Great Stuff 🤘 If your lookin' into checking out other 'Woman in Punk' you could check-out -- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden & Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country & Patti Smith - Horses Patti Smith - Piss Factory (1974) Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals (1996) 🙏 Patti Smith is the 'Godmother Of Punk Rock' You really need to give Dead Kennedys another listen -- Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles and / or Dead Kennedys - Holliday In Cambodia Don't think it matters much which song you listen to first, I reckon you will wanna hear the other one afterwards soon as... If ya wanna delve deeper into the origins of Punk Rock your could check-out -- The Sonics - Psycho (1964) & The MC5's - The American Ruse (1970) & Iggy And The Stooges - Search And Distroy (1973) I use to have "What do I Get" recorded on to a Cassette Tape from the Radio, and I used to think the song said 'We're too arrogant, oh-oh, we're too arrogant..." Another Punk Rock band maybe worth checking out would be -- Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device and / or Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster Finally I highly recommend checking -- Fugazi - Waiting Room (Live) Kinda need to check out the 'Live Version', the perfect example of how people react to music ! .
Fugazi - Waiting Room Check the live version uploaded by ~ grazy321 This live version is the perfect example of how people react to music !!! Just type into The UA-cam, should be able to find easily enough✌ 🤘
Dead Kennedys were an influence on System of a Down despite the genre difference especially the satirical lyrics and kind of insane vocals. I would have picked Holiday in Cambodia instead of this song.
Kira, you are exactly right about the lyric on "Kill The Poor". The DKs love to be ironic and sarcastic to make fun of or criticize certain groups, like hypocritical people and the Military Industrial Complex and rich assholes, etc. They also make fun of stupid kids being idiots (listen to "Stealing People's Mail", for instance). Great stuff! Listen to some more DKs, to give yourself a wider perspective on their songs. They are very talented players.
Yes I recommend more DK because they're so provocative but also Educational! The singer named himself Biafra, which was a locale of a massacre that most people (including me) don't know about. I saw him speak about the corrupt evil system for 5 hours once! Which is too long but I am a seeker of knowledge and the US media fills us with disinformation. Biafra is a great American educator!
some of the non-super-political songs were penned by short lived second guitarist 6025. Possibly "Kill" but definitely "Forward to Death" "Insight" "Stealing Peoples Mail" or "Funland at the Beach"
IIRC "Stealing People's Mail" was written about the FBI intercepting Jello Biafra's mail due to his political views. That may still qualify as stupid kids.
@@radicaladz not to pick holes but Magazine was formed by Devoto. Pete Shelley stayed with Buzzcocks and became the main singer. One could argue they did share the writing of the riff Shot by both Sides however as the same riff is used on Lipstick b side to Promises by Buzzcocks. Magazine good shout out though. John Mc geogh was a phenomenal guitarist especially in the post punk vein
@Rafael The version of Teenagers From Mars that I first heard and became the "definitive" version for me was from Collection 1, which I think is this version in her video. The Static Age version is more polished, but slightly too even-tempo to my ears. I love the rawness more of the Collection version.
X-Ray Spex is the most underrated band in rock history. The whole album of Germfree Adolescents is phenomenal, but the track Art-I-Ficial is their pinnacle IMHO.
Their album Germ Free Adolescents is a classic. The lead singer Poly Styrene has a voice to just belts out power. Check out The Day the World Turned Dayglo.
Poly Styrene. Absolute legend. Young Black woman who was just like, "yeah, I'm going into the white male dominated zone, and you're going to have to deal with it because I'm not giving you any respect you don't earn."
Next punk video you do MUST include one of the most important and influential punk bands ever, the DESCENDENTS. They had/still have a totally different approach mixing punk with their surf sound background while writing lyrics about girls, coffee or fishing. Milo, the singer, is a scientist and had to choose between his career as a musican and life dedicated to science which he ultimately did but came back many years later. So I would recommend their debut album "MILO GOES TO COLLEGE, for many one of the best punk albums of all time. Listen to classics like "Suburban Home", "Bikeage" or one of my all time favourites "Hope". Without the Descendents, there wouldn't have been bands like NOFX, Green Day, Blink 182 or other big names of the genre. They're simply my most favourite punk band of all time and I'm so happy they still play shows and release great records. I even named my little son Milo because of them. I'm sure you will like them.
Fantastic reaction to "Oh Bondage Up Yours"! The Band, led by Poly were kids!! 16, 17 yr old kids, and the whole album is KILLER!! You must dig deeper!!
I was in my early teens in the late 70's, so Punk was my type of music (and still is to some degree 40+ years later). Poly Styrene (the singer with X-Ray Spex) was (in my opinion at least) a pioneer we sadly lost too soon. I remember God Save The Queen being banned, although that happened with a lot of the Sex Pistols music. I still occasionally listen to Dead Kennedys and Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables is still one of my favourite albums.
I was JUST listening to X-Ray Spex earlier today. They're phenomenal! Been listening to them for almost 20 years now! Also, you said Buzzcocks were a little more lowkey. They definitely are. They're one of the original progenitors of what we now call Pop Punk. Without them, we probably wouldn't have gotten Descendents, Green Day, or Blink 182 as we know them. All praise be to the Buzzcocks on high.
I love the "happy" sound of the Misfits while delivering some really bizarre lyrics - "Skulls" is a good example for sure. Well...a lot of them are :-D
The Pistols track. Did you notice there's no chorus? Also, when Lydon says "made you a moron", he's saying made the listener a moron. He's not calling the Queen a moron, which was what the UK press thought at the time.
I can't tell you how healing it is for this 50yo scenosaur to watch a young'un in the throes of the same rush I got when I first heard God Save The Queen in 1984. :D
Dead Kennedy’s have a lot of dark songs as well. I highly recommend their songs, “California Uber Alles” and “Police Truck” great doomsday like tone to them.
