PARTY PUNK FOR THE PEOPLES!
Happy Monday. To help get the week started on the right foot, I’m rocking a little “party punk” today. My love of great, old school punk is both obvious and well stated elsewhere in this blog. To me, punk is not noise, or screaming, or any of the other terms that the haters love to bandy about to describe it. Punk is, to me, just about the truest form of music there is. It’s not a romanticized version of what like should be, or a fantasy version of what like can be. It’s all about what life is. And sometimes it’s angry and full of angst. But sometimes, it’s also aggressive in a wild, fun kind of way. That’s what today’s list is. Great, fun, wild, aggressive music to grab you and get the week started right.
Two of the bands here that are among my favorite are Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex. Germ Free Adolescents is one of the top five punk albums from the 70’s, and I would doubt a month goes by I don’t crank it up a little and give it a listen. Of course, not when my wife’s at home. Unfortunately, she’s not as enlightened to the glory of punk as we are. I try, but she just doesn’t get it. But hey, lets not let that ruin our good time! Enjoy!
- The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
- X-Ray Spex – The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
- The Jam – The Eton Rifles
- Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United
- Generation X – Your Generation
- Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device
- Eddie & The Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do
- Bow Wow Wow – Go Wild In The Country
- The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- The Freshies – House Beautiful
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Great list. All excellent tracks. Thanks for the music
July 29th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I’ve never like Bow Wow Wow, and now I remember why.
I had never heard Sham 69, but I really liked it. I did have a friend who used to say the chorus.
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