Punk and New Wave thread.

roman totale said:
Of course, you’re never going to get two people to agree on this sort of thing. For me, Ever Fallen in Love is *far* from their best song and Everybody’s Happy Nowadays and Fiction Romance are major omissions.
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Everybody’s happy nowadays is my favourite. Love it. Ever fallen in love is great though, it’s a classic.
 
Don't know much about Blitz but I remember a load of pissed off people when they changed musical direction or something
 
BlueMoonReject! said:
Blitz were a 2nd gen punk/oi band from New Mills Derbyshire forming in 1980. They weren't a big band and pretty much stayed under the radar but I'd be amazed if Greenday and The Offspring weren't influenced by Blitz. I saw them at least twice in the very early 80s and they were a decent outfit back in the day.




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Never got into the 2nd generation bands, other than Vice Squad.
Chron Gen / Discharge / Exploited etc was too much cartoon punk, studded jackets, mohawks and lyrics you couldn't decipher due to the singer just blaring out a noise.
I think I had an EP with 4 bands with a song each one of which was Blitz. I think The Business were on it too.
One of them had a song called Guatemala. May even have been a free EP in one of the weeklies as I couldn't see me buying it
 
BlueMoonReject! said:
Blitz were a 2nd gen punk/oi band from New Mills Derbyshire forming in 1980. They weren't a big band and pretty much stayed under the radar but I'd be amazed if Greenday and The Offspring weren't influenced by Blitz. I saw them at least twice in the very early 80s and they were a decent outfit back in the day.




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Great band remember seeing them at the mayflower and then later on at Drifters in Duky where Dennis Matthews used to promote, he got some top bands on there
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Never got into the 2nd generation bands, other than Vice Squad.
Chron Gen / Discharge / Exploited etc was too much cartoon punk, studded jackets and lyrics you couldn't decipher due to the singer just blaring out a noise.
I think I had an EP with 4 bands with a song each one of which was Blitz. I think The Business were on it too.
One of them had a song called Guatemala. May even have been a free EP in one of the weeklies as I couldn't see me buying it
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Seen all of those bands and they were part of my youth. Each to their own as they say: )

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Hang on a minute, you slating those bands, Billy Idol wore studded jackets. Cartoon punk? Pah! Billy Idol was decent but a bit too glam punk in appearance for my liking.
 
I’m no expert on punk, but I honestly didn’t realise Stiff Little Fingers were classed as a punk band. It’s obvious from that list that The Stranglers weren’t - or rather they are but should be higher.
I’d expect Sham 69 if the kids are united to be a top 10 track too.
 
chesterbells said:
I’m no expert on punk, but I honestly didn’t realise Stiff Little Fingers were classed as a punk band. It’s obvious from that list that The Stranglers weren’t - or rather they are but should be higher.
I’d expect Sham 69 if the kids are united to be a top 10 track too.
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My views on that Top 100:-

Bad
1. Why no Buzzcocks?
2. Never heard the song at no.3 but heard of the band.
3. Too many Cockney Rejects.( Do a shadow boxing dance and shout West Haaaaam.....bag of shit).
4. Should have more Clash. Tommy Gun?

Good
1. Plenty of SLF. Inflammable Material is arguably the best most punk album of all.
2. Discharge Fight Back and Decontrol.
3. Angelic Upstarts.
 
That top 100 Punk songs is pretty weird. There are loads of songs that were around at the time that were liked by punks but don't appear in the list - no Buzzcocks, Slits, X Ray Specs, Gang of Four, Mekons etc

I guess that part of the problem is that there were a lot of music around at that time that may have fit into the punk/new wave/alternative category that may have been excluded if seen purely from a punk perspective. John Peel was playing a lot of different stuff at the time but don't appear in the list - the Fall being a prime example.
 
Marklr said:
Who compiled this?
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I culled it off social media, but reading the top it’s a survey of readers to Sounds music paper - if you’re outside the UK or not of a certain age that won’t mean much, but it was one of 3 nationally recognised weekly music newspapers basically.
 
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