I was 15 in 77 and the whirlwind that was British Punk saved my life as an out of control teenager in a kids home I knew the mixed up emotions and anger I felt were perfectly normal and I thrived in the music and the dingy venues that sprang up everywhere Yea 77 to 79 were insane
THE DKs!!! I love the Dead Kennedys! I saw them in concert, in Washington D.C., in 1982. They played with Minor Threat, among others, and it was the wildest concert I've ever been to in my life! They Mosh pit was like...they weren't people anymore but a swarm of angry bees! Haha! I was watching from the balcony section and it was like, "nope, I'm not going in there!" Haha! But the band was awesome. The gig was also almost shut down because of Fire Code violations so all the fans had a sit-down protest! Jello Biafra, the lead singer of the DKs, had to come out and talk to the crowd to keep us cool/calm (so we would riot or anything) and they ended up giving the band 45 minutes to jam!! It was awesome! You should do "Drug Me" by the Dead Kennedys! It will blow you away!
Yeah you picked like the one outlier in Dead Kennedys entire catalogue. I really really think California Uber Alles should be their redemption song. It's dark and menacing and sounds very different from just about any other punk band.
This Could Be Anywhere is pretty dark. Government Flu has a somewhat menacing tone to it too but I'd say a majority of their "darker" sounding stuff is on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Honestly, DK is all about juxtaposition, dark lyrics, over like surf, and western movies. I really don't think they're dark musically at all. I mean, of course there are things like I am The Owl, or Soup is Good Food.
@@jaimemrv385 Nah, that the Pistols are the best punk rock band that ever existed. There are better ones and the Pistols were like a boyband in how they were formed.
The Pistols are posers. And Johnny Rotten is a sellout. However, the Pistols are one of the most influential bands to the Punk genre. So they deserve credit for that. But they’re nowhere near the best punk band ever.
@@starlesseyes5713 clearly u dont know anything about the pistols because they were born to fighr poser and a stupid regime in england back then, and the fact u say Jonhnny Rotten is a sellout is because u dont know a damm thing about him. He wasnt the biggest rock singer ever due to the fact he isnt a sellout
I recommend The Gits, "second skin" (live song). The Gits were on the brink of making it big, but their lead singer, Mia Zapata, was raped and murdered in 1993. Joan Jett made a tribute album with the remaining members of the band called Evil Stig (thats 'Gits Live'' backwards). The police eventually convicted the SOB who killed her, and he has since died. May his name be forgotten forever. May Mia be remembered by us all. The Gits were a great Seattle punk band.
Stranglers: peaches, the saints: this perfect day, ruts: staring at the rude boys, oh and the anti nowhere league, siouxsie and the banshees.. All classic stuff 😉
That Entire Sex Pistols record is Golden Era Punk. All great songs. Vocals guitar. Drums,,Great Energy by you girl ✔ ✅ Loving your fun cute resctions. Reliving my punk years eith you!!! KIRA Rocks....
Super glad you reacted to Dead Kennedys - they're my favourite band of all time and you're really right about the lyricism and irony of the song. DK's entire schtick is irony, sarcasm and very dry humour. Their vocalist Jello Biafra is a genius lyricist. If you're looking for darker songs by them they have plenty, I suggest their song Holiday in Cambodia. It's probably their most famous track in the mainstream, and is very dark. It's about the Cambodian dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge and the arrogance of western "charity" relief. Forest Fire is another good song from their next album that's also on the darker side. Either way they're such a great band, they drew influence from so many genres and styles of music that their entire catalog is really essential listening because they did so much in such a short period of time.
If you want to more female punk ,you should definitely listen to early Siouxsie,first 2 albums ,or vice squad with Becky bondage and the slits,do an all girl punk reaction
Fun stuff! We wore out that Pistols album in college, along with prog, hard bob and classical (we were music majors and were all over the place). Another band to check out is Johnny Rotten's band after the Sex Pistols, called Public Image Ltd. (I'd go for Annalisa or Albatross).
I second checking out Public Image, I know you're into post punk stuff and I think that's Johnny's better and more interesting band. Pistols were fine but Johnny was REALLY itching to play something weirder
Highly recommend for pt. 3: Dead Boys - What Love Is or All This and More Rudimentary Peni - The Cloud Song or Mice Race Germs - Lexicon Devil or No God Dickies - Gigantor or Infidel Zombie GBH - Time Bomb or Knife Edge Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms 'Round a Memory or All By Myself Crass - Securicor or Bata Motel
You have to love Poly Styrene! Great Vid. If you like Poly and you like dark music you would probably enjoy some of the early Siouxsie and the Banshees singles.
Cool to see you getting to more punk! As much as I love metal (and that is a lot) and all it's virtuosity, punk (but definitely not pop-punk) with it's pure passion and rough edges, has a special place in my heart. If you want some darker Dead Kennedys, try Moon Over Marin, off Plastic Surgery Disasters. It's may favourite song by them.
Cock Sparrer is another interesting one, if I remember correctly they were supposed to be the big punk export but the label decided last minute to pick Sex Pistols instead. Their song "Take 'em All" is about that I assume :).
Next you need to react to Fear - New York Is Alright, X - Telephone, Circle Jerks - World Up My Ass, Minor Threat - Straight Edge, Agent Orange - Blood Stains, and TSOL - Code Blue.... somewhere down the road you should react to the Toy Dolls! I dunno if she should delve into the anarcho- scene with Cr@ss
Agent orange, minor threat, gorilla biscuits,Discharge, the casualties, the adolescence,fear , Youth of today, crass, and Sub humans are all really good bands you should listen to
Really enjoyed this video, Kira. I take the liberty to recommend some more bands if you're into for a third punk part. This is my underground punk (early hardcore and anarcho) picks: Minor Threat - 'Salad Days' Crass - 'Do They Owe Us A Living' The Ex - 'The Sky Is Blue Again'
DK has more dark sounding stuff, sometimes edging into horror like with This Could be Anywhere and Holiday in Cambodia. Listening to this first is like when people's intro to Pixies is Here Comes Your Man. Not the best song to represent their overall sound.
Some female punk bands/singers you might enjoy are 1) X, 2) Nina Hagen, 3) Lene Lovich, 4) The Slits, 5) Lydia Lunch, 6) Au Pairs, 7) Siouxsie and The Banshees, 8) Crass, 9) The Plasmatics, 10) Poison Girls.
You were right about The Dead Kennedys song being from the point of the rich. Definitely react to their lyrics more, because they have a lot of meaning and sometimes double meanings.
