I once ran into him while I was riding my bike in Detroit—I guess he was in town filming a tv show or something but had a very strange conversation with him. He asked for restaurant recommendations.
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My friend loves Bad Religion and wrote a song as if he was Greg Graffin writing a letter to Brett Gurewitz:
here’s the lyrics:
Dear Brett,
I’m writing you this letter for there’s so much I haven’t said
When we sat down to write “Believe It”, the world made sense again
I must say that when you left, at first it was good to be alone
Plus, I had Brian if I needed any help
It’s hard to talk about your failures, but it’s time that I come clean:
I couldn’t write a second record by myself - as the world did see.
I recall,
Mom and Pop had just split up and I left dear Wisconsin
For one City of Angels into pot and Zeppelin
But you and I shared the same love for the Beatles and Elton John
And the Adolescents’ harmonies were great
As I went deeper into science, you learned how to make records
Then Atlantic and we parted separate ways - but now you’re back.
The process of belief is a road that cannot be walked alone
It takes two to make it through
If you ever feel like joining me onstage, I’d be more than glad
Yours truly, Greg
PS: There won’t be sorrow at all
All in all, the love you take is equal to the love you make
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ooh i’ll punk the EPUB/pdf and read it!!!
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Let me know if you do! I was in high school when I read it, so I don’t expect it to change anyone’s life nowadays 
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Does ska punk count?
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absolutely
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Saw them last Friday, was even better to find out they were explicitly left wing too (shouldn’t have been surprised)
For something poppier, these guys were great live as well
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Been listening to some Taiwanese bands recently. Here’s a few songs I liked:
This one isn’t a straight up punk rock band I guess, but there’s some punkiness to them.
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I was a big ol’ crust punk growing up. Had the patch pants and everything. Made friends in the local scene, went to shows in basements. Good memories! Also everybody was straight edge.
I recently found myself listening to Leftover Crack again after a thousand years and they’re still really fun.
Contravene rules
Appalachian Terror Unit also rules
I haven’t paid much attention to new punk music. My musical interests drifted to other stuff as I went from my early twenties to my early thirties. But I still will listen to my old favorites sometimes.
I’m not in the metal thread, so I’m at least one person that this thread is for!
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since ska punk is also allowed i have a little story behind it
when i got a macbook pro in 2013 it came with a $50 apple gift card and i spent it all on itunes. i got the entire streetlight manifesto discog (up to that point, they have a new album on the way now), two reel big fish albums, and one album from operation ivy and the toasters each
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Some stuff on heavy rotation lately:
Not really punk, but they play fast and I love them:
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I’ll be running through these today at work.
My car decided to play Civilizations Dying by the Zero Boys in the car this weekend and it felt very… topical
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Very nice, this was my particular flavor too, even down to be vegan straight edge. Crust/d-beat type stuff was my fav like the aforementioned tragedy and the assorted bands in that scene like his hero is gone:
The from ashes rise split with Victims (really awesome YouTube quality on this one lol):
Then Swedish stuff like Skitsystem etc. by far my favorite band of all tho was catharsis which was fronted by the dude who later started crimethinc, if anyone here is familiar:
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I got introduced to punk as a pre-teen and haven’t looked back. I was quite lucky that I grew up with a bunch of weirdos that were all exploring their own musical tastes and whilst I have a more discerning taste than I used to as a teenager, the stuff that I do like has endured in my regular rotation of albums to listen to.
There’s a lot of great stuff mentioned here from others (I haven’t thought of GISM for years but here are some of the things that I regularly listen to:
Propaghandi: their early stuff is pretty rough to listen to now but their harder, thrashier stuff of late is fantastic. Victory Lap, the album, was on regular rotation for me during lockdown whilst I worked from home. It’s a super tight album with a great opening track. They have a new album out this week too which I’m really looking forward to listening to.
Bomb the Music Industry: I fell in love with the first album instantly - its chaotic synth/hardcore songs felt like a real shot in the arm for me at the time. I ended up booking a couple of shows for UK tours, one very successful, one which kinda tanked, but that experience led me to falling into my career so that worked out for me.
Zero Down: I must admit that I listened to a lot of terrible melodic hardcore bands as a teenager but Zero Down wasn’t one of them. They only released one album and a couple of songs for compilations because one of their members passed away but the whole thing is an underappreciated slice of the genre.
New Bomb Turks: I have a hell of a soft spot for rough garage rock inspired punk music; Teengenerate, Oblivians et al. The first two New Bomb Turks albums are stone cold releases full of energy and oozing with grating fuzz effects. I love it.
The Dammed: Truly my first love. They’ve arguably not been a punk band for the best part of 40 years, throwing in psychadelia and goth inspirations like nobody’s business but their first album, and particularly Machine Gun Etiquette will stay on rotation until the day I die.
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OK, I feel like slowly posting about my favorite Korean punk rock songs of each year, from 1995 to whichever year I don’t know any songs I like anymore.
The thing is, though, while according to legend there were a few “proper” punk bands around in Korea by 1995, none of them had put out any records yet. So why do I start in 1995 then? Because there’s Pipiband, which most people today probably wouldn’t categorize as a punk band, but they did talk a bunch about being influenced by punk rock, and they curated a somewhat transgressive image and iconography.
Their most punky song (and also my favorite of theirs) is called Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do:
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Are you familiar with The Geeks? Quite a bit more recent than the 80s but I saw them live way back in the day.
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Brb I’m gonna go post a third thread for grindcore
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It’ll probably be a short one
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HA
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