed his life where Cobain compares The Clash and The Sex Pistols - Quote There is one big statement left to be made, however, as Cobain selected the Sex Pistols album Nevermind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. While the selection isn’t surprising, his assertion is that it’s “a million times more important than The Clash.” “How do I explain that? Hmm, Both were the original punk bands, but The Clash were always a bad imitation of The Rolling Stones, in love with America. But at least they took their girlfriends on tour with them (The Slits). Their music was terrible, though,” Cobain said, before adding: “The Pistols album has the best production of any rock record I’ve ever heard. It’s totally in-your-face and compressed. All the hype The Sex Pistols had was totally deserved … they deserved everything that they got. Johnny Rotten was the one I identified with, he was the sensitive one.” I was thinking about that quote because of what Jimmy correctly said about the fact that Nirvana was a pop band (of course you could correctly apply that label to a great many bands across different genres of rock). I remember that quote because I so strongly disagree with Cobain's top line assertion (The Clash do not suck and in fact are the best, and the Sex Pistols are important but not good) and also because... again without having thought about it too hard, if you sat a head trauma victim who has forgotten everything down with the discographies of the Sex Pistols and The Clash and had him draw a line from Nirvana to one, I think it would go to The Clash. Again, haven't actually thought about that too far, but broadly I think a lot of what Cobain had to say about bands who made music that was accessible is him turning his feelings about himself outward. also I'm so fucking glad we don't have Kurt Cobain's twitter also I can't remember if he got specifically into what I'm saying, but Chuck Klosterman may have actually done just that in his recent book on the 90s Edited August 29, 20232 yr by Celery Man
August 29, 20232 yr 27 minutes ago, Celery Man said: Cobain had some weird cognitive dissonance between who he was and who he wanted to be. Is it really that weird though? I think most of us have it in some capacity. His biggest imo was reconciling music he liked with the genesis of that music. He was a massive fan of very poppy stuff that was the product of the machine, and had no emotional mechanism to reconcile that. On his music I don't think he was nearly as conflicted. He was pretty alienated by the fame, but he also craved the fame terribly. He could not reconcile those feelings whatsoever. Klosterman really didn't talk much about it in that book that I recall, and frankly he has almost no frame of reference to talk about it, but some of the best things I feel you can read are Greg Prato's oral history Grunge is Dead and Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town. There is as much first hand accounts of Kurt as you will find, and they shed a lot more light than any of his biographies by far in my opinion. 27 minutes ago, Celery Man said: also I'm so fucking glad we don't have Kurt Cobain's twitter Sheeeeit. That shit would be fucking hilarious man. But I'm pretty sure Cobain would never had been able to figure out how to tweet. Also, Kurt was dead on about Johnny Rotten. I am definitely a Clash fan way more, but Lyndon is absolutely a sensitive soul, almost a doppleganger of Kurt.
August 29, 20232 yr yeah, def not weird to have the tension over who you are and who you want to be, but maybe weird in how it manifested with kurt also that's reminding me of one of the hardest lyrics of all time - you can throw me in the colbert county jailhouse you can throw me off the wilson dam but there ain't much difference 'tween the man I want to be and the man that i really am
August 29, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, G650 said: Also, Kurt was dead on about Johnny Rotten. I am definitely a Clash fan way more, but Lyndon is absolutely a sensitive soul, almost a doppleganger of Kurt. Gonna be in Edinburgh on the 21st. Thought about going to see PIL. I just don't think I want to. I think I'll just have a nice meal and try and find a non corporate Pub
August 29, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Celery Man said: yeah, def not weird to have the tension over who you are and who you want to be, but maybe weird in how it manifested with kurt also that's reminding me of one of the hardest lyrics of all time - you can throw me in the colbert county jailhouse you can throw me off the wilson dam but there ain't much difference 'tween the man I want to be and the man that i really am Yeah I mean he was a weird guy, so there's that. I mostly think he was just really, really sensitive. Just now, locodos said: I think I'll just have a nice meal and try and find a non corporate Pub Godspeed. I'm a little jelly, not gonna lie.
August 29, 20232 yr Randomly I just came across this show bill with Pinko playing at Chess Club this Saturday night for those in Austin. I saw them when they were here in SF a year or so back. Punk as fuck. I bought their record. Check them out. I think they're from San Antonio.
August 29, 20232 yr 17 minutes ago, G650 said: Godspeed. I'm a little jelly, not gonna lie. Yep. I'm no big time world traveler, but I've visited most of western Europe. Edinburgh is my favorite city, by far.
August 29, 20232 yr On 8/24/2023 at 4:12 PM, Rudiger said: Fat Mike is 56, so punk rock probably has two or three years left at least. when him and Wattie from The Exploited die.. its over. (ha, Punks not Dead indeed) but seriously.. what is punk? Are we talking the musical style? attitude? DYI? Kids are always going to be making really interesting music on the fringes - Maybe not aggressive or snotty, per se, but still punk.
