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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on September 20, 2006, 01:01:00 pm
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this may have been posted already
http://yellowarrow.net/capitolofpunk/ (http://yellowarrow.net/capitolofpunk/)
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And I had always thought that it was Salt Lake City (http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/slcpunk/).
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I read about this in Rolling Stone sometime early last year, I'm glad it's finally up and running/sort of...very cool.
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Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
And I had always thought that it was Salt Lake City (http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/slcpunk/).
That is a brilliant movie.
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Amen...decent soundtrack too!
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Yes! I can't ever watch the end, it actually kills me.
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That's a cool site... I also hope someone will someday do a history of the DC punk scene beyond hardcore... I'm talking art-punk new wave stuff like 9353 and Crippled Pilgrims... not to mention Grand Mal, and Troubled Gardens, and the Mourning Glories... this stuff around the edges was more interesting than the mainstream harDCore scene in my opinion... the collapsed-vein counterpoint to straight-edge, if you will.
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
I also hope someone will someday do a history of the DC punk scene beyond hardcore... I'm talking art-punk new wave stuff like 9353 and Crippled Pilgrims...
I think the world needs a Bloody Mannequin Orchestra documentary. That would be cool as shit.
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
That's a cool site... I also hope someone will someday do a history of the DC punk scene beyond hardcore... I'm talking art-punk new wave stuff like 9353 and Crippled Pilgrims... not to mention Grand Mal, and Troubled Gardens, and the Mourning Glories... this stuff around the edges was more interesting than the mainstream harDCore scene in my opinion... the collapsed-vein counterpoint to straight-edge, if you will.
I fully agree with this! So many cool bands that weren't hardcore punks like Tiny Desk Unit, The Slickee Boys, Raz, The Urban Verbs, Tommy Keane, The Wanktones, Danny Gatton, and even the Talking Heads were ours early on.
Who was that girl band that was kind of like the female Cure? They weren't around for too awful long but were pretty good for the time they were. I'm talking kind of early 80s here.
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Bombay, you mean something like this?
http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/ (http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/)
Jaguar, the two girl bands I can think of are Chalk Circle and Fireparty, but neither were Cure-like (in my opinion). More Cure-esque, but merely girl-fronted rather than all-girl, was Madhouse, later known as Strange Boutique.
Also in that list you forgot to mention the Insect Surfers. :)
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
Bombay, you mean something like this?
http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/ (http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/)
Jaguar, the two girl bands I can think of are Chalk Circle and Fireparty, but neither were Cure-like (in my opinion). More Cure-esque, but merely girl-fronted rather than all-girl, was Madhouse, later known as Strange Boutique.
Also in that list you forgot to mention the Insect Surfers. :)
Nope, neither of those bands. Seems that I remember 2 words in their name but not certain. Big haired attractive ladies on synths and all the fashion of the day. Bet you Twangirl can come up with it.
Doomie, I missed a lot! We had a nice scene going on then.
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
Bombay, you mean something like this?
http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/ (http://bloodymannequinorchestra.blogspot.com/)
Yeah - that's about the most I've found about them online. Thanks.
Jaguar, the two girl bands I can think of are Chalk Circle and Fireparty, but neither were Cure-like (in my opinion). More Cure-esque, but merely girl-fronted rather than all-girl, was Madhouse, later known as Strange Boutique.
My initial thought was Madhouse too, but I guess that's not it. Maybe Egoslavia?
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Nope. Keep trying guys. I don't think they were around all that long. Everyone always enjoyed them though and they were very nice people.
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Bombay, I've been thinking BMO needs to re-do "Cool as Shit" with more contemporary lyrics, updated house sounds, and a music video, don't you agree?
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
Bombay, I've been thinking BMO needs to re-do "Cool as Shit" with more contemporary lyrics, updated house sounds, and a music video, don't you agree?
Hell, I'd be happy to just have "Roadmap..." on cd.
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Well, to tide you over, here are a few MP3s...
http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-11-Streetlights_In_The_Dark_I.mp3 (http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-11-Streetlights_In_The_Dark_I.mp3)
http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-19-My_Dog_Is_A_Cat.mp3 (http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-19-My_Dog_Is_A_Cat.mp3)
http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-21-Whos_My_Dead_Friend.mp3 (http://www.alex.to/files/BMO-21-Whos_My_Dead_Friend.mp3)
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woohoo! thanks!
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Today's youngsters devoting themselves to punk rock would be equivalent to teenagers back in the '60s dressing in zoot suits and "digging" Cab Calloway.
Punk got it's just desserts...The once raw and rebellious anthems of Iggy Pop and The Ramones are now being used as TV commercial jingles to hawk crappy corporate goods and cruiseline fun packages.
Anytime you can attach a name to a "movement", the initial reactive visceral spark which spawned it has long-since faded.
Here come the followers and joiners: What should I wear? What do I say? What do I play? Just tell me what you want.
Everyone fancies themselves oh-so-unique dependent on the select exclusive group of their choice being fine with their carefully cultivated and affected uniqueness which, by mere coincidence, just happens to mirror that of everyone around them.
Words like "underground" and "counterculture" and "alternative" and "punk" and "rebel" and "green party" and "hippie" and "riot grrrl" and your-desperate-to-set-yourself-apart-cliche-here have always meant the exact same thing: extra WHITE.
In the worst, homogenous, soulless, self-conscious meaning of the word. The regular big bad racist homophobic sexist narrow-minded jingoistic world can't hold a candle to these lots when it comes to exclusion, judgment, and self-righteous "my side right or wrong"-ness.
When Johnny Rotten and Lawrence Welk go into the recording studio (not together), they have the same goal in mind: to cut GOOD SIDES, hopefully of interest to their studiously pandered-to market-researched demographic.
If you need to constantly fall all over yourself at every turn advertising what a "rebel" you are in every aspect of your life in a desperate attempt to convince people of that fact, chances are you're just a "punk". Trying to convince yourself more than anyone else.
Everyone needs to shut the fuck up, stop expressing themselves, and know that, unless they're Little Richard, they have no business whatsoever making "music", "punk" or otherwise.
Here's something for all you pre-pube "revolutionaries" to chew on...Did you know that two of The Ramones were known for smacking the wimminfolk around? And I don't mean one isolated instanceâ??I mean repeated incidents with more than one woman! I have very, very, very good sources these days, fellas!
Undersized ex-New York Doll Johnny Thunders (center)â??ALSO a known woman-beaterâ??meets Sid Viciousâ??who reputedly KILLED his girlfriend! ROCK ON, punx!
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Far more shocking and damning is the fact that the Ramones were noted sticklers for punctuality and professionalism in their band. REAL punk rockers are fine with tardiness and a lax business acumen. That's just how rebellious they are for goodness sake.
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