@historyofpunkrock Butthole Surfers. Hearing their first EP turned my musical tastes on its head. I bought it solely for the name and album cover in 1984. And that was right about the time Night Flight was showing “Urgh! A Music War” clips. Upstate NY was a black hole void for punk rock, so getting hands on the music was hard. In 85, we moved to San Diego and the floodgates were opened. I wouldn’t go to a show until 1986 with The Vandals and DRI, which got shutdown before we got in.
Pogues and Iggy Pop Live Concert Duesseldorf/Germany. I would'nt go so far by saying "they changed my life". Actually it was the right music at the right time. Sorry, rather an attitude than only music.
@historyofpunkrock I bought the first Ramones album the day it came out and brought it home and put it on my dad’s stereo because no one else was home.
@historyofpunkrock I was a school kid by the time of the first generation of UK Punk, and although I didn’t understand the politics or culture, I liked the “naughty school kid” vibe of it.
First band I was aware of was The Damned, who were regulars on a short-lived ITV pop show “Supersonic”, but then shortly after that The Buzzcocks, The Stranglers and Sham 69 started popping up on the mainstream BBC chart TV show “Top of the Pops”. They even started showing the Sex Pistols!
@historyofpunkrock For me, it was Gang Green. I was turning the radio knob trying to find anything interesting, when I heard the song “19th Hole” on college radio, and it blew me away. The sound was exactly what I needed and til then hadn’t known existed.
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Oct. 1976, start of my 2nd year in college, a woman from the east coast brought albums by the Ramones and Patti Smith. The sheer energy! She converted a lit of us to her taste in music that fall
@historyofpunkrock Being gifted the Clash’s London Calling by my older sister and her friend definitely set me on my way and I’ve listened to them ever since
@historyofpunkrock I guess my first punk band was Talking Heads, later NOFX, No Use for a Name, Lagwagon and even later Jonathan Richman.
I REGRET NOTHING!! :headshot:
First punk band I saw was Flipper. Fun college show. About then the Decline of Western Civilization and Mad Max were playing in theaters. I was all in. Loved Black Flag even before Rollins.
@historyofpunkrock It wasn't music, it was a photo of Patti Smith in Cream magazine where she is wearing a crown of thorns. Then my mom brought back the Sex Pistols album for me from London and it all came together.
@historyofpunkrock I'm gonna say Hüsker Dü. My roommate fresh,an year in college had their "Eight Miles High" 7" and I had never in my life heard anything so…primal. That song was TERRIFYING, but also fascinating. A lot of other bands that would become important to me entered my consciousness around that time—Minutemen, X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks, et al.—but that may have been the song that burst the dam.
@historyofpunkrock One Band, One Song: Slime - Etikette tötet. This song turned me into a punk and opened the door for 40 years of punk and hardcore since then.
Just one is difficult. Summer of '77 I found Sex Pistols single and they changed the music I sought out. Almost immediately after (June '77) that we saw The Ramones. Soon after that I began listening to Television. Never the same after that.
@historyofpunkrock Angry Samoans, Back from Samoa. My cousin had it. I had to listen to it three times before I could make out what they were singing. I can still remember hearing the sound go from buzzsaw to music in my consciousness. My cousin also had minor threat, negative approach and minor threat lying around, and that was it.
First: Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen (what else as a kid in 90s East Germany…?).
These bands were so empowering during the years of neo nazi terror.
Then again the descendents and their Milo goes to college album (which I discovered in the late 90s only) and of course Pennywise, which introduced me to the whole California scene.
@historyofpunkrock This might be a strange gateway to punk rock, but for me it was partly the Beastie Boys. Then the door was kicked wide open on a Saturday morning while watching Real Action Pictures where they showed Shawn Farmer (I think it was Farmer) snowboarding with the song I Want by Face to Face as the soundtrack.
@historyofpunkrock Die Kreuzen s/t I was a metal head. Day one I was into Metallica and people were saying they sound like punk. I asked my cousin to make me a punk tape a while I liked a lot of it, Die Kreuzen stood out as they were great and from my home town. Furious and unique. https://youtu.be/BDdlX80dgYI?si=Ju8EAWpOuNR8AYg9
@historyofpunkrock I don't know that I'd say any one punk band changed my life, but The Clash, The Damned, and Black Flag were definite influencers. My "life changing" music tends towards industrial.
I don't think I can narrow down my musical history to one band or even one genre, but I guess it all started with #deutschpunk and then #slime would take a big part. And although I don't listen to then anymore, I must admit, they kind of teached me to reflect and differentiate my ethical and political compass.
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