I am going to agree with the others here about your DK choice. I love this one, but there are definitely better choices. Jello Biafra takes no prisoners in his evisceration of society. Rich, poor, liberal, conservative... doesn't matter to him. If he sees it as foolish he calls it out. His new band, Guantanamo School of Medicine is okay, but the Kennedys rock! All your other picks were absolutely top notch. Still waiting for some Sham 69, New York Dolls, Dead Milkmen, or MC5. There's a ton of great stuff still out there, so keep discovering!
If you liked X-Ray Spex you'd probably dig old Roxy Music, thinking of "Re-Make/Re-Model", "Do the Strand". So much fun watching you discover this stuff, subscribed right away
Ah! Some more California punk bands would be cool. Rancid, Operation Ivy, Descendents, Bad Religion, AFI, NOFX, Tiger Army, and The Adolescents. You already listened to Dead Kennedys but if you're going to do another song of theirs, I'd recommend Holiday in Cambodia.
@@BradMurray oh man... I don't hink those songs really represent Rancid fairly; maybe Motorcycle Ride. It would have to be Time Bomb, Fall Back Down, Poison, Roots Radicals... etc.
I was never really into punk but the misfits is still one of my favorite all time bands! Especially when Glenn Danzig fronted them he's got a wide vocal range definitely should listen to more of their other songs. You should check out his solo stuff as well.
Most people started with rock then punk then went to metal for more musicianship. I think your ready for more intense metal. Amon Amarth, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Morbid Angel, and some Thrash for fun Exodus and Testament
I absolutely love your positivity toward punk. As an old punk myself, you’re having the exact reaction now that I did as a 12-year-old kid in 1983. Thank you for these videos!
The album that this song is on also has a tune ‘Let’s lunch the landlord’. Holiday in Cambodia is probably my very favorite DK tune. I had the pleasure of seeing the live three or four times back in the early 80s.
You should put some Australian punk in the next one. "(I'm) Stranded" by The Saints and either "Descent into the Maelstrom" or "Aloha Steve and Danno" by Radio Birdman would be good ones.
@Charles J. The first couple of albums are great forgotten punk albums. Their later albums are also great, but they are less punk and more conventional rock.
The sax on Oh bondage is played by Lora Logic, who was 15 when she joined the band. Poly replaced her before the band's album was recorded. The song, in fact the whole album, is on the theme of anti-consumerism, as is Oh Bondage. The BBC didn't understand and banned it anyway.
Misfits deserve a deeper dive. Their music is kinda diverse. Some is slower with crooning vocals and some is fast and aggressive with more screaming type vocals. Check out London Dungeon, Bullet, Some Kinda Hate, Astrozombies
Punk Rock arrived in the UK 50 years too early, 'It's a pity young people today don't have that rebellious nature that the old school punkers today don't have that rebellious streak any more, more concerned with feckin' Gaza than the UK. RIP the lovely Marion Elliott AKA Poly Styrene.
dead kennedys were from san francisco, and had heavy surf rock elements... hence the sort of unique style for punk. trust me, their album frankenchrist is an absolute BANGER of an lp
Kira, excellent reaction and excellent tunes! If you liked X-Ray Spec, you should listen to the Pretenders from their 1979 release (1st album)! There are two kick ass songs you should hear: 1) Precious and 2) Tattooed Love Boys. Such rockers!!! Chrissie Hynde is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist/song writer and you will LOVE HER!!
@@gmantramp404, well, they’re a great band…full stop. Moreover, that first album has some KILLER tunes on it, including Punk-style rockers. While I agree, they, much later, were more radio friendly, those first 2 or 3 albums are classics!
@@kirawasareactor, by the way, the song called "The Wait" on that first Pretender's album is super fun too! it's Punk-y but it's also go Pop sensibilities too. Great stuff!! Honeyman Scott goes APE on that song!
If you liked X-Ray Spex there was a documentary about punk from 1978 called DOA and they have X-Ray Spex perform this song. Poly the singer was I think 14 yrs old when they recorded that.
"Dierdre''s a Slag" Toy Dolls "So Pissed Off" The Nipple Erectors/The Nips (Shane McGowans band before the pogues) Another great proto-punk option: "Marquee Moon" Television. And you're rad, lady. Keep up the good work.
I think Kira needs to do another Ramones reaction. There are some tunes by them that I know she'd fall in love with. - Sheena is a Punk Rocker - Howling At The Moon - The KKK Took My Baby Away - I Wanna Be Well - I Wanna Live - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)
Oh another person misses completely with the Sex Pistols. What a fast tempo. Thats what you said, thats what millions are left with as impression of the band. In fact, the Sex Pistols are SUPER SLOW and steady, especially for harder rock or punk. I guess its about Johnnys rage in voice and super tight Steves guitar playing that gives that impression of a fast band. Sex Pistols have actually really, and I mean it, REALLY slow tempo songs. I was personally super surprised with that when I listened to them after twenty years, I also was under impression of them being fast band, thats what I remembered of them when I listened this as a kid or young teen. And I was also surprised how good they actually are. I respect their music MUCH more, or much more on a serious thinking now than back then. They are great, great, tight af, super precise and funny band with actually really impressive arrangements of their songs considering how much they knew, or should I say didnt knew about music. They just had great instinct and feel about it I guess. Also Ill say this: if asomeones blood doesent boil up instantly when he hears the intro for Hollidays in the sun he doesent know what RnR is all about.
Love your fresh outlook and reaction to hearing these punk bands for the first time. I had the same reaction when I was a 15 year old kid in 1977. Still have my records and still go to gigs and I'm 61.😊
Your face and hair reminds me of a girl I crossed paths with at a show many years ago. It's rather funny because she was the only one there that was sober enough to realize I had an all black kitten in a spike collar chilling in my coat pocket. So thanks for the funny flashback.
The main riff to God Save the Queen actually came from a David Bowie song called Hang on to Yourself. I think you should check out some proto-punk David Bowie songs like Queen B**ch, Hang on to Yourself, Suffragette City, Cracked Actor, The Jean Genie, and Rebel Rebel. You'd definitely get punk in a more comprehensive way hearing that kind of David Bowie music, then The Stooges and The Velvet Underground before them.
