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American Punk.
Feb. 17th, 2006 05:25 pmI have recently acquired a whole lot of American punk music, via the previously mentioned 17 year old second cousin Asher, and also having acquired Rock Against Bush (Volume 1) and Volume 2. Great cover art on these two, go have a look.
So now I have tracks by NoFx, Antiflag, No Use for a Name, Pennywise etc. etc. etc. etc.
And....
Well, it's just not very damn good. There's this one drum style, the same whiny vocals, the same pace through each song. It's almost like paint by numbers punk. All these bands blend together, so without looking at my MP3 player, I have no idea which band I'm actually listening to.
I've had the Bush albums since I won them on ebay, and ironically they both arrived on election day in 2004 when his shrubbiness was re-elected, and every now and then I pull out the albums (ok, so, the folder on my server) and try them again, on the off chance that they've improved with time. No such luck, it all still sounds like... Like an el-cheapo cover band who bought a Black Flag album back in the day, and have never moved an inch from that sound and that garage. Makes me wonder why anyone would want to be associated with that genre any more, at least in the US it's about as innovative as Trad Jazz.
These guys, I guess, have their hearts in the right place, and are supporting things like Punk Voter (Man, imagine living in a country where voting was so non-compulsory and hap-hazard as in the US where suddenly a campaign like that makes sense, and pasty angry white boys from the suburbs have to be encouraged to get out there and vote (Democrat). But I digress.) It reminds me of stories my friend Hazel tells about taking her 13 year old daughter to see some band called A Simple Plan. Another punk lite band, who, she says, had the rock moves going like the professional teenage angst expressors they are. The had the audience eating from their hands for three hours - but this can't be hard when most of the audience doesn't have pubic hair yet.
So maybe it's old fashioned of me to want punk to be, well, Punk. I like my music filthy, weird, political and innovative, and tattooed wimps from Pennywise just make me want to hold them down and play them some Painkiller, Lard, even Mark Of Cain. This is what music is supposed to sound like, you wimps, stop making film clips and go suck Johnny Rotten's dick.
BTW, there is a Rock Against Howard which I highly recommend.
"The fork is a cold shiny tool to pierce tear and ingest" - Lard.
So now I have tracks by NoFx, Antiflag, No Use for a Name, Pennywise etc. etc. etc. etc.
And....
Well, it's just not very damn good. There's this one drum style, the same whiny vocals, the same pace through each song. It's almost like paint by numbers punk. All these bands blend together, so without looking at my MP3 player, I have no idea which band I'm actually listening to.
I've had the Bush albums since I won them on ebay, and ironically they both arrived on election day in 2004 when his shrubbiness was re-elected, and every now and then I pull out the albums (ok, so, the folder on my server) and try them again, on the off chance that they've improved with time. No such luck, it all still sounds like... Like an el-cheapo cover band who bought a Black Flag album back in the day, and have never moved an inch from that sound and that garage. Makes me wonder why anyone would want to be associated with that genre any more, at least in the US it's about as innovative as Trad Jazz.
These guys, I guess, have their hearts in the right place, and are supporting things like Punk Voter (Man, imagine living in a country where voting was so non-compulsory and hap-hazard as in the US where suddenly a campaign like that makes sense, and pasty angry white boys from the suburbs have to be encouraged to get out there and vote (Democrat). But I digress.) It reminds me of stories my friend Hazel tells about taking her 13 year old daughter to see some band called A Simple Plan. Another punk lite band, who, she says, had the rock moves going like the professional teenage angst expressors they are. The had the audience eating from their hands for three hours - but this can't be hard when most of the audience doesn't have pubic hair yet.
So maybe it's old fashioned of me to want punk to be, well, Punk. I like my music filthy, weird, political and innovative, and tattooed wimps from Pennywise just make me want to hold them down and play them some Painkiller, Lard, even Mark Of Cain. This is what music is supposed to sound like, you wimps, stop making film clips and go suck Johnny Rotten's dick.
BTW, there is a Rock Against Howard which I highly recommend.
"The fork is a cold shiny tool to pierce tear and ingest" - Lard.
