The Funhouse - The Punks are all right

Lee Newman said:
I’ve also ignored Mr Barker because he was in this band and it is clear to me from the half way point of the record that he is a force of nature.
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I took the kids and their friends to a buncha Warped Tours during their middle school/high school years and my all-time favorite memory involves Travis Barker.

It was the year Transplants were on the bill. My son (14 at the time) was starting to take an interest in playing and was switching between guitar and drums. After Transplants set, he stood by the cordoned walkway linking the stage to the bus area hoping to get Travis' autograph. We are literally 3 feet away. Here comes tiny Travis flanked by two 300LB behemoth bodyguards. "Mr. Barker, may I get an autograph?' Our son, raised right, always polite. TB blows right past without even turning his head. He gets about 10 feet past. My son blurts "Buddy, you totally suck!" Our son, always honest, calling them as he sees them.

And that was the most punk rock thing I ever saw at any Warped Tour.
 
Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
I took the kids and their friends to a buncha Warped Tours during their middle school/high school years and my all-time favorite memory involves Travis Barker.

It was the year Transplants were on the bill. My son (14 at the time) was starting to take an interest in playing and was switching between guitar and drums. After Transplants set, he stood by the cordoned walkway linking the stage to the bus area hoping to get Travis' autograph. We are literally 3 feet away. Here comes tiny Travis flanked by two 300LB behemoth bodyguards. "Mr. Barker, may I get an autograph?' Our son, raised right, always polite. TB blows right past without even turning his head. He gets about 10 feet past. My son blurts "Buddy, you totally suck!" Our son, always honest, calling them as he sees them.

And that was the most punk rock thing I ever saw at any Warped Tour.
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Raised right indeed!
 
I noticed some similarities in melody, harmonies and overall rhythmic structures to what Garfunkel & Oates does. Both acts seem to have an almost stream of consciousness feel to lyrics. I wonder if that is a bit of subtle satire on G&O's part along with a middle finger to the misogyny prevalent in some of the lyrics.
 
Started listening to Crass. Some initial thoughts.

1. I do find it interesting the RS sandwiched Blink-182 between White Lung and this. It’s almost an asterisk.

2. I find myself rethinking things I’ve said again. I commented on allmusic being critical of the production value of DK but find myself here with some of the most interesting music so far and it is demonstrably adversely effected by a thin production value and the lack of a sound stage. (Edit: It does work better over my single cone bluetooth speaker than it did the car, so maybe, its just a matter of not playing it over a big system. Which is interesting given the DIY part of the punk aesthetic).
 
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Corycm said:
I’m not going to dig through 8 pages (very punk rock of me) but @Lee Newman if you haven’t picked up John Doe’s/Tom DeSavia’s “Fun in the New World” and the companion “More Fun in the New World” it’s a great collection of essays and stuff about the LA punk scene (pre-hardcore). I absolutely devoured those books and used it to start building out that part of my library.
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I am very interesting in reading these. Gonna have to knock a few books off the unruly stack at home though.
 
Lee Newman said:
2. I find myself rethinking things I’ve said again. I commented on allmusic being critical of the production value of DK but find myself here with some of the most interesting music so far and it is demonstrably adversely effected by a thin production value and the lack of a sound stage. (Edit: It does work better over my single cone bluetooth speaker than it did the car, so maybe, its just a matter of not playing it over a big system. Which is interesting given the DIY part of the punk aesthetic).
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That pretty much describes a lot of music from that era. Partly it was naiveté in the recording process, and some times the sound quality was part of the aesthetic of the music.

I have several punk records that you have to get past the recording quality to actually enjoy the music.
 
CrazyDiamond84 said:
I like Blink 182 for what they are. There is definitely a place for them, for a specific generation, but that place definitely isn't on a greatest punk album of all time list.
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I saw them play Times Square for the Millennium New Years, so they have a firm place in my memories and I can get into some of their albums. I like the song they did with Robert Smith. Their early stuff has more of a punk feel and then they moved into that mainstream Green Dayesque sound that certainly was influential and occasionally piques my interest, but generally isn't my cuppa. I think they are emblematic of how diverse the punk label is, and a lot of bands that went in this direction never felt punk to me because they were on mainstream radio and didn't have any real political or anti authority message. Gap punk is what I remember these kinds of bands being labeled as because they sold out and preppy kids liked them. Which didn't feel that punk. But the 90s pomo was a blender and meaning lost it's referents. Then we got old.
 
Some nice write-ups at this blog I just found through a review on Discogs:
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Post-Punk Monk

Searching for divinity in records from '78-'85 or so…
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I'm going to swing back to give this one full attention later:
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They Take Paradise And Put Up A Parking Lot: The Troubling Sale of Bandcamp to Epic Games

Bandcamp today…lots of King Gizzard + The Lizard Wizard is certainly moving The Growth Of Bandcamp I have been a Bandcamp buyer for over a decade. While DL music was not always my cup of tea, the f…
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Posted this in the repress thread too. Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets 40th anniversary press

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CIRCLE JERKS ‘WILD IN THE STREETS' LP (Deluxe, 40th Anniversary, Yellow Vinyl)

LABEL: Trust RecordsVINYL RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 1982VARIANT: Yellow Vinyl LP After 40 years, Circle Jerks are proud to announce the vinyl reissue of their iconic full-length album "Wild In The Streets," a landmark of the punk and hardcore genre. This deluxe, 40th-anniversary...
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Not sure if this already made it in here, hard to search for. Cool modern punk band. In the past of lot of their stuff leans metal, which isn't usually for me but I'm digging the first two singles from the new album. First one very hardcore second hip hop. Great video for the first one:



 
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nolalady said:
Posted this in the repress thread too. Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets 40th anniversary press

shop.brooklynvegan.com

CIRCLE JERKS ‘WILD IN THE STREETS' LP (Deluxe, 40th Anniversary, Yellow Vinyl)

LABEL: Trust RecordsVINYL RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 1982VARIANT: Yellow Vinyl LP After 40 years, Circle Jerks are proud to announce the vinyl reissue of their iconic full-length album "Wild In The Streets," a landmark of the punk and hardcore genre. This deluxe, 40th-anniversary...
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I just got the striped label version of this from the label last week. Haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet, but it looks pretty neat.
 
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