Straight Edge/Punk Music Stuff from Big Love Thread

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:57 pm

Jawbreaker? Off hand they're probably in some latter day (heh) hard core category beyond my interest. Which isn't to say they're crap---just that I've not found much of interest in that direction...

I don't know if this is even representative of what I'm listening to now, but last time I DJ'd (three years ago) this was one of my play lists. Things were chosen for how they fit together or didn't and cover a range of eras and styles (including country n' western).

Going To Town---The Afghan Whigs
Hong Kong Blues---Baby Bird
Becoming More Like Alfie---The Divine Comedy
Ski Bunny---Boss Hog
Pedal---Crayon
Bad Bad Boy---David Candy
Sister Surround---The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
She's Fetching---Big Dipper
Internal Wrangler---Clinic
Submission Song---Pulsars
Poison 1080---Noise Addict
Stay Beautiful---Manic Street Preachers
L.A.---The Fall
Mr. Important---Bis
Babies---Pulp
Lose It---Supergrass
Wall In Your Heart---Shelby Lynne
London---Noonday Underground
I'm Gonna Kick You Out---Twelve Caesars
Spinner---Twinemen
Cease2xist---Ladytron
Click Click---The Wedding Present
Music For Boys---Suburbs
The Man With The Golden Arm---Barry Adamson
Sunset Coming On---Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté & Friends
Genetic Engineering---X-Ray Spex
Goo Goo Muck---The Cramps
Walking With Thee---Clinic
How He Wrote Elastica Man---Elastica
Seemingly Stranded---David Kilgour
As We Go Up, We Go Down---Guided by Voices
The 15th---Fischerspooner
Cruisers Creek---The Fall
Sylvie---Saint Etienne
A Woman of the World---The Divine Comedy
If I Could Only Win Your Love---EmmyLou Harris
Boy---Book Of Love
Music For Girls---Baxendale
Another Girl, Another Planet---the Only Ones
Maps---Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hallelujah---John Cale
Jonathan David---Belle & Sebastian
Slash Your Tires---Luna
Theme For An Ultimate And Inevitable Victory---Servotron
Gazebo---The Wedding Present

Post by **_silentkid** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:59 pm

barrelomonkeys wrote:Jawbreaker with Rose McGowan?

No, no, no. Sorry, I switched from movies back to music. Jawbreaker as in Blake Schwarzenbach's punk band from San Francisco in the early 90's.

To see early punk you need to see Decline of Western Civilization, Another State of Mind, and Suburbia.

If I can get them from netflix, I'm all for it. Is the Suburbia you mentioned the one with Giovanni Ribisi and directed by Richard Linklater?

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:04 pm

Well "Decline" is much hated by most of the participants who felt Penelope Spheeris was out to create a sensationalistic portrait of "punk violence." If you just concentrate on the live footage, though, you'll be ok.

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:05 pm

silentkid wrote:
barrelomonkeys wrote:Jawbreaker with Rose McGowan?

No, no, no. Sorry, I switched from movies back to music. Jawbreaker as in Blake Schwarzenbach's punk band from San Francisco in the early 90's.

To see early punk you need to see Decline of Western Civilization, Another State of Mind, and Suburbia.

If I can get them from netflix, I'm all for it. Is the Suburbia you mentioned the one with Giovanni Ribisi and directed by Richard Linklater?

Sorry I wasn't following very well. :)

Penelope Spheeris writer and director ----> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790715/

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:07 pm

Blixa wrote:Well "Decline" is much hated by most of the participants who felt Penelope Spheeris was out to create a sensationalistic portrait of "punk violence." If you just concentrate on the live footage, though, you'll be ok.

I liked more than just the live footage. Although that's a plus. Watching the interviews are great. Even just the punks that are interviewed seem interesting to me. Who hated it Blixa? I've never heard that.

***Edited to add***

One thing that I always think of when I think of Decline. I was about 15 and my boyfriend and I are watching it. His mother walks through the living room. There's a young punk on the screen saying how he won't be a sell out or something of the sort. Boyfriend's mother says, "I bet he's an investment banker now." and she walks out. :)

**Edited also to add* I know the bassist from Black Flag didn't like the way he was portrayed, but I've never heard anything else about it.

Post by **_silentkid** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:13 pm

Blixa wrote:Jawbreaker? Off hand they're probably in some latter day (heh) hard core category beyond my interest. Which isn't to say they're crap---just that I've not found much of interest in that direction...

They didn't delve into the hardcore scene as much as some of their contemporaries. In fact, a lot of their fans got pissed that their last two records were too melodic and that they had abandoned their punk roots. The lead singer went on to form a band called Jets To Brazil, whose album Orange Rhyming Dictionary is one of my favorites of the late 90's (not hardcore at all).

Great List. I noticed a lot of songs/bands that I really like...lots of British bands like Clinic, Supergrass, Pulp, etc.

Post by **_Doctor Steuss** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:15 pm

silentkid wrote:This would have been a great scene in that movie, SLC Punk.

LOL! Interesting side note (in regards to "straight-edgers" and violence): The first time I had a gun pulled on me was at a church dance.

Post by **_asbestosman** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:03 pm

Doctor Steuss wrote:Interesting side note (in regards to "straight-edgers" and violence): The first time I had a gun pulled on me was at a church dance.

Do tell.

By the way, going off that picture of yours, I think those two straight-edgers must've been insane to try messing with you. Makes me wonder what they were smoking.

Post by **_Gazelam** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:09 pm

I only know a handful of the bands that you listed Blixa. The Cramps song I always liked was "She Said". I had it on a live cassette that a guy left in my car.

Lets all hold our lighters up for the Dead Milkmen: Punk Rock Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXkunZQRmEs

For those of you who liked the other two Concrete Blonde songs, heres some more of their stuff I like alot:

True: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps1cfX68_Fw

Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BozyMnVSg

(Love this one) Dance Along the Edge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGV2qJUouM

Someday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HdoqCjMUV4

Social Distortion: I was wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9fqVTP0-Y

Story of my life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKOc_Mpumc

reach for the sky (song played to still image) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRK8P94QXxQ

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:12 pm

Hey Gaz, here's Goo Goo Muck. When my girls were little we would listen to the Cramps all the time in the car. This was one of their favorite songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RVymaTMkc

And since we're adding youtubes. I LOVE the Damned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQwclXNuq8