[kj] punk

[sade1]

You know, I did think of GNR as I wrote that.

I thought they were too good to be lumped in with the hair-glam-rock stuff but too campy/glammy for me to take seriously. But I did like that song in the movie "Dead Pool" with Clint Eastwood (pre-chair) "Welcome to the Jungle" that put them on my radar. I always did admit they had undeniable talent, though. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2uHuKFOsvE 

Great lyrics to match too:


I'm feeling sick, can I be fixed
through one more death-defying trick
the lights are on in Heaven.. no one's home

I need to tell you how I fell 
into a one-way no-holds spell
I thought I had the answers.. now I don't know
No!

The winter's here, here comes the breeze
My heart is dying on its knees
The blizzard's on.. no way home

Defeat's gone down, and after the thrill
I'm left to shiver in the chill
Everything is gone
And i'm alone


It's a mystery, a mystery, 
all of the people who'll never be

The Gods're on high and so am I

The truth just goes to prove the lie
So open up the gate.. To let me in

I'm not gonna feel the same again
It's memories in the falling rain
I feel like going straight, then again...
No!

 
Blessed are the Cracked for 
  they let in the Light,
    others all are just a..
      'nother brick in the Wall


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 From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 

- I breathed clean musical air once more
 
Testify!
 
I still happen to like some 80s hair metal (raises the question of how you qualify GNR), but fuck did grunge NEED TO HAPPEN.
 
And the 90s in general:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5ogOH82Aw
 
 
From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Saturday, 8 September 2012 1:25 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 
Yeah, good shite there in Knizilind.
I'll never forget my first real intro to SG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0
 
I think part of the significance and god-bless-timeliness of Grunge was (to me) an attempt to correct/redeem for all-that-shitglam-hair-metal that throve in the late-80s like FUCKIN' ALGAE in a soap-detergent-retaining reservoir-cesspool-pond and warmed by a nuclear reactor at the water's edge. I hated that fuckin' music by and large (BUT I do like Pour Some Sugar On Me.. I'll leave the station on when I'm driving and it's playing). 
So yeah, when Pearl, HUM, Stone Temple, etc. came around - and then PANDEMONIUM *WOOT!* - I breathed clean musical air once more.  
"Breathe! Breathe you fuckers!"~~ ministry
 
I always thought it was Poison or sumthin'orOther.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4xwmZ6zi4 

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From:Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 
Rammstein arguably outplayed Tool at a recent gig in NZ.
 
Respect. I used to think that outplaying Tool was a direct violation of the Second law of Thermodynamics.
 
“IT’S A STATISTICAL ANOMAMY DUDE”
 
“Fuck man, do you EVEN KNOW what that FUCKIN MEA-“
 
“STATISTICAL.
AMOLONY
End of fucking-“
 
“WHAT?! AMONLGY? WHAT?!”
 
Etc etc
 
From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Saturday, 8 September 2012 11:55 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 
This sound right: Techno = Detroit, House = Chicago, Hi-Energy = Holland(?), then the germans came and took over? 
 
Rave = ? 
Trance = ?
 
 

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From:folk devil <folk.devil at hotmail.com>
To: "gathering at misera.net" <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 
Oh, I'm just mucking around. At the end of the day, folks are arguing over a marketing term.
I am very familiar with Punk's history. "Once you have a name for it, yesterday goes on and on and on".
 
Who invented Goth? Who invented Rave? 

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From: kjlist at live.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:11:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
The Dolls date to 1971 and the Stooges to 1967. This discussion doesn't even take into account the US garage band scene of the 1960's: Seeds, Standells, Sonics, etc. Check out Lenny Kaye's "Nuggets" series for further enlightenment.
 