The creepy skull the Misfits use is actually from a movie, and oddly not a horror movie but a weird old pulp serial called The Crimson Ghost. The skull is basically a supervillain mask. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Ghost
Love both the punk video's you did. I must say Dead Kennedy's, and Black Flag are two of my all time favorites. DK, might be the most punk band of all time. To me they are unequalled, while all these bands are awesome, DK in my mind had they better lyrics and attitude in delivery. California Uber Allis is just a massive statement and is worth you time to check out. Black Flag is more for when you want to eff schit up, get into a mosh pit and start swinging elbows without being mad at anybody in particular. Now i want to drop a little gem on ya mate. "Crass" with a huge list of band members over many albums, different sounding songs, Quick pop up shows in odd places, this is just a crazy band of the time frame. "big hands" is one of my favorites, but if your not a fan, keep listening as every punk fan will find at least one of their songs to their liking. Hopefully one day you will do progressive punk (Cure, REM, B52's, Smiths, Pixies, They Might be Giants, Dead Milkmen, and Talking heads and bands of the sort) and a little Gem slightly off the beat here, DRI. When punk and metal meet you Get DRI- Suit and tie guy.
Random trivia that I absolutely love: The Buzzcocks are only called that because they originally wanted to be called The Vibrators, but that name was already taken by another punk band, so they just came up with another word that means the same thing 😂😂😂
All terrific groups here. Sex Pistols are classic. Misfits are known for their legion of rabid fans. Jello Biafra once ran for mayor of San Francisco. He came in 5th or 6th I think. One of the parts of his plank was "All businessmen will be required to wear clown suits during business hours." Buzzcocks are classic too. Their debut EP Spiral Scratch was the first punk DIY to be released and as such is of immense importance. Music (with original singer Howard Devoto) is great too. X Ray Spex notable for Poly's singing and use of saxophones in a punk song. Excellent lyrics too.
PUNK ROCK PART 2 IS HERE!! i've already found a few gems in punk already.. will i find anymore in this video today?
Bad Brains, a reggae band that played punk for fun. Big Takeover probably.
Kira , you need to check out The Meatmen God's Bullies and The Lesbian Death Dirge. The lyrics of both songs are freaking great.
Of course [except for the Buzzcocks choice], I would have chosen different tracks, but you get the general idea, and I'm glad you're doing this.
Great Stuff 🤘
If your lookin' into checking out other 'Woman in Punk' you could check-out --
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
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Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country
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Patti Smith - Horses
Patti Smith - Piss Factory (1974)
Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals (1996)
🙏 Patti Smith is the 'Godmother Of Punk Rock'
You really need to give Dead Kennedys another listen --
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
and / or
Dead Kennedys - Holliday In Cambodia
Don't think it matters much which song you listen to first, I reckon you will wanna hear the other one afterwards soon as...
If ya wanna delve deeper into the origins of Punk Rock your could check-out --
The Sonics - Psycho (1964)
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The MC5's - The American Ruse (1970)
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Iggy And The Stooges - Search And Distroy (1973)
I use to have "What do I Get" recorded on to a Cassette Tape from the Radio, and I used to think the song said 'We're too arrogant, oh-oh, we're too arrogant..."
Another Punk Rock band maybe worth checking out would be --
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
and / or
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Finally I highly recommend checking --
Fugazi - Waiting Room (Live)
Kinda need to check out the 'Live Version', the perfect example of how people react to music !
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Fugazi - Waiting Room
Check the live version uploaded by ~ grazy321
This live version is the perfect example of how people react to music !!!
Just type into The UA-cam, should be able to find easily enough✌
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Rest in peace Polystyrene. She def was a pioneer.
And Pete Shelley
Punk and Gaming ?
That is like OPPOSITE Cultures
lol
Holidays in Cambodia is another Dead Kennedys classic
Also darker 😉
And chemical warfare and lynch the landlord
Cesspools in Eden
She’s probably not playing it because of the Nword. But it’s a really good song
@@rawrmmmxd3247 I didn't realize it had the n word in it 😕
Dead Kennedys were an influence on System of a Down despite the genre difference especially the satirical lyrics and kind of insane vocals. I would have picked Holiday in Cambodia instead of this song.
I can kinda hear that, actually.
I've always felt the same way about SOAD - the metal offspring of DK
I would've picked any song but the overplayed Holidays In Cambodja.
@@module79l28 yeah Chemical Warfare is the one I reckon
Too Drunk To Fuck
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Kira, you are exactly right about the lyric on "Kill The Poor". The DKs love to be ironic and sarcastic to make fun of or criticize certain groups, like hypocritical people and the Military Industrial Complex and rich assholes, etc. They also make fun of stupid kids being idiots (listen to "Stealing People's Mail", for instance). Great stuff! Listen to some more DKs, to give yourself a wider perspective on their songs. They are very talented players.
For sure! Insight one of my favs
Yes I recommend more DK because they're so provocative but also Educational! The singer named himself Biafra, which was a locale of a massacre that most people (including me) don't know about. I saw him speak about the corrupt evil system for 5 hours once! Which is too long but I am a seeker of knowledge and the US media fills us with disinformation. Biafra is a great American educator!
some of the non-super-political songs were penned by short lived second guitarist 6025. Possibly "Kill" but definitely "Forward to Death" "Insight" "Stealing Peoples Mail" or "Funland at the Beach"
Holiday in Cambodia is sheer brilliance
IIRC "Stealing People's Mail" was written about the FBI intercepting Jello Biafra's mail due to his political views. That may still qualify as stupid kids.
You could do a whole episode on just the Buzzcocks. Pete Shelley was a criminally underrated talent.
I agree 100%.
There's also the excellent Shot by Both Sides by Magazine, the band Devoto and Shelley started after the Buzzcocks disbanded.
@@radicaladz not to pick holes but Magazine was formed by Devoto. Pete Shelley stayed with Buzzcocks and became the main singer. One could argue they did share the writing of the riff Shot by both Sides however as the same riff is used on Lipstick b side to Promises by Buzzcocks. Magazine good shout out though. John Mc geogh was a phenomenal guitarist especially in the post punk vein
@@TheFairway8 JM was always my favourite banshees guitarist, Magazine track I love the best has to be The Light Pours Out of Me
RIP to him
More Misfits to check out: Last Caress, Hybrid Moments, Die Die My Darling, Theme for a Jackal, Skulls. Love your reactions!
