Anbody else an ex-goth or ex-punk?

[crazyme5kids]

I'm getting a kick out of this thread!

 

[ophelia]

Here are some Dead Kennedy lyrics that I like:

I go to college
That makes me so cool
I live in a dorm
And show off by the pool

I join the right clubs
Just to build an impression
I block out thinking
It won't get me ahead

My ambition in life
Is to look good on paper
All I want is a slot
In some big corporation

John Belushi's my hero
I lampoon and I ape him
My news of the world
Comes from Sports Illustrated

I'm proud of my trophies
Like my empty beer cans
Stacked in rows up the wall
To impress all my friends

No, I'm not here to learn
I just want to get drunk
And major in business
And be taught how to ****

Win! Win!
I always play to win
Wanna fit in like a cog
In the faceless machine

[Chorus]
I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal terminal
terminal terminal terminal terminal

I want a wife with ****
Who just smiles all the time
In my centerfold world
Filled with Springsteen and wine

Some day I'll have power
Some day I'll have boats
A tract in some suburb
With Thanksgivings to host

[Chorus]
I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie

EDIT: I wanted to post some Exploited lyrics but that would have involved too much editing.

 

[pr surfer]

There is nothing that screams “free thinking” like a group of people dressing and thinking alike to prove that they are different.

I am free thinking.

That's why I cleaned up, got an education, and got a job

 

[ophelia]

I am free thinking.

That's why I cleaned up, got an education, and got a job

Everybody who listens to punk lives in the gutter and smells like a dirty hippie. How dare you not conform!!!!

 

[Michelle67]

Wow hey, I saw Skinny Puppy mentioned. Hardly ever hear anyone mention Skinny Puppy. Saw them in Vancouver in 1986 (I think) with Severed Heads. Fun time. Came home all amped up, someone took a skull laying around from Halloween and shoved it on the top of my Christmas tree, and the next morning bright and early my very religious sister showed up. For some reason she didn't like my tree topper. Ooops.

Anyhow, yeah used to be (although we didn't call it "goth" back then), survived it somehow, still like the music...but definitely not an anarchist type.

 

[ophelia]

Wow hey, I saw Skinny Puppy mentioned. Hardly ever hear anyone mention Skinny Puppy. Saw them in Vancouver in 1986 (I think) with Severed Heads. Fun time. Came home all amped up, someone took a skull laying around from Halloween and shoved it on the top of my Christmas tree, and the next morning bright and early my very religious sister showed up. For some reason she didn't like my tree topper. Ooops.

Anyhow, yeah used to be (although we didn't call it "goth" back then), survived it somehow, still like the music...but definitely not an anarchist type.

Have you read the book Go Ask Ogre? It's written by a chick who used to write letters to Ogre mostly during the 80's. I highly recommend it.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

So interesting.

anyway, just had to share a funny story last night. I picked up my son (almost 15) and either a Ramones or Sex Pistols song was on in the car. I was singing out loud and my son joins in...

He then stops mid verse and says "There's something a bit WRONG about jamming to the Sex Pistols with your mom!"

I had a moment like this recently. My 11yo, who usually complains when we have First Wave on XM in the car, rather than her Radio Disney, perked up when Anarchy in the U.K. came on. "Hey, I know this song from Guitar Hero!" We cranked it up and jammed to it together, too!

I never called myself a punk, but had friends who were, listened to much of the music and went to the shows. The first concert I ever went to was X at the Whiskey in L.A. in around '80 or '81. There were a lot of local punk bands in my area, so we'd go to the little clubs or to parties to see TSOL, China White, Black Flag, Social Distortion, the Dickies, the Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Sham 69, the Damned, PIL, etc (some of these in larger venues, obviously). I saw the Clash 7 times and once waited outside after the show was over for several hours until they let us backstage to meet the band. It was very brief, but worth it, and I still have the cherished ticket stub signed by Joe Strummer and Paul Simonen (this was after Mick Jones and Topper Headon left).

Great thread! Nice stroll down memory lane!

 

[ophelia]

I had a moment like this recently. My 11yo, who usually complains when we have First Wave on XM in the car, rather than her Radio Disney, perked up when Anarchy in the U.K. came on. "Hey, I know this song from Guitar Hero!" We cranked it up and jammed to it together, too!

I never called myself a punk, but had friends who were, listened to much of the music and went to the shows. The first concert I ever went to was X at the Whiskey in L.A. in around '80 or '81. There were a lot of local punk bands in my area, so we'd go to the little clubs or to parties to see TSOL, China White, Black Flag, Social Distortion, the Dickies, the Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Sham 69, the Damned, PIL, etc (some of these in larger venues, obviously). I saw the Clash 7 times and once waited outside after the show was over for several hours until they let us backstage to meet the band. It was very brief, but worth it, and I still have the cherished ticket stub signed by Joe Strummer and Paul Simonen (this was after Mick Jones and Topper Headon left).

