|
I guess I would be considered a second (or maybe third) wave punk fan. I picked up most of what I liked between 86 and 89, before being sucked of into rural hell and not being able to keep in touch with anything.
Most of what I had was copied tapes which eventually all broke. I then went off to college and was learning about all kinds of new music, and gradually picking up older punk stuff that I knew I wanted. I'm a lot more picky now, so it's intersting to find out what was really good stuff and what was crap I just liked because I was a kid (A moment a lot of you will have in 15 years when you pull out your Staind or whatever the "hard" people listen to now).
Most of the good and bad has been mentioned. Some of my faves were
The Dead Kennedys
The Misfits
Minor Threat
One of the bad, that I can't help loving is The Dead Milkmen. I don't know if it'd because they were one of my first concerts or what, but I'll listen to them every once in awhile much to my fiancee's chagrin.
In somewhat the save vein, the only recent punk act I have really been able to get into has been Atom and His Package.
I guess the last Sleater-Kinney CD came out swinging and much more punk than their other stuff. Or I guess a better way to put it might be that they jumped sub-genres
|