Misfits totally deserve a whole video reacting to these songs, can't wait to see Kira's reaction to last caress lyrics ;)
@@anzebenko1768 i think she should've listened to the Static Age version of Teenagers From Mars
I think she must listen Horror Business , Dig up her bones , Skulls(yeah) , Halloween , Some kinda Hate
@Rafael The version of Teenagers From Mars that I first heard and became the "definitive" version for me was from Collection 1, which I think is this version in her video. The Static Age version is more polished, but slightly too even-tempo to my ears. I love the rawness more of the Collection version.
@@МаксимЗудилин-б7и oh god can we not bring post-Danzig Misfits into this?
Astro Zombies is an essential.
X-Ray Spex is the most underrated band in rock history. The whole album of Germfree Adolescents is phenomenal, but the track Art-I-Ficial is their pinnacle IMHO.
Cliche and Poser are real gems
Identity is a fucking bop, too. That whole album is a monster.
Never heard X-Ray Spex until today. Definitely a blast to the face. Awesome!
glad you enjoyed them!
Their album Germ Free Adolescents is a classic. The lead singer Poly Styrene has a voice to just belts out power. Check out The Day the World Turned Dayglo.
Love that song from the first second when I bought it in the late seventies.
@@jediciah37 her solo album from 1980, Translucent, is criminally under appreciated. She had a beautiful voice as well as being a powerhouse of punk.
Polystrene and X-Ray Spex were a class above the rest of the bands here. So under rated.
Crass were probably the most influential punk band along with the Pistols. Stations of the Crass is probably the most unique albums I've ever heard.
Blimey! I thought I was the only person to have ever liked Crass? I had Nagasaki Nightmare on 12", (still do), and it/I drove my mates mad?
I LOVE X RAY SPEX! I’m glad that more people are finding out about them. They’re so amazing and underrated.
They were really good and should be more well known
Poly Styrene. Absolute legend. Young Black woman who was just like, "yeah, I'm going into the white male dominated zone, and you're going to have to deal with it because I'm not giving you any respect you don't earn."
Next punk video you do MUST include one of the most important and influential punk bands ever, the DESCENDENTS. They had/still have a totally different approach mixing punk with their surf sound background while writing lyrics about girls, coffee or fishing. Milo, the singer, is a scientist and had to choose between his career as a musican and life dedicated to science which he ultimately did but came back many years later. So I would recommend their debut album "MILO GOES TO COLLEGE, for many one of the best punk albums of all time. Listen to classics like "Suburban Home", "Bikeage" or one of my all time favourites "Hope". Without the Descendents, there wouldn't have been bands like NOFX, Green Day, Blink 182 or other big names of the genre. They're simply my most favourite punk band of all time and I'm so happy they still play shows and release great records. I even named my little son Milo because of them. I'm sure you will like them.
Totally agree. The Descendents are the best!
Never heard that X Ray Specs song before, that is the stuff right there! Gonna go listen to that whole album as soon as I finish watching this
my dad's best friend apparently loves the whole album! never knew!!
@@kirawasareactor It's got some real riot grrl vibes to it. Love them.
@revjim123 You wont be disappointed!
@@Kerbalf pfftt Riot girl was 15 years to late!
I saw them back in 78 in Birmingham, at the Odeon
Fantastic reaction to "Oh Bondage Up Yours"! The Band, led by Poly were kids!! 16, 17 yr old kids, and the whole album is KILLER!! You must dig deeper!!
I was in my early teens in the late 70's, so Punk was my type of music (and still is to some degree 40+ years later). Poly Styrene (the singer with X-Ray Spex) was (in my opinion at least) a pioneer we sadly lost too soon. I remember God Save The Queen being banned, although that happened with a lot of the Sex Pistols music. I still occasionally listen to Dead Kennedys and Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables is still one of my favourite albums.
I was JUST listening to X-Ray Spex earlier today. They're phenomenal! Been listening to them for almost 20 years now!
Also, you said Buzzcocks were a little more lowkey. They definitely are. They're one of the original progenitors of what we now call Pop Punk. Without them, we probably wouldn't have gotten Descendents, Green Day, or Blink 182 as we know them. All praise be to the Buzzcocks on high.
Completely agree.
And without The Ramones, there would’ve been no Buzzcocks…
I love the "happy" sound of the Misfits while delivering some really bizarre lyrics - "Skulls" is a good example for sure. Well...a lot of them are :-D
The Pistols track. Did you notice there's no chorus? Also, when Lydon says "made you a moron", he's saying made the listener a moron. He's not calling the Queen a moron, which was what the UK press thought at the time.
Not really. Royalism made you a moron.
@@bjhellstream the lyrics a pretty self explanatory, how anybody gets it wrong is beyond me.
I can't tell you how healing it is for this 50yo scenosaur to watch a young'un in the throes of the same rush I got when I first heard God Save The Queen in 1984. :D
🎶 " Some People Think 🤔 , Little Girls Should Be Seen & Not Heard , But I Say ... Oh Bondage Up Yours !! 1 2 3 4 " 🎶 🎷
one of my favourite song intros ever now hahah
Dead Kennedy’s have a lot of dark songs as well. I highly recommend their songs, “California Uber Alles” and “Police Truck” great doomsday like tone to them.
I was 15 in 77 and the whirlwind that was British Punk saved my life as an out of control teenager in a kids home I knew the mixed up emotions and anger I felt were perfectly normal and I thrived in the music and the dingy venues that sprang up everywhere
Yea 77 to 79 were insane
Snap I was too. 😊
Each and every one of these bands is classic for a reason
THE DKs!!! I love the Dead Kennedys! I saw them in concert, in Washington D.C., in 1982. They played with Minor Threat, among others, and it was the wildest concert I've ever been to in my life! They Mosh pit was like...they weren't people anymore but a swarm of angry bees! Haha! I was watching from the balcony section and it was like, "nope, I'm not going in there!" Haha! But the band was awesome. The gig was also almost shut down because of Fire Code violations so all the fans had a sit-down protest! Jello Biafra, the lead singer of the DKs, had to come out and talk to the crowd to keep us cool/calm (so we would riot or anything) and they ended up giving the band 45 minutes to jam!! It was awesome! You should do "Drug Me" by the Dead Kennedys! It will blow you away!