Great thread! Nice stroll down memory lane!

I used to have a boyfriend that went to a lot of those early shows in LA and he was in some of the concert crowd scenes in the movie Suburbia. LOL He was also in one of those infamous LA 'punk' gangs back then.

 

[pr surfer]

Everybody who listens to punk lives in the gutter and smells like a dirty hippie. How dare you not conform!!!!

Because when nonconfirmity becomes the norm, then conformity becomes rebellion.

That being said, I still use my middle finger quite often

 

[metalis4ever]

Here are some Dead Kennedy lyrics that I like:

I go to college
That makes me so cool
I live in a dorm
And show off by the pool

I join the right clubs
Just to build an impression
I block out thinking
It won't get me ahead

My ambition in life
Is to look good on paper
All I want is a slot
In some big corporation

John Belushi's my hero
I lampoon and I ape him
My news of the world
Comes from Sports Illustrated

I'm proud of my trophies
Like my empty beer cans
Stacked in rows up the wall
To impress all my friends

No, I'm not here to learn
I just want to get drunk
And major in business
And be taught how to ****

Win! Win!
I always play to win
Wanna fit in like a cog
In the faceless machine

[Chorus]
I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal terminal
terminal terminal terminal terminal

I want a wife with ****
Who just smiles all the time
In my centerfold world
Filled with Springsteen and wine

Some day I'll have power
Some day I'll have boats
A tract in some suburb
With Thanksgivings to host

[Chorus]
I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie

EDIT: I wanted to post some Exploited lyrics but that would have involved too much editing.

Plastic Surgery Disasters is a great album!!!! and Terminal Preppie is a great song!!!

LOL The Exploited are awesome as well Punk Is Not Dead!!! Like the Primal Fear song so proudly proclaims Metal is Forever! and the same can be said for True Punk and Goth!!

"I wanna play my music as loud as I please!" - D.R.I.

 

[Cindy B]

I haven't heard those Dead Kennedy lyrics in a long time...

Here's a funny one from the Dead Milkmen called Punk Rock Girl..

One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead
I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead

Punk rock girl
Please look at me
Punk rock girl
What do you see?
Let's travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock girl

I tapped her on the shoulder
And said do you have a beau?
She looked at me and smiled and said she did not know

Punk rock girl
Give me a chance
Punk rock girl
Let's go slam dance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl

We went to the Philly Pizza Company
And ordered some hot tea
The waitress said well no, we only have it iced
So we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy
And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox
It it was "California Dreamin"
So we started screamin
On such a winter's day

She took me to her parents for a Sunday meal
Her father took one look at me and he began to squeal

Punk rock girl
It makes no sense
Punk rock girl
Your dad is vice president
Just like the Duke of Earl
Yeah you're for me punk rock girl

We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security guards trailed us to a record shop
We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said he don't work here
We said if you don't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin

We got into her car away we started rollin
I said how much you pay for this
Said nothin man it's stolen

Punk rock girl
You look so wild
Punk rock girl
Let's have a child
We'll name her Minnie Pearl
Just you and me
Eat fudge banana swirl
Just you and me
We'll travel round the world
Just you and me
Punk rock girl

This one ranks up there as favorites for many reasons... Zipperhead was a kick butt store on South Street in Philly.. it was so freaking amazing!

And this song even mentions Mojo Nixon, another one of my faves!

I had an old boyfriend that used to sing this song to me.. corny I know..

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I often joke and tell my DD that I was goth and emo before such terms were even coined. I went to high school in the late 80's. I wore a lot of black, lots of eye makeup, black nail polish, read incessantly about serial killers, euthanasia, psychological disorders and absolutely love Poe, Anne Rice, etc. I swear if we had a school psychologist, they would have been talking to me. I am just fascinated with how the mind works and suffered from too much teen angst.

I didn't fit in with any particular group in school. I listened mainly to heavy metal but also some punk/skater music too.

 

[maddhatir]

Sweetie- the punks/aternatives/goth/etc/etc mastered the put downs. There is little one could say that we have not heard before regarding our choices and our outward appearances. But since this is a family board and I am a mother, I will. . .with the utmost respect. . .say. . . .to each, his/her own.

I guess I fall into the "etc/etc" catagory

I remember when I was a teen (in the '70s!), me and my cousin were walking through the mall. My cousin had TONS of Kiss buttons down the sides of her jeans, her KISS t-shirt on (KISS ARMY members) and her hair was a little crazy- well, a woman said loudy, "I am glad you are not my daughter" ewwwwwww! How disgusting was THAT comment.

It didn't stop there b/c in the '80s we were into the hair bands and we then had hair that stuck straight up! the higher the better! I am sure you can imagine the comments we got then!

