| THE REAL PUNKS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BACK TO IDEAS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BACK TO MAIN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THAT HAVE MADE THE MUSIC THAT WE ENJOY FOR VERY LONG NOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THERE ARE SO MANY BANDS OUT THERE THAT HAVE BEEN IMPROVING ON THE SCENE WITH THEIR IDEAS. THE SCENE STARTED WITH THE END OF THE 60S, AND NOT TO SOUND TOO DOCUMENTRY-ISH, THE WORLD NEEDED CHOAS AFTER FIGHTING TO END A WAR AND ACTUALLY PROVING NOTHING, THE WORLD NEEDED A REAL FORM OF MUSIC NOT BASED ON LOVE, JUST THE PEOPLE AND HOW THE PUBLIC REALLY IS. THUS BRINGS PUNK TO THE WORLD. NOT TO SPARK FIGHTS, BUT THE CLUB SCENE OF NEW YORK REALLY MADE PUNK TO THE WORLD, YOU HAD THE RAMONES DOING WHAT THEY DID BEST, PURE RAW ROCK AND ROLL. THEYRE MUSIC WAS SIMPLE AND THATS WHAT EVERYONE NEEDED. PEOPLE VACATIONING IN NEW YORK TOOK THAT FEELING OF 'BACK TO THE BASICS' TO FAR OFF WORLDS (ENGLAND) AND IMPROVED ON IT, THE CREATION OF THE SEX PISOTLS AND THE CLASH AND SO MANY OTHER BIGGIES OF OLD SCHOOL PUNK WAS DONE. PUNK DIED IN THE 80S PEOPLE SAY AND THAT MAY OR MAY NOT PISS YOU OFF, BUT IT DID, IT DIED WHEN POSERS INFECTED IT, THEY LATCHED ONTO OLD SCHOOL PUNK AND ENGULFED IT. BUT YOU STILL AHD THE BAY AREA ROTTING AND FESTERING WITH WHAT MADE PUNK, PUNK. THE DEAD KENNEDYS SAVED PUNK I THINK THEY MADE REAL PUNK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, AND THE NATION WAS IN DIRE NEED OF IT. JELLO BIAFRA'S POLITICAL LYRICS GAVE VOICE TO THE PEOPLE STARVING FOR A WAY TO RELEASE THEIR FEELINGS TOWARD THE GOVERMENT. I SAY PUNK DIED AND WAS RE-BORN AND HASNT DIED AGAIN, IT STILL LIVES IN EVERYONE WHO HAS THE BALLS TO SPEAK OUT. AND NOW TO TIE THAT IN WITH THE THEME OF THIS SITE, AVRIL DOESNT SPEAK OUT ABOUT ANYTHING THATS IN HER HEART. SHE HAS A RECORD ABOUT HER LOVE AND HER LIFE, ITS NOT PUNK, ITS NOT REALLY EVEN THE POP-PUNK OF BLINK-182 OR SUM-41. ITS POP FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD. |
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| -CRAIG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| SUPPORT THE REAL BANDS THAT MAKE THE MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DEAD KENNEDY'S JELLO BIAFRA STARTED THIS LABEL FOR STRIVING PUNKS THAT HAD NO OTHER OUTLET, GOD BLESS JB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECODS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THIS IS HOME TO MANY OF TODAYS GREAT PUNK BANDS. EPITAPH ROCKS SO DAMN MUCH, THEY PUT OUT THE PUNK-O-RAMA COMPILATION CDS THOSE ARE WHAT GOT ME INTO PUNK AND FOR THAT THEY DESERVE MAJOR, BIG ASS PROPS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EPITAPH RECORDS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OK, I KNOW EPITAPH KINDA BOUGHT THESE GUYS OUT, BUT THIS THEY BROUGHT US THE HIVES, DIVISON OF LAURA LEE AND SO MANY OTHER GREAT FORIEGN ACTS. THEY SIGNED THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY FOR ONE AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE LISTED HERE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BURNING HEART RECORDS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VAGRANT IS EMO I GEUSS YOU COULD SAY BUT ITS STILL GOOD, AND IT STILL KICKS ASS. SAVES THE DAY AND DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL ARE HERE AND THEY ARE GOOD SO THEY MUST BE RECONIZED. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VAGRANT RECORDS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SORRY TO LIST JUST THE BIG NAMES BUT IF YOU HAVE THE PUNK SPIRT YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IN NO TIME FLAT. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OK THIS SITE HAS A BUNCH OF POSER SHIT ON IT BUT IT CAN BE USEFUL IF YOU KNOW YOURE LOOKING FOR. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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