Yeah you picked like the one outlier in Dead Kennedys entire catalogue. I really really think California Uber Alles should be their redemption song. It's dark and menacing and sounds very different from just about any other punk band.
I would go with Holiday in Cambodia. I just love the intro to that one.
My fave DK song was always Drug Me. If Kira thought God Save The Queen was fast, that one would blow her mind!
This Could Be Anywhere is pretty dark. Government Flu has a somewhat menacing tone to it too but I'd say a majority of their "darker" sounding stuff is on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
I kill Children or Stealing Peoples Mail or the two songs off that album that have always done it for me ever since I was little
Honestly, DK is all about juxtaposition, dark lyrics, over like surf, and western movies. I really don't think they're dark musically at all. I mean, of course there are things like I am The Owl, or Soup is Good Food.
Pistols are the greatest punk rock that ever existed
Well... I like them too, but that might be a bit too much. :')
@@feministadentata4041 what the girls reaction? Of course
@@jaimemrv385 Nah, that the Pistols are the best punk rock band that ever existed. There are better ones and the Pistols were like a boyband in how they were formed.
The Pistols are posers. And Johnny Rotten is a sellout. However, the Pistols are one of the most influential bands to the Punk genre. So they deserve credit for that. But they’re nowhere near the best punk band ever.
@@starlesseyes5713 clearly u dont know anything about the pistols because they were born to fighr poser and a stupid regime in england back then, and the fact u say Jonhnny Rotten is a sellout is because u dont know a damm thing about him. He wasnt the biggest rock singer ever due to the fact he isnt a sellout
I recommend The Gits, "second skin" (live song). The Gits were on the brink of making it big, but their lead singer, Mia Zapata, was raped and murdered in 1993. Joan Jett made a tribute album with the remaining members of the band called Evil Stig (thats 'Gits Live'' backwards). The police eventually convicted the SOB who killed her, and he has since died. May his name be forgotten forever. May Mia be remembered by us all. The Gits were a great Seattle punk band.
Stranglers: peaches, the saints: this perfect day, ruts: staring at the rude boys, oh and the anti nowhere league, siouxsie and the banshees.. All classic stuff 😉
Saints, right on!!
That Entire Sex Pistols record is Golden Era Punk. All great songs. Vocals guitar. Drums,,Great Energy by you girl ✔ ✅ Loving your fun cute resctions. Reliving my punk years eith you!!! KIRA Rocks....
Super glad you reacted to Dead Kennedys - they're my favourite band of all time and you're really right about the lyricism and irony of the song. DK's entire schtick is irony, sarcasm and very dry humour. Their vocalist Jello Biafra is a genius lyricist. If you're looking for darker songs by them they have plenty, I suggest their song Holiday in Cambodia. It's probably their most famous track in the mainstream, and is very dark. It's about the Cambodian dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge and the arrogance of western "charity" relief. Forest Fire is another good song from their next album that's also on the darker side. Either way they're such a great band, they drew influence from so many genres and styles of music that their entire catalog is really essential listening because they did so much in such a short period of time.
Any band that had Stiv Bators, must listen.
Don't miss out on The Ruts - Babylon's Burning or Jah War (punk reggae) - both are awesome songs.
Surprised no one's mentioned Crass yet. Classic anarcho-punk, Penis Envy is one of my favourite punk albums of all time.
If you want to more female punk ,you should definitely listen to early Siouxsie,first 2 albums ,or vice squad with Becky bondage and the slits,do an all girl punk reaction
Poly Styrene had such an impact on me in the late 1970s. There’s a documentary of her out there made by her daughter. RIP, Poly.
Another GREAT reaction. Misfits are great. Anothet American band you should checkout are the Cramps. Then we can move you on to psychobilly music 😊
ahh well done reviewing those brilliant songs.just a note to say never lose that cheeriness,it shines like gold and is very infectious!
Fun stuff! We wore out that Pistols album in college, along with prog, hard bob and classical (we were music majors and were all over the place). Another band to check out is Johnny Rotten's band after the Sex Pistols, called Public Image Ltd. (I'd go for Annalisa or Albatross).
I second checking out Public Image, I know you're into post punk stuff and I think that's Johnny's better and more interesting band. Pistols were fine but Johnny was REALLY itching to play something weirder
PIL is great (specially the early stuf) but is not for everybody.
Yes! Listen to Public Image Limited (PiL). 'This Is Not A Love Song' is a great introductory song. Saw PiL live in mid eighties (88 probably).
Germs :Richie daggers crime. X : Los Angeles
Highly recommend for pt. 3:
Dead Boys - What Love Is or All This and More
Rudimentary Peni - The Cloud Song or Mice Race
Germs - Lexicon Devil or No God
Dickies - Gigantor or Infidel Zombie
GBH - Time Bomb or Knife Edge
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms 'Round a Memory or All By Myself
Crass - Securicor or Bata Motel
Soup is good food is my favorite Dead Kennedys song. It’s about humans being replaced by machines in the workplace and was ahead of its time
You have to love Poly Styrene! Great Vid. If you like Poly and you like dark music you would probably enjoy some of the early Siouxsie and the Banshees singles.
The singles were nothing compared to the album The Scream. The guitar playing once heard would never be forgotten.
Dead Milkmen is a great punk band!
I second this emotion, Kira!!
Cool to see you getting to more punk! As much as I love metal (and that is a lot) and all it's virtuosity, punk (but definitely not pop-punk) with it's pure passion and rough edges, has a special place in my heart.
If you want some darker Dead Kennedys, try Moon Over Marin, off Plastic Surgery Disasters. It's may favourite song by them.
legit i've never liked pop punk either really.. i try. especially growing up in the 2000s. but punk just does everything right everytime!
God Save the Queen... number 1 in the UK charts, without being officially number 1
God Save The Queen was number 1 for a few hours until the radio stations disapproved so they made a shitty Rod Stewart number 1 instead. 😂
I was so hoping the Dead Kennedys track was gonna be "Too drunk to f*ck", that's such a you tune... Maybe I'm a bit biased
Cock Sparrer is another interesting one, if I remember correctly they were supposed to be the big punk export but the label decided last minute to pick Sex Pistols instead. Their song "Take 'em All" is about that I assume :).