I'm a current punk

You don't stop being a punk. You just learn to dress well

I hear ya!

And, I can imagine, when someone pulls up next to me in my car, what they think when they see a female, dressed "normal", with normal hair BLASTING Lamb of God in her car......OK, I know they are saying "freak"

A friend of mine asked me if I will still be listening to music that "you cannot understand what they are saying" when I am 60- I said "He!! Yeah!"

If you are so passionate about your music now- you will be listening to it until the day you die!

I always say I feel bad for people who are not "in love" with the music they listen to, they are missing out

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Here's a funny one from the Dead Milkmen called Punk Rock Girl..

I love that song! Thanks, I hadn't thought about that one for a while!

I have a song that I love because it mentions an old haunt, too. Urban Struggle by the Vandals. It's long, so I won't quote all the lyrics, but the bolded ones are my faves...

We're all OD'd on the Olden West
seein' who's Cowboy clothes look the best
I can ride that phony bull so damn good
Sometimes I think I'm Clint Eastwood

Cowboy look is the one I sought
Can't change now cause the clothes are bought
To be a true cowboy was my fate
I can't help it if I was born late

I know I'm a Cowboy deep inside
My hat band's made out of synthetic rattle snake hide
After a couple **** kickin' Cowboy movies
I'll check out the Cowboy scene down at Zubie's

Cowboy look is the one I sought
Can't change now cause the clothes are bought
To be a true cowboy was my fate
I can't help it if I was born late

Find out who all fights the best
We start fights with them punks at the Cuckoo's Nest
Those damn punks are crazy (though)
and meaner than a bull at a rodeo

Cowboy look is the one I sought
Can't change now cause the clothes are bought
To be a true cowboy was my fate
I can't help it if I was born late

You call me an Urban clone of course
A big deal if I'm afraid to ride a horse
With a broken nose and a ****ed up knee
Maybe this Cowboy scene just ain't for me

Cowboy look is the one I sought
Can't change now cause the clothes are bought
To be a true cowboy was my fate
I can't help it if I was born late

Yee Haw

Cowboy look is the one I sought
Can't change now cause the clothes are bought
To be a true cowboy was my fate
I can't help it if I was born late

( I couldn't make it as a Punker )

The Cuckoo's Nest was close to where I lived and we went there nearly every weekend (with a quart of Mickey's bigmouth each, that we guzzled in the parking lot before going in! ). Zubie's was the cowboy bar next door, and yes, there were fights in the parking lot at 2:00am as everyone was leaving.

I often joke and tell my DD that I was goth and emo before such terms were even coined.

Yea, I never heard the term goth until about 1998, but listened to what we referred to as "gloom and doom" music in the 80's. Was there a name for bands like Bauhaus and Joy Division, (and even the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees before they "sold out" and turned more pop)? If there was, I never knew what it was.

 

[kate0305]

This thread is getting better and better!!! I love the lyrics- it reminds me of my first (of many) trips to the guidance counselor when writing "I'm a suicidal failure, I gotta have some help, I have suicidal tendencies, but I can't kill myself" in the margin of my class notebook. Oh, to be so misunderstood-it's just a song, people, not a cry for help!!!

I don't know what it is about that time, and that attitude, and the music, but have to agree with Madd. . .we sure were passionate about our music.

Anyone feel like tracking down and posting pics from this infamous stage in our lives?- I can lay a hand on a picture of me and my skinny puppy t-shirt/short skirt/fishnets pretty easily

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I just have to add, my (now-former) coworkers liked to use the word "freak" to describe me (and anyone else with a goth/punk aesthetic). My response to them was to put up this sticker on my cubicle wall:

Now that I've been laid off, I pasted it into my Joseph Vargo journal:

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Yea, I never heard the term goth until about 1998, but listened to what we referred to as "gloom and doom" music in the 80's. Was there a name for bands like Bauhaus and Joy Division, (and even the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees before they "sold out" and turned more pop)? If there was, I never knew what it was.

I always heard it referred to as "mope rock."

 

[kate0305]

he was in some of the concert crowd scenes in the movie Suburbia.

OK, so why do I still have Suburbia on VHS? It is a terrible movie-fake fake fake (the dog/phone booth scene especially) and terrible dialog, it is almost painful to watch now as an adult- but along with Dogs in Space, you got so many punk rock points for watching it or owning it

 

[Gina]

I'm so happy to find other 40-somethings who still listen to the Dead Kennedys, Misfits, etc.... Success as a parent for me is defined as DS13 knowing the difference between "California Uber Alles" and "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now."

 

[ophelia]

OK, so why do I still have Suburbia on VHS? It is a terrible movie-fake fake fake (the dog/phone booth scene especially) and terrible dialog, it is almost painful to watch now as an adult- but along with Dogs in Space, you got so many punk rock points for watching it or owning it

That's the beauty of Suburbia! LOL