August 29, 20232 yr On 8/26/2023 at 1:29 PM, ajax said: Agreed. Rick Beato has a video called the Y2K Curse, where he talks about bands that were popular in the late 90s that kind of faded away after Y2K. The post-grunge era of music got super mellow. Bands like 3rd Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish, Creed, Big Head Todd, etc. They still put out music after Y2K but faded in significance. They probably strayed too far from punk and hardcore roots. Beato talked about how rock got decidedly harder and heavier after that. Mainly was talking about nu metal, but if you look at the current Spotify rock list, you see a lot of bands that have hardcore roots. Basically any "blank"-core band has roots in punk - deathcore, metalcore, mathcore, etc from Bruce Springsteen's SXSW keynote address in 2012: “There are so many sub–genres and fashions, two–tone, acid rock, alternative dance, alternative metal, alternative rock, art punk, art rock, avant garde metal, black metal, black and death metal, Christian metal, heavy metal, funk metal, bland metal, medieval metal, indie metal, melodic death metal, melodic black metal, metal core, hard core, electronic hard core, folk punk, folk rock, pop punk, Brit pop, grunge, sad core, surf music, psychedelic rock, punk rock, hip hop, rap rock, rap metal, Nintendo core, huh? I just want to know what a Nintendo core is, myself. But rock noir, shock rock, skate punk, noise core, noise pop, noise rock, pagan rock, paisley underground, indy pop, indy rock, heartland rock, roots rock, samba rock, screamo–emo, shoegazing stoner rock, swamp pop, synth pop, rock against communism, garage rock, blues rock, death and roll, lo–fi, jangle pop, folk music. Just add neo– and post– to everything I said, and mention them all again. Yeah, and rock & roll” Word.
August 29, 20232 yr In timely things, I was just scanning through Sirius XM, and saw Pearl Jams Animal, and was like oh I dig that song. Immediately after was Kurt saying “I just don't agree with the old punk rock ethos, of like, you have to starve to be an artist,” he said. “It's bullshit." Lol.
August 29, 20232 yr my favorite micro genre I learned about recently is "orgcore", which is used to describe mostly melodic punk bands that...I still don't know the parameters but "I've had two semesters of college and now I listen to Hot Water Music instead of NOFX". I think "org" in the name refers to online music sites that like bands of that style/ilk. Someone described The Swellers like that, which is how I came across it.
August 29, 20232 yr Its hard for any age cohort group to come to terms with the cultural artifacts from their time becoming dated, meaningless, out of style. Society moves from one thing to another, it happens in waves and cycles. You don't want to turn into one of the older people who insist everything was better back in the day. Things weren't better back then. The music industry was less open, there were fewer avenues of distribution, the gatekeepers whether in print or electronic media, even venue ownership, were more powerful and in decades past they would be almost entirely white and male. If you lived through the time period you have be just a little bit critical of these things.
August 29, 20232 yr Reminds me of a band a saw recently.Female singer starts by talking about how old punks suck, "always trying to say how tough it was back the day, blah blah, and I say [hard fast music starts - screaming vox] fuck you you old fucker, I don't give a shit,.... etc, etc." By the end she was on the other side of the mosh pit yelling, "you know they're back here. They're always hiding in the back."As probably the oldest guy in the room, guilty. I was back there, cause shit hurts more than it used to.That what this thread is like. A bunch of old guys discussing what is and isn't punk rock and comparing bands from 30 years ago is literally the least punk rock thing on the internet. If you wanna know if punk is still alive, ask a punk.
August 29, 20232 yr 16 minutes ago, trza-hawk said: Its hard for any age cohort group to come to terms with the cultural artifacts from their time becoming dated, meaningless, out of style. Society moves from one thing to another, it happens in waves and cycles. You don't want to turn into one of the older people who insist everything was better back in the day. Things weren't better back then. The music industry was less open, there were fewer avenues of distribution, the gatekeepers whether in print or electronic media, even venue ownership, were more powerful and in decades past they would be almost entirely white and male. If you lived through the time period you have be just a little bit critical of these things. this doesn't have it but there were some pretty racist candids from Decline of Western Civilization, which is worth a watch also lol pat smear
August 29, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said: literally the least punk rock thing on the internet. I take it you have never browsed TexAgs. But seriously, it seems to me almost everyone in here is saying punk is alive and well, kids are making noise and having bad attitudes as always, so I'm not sure who you are responding to. I for one don't make any claims on being remotely punk rock anymore, I'm old and lame and full embrace that.
August 29, 20232 yr I'm not hating on anyone here, just a commentary. More responding to the post above mine, which reminded me if that act.