Next you need to react to Fear - New York Is Alright, X - Telephone, Circle Jerks - World Up My Ass, Minor Threat - Straight Edge, Agent Orange - Blood Stains, and TSOL - Code Blue.... somewhere down the road you should react to the Toy Dolls! I dunno if she should delve into the anarcho- scene with Cr@ss
CODE BLUE!
I love X, nice choice
If you really liked X Ray Spex, you're gonna love Bikini Kill.
Agent orange, minor threat, gorilla biscuits,Discharge, the casualties, the adolescence,fear , Youth of today, crass, and Sub humans are all really good bands you should listen to
Really enjoyed this video, Kira. I take the liberty to recommend some more bands if you're into for a third punk part. This is my underground punk (early hardcore and anarcho) picks:
Minor Threat - 'Salad Days'
Crass - 'Do They Owe Us A Living'
The Ex - 'The Sky Is Blue Again'
Get Never Mind The Bollocks. It's one of the greatest albums in rock history with a guitar sound for the ages.
DK has more dark sounding stuff, sometimes edging into horror like with This Could be Anywhere and Holiday in Cambodia. Listening to this first is like when people's intro to Pixies is Here Comes Your Man. Not the best song to represent their overall sound.
Some female punk bands/singers you might enjoy are 1) X, 2) Nina Hagen, 3) Lene Lovich, 4) The Slits, 5) Lydia Lunch, 6) Au Pairs, 7) Siouxsie and The Banshees, 8) Crass, 9) The Plasmatics, 10) Poison Girls.
You were right about The Dead Kennedys song being from the point of the rich. Definitely react to their lyrics more, because they have a lot of meaning and sometimes double meanings.
I used to go to a punk night club in about 97 to 99, and whenever Oh, Bondage Up Yours came on things got crazy.
I am going to agree with the others here about your DK choice. I love this one, but there are definitely better choices. Jello Biafra takes no prisoners in his evisceration of society. Rich, poor, liberal, conservative... doesn't matter to him. If he sees it as foolish he calls it out. His new band, Guantanamo School of Medicine is okay, but the Kennedys rock! All your other picks were absolutely top notch. Still waiting for some Sham 69, New York Dolls, Dead Milkmen, or MC5. There's a ton of great stuff still out there, so keep discovering!
Yes, Dead Milkmen FTW! Methodist Colouring Book is my favourite song of theirs
@@FreakinSweet86 I have too many favorites from them, but I was raised in the Methodist church, so that one is hilarious to me!
@@FreakinSweet86 I've always been partial to Dean's Dream
If you liked X-Ray Spex you'd probably dig old Roxy Music, thinking of "Re-Make/Re-Model", "Do the Strand". So much fun watching you discover this stuff, subscribed right away
Ah! Some more California punk bands would be cool. Rancid, Operation Ivy, Descendents, Bad Religion, AFI, NOFX, Tiger Army, and The Adolescents. You already listened to Dead Kennedys but if you're going to do another song of theirs, I'd recommend Holiday in Cambodia.
Some Rancid would be great -- LA River, St. Mary, Motorcycle Ride....
@@BradMurray oh man... I don't hink those songs really represent Rancid fairly; maybe Motorcycle Ride. It would have to be Time Bomb, Fall Back Down, Poison, Roots Radicals... etc.
TSOL, Agent Orange,
I was never really into punk but the misfits is still one of my favorite all time bands! Especially when Glenn Danzig fronted them he's got a wide vocal range definitely should listen to more of their other songs. You should check out his solo stuff as well.
Most people started with rock then punk then went to metal for more musicianship. I think your ready for more intense metal. Amon Amarth, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Morbid Angel, and some Thrash for fun Exodus and Testament
I absolutely love your positivity toward punk. As an old punk myself, you’re having the exact reaction now that I did as a 12-year-old kid in 1983. Thank you for these videos!
more misfits - London Dungeon, Vampira, All Hell Breaks Loose, Braineaters. Walk Among us is my faaaaaaaaavorite Punk album
So glad you got Spex in there. Poly Styrene was he best name. Classic Album.
The album that this song is on also has a tune ‘Let’s lunch the landlord’.
Holiday in Cambodia is probably my very favorite DK tune. I had the pleasure of seeing the live three or four times back in the early 80s.
You should put some Australian punk in the next one. "(I'm) Stranded" by The Saints and either "Descent into the Maelstrom" or "Aloha Steve and Danno" by Radio Birdman would be good ones.
@Charles J. The first couple of albums are great forgotten punk albums. Their later albums are also great, but they are less punk and more conventional rock.
i love seeing a misfits fan in the making
The sax on Oh bondage is played by Lora Logic, who was 15 when she joined the band. Poly replaced her before the band's album was recorded. The song, in fact the whole album, is on the theme of anti-consumerism, as is Oh Bondage. The BBC didn't understand and banned it anyway.
Love your liveliness and enthusiasm
Misfits deserve a deeper dive. Their music is kinda diverse. Some is slower with crooning vocals and some is fast and aggressive with more screaming type vocals. Check out London Dungeon, Bullet, Some Kinda Hate, Astrozombies
Punk Rock arrived in the UK 50 years too early, 'It's a pity young people today don't have that rebellious nature that the old school punkers today don't have that rebellious streak any more, more concerned with feckin' Gaza than the UK. RIP the lovely Marion Elliott AKA Poly Styrene.
dead kennedys were from san francisco, and had heavy surf rock elements... hence the sort of unique style for punk. trust me, their album frankenchrist is an absolute BANGER of an lp
If you dig the Misfits, def check out Samhain. It's like the Misfits with a little more of a gothic vibe. "Black Dream" is a fave.
Kira, excellent reaction and excellent tunes! If you liked X-Ray Spec, you should listen to the Pretenders from their 1979 release (1st album)! There are two kick ass songs you should hear: 1) Precious and 2) Tattooed Love Boys. Such rockers!!! Chrissie Hynde is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist/song writer and you will LOVE HER!!
thank you! i loved x-ray spex. :)
@@kirawasareactor I was the first one to suggest this song to you, if you remember.