It is well documented that the UK punk scene was established after exposure to existing American (read: NYC) punks, i.e Ramones first gig at the Roundhouse in July '76 and Malcolm McLaren's trip to NYC in '72 where he met the NY Dolls and where he copped the ripped t-shirt and safety pin look from Richard Hell. McLaren returned to the UK in 1975, opened the "SEX" boutique and applied his learnings to the exploitation of the Sex Pistols. The majority of early UK punks were either someone who saw the Sex Pistols/Buzzcocks in a university lunchroom or pub rockers with new haircuts, a la Joe Strummer.
 
to wit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDeee14dEA
 
 
 
 

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From: folk.devil at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:55:58 -0700
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
The Saints formed in 1975. That puts them chronologically next to the Dolls. They were Australian. What about Bolan, or the UK Garage bands of the early 70s...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8685349%40N07/
 

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From: paulwady at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:34:44 +0100
Subject: Re: [kj] punk

>From my previous email: 


1 - The very term PUNK was an AMERICANISM in the 1970's.  It was adopted by UK people around that time.  Even then lets face it, people still don't use it in Blighty for its original meaning today.  They didn't then?  It is entirely associated with a style from the late 70/s early 80/s best time of all for crude, sincere rock music.
 
2 - There was this band called the New York Dolls.  Assume everyone here does not know them on account of Morrissey running their UK fanclub, and thus everyones kept a distance...what difference does it make??
 
3 - James Osterberg.  Like anyone here needs to know what pseudonym he resides on the UK's bedroom walls under?  (Not forgetting Scottish trainspotters...)
 
4 - Eddy and the Hot Rods.  Okay okay, sorry sorry.  But I had to remind y'all just how bad things where then.  WE HAD THE ****ING OSMONDS ON THE RADIO...ON TOP OF THE POPS...TV SPECIALS...LOOK IN AND THE MAGAZINES AND THE PAPERS...  This was surely the closest our generation ever got to living through the Blitz?  It was hell in there.  Hell.  You'd walk down the road and your contemporaries and those a bit older had FLARES and MULLETTS.  Me?  I still have flashbacks.  (Wake up in the middle of the night screaming CRAZY HORSES!!!  WAAAH!  WAAH!  So America does have a lot to answer for.  Salt Lake City - capitol of trauma etc).
 
 
I am very sorry to bring up the things we'd all rather forget.  (Donnie.  Marie.  Jesus....)  But the Sex Pistols did it their way, and we all love them for it.  They did not invent it but good god did they do it brilliantly.  Even the Rolling Stones were described as a "Dartford Delta Blues band" recently.  The Beatles were surely partially due to their living in a transatlantic seaport?  Sailors selling the lp's they'd picked up in the USA you see?  
 
So...they gave it to us...and we improved it and sold it back to them?  Tee hee.  x



 
 
 
 
Free download album:  http://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/the-terminal-beach
 
PAULWADY.COM

  

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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:35:19 +1200
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
Okay, are we all agreed on Kyuss, yeah? 
 
Anyone NOT like Kyuss…? Seriously?
 
Okay let’s just put an album on….
 
NO MAN!!!
 
No, fuck’s sake, just put an alb-
 
No man it was my turn tu-
 
Fuckin, just put a FUCKIN album on man 
 
Fuckin not Soundga-
 
What?! Fuckin….why not? It’s fuckin awes-
 
NOT FUCKING SOUNDGARDEN, MAAAAAN!!!!! O-KAY?!?!?!?!

Jesus. 
What.
EVER. 
 
From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012 1:52 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 

> ..That was the Chinese...

 
Nah, that was Democracy, not Punk Canada.
 
 
 
Blessed are the Cracked for 
  they let in the Light,
    others all are just a..
      'nother brick in the Wall
 

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From:Rob Moss <rob.moss at gmx.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] punk
 
That was the Chinese mate. Sorry. 

On 6 Sep 2012, at 18:32, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:
The UK invented British punk?

> 

>Given this stunning logic, I would like to congratulate Canada for inventing "Canadian punk."

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>>"However, the UK did invent punk"

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>>The *FUCK* it did.

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>>Alex in NYC

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>>The UK DID invent British Punk, which is far superior to US Punk ;)

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