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11 Jul 2013, 5:23 pm

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I was born in 67 so I was 10 in the big year of punk. I was too young for it and a bit afraid of it for several years - it was big with the kids who were bullying me and I associated it with their values of aggression, racism and hysterical homophobia. I associated it with dressing in a particular way - they all dressed the same - and calling themselves rebellious. They had pigeonholed me as rich (certainly not), conservative (never have been) and boring (well, they were probably right there) because I didn't dress that way.

I discovered the music at university and loved it and still love it. The Clash, The Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers etc are all still on my (presumably very un-punk) iPod and get played regularly. Even more I loved the post-punk stuff like The Fall, Joy Division, Television Personalities and the various New Wave and Indie stuff, running on into The Smiths and all the C86 scene.

And that's pretty much where my musical taste still lies, except for a few timid steps into the world of classical and the odd album of new bands who are the descendants of my old favourites. Pop music was never that much fun again.

I'm old. I can remember when all this 'round here was fields etc


Just the kind of muppets that ruin every good thing...

We have a bit of overlap in tastes,
Have you checked out '[the] mekons'?, formed in Leeds around '76 or '77 initially basic riff oriented classic punk but always exploring and expanding they did a quartet of fantastic albums through the mid eighties released on their own 'Sin' label, 'Fear and Whisky', 'Edge of the world', 'Honky Tonkin' and 'So good it hurts'.
To my mind they are one of the most under appreciated bands which is weird as they are intelligent, literate and a sh#t load of fun and still release the occasional album though their nineties output is uninspired.

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11 Jul 2013, 5:56 pm

I can just about remember the Mekons Lol.

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16 Aug 2014, 7:48 am

I'm somewhat familiar with punk and the subculture surrounding it, though truth be told I've actually found it to be one of the hardest genres of music to really get into, mainly due to the notions of punk "authenticity" and the raw, unsophisticated nature of the music. I am definitely starting to warm up to it though, and it seems like a pretty interesting subculture. My favorite "real" punk band would probably be Misfits, though I've also gotten into some post-punk stuff through the industrial genre and 70s/80s goth and synthpop groups, and I will honestly admit that I really like pop-punk, despite its connections to "real" punk being tenuous at best. :P I also like a bit of crossover thrash and grindcore, owing to my metalhead side, as well as some of the more-metallic hardcore punk.



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16 Aug 2014, 7:59 am

I thought the unsophisticated nature of the music is what makes punk easy to get into... I don't think anyone ever sits and listens to punk, thinking 'am I missing the point of this?...' :P


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16 Aug 2014, 8:28 am

Bun wrote:
I thought the unsophisticated nature of the music is what makes punk easy to get into... I don't think anyone ever sits and listens to punk, thinking 'am I missing the point of this?...' :P


I was listening to metal before I got into punk (not counting pop-punk; Green Day was one of the first bands I ever got into, and I've loved them since I was like 8 or 9), and the short song lengths and overall lack of virtuosity took some getting used to. Of course, metal is often quite technical compared to other genres of music, and the songs tend to be really long, so my impression of an "average" length song is like 4-5 minutes, while for a non-metal listener it may be more like 2-3 minutes.