Pretenders were about as punk as Blondie 🤣🤣🤣
Commercial radio friendly crap
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@@gmantramp404, well, they’re a great band…full stop. Moreover, that first album has some KILLER tunes on it, including Punk-style rockers. While I agree, they, much later, were more radio friendly, those first 2 or 3 albums are classics!
@@kirawasareactor, by the way, the song called "The Wait" on that first Pretender's album is super fun too! it's Punk-y but it's also go Pop sensibilities too. Great stuff!! Honeyman Scott goes APE on that song!
Love how much you are enjoying punk. These bands mean a whole lot to me & many people ❤️
If you liked X-Ray Spex there was a documentary about punk from 1978 called DOA and they have X-Ray Spex perform this song. Poly the singer was I think 14 yrs old when they recorded that.
Ninety pound Wuss - Something must break.
"Dierdre''s a Slag" Toy Dolls
"So Pissed Off" The Nipple Erectors/The Nips (Shane McGowans band before the pogues)
Another great proto-punk option: "Marquee Moon" Television.
And you're rad, lady. Keep up the good work.
Australian Punk: The Saints, Radio Birdman, The Hard-Ons, Cosmic Psychos, The Birthday Party… there’s loads. Go nuts :)
I think Kira needs to do another Ramones reaction. There are some tunes by them that I know she'd fall in love with.
- Sheena is a Punk Rocker
- Howling At The Moon
- The KKK Took My Baby Away
- I Wanna Be Well
- I Wanna Live
- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
- Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)
I wanna be well, is on my list of songs to be played at my funeral!
Oh another person misses completely with the Sex Pistols. What a fast tempo. Thats what you said, thats what millions are left with as impression of the band.
In fact, the Sex Pistols are SUPER SLOW and steady, especially for harder rock or punk.
I guess its about Johnnys rage in voice and super tight Steves guitar playing that gives that impression of a fast band. Sex Pistols have actually really, and I mean it, REALLY slow tempo songs.
I was personally super surprised with that when I listened to them after twenty years, I also was under impression of them being fast band, thats what I remembered of them when I listened this as a kid or young teen.
And I was also surprised how good they actually are. I respect their music MUCH more, or much more on a serious thinking now than back then. They are great, great, tight af, super precise and funny band with actually really impressive arrangements of their songs considering how much they knew, or should I say didnt knew about music.
They just had great instinct and feel about it I guess.
Also Ill say this: if asomeones blood doesent boil up instantly when he hears the intro for Hollidays in the sun he doesent know what RnR is all about.
Love your fresh outlook and reaction to hearing these punk bands for the first time. I had the same reaction when I was a 15 year old kid in 1977. Still have my records and still go to gigs and I'm 61.😊
Regarding the buzzcocks, the songs are not only about being unlucky in love but also about being gay in the 70s working class UK
Your face and hair reminds me of a girl I crossed paths with at a show many years ago.
It's rather funny because she was the only one there that was sober enough to realize I had an all black kitten in a spike collar chilling in my coat pocket. So thanks for the funny flashback.
Try some Chaotic Dischord, Discharge, Exploited and GBH
Love the buzzcocks but they were much more new wave. You want hard British punk from that era its "the Explioted and "Charged GBH"
Misfits Saturday Night, Scream, Dig up her Bones
Love your Interpol merch. Love that band. I got to meet them on their Antics tour.
The main riff to God Save the Queen actually came from a David Bowie song called Hang on to Yourself. I think you should check out some proto-punk David Bowie songs like Queen B**ch, Hang on to Yourself, Suffragette City, Cracked Actor, The Jean Genie, and Rebel Rebel. You'd definitely get punk in a more comprehensive way hearing that kind of David Bowie music, then The Stooges and The Velvet Underground before them.
Brilliant video!!
Love ya cutie, great music selections and reactions!
The Dead Kennedys best known song is "Holiday in Cambodia." It's got a bit of a darker sound so you might like it.
and you'll find yourself mumbling 'Pol Pot...Pol Pot' for the rest of the day.
The creepy skull the Misfits use is actually from a movie, and oddly not a horror movie but a weird old pulp serial called The Crimson Ghost. The skull is basically a supervillain mask.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Ghost
Of the 70s punk, Xray Spex really stand the test of time.
Love both the punk video's you did. I must say Dead Kennedy's, and Black Flag are two of my all time favorites. DK, might be the most punk band of all time. To me they are unequalled, while all these bands are awesome, DK in my mind had they better lyrics and attitude in delivery. California Uber Allis is just a massive statement and is worth you time to check out. Black Flag is more for when you want to eff schit up, get into a mosh pit and start swinging elbows without being mad at anybody in particular. Now i want to drop a little gem on ya mate. "Crass" with a huge list of band members over many albums, different sounding songs, Quick pop up shows in odd places, this is just a crazy band of the time frame. "big hands" is one of my favorites, but if your not a fan, keep listening as every punk fan will find at least one of their songs to their liking. Hopefully one day you will do progressive punk (Cure, REM, B52's, Smiths, Pixies, They Might be Giants, Dead Milkmen, and Talking heads and bands of the sort) and a little Gem slightly off the beat here, DRI. When punk and metal meet you Get DRI- Suit and tie guy.
Random trivia that I absolutely love: The Buzzcocks are only called that because they originally wanted to be called The Vibrators, but that name was already taken by another punk band, so they just came up with another word that means the same thing 😂😂😂
The Clash!!
Now it's time to look for local shows in your area. Many of the old bands still play.
All terrific groups here. Sex Pistols are classic. Misfits are known for their legion of rabid fans. Jello Biafra once ran for mayor of San Francisco. He came in 5th or 6th I think. One of the parts of his plank was "All businessmen will be required to wear clown suits during business hours." Buzzcocks are classic too. Their debut EP Spiral Scratch was the first punk DIY to be released and as such is of immense importance. Music (with original singer Howard Devoto) is great too. X Ray Spex notable for Poly's singing and use of saxophones in a punk song. Excellent lyrics too.
DK's "Too Drunk To Fuck"..."Police Truck"..."California Uber Alles"..."Jock-O-Rama"