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Postby Cookie » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:01 pm

Floyd wrote:See me badmonkey and cookie are very lucky people, because at the moment the english music scene is going through an amazing stage of brilliant new bands and music, it's like the sixties all over again.. hoorar!


:? It's nothing new, we've had all this good stuff since the sixties!
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Postby colonel » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:05 pm

Anthony Roberts sang in the 60's, wow, I didn't think he was that old.

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Postby Floyd » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:06 pm

Nah thats not true, It was amazing up untill the end of punk.. 83, 84 maybe? then it was absolutly awfull up until maybe.. 97, 98? maybe earlier actually, but anyways, it's a wonderfull time to be british and a music fan!
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Postby Cookie » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:08 pm

Rubbish. What about the British Electric erra. Then the indie rock stuff.

Punk music is crap, that's whay it didn't last. (only my opinion though)
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Postby Floyd » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:18 pm

Ellectric music is crap! (My op though) I think punk was a good thing, HEavy metal such as Led zepplin and even Bands such as Pink Floyd had reached there peak, the british music scene needed something like punk to shake it up a little bit, keep it from getting boring, Besides, the whole cultur of punk is amazing, thier "Fuck you, i'm gunna be who i want to be" attitude can only really be expressed by bands with no talent :wink:
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Postby Cookie » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:26 pm

What about Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Tears for Fears, Gary Numan... ...your missing out the best bands ever here!
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Postby Floyd » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:32 pm

Yeah alright, 'cept for the last two, you did me over there :wink: i do actually love all those bands.. now i look silly :(
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Postby Cookie » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:35 pm

Hang your head in shame!

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Postby BadMonkey » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:41 pm

Speaking of punk bands with no talent, I saw one last weekend. Marches To graves or some such they were called. About as talented as a brick. It was awful to see them.

But then they turned it around with some good humour in their last 3 tracks, all played for actual reasons.

"I'm too fat" To commemorate the weight gained by the lead singer over their 25 year career.

"We're crap and we know we are" To celebrate being crap over that same period.

And "We're off to the pub" To commemorate finishing their set and heading to the pub.

And as for right now what I'm listening to.....

Poe - Trigger Happy Jack

Edit: Because I still can't type.
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Postby Antichrist_Online » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:53 pm

Cpt Sensible - While Wrecking The Car.
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Postby Floyd » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:49 pm

Aging Punk Rockers wrote:I'm too fat" To commemorate the weight gained by the lead singer over their 25 year career.

"We're crap and we know we are" To celebrate being crap over that same period.

And "We're off to the pub" To commemorate finishing their set and heading to the pub


And thats what makes punk, especially and only british punk, great, the fact that they are crap, and they do indeed know they are, and they couldent give a flying Fu*k! Hoorar Horar hoorar!
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Postby west » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:25 am

Punk died when the Sex Pistols made it about fashion and politics.
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Postby Floyd » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:32 am

Punk was allways about fashion and politics! Punk died when everyones fashion and politics became the same...
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Postby west » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:42 am

punk was the answer to over-produced dreck. The true early punk focused on rocking out (with or without their male-specific rhyming body parts out), doing way too many drugs, and being crazy mothas.
It emphasised individual expression, unlike the punk of today.
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Postby wichita » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:26 am

The roots of punk were all about challenging the establish norms and authority. It was purely artistic from the get go, starting when Lou Reed and Andy Warhol started hanging out during the Velvet Underground days. Lou started writing songs about transvestites, homosexulaity, and explicit drug use (the psychadelic era was mostly coded lyrics, right?) and the band played these offensive songs with incredible noise, distortion, and uncharacteristic underproduction for the time. This was expanded in New York by the New York Dolls and other similar bamds tat began cross dressing on stage just for shock value.

The Sex Pistols added the element of anarchy, and took the underproduction to the extreme. The music is talentless and bad on purpose. The anarchist undertones, or overtones actually, was indeed a response to the rampant economic, moral, and political unrest of the time. My favorite part of their live acts in the seventies involved flying the USSR flag behind them on stage...just to piss the man off.


Plus, it just frickin' rocks, eh? :lol:
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