August 29, 20232 yr Just now, AnotherUTFan said: I'm not hating on anyone here, just a commentary. More responding to the post above mine, which reminded me if that act. Yeah, that was a damn good post. It's something I remind myself of pretty regularly, but I'm pretty fortunate in that I'm not super prone to looking backward by nature. It's one thing that has always befuddled me about the American character, the desperate clinging to youth. The plastic surgery, the drugs, emotional immaturity. It also manifests in the whole things were better back in my day but I also walked uphill both ways to school in the snow nonsense. I guess its self importance, I dunno. I prefer to embrace where I am at any given moment/age than pine away for a past I am misremembering anyway. When G'nR hit the scene in the 80's, it was awesome. Their entire being was basically just waving two middle fingers to anyone possible. Was a pretty solid fan up through the early 00's. Then this whole cash grab "reunion" happened. Bloated old nonsense profiting of peoples nostalgia, with absolutely nothing new to say. Dude who once sang yesterdays got nothing for me, well buddy, it has a back catalog you can restock your empty bank account with. Nauseating.
August 29, 20232 yr I was with you on G-n-R but jumped off when they released 2 albums on the same day. I saw that as a cash grab / sell out.
August 29, 20232 yr Just now, AnotherUTFan said: I was with you on G-n-R but jumped off when they released 2 albums on the same day. I saw that as a cash grab / sell out. Yeah totally get that, I just happen to think there are some damn good songs on there, specifically Izzy's stuff. You could see the wheels falling off though. I mostly disappointed in Slash and Duff. I mean if they wanted to get back and jam out it's totally their right, it just ruins their legacy in my mind. Being one of these nostalgia acts, which his 100% what this is, is antithetical to their purpose. Young and out of control was their raison d'etre.
August 29, 20232 yr 49 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said: That what this thread is like. A bunch of old guys discussing what is and isn't punk rock and comparing bands from 30 years ago is literally the least punk rock thing on the internet. If you wanna know if punk is still alive, ask a punk. It's perfectly fine for someone like me, who was never and never will be a punk to discuss the genre. As a minor nit, not every band being discussed is decades old, either. Get off my lawn.
August 29, 20232 yr I don't really care anything about Pearl Jam. I don't quite get why they were popular. I love Nirvana. Always have, always will. Although I did read the biography of Kurt. My main takeaway was that dude was a loser. I think whether he got famous and changed music or stayed in Olympia playing in underground bands, the outcome would have been the same.
August 29, 20232 yr g-n-r talk not going away, That's me in the middle, that's me losing my religion sanity
August 29, 20232 yr It's perfectly fine for someone like me, who was never and never will be a punk to discuss the genre. As a minor nit, not every band being discussed is decades old, either. Get off my lawn.I finally bought my tickets to see your daughter's band this past weekend. I wasn't sure I'd be in town in October.
August 29, 20232 yr Honestly, I kinda like The Spaghetti Incident. GnR obviously wasn't a punk band, but they clearly listened.
August 29, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said: Honestly, I kinda like The Spaghetti Incident. GnR obviously wasn't a punk band, but they clearly listened. Duff was a legit guy out of the Seattle hardcore scene. Steve Adler was also into it. The rest not so much.
August 29, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, G650 said: Duff was a legit guy out of the Seattle hardcore scene. Steve Adler was also into it. The rest not so much. This is punk?
August 29, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, G650 said: Duff was a legit guy out of the Seattle hardcore scene. Steve Adler was also into it. The rest not so much. if memory serves Duff was in one early incarnation of the Fastbacks. (drummer) *ha.. google machine works.. Edited August 29, 20232 yr by yoladu
August 29, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, yoladu said: if memory serves Duff was in one early incarnation of the Fastbacks. (drummer) *ha.. google machine works.. Indeed he was, for like two gigs or something.
August 29, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, yoladu said: if memory serves Duff was in one early incarnation of the Fastbacks. (drummer) *ha.. google machine works..
August 29, 20232 yr Even if punk is still alive, it will never be the Big Boys at Raul's. Much like "my Austin", punk died in the 80s.
August 29, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, G650 said: Indeed he was, for like two gigs or something. He played on their first 7".
August 29, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, creeper said: He played on their first 7". User avatar checks out. Did he? I definitely believe you, I just recall it was a brief tenure.
August 29, 20232 yr 37 minutes ago, DoobieWah said: Much like "my Austin", punk died in the 80s. For you, maybe.
August 29, 20232 yr 24 minutes ago, G650 said: User avatar checks out. Did he? I definitely believe you, I just recall it was a brief tenure. Yeah, I'm not sure if he was a real contributor to the band or just happened to be around and available, but he played on a couple of early releases on "No Threes," including the Vains 7" and maybe the Silly Killers 45, in addition to Fastbacks 7".
August 29, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, creeper said: Yeah, I'm not sure if he was a real contributor to the band or just happened to be around and available, but he played on a couple of early releases on "No Threes," including the Vains 7" and maybe the Silly Killers 45, in addition to Fastbacks 7". Yeah I definitely remember him with the Vains. No idea on Silly Killers though
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