What Music are You Listening To? - 67, the Summer of Love

[Caesar of Bread]

Listening to the soundtrack of Hazbin Hotel (I loved the tv show)

 

[EgonSpengler]

Someone on the radio noted that Rolling Stone once declared Sleater-Kinney to be the greatest American punk band of all time. 'Okay' I thought, 'I like Sleater-Kinney as much as the next guy, but let's not go crazy here...' So then of course I started thinking, 'Alright, then, who is the greatest American punk band?'

"Holiday in Cambodia" (1980) by Dead Kennedys

"I Turned into a Martian" (1982) by The Misfits

"Kerosene" (1986) by Big Black

...are just a few of my favorites.

If I made a short (20-song) playlist of American punk as an introduction to someone unfamiliar with the genre, I'd also want to include Circle Jerks, Fear, Poison Idea, The Gits, Bikini Kill, Hole, Butthole Surfers, Fugazi, Richard Hell, The Descendents, Bad Brains, and The Jesus Lizard, to name just a handful.

But I think my off-the-cuff pick for Best American Punk Band of All Time is also the first:

Spoiler :

"I Wanna Be Your Dog" (1969) by The Stooges

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

During the 2 years that commies ran the student association and facilities (and I tried to drink the bar dry), there were 3 songs on the jukebox that were never to be removed. For all I know, >35 years later they are still on it...

 

[thetrooper]

Speaking of punk;

 

[EgonSpengler]

"Nerves" (1980) by Bauhaus.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I whipped off a quick, 20-song "American Punk" playlist last night. Hardly comprehensive, but a good start, I think. I sorta cheated by removing anything that maybe slots better under post-punk, goth or New Wave. All of those could be their own lists. And I probably leaned a little heavily on '80s hardcore, but that was my punk era, so it's what I know the best.

1. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (1969) by The Stooges (Detroit, MI)
2. "Gloria" (1975) by The Patti Smith Group (New York, NY)
3. "Blank Generation" (1977) by Richard Hell and The Voidoids (New York, NY)
4. "Holiday in Cambodia" (1980) by Dead Kennedys (San Francisco, CA)
5. "Janitor" (1981) by Suburban Lawns (Long Beach, CA)
6. "Banned in D.C." (1982) by Bad Brains (Washington, DC)
7. "I Love Livin' in the City" (1982) by Fear (Los Angeles, CA)
8. "I Turned into a Martian" (1982) by The Misfits (Lodi, NJ)
9. "Ugly American" (1982) by Poison Idea (Portland, OR)
10. "Institutionalized" (1983) by Suicidal Tendencies (Los Angeles, CA)
11. "TV Party" (1984 - the version from the Repo Man soundtrack) by Black Flag (Hermosa Beach, CA)
12. "American Town" (1984) by The Freeze (Boston, MA)
13. "Kerosene" (1986) by Big Black (Chicago, IL)
14. "Human Cannonball" (1987) by Butthole Surfers (San Antonio, TX)
15. "Coolidge" (1987) by Descendents (Manhattan Beach, CA)
16. "Teenage Whore" (1991) by Hole (Los Angeles, CA)
17. "Mouth Breather" (1991) by The Jesus Lizard (Austin, TX)
18. "Rebel Girl" (1992) by Bikini Kill (Olympia, WA)
19. "Second Skin" (1992) by The Gits (Seattle, WA)
20. "One More Hour" (1997) by Sleater-Kinney (Olympia, WA)

I'm thinking now I probably didn't need to include anything that's on the Repo Man soundtrack ("Institutionalized" and "TV Party"), since that album is a good primer all by itself.

 

[Plains-Cow]

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Yes - On the Silent Wings of Freedom

 

[Kyriakos]

Hey @Arakhor

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

 

[Theov]

Oh, I'm only listening to what the Thought Police has deemed ok to listen to.
I wonder what Arakhor is listening to.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

 

[Narz]

 

[thetrooper]

Sorry that I can’t show you Jesus on a cross on this day. You’ll have to take Mary on a cross;

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Yes - Machine Messiah

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

"Kerosene" (1986) by Big Black

Christ, that has been ages.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

And now to something completely more different. I have no resistance to this, it always cheers me up

 

[thetrooper]

Total darkness

Riff @2:13 = goosebumps everywhere

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Punk you say?

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

...and all the way on the other side of the spectrum.