Posts Tagged ‘Article’
Non-Alignment Pact – Pere Ubu
Pure Punk Picks Non-Alignment Pact – Pere Ubu Pere Ubu is my favorite koo-koo band. I believe, Deborah Harry has a solo album named that. I haven’t heard it but I’m guessing it doesn’t have what I refer to as “koo-koo music” on it. [Read More]
Rise Above – Black Flag
Pure Punk Picks Rise Above – Black Flag When I first met Andy Bang, we were both working in a mail room, late ’79, for a National show store’s headquarters, walking distance from where I now live. I remember we got a half hour lunch break. And [Read More]
Out In The Streets – The Shangri-La’s
Pure Punk Picks Out In The Streets – The Shangri-La’s If you ask me what the most underrated musical genre is? I would, unequivocally say- “Sixties Girls Groups.” There was a lot of early sixties music styles that were modest in aspirations, [Read More]
White Riot – The Clash
Pure Punk Picks White Riot – The Clash The first punk radio show in Boston was on 88.1 Cambridge- WMBR. It was on Saturday afternoon, I believe, four to eight pm. Coincidentally, roughly the same time I go to punk matinee shows at the Midway now. This was [Read More]
Death & Blood & Night (Yukio) – The Stranglers
Pure Punk Picks Death & Blood & Night (Yukio) – The Stranglers The great philosopher, Madonna, and I only say that half in jest, taught us. That for women to be free, they not only had to be free from the judgment of men and the constraints of society. [Read More]
Nervous Eaters – “Record Ten”
Nervous Eaters – “Record Ten” So the Nervous Eaters was the first punk band I ever saw back in 1977. They were opening up for The Cars, before that band had a record deal. At that time, The Rat would only have two bands that both played two sets, a [Read More]
You’re Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges
Pure Punk Picks You’re Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges I’ve seen a lot of talking in other music genres about what song “was the first?” Like the first rock’n’roll song is purported to be “Rocket [Read More]
Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell
Pure Punk Picks Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell Love, or rather, sexual ejaculation does come in spurts. Our sexual organs squirt out their secretion onto the waiting sexual organs, mouths or other body parts of our partners. So, it’s rather a forgone [Read More]
Sex And Dying In High Society – X
Pure Punk Picks Sex And Dying In High Society – X “You started out this way. You’d do anything to stay.” The lyrics and tone are angry and accusing. Also, wild and wanton, true and passionate. And against the dull placid music of the day they [Read More]
Fear In The Western World – Ultravox
Pure Punk Picks Fear In The Western World – Ultravox “Someone told me Jesus was the devil’s lover, while we masturbated on the magazine cover.” Ultravox eventually became a lame, somewhat popular English synth pop band in the eighties. But in [Read More]
