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Heel Turn · 06-01-2003, 07:46 PM

If you're going to do a punk CD, you NEED to have some Minor Threat on there. I'd recommend "Bottled Violence" or the song "Minor Threat". As an aside, an ex-girlfriend had no idea of punk, so I made her a punk sampler CD. The rules for it? No using a band more than once, and no more than 15 tracks. Here's what I put on it.

1. The Ramones - We're a Happy Family
2. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
3. The Descendents - Original Me
4. Bad Brains - Banned in D.C.
5. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
6. Bad Religion - Leaders & Followers
7. Operation Ivy - The Crowd
8. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
9. Rancid - Roots Radicals
10. Pennywise - Unknown Road
11. Dropkick Murphys - Caps & Bottles
12. The Offspring - Dirty Magic
13. AFI - No Poetic Device
14. NOFX - Murder the Government
15. Propaghandi - Nailing Descartes to the Wall

And a quick note on modern punk bands: if you ever need to analyze them, almost every punk band, at its core, just wants to imitate their idols. Don't believe me? Lars Frederiksen of Rancid has been quoted on numerous occasions as saying that he always wanted to be Joe Strummer when he grew up. The Offspring idolized Social Distortion. AFI is simply The Cure taken to the next logical level. Propaghandi is Bad Religion for the new millennium, and every pop punk band (who I despise) wants to be NOFX in the worst possible way. Anyway, above are some of my submissions for your punk CD. Notable by their absence are the Bouncing Souls, the Vandals, Agnostic Front, H2O, and the Clash. While all these bands are punk as fuck (The Clash not so much, but that's neither her nor there) I feel these tracks make up a damn good punk comp, and argue the strongest case for punk rock. I'd definitely give these songs a listen for your comp.

Oh, and if you're going to use Rancid, there's about half a dozen better and more punk songs of theirs than Bloodclot. Listen to the following songs with your whole head: "Avenues and Alleyways", "7 Years Down," "Journey to the End of East Bay", "Let's Go", "Junkie Man", and "The War's End".

06-01-2003, 07:46 PM	#18 (permalink)
Heel Turn Tilted	If you're going to do a punk CD, you NEED to have some Minor Threat on there. I'd recommend "Bottled Violence" or the song "Minor Threat". As an aside, an ex-girlfriend had no idea of punk, so I made her a punk sampler CD. The rules for it? No using a band more than once, and no more than 15 tracks. Here's what I put on it. 1. The Ramones - We're a Happy Family 2. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen 3. The Descendents - Original Me 4. Bad Brains - Banned in D.C. 5. Minor Threat - Minor Threat 6. Bad Religion - Leaders & Followers 7. Operation Ivy - The Crowd 8. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles 9. Rancid - Roots Radicals 10. Pennywise - Unknown Road 11. Dropkick Murphys - Caps & Bottles 12. The Offspring - Dirty Magic 13. AFI - No Poetic Device 14. NOFX - Murder the Government 15. Propaghandi - Nailing Descartes to the Wall And a quick note on modern punk bands: if you ever need to analyze them, almost every punk band, at its core, just wants to imitate their idols. Don't believe me? Lars Frederiksen of Rancid has been quoted on numerous occasions as saying that he always wanted to be Joe Strummer when he grew up. The Offspring idolized Social Distortion. AFI is simply The Cure taken to the next logical level. Propaghandi is Bad Religion for the new millennium, and every pop punk band (who I despise) wants to be NOFX in the worst possible way. Anyway, above are some of my submissions for your punk CD. Notable by their absence are the Bouncing Souls, the Vandals, Agnostic Front, H2O, and the Clash. While all these bands are punk as fuck (The Clash not so much, but that's neither her nor there) I feel these tracks make up a damn good punk comp, and argue the strongest case for punk rock. I'd definitely give these songs a listen for your comp. Oh, and if you're going to use Rancid, there's about half a dozen better and more punk songs of theirs than Bloodclot. Listen to the following songs with your whole head: "Avenues and Alleyways", "7 Years Down," "Journey to the End of East Bay", "Let's Go", "Junkie Man", and "The War's End". Last edited by Heel Turn; 06-01-2003 at 07:55 PM..