The Punk/Hard Rock Thread

[Monte Cristo]

I love, love, the Dresden Dolls! Girl Anachronism is SO my song.

Gotta love Coin-Operated Boy, too

How did I KNOW that Coin Operated boy would be a fave of yours !!

You should check out their new album, it's got more of that stuff and worse (worse in a good way)!

I have tried to find other bands that play a similar style and I can't find any. There's a website out there that has downloads of some covers that they have done...pretty cool stuff.

MC

 

[apirateslifeforme]

How did I KNOW that Coin Operated boy would be a fave of yours !!

You should check out their new album, it's got more of that stuff and worse (worse in a good way)!

I have tried to find other bands that play a similar style and I can't find any. There's a website out there that has downloads of some covers that they have done...pretty cool stuff.

MC

You must be psychic; that's how you know I like C-O B

Seriously, it's just so cheeky, how can anyone NOT like it?

I have their new album - I just HAD to preorder it and get the autographed copy. Yeah, it's definitely more raw and naughtier than the first one. I love it. Amanda's a really great songwriter, IMO.

If you want to find similar bands, check out "A Dark Cabaret" (www.projekt.com). C-O B is the first song on it. I really like Nicki Jaine and Revue Noir, too. I could always burn a copy for you, too, if you'd like.

 

[dturner]

I just got hooked on 30 Seconds to Mars via "The Kill"

If you don't have the CD "A Beautiful Lie" get it - it'll take you on a journey - I absolutely love it.

 

[jenelope]

I love virtually all kinds of music (the jury's still out on Tibetan throat singing). And thanks to some of you, I can no longer think of anything but "Coin Operated Boy." Man, after two months, I thought I'd finally moved on. Catchy, ear-wormy, brilliant song that it is. Grr.

I've loved a lot of bands, but my favorite was, is, and always will be Social Distortion. Mike Ness is my rock hero.

I also love my home town boy, Iggy Pop with or without The Stooges; anything my other hometown boy, Jack White, is in, but especially the White Stripes; Sleater-Kinney; Sonic Youth; and I do have to confess a soft spot in my heart for all of those dirty little punk-pop boys in the newer bands.

And in my "if it's got some slap bass, I love it" file, I love, love, love Tiger Army and Reverend Horton Heat.

 

[bellarose23]

I was the rock music director of my college radio station back in the day, and I got to stand onstage with Suicidal Tendencies during a show! That job was the best ever. I don't listen to as much of the stuff as I used to, but here are some favorites: AFI (long time fan, very nice guys), Deftones, Misfits, Ramones, Joy Division, NIN, DK, NOFX, Anti-Flag, Subhumans, The Cure, older H2O, Swingin Utters, The Germs, Social D, Black Flag.....

I am also a HUGE classical music fan. It's the band/chior geek in me.

Say what you will about Green Day, but if it weren't for them and Nirvana, I may have still listened to my old NKOTB and Debbie Gibson tapes in high school!

Someone mentioned Allister, I actually knew Timmy. I went to Eastern Illinois University with him and their now drummer, Mike, who I knew from high school. They had another band called The Conways that used to play house parties all the time, and it was always a blast. Tim worked at the radio station with me. Nice guy.

ETA: Oops! How could I forget Tiger Army! T.A. Never Die! The Rev is good too.

 

[Monte Cristo]

and get the autographed copy.

I could always burn a copy for you, too, if you'd like.

Wicked jealous.....I got mine on itunes so I don't have any hardcopy.

Wouln't mind a burn...

 

[Cindy B]

I love, love, the Dresden Dolls! Girl Anachronism is SO my song.

Gotta love Coin-Operated Boy, too

Now...when did The Cure become "punk/hard rock"??? They're one of my favourite bands...and even though Mad Bob would probably cringe to be told this, I've always seen them referred to as a goth band

Cure is not goth punk or hard rock. Back in the day, they were considered alternative in the US (before Kiss Me cubed album) and pop i]n theUK.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Wicked jealous.....I got mine on itunes so I don't have any hardcopy.

Wouln't mind a burn...

Sure, no problem! Do you want the Dresden Dolls one, or the Dark Cabaret, or both...?

I just have to go pick up some CDs this weekend and I can do that for you

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Cure is not goth punk or hard rock. Back in the day, they were considered alternative in the US (before Kiss Me cubed album) and pop i]n theUK.

Speaking of "alternative"...it kills me to see the ad for VH1 Classic's Alternative..."It's 20 years later, and you still hate labels." Yet isn't "alternative" a label anyway?

And when did U2 become alternative, too? They show their videos on the Alternative all the time...

 

[Cindy B]

Speaking of "alternative"...it kills me to see the ad for VH1 Classic's Alternative..."It's 20 years later, and you still hate labels." Yet isn't "alternative" a label anyway?

And when did U2 become alternative, too? They show their videos on the Alternative all the time...

Ages ago U2 was alternative. I remember seeing U2 and The Alarm videos on Sunday night/early am 120 minutes show... Of course this is when Boy and October were released.

I really didn't like u2 for a while when they got all "pop". The Pop/Zooropa/Actung Baby albums are my least favorite. I don't really even like Joshua Tree either.

True alternative were the Nina Hagen, Siouxsie, early Cure (no Kiss me), Echo and the Bunnymen before Lips like Sugar, and in some cases B 52's before Love Shack!

You can't really call B52's punk/alternative either. They were more what I would call "college rock" before Love Shack.


If you ever watch School of Rock movie, there is an interesting timeline/web on the board of all the genres of rock. Of course this timeline/web is supposed to be a background device, but I froze the screen and read what the film producers considered punk/alternative.

 

[thewishfire]

If you ever watch School of Rock movie, there is an interesting timeline/web on the board of all the genres of rock. Of course this timeline/web is supposed to be a background device, but I froze the screen and read what the film producers considered punk/alternative.

I've done that too!!

 

[fabshelly]

I love the classics, Ozzy, KISS, Crue et al, but after the drought that was the nineties, rock ROCKS again! My fave song right now is Welcome to the Black Parade by MCR. Reminds me of Queen married to Green Day. Exquisite. I hate when that song ends.

 

[grlpwrd]

older school good music:

Jesus and Mary Chain
Echo and the Bunnymen
Dead Milkmen
Smiths
The Cure
Sonic Youth
The Replacemants
Social Distortion
REM
Pixies
The Meatmen
Flipper
Violent Femmes....

Oh my goodness....I love The Cure and the Violent Femmes!

Old school all the way! lol

 

[Cindy B]

Oh my goodness....I love The Cure and the Violent Femmes!

Old school all the way! lol

I saw the Cure in concert... it was one of my favorites!

I also saw Sinead O connor and U2 who both put on fantastic shows.

 

[milwaukee1]

Pantera!