• DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I don't listen to much Punk (I've always been more of a reggae dude) but you couldn't be more correct in that it's impossible to distill 40 plus years of music into one band. Also, even if you don't like Punk the impact it had in the post punk world is undeniable. New Wave, Goth, Industrial, Electronic Dance, and New Romantic were all directly birthed from the Punk movement. Previous generation styles like Ska, Rockabilly and Folk were also revitalized by adding elements of Punk either musically or just in ethos (though some could debate this was de-evolution like in the case of 3rd Wave Ska which often is just Punk with Horns).

        Anyhow, I urge everyone to listen to London Calling all the way through before closing your minds to what a Punk band could acheive sonically. Or just listen to Youth Brigade and realize that the same shit people are bitching about now (cops beating on people, fascism, dystopian future) were pretty well covered 40 years ago.

      • Mother [any]
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        2 years ago

        Dead Kennedys should be on your list imo no song encapsulates living in modern capitalism quite as tidily as ‘At My Job’

          • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            wait, youre kidding? Jello is a Warren supporter? lol I used to listen to his spoken words like 20 years ago and that shit was straight up theory. Looks like Boomer Brain is a real and takes no prisoners.

    • hahafuck [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It is a bad take. Maybe one of the worst I have ever seen ever. What punk music have you been recommended before, and what sort of music do you like regularly? Its a very broad genre and we can probably find something there aligned with your tastes, even if you hate guitars, or fast music.

    • Nama [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Chumbawumba has some really nice things to say about British royalty, among other things. Pretty good.

      Bad Religion is just a very good constant with little bad I could point out.

      I've not heard much bad about NOFX.

      AntiFlag is good music for certain moods.

      I think I'm forgetting like 10 other bands I listen to, but I don't follow english bands as much. I have 10 more singing in German I could recommend, but currently I'm more into folk punk when it comes to english.

      And that genre is just fucking amazing.

      https://youtu.be/EEdvwJtkvG0 here is a good video dunking on sex pistols

    • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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      2 years ago

      I'm not really personally a fan of a lot of punk rock, but Nomeansno and Propaghandi are pretty awesome (and their politics seems to have remained good), even if neither is really a "pure" punk group

      also I'd be pretty bummed if we never got post-punk bands like Talking Heads and the Cure, and all of the genre's derivatives

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      Maybe punk as a genre is like Dadaism. It might be useful in challenging what is considered "art" but beyond that... there's not much else behind it.

      • hahafuck [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Uhhhhh no its very good to listen to and makes a person feel good. 'Useful' art lol

        • D61 [any]
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          2 years ago

          I'm not a punk aficionado so, I'm definitely talking out of my ass here.

          But there's the punk rock that has the asthetic and their songs are about something. Then there's the punk rock that is just edgelordism in music form right?

          Dada was pretty much saying, "shitting on a canvas" is nor more/less art than some fancy reniassance painting that is viewed as "art" because a bunch of rich high class people say its art.

            • D61 [any]
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              2 years ago

              stripped down raw rock music with no pretenses in terms of technical ability so theoretically anyone can play it

              And as I understanding Dadaism, this seems to fall in line with it. Not sure if I know enough to make a claim about any direct influence by Dadaism directly to Punk, but I could absolutely see a situation of parallel evolution.

              The higher minded punx may be influenced by Dada but there’s also just a lot of dumb guys writing songs about some goth lady they have a crush on and the cool thing about punk is it’s all equally valid.

              Or singing a song about abortion from the perspective of a fetus, screaming about not wanting to be aborted. :Bodies-by-the-Sex-Pistols:

        • D61 [any]
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          2 years ago

          There is an intensity and rawness to it that is quite nifty.

    • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Punk is reactionary by nature. It basically started because a bunch of pissed off teens didn't have the attention span for prog rock, and formed a reactionary kind of music based on that.

      I'm not saying that somewhere out there, there isn't a good punk band. I'm sure there is. I also dig the anti establishment angle of punk. But over all, it's not my thing.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        2 years ago

        it's not "reactionary by nature" you square listen to the clash or something

      • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I’m going to be a semantics Stalin here but ‘reactionary’ doesn’t mean ‘one who reacts’ but ‘one who wants a return to status quo ante’.

        • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          You're right. What word are we looking for here?

          I wish I could wave a magic wand and make "reactionary" mean what it sounds like it means.

            • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Really, if we had the chance to switch it all around, I'd rather Marx/Engels had used some other word besides reactionary. Reactive is good for the common understanding of 'reactionary' though. I suppose their problem was that the reactionaries were reactive with a desire to return to status quo ante, hah. I wonder what the german word it is translated from... :thinkin-lenin:

      • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        didn’t have the attention span for prog rock

        "we replaced your uninteresting pretentious dogshit with music that is 2x more uninteresting pretentious dogshit" Is this what Adorno meant by negative dialectics?

        • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Finding the roots of punk is like trying to herd cats. I am very into garage rock and Detroit rock, so I have an appreciation for the roots of punk. I don't know where they lose me, but where I pick it up again would make punk fans cringe. I like MXPX and old Green Day. That's kind of about it.

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I have never been recommended good punk rock.

      Thats because 'good punk rock' isnt easily accessibe, you wont find it on the radio or at virgin records or wherever else is selling popular CDs now, you have to actively seek it out. Theres tons of great punk bands both musically and lyrically. Heres some that verys from very hardcore/crust, to melodic.

      More hardcore/screamy:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg6CHLDCeNs

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDlx-gu7qM

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8q1wHLWrJQ

      More melody:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp4UzDrem3E

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUs3HcD6yHY&t=25s