Friends of the Stooges- I Wanna Be Your Dog

Futon

House

Iggy Pop

Joan Jett

R.E.M. and friends

Sonic Youth and friends

Uncle Tupelo

Comments

[Inquisitor Generalis]

The Stooges were awesome. But you should try out some British Oi!/streetpunk bands like Cock Sparrer and Sham 69. I've found that most of the Britpunk was better than the American punk being done at the same time in that it was both tougher *and* more melodic.

[Jon Cogburn]

Double cool. I'll check them out.

[Inquisitor Generalis]

Here, try this and lemme know what you think. The first one is Sham 69's "If The Kids Are United," and it's probably one of the greatest punk rock songs ever written. The second one is from a Boston streetpunk band called the Street Dogs. Don't let the military imagery fool you into thinking they're pro-war, because they aren't (and they even say they are not at the end of the video), and the song is about a soldier who wants to come home from Iraq to see his family. It's kind of cool, because the band's singer actually was in the first Gulf War, and he has sung rather forcefully against the current one.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J-K8oF-XoS0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1RaXbjv206o

[Jon Cogburn]

Oh man, those are great anthems. The guitar intro and chorus on the Street Dogs song is really great. I don't know much about ska, but from the little I know it's really cool to see how people can combine ska influences without having the song be crazy spastic.

The Sham 69 is fantastic. The guitar-bass combo going into the verses is reminiscent of the Sex Pistols (e.g. Holidays in the Sun), but the chorus is more rocking and anthemic than they could manage. I'm going to check out more of their stuff.

[Inquisitor Generalis]

I'm gonna find some more stuff in that vein that you might be interested in, then. But definitely try to find Sham 69's "The Punk Singles Collection." It has all their classic songs. They're one of those bands where music journalists (and those who have a purely academic interest in punk rock) who talk about the history of punk rock never mention them, but they're definitely an important band to real, actual punk rockers. Let me put it to you this way. If I were throwing a house party with my friends from my punk rock days, and for whatever reason I only had a Sex Pistols record and a Sham 69 record, they would want me to put on the Sham 69 record. Same thing with who's better between The Clash and the Sex Pistols. Almost anyone who's been a punk rocker for more than six months will say The Clash.

[Inquisitor Generalis]

But, yeah, here are some more videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxycC_5rt8M

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_rf2d894k

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lybPuF3HH-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVHvU4QYslY