POST-SIXTIES PUNK (Not Neo-Garage)

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 29, 2021

This is a thread for Post-sixties Punk. I basically would like it to include any (of your favourite) songs which embody the spirit of (true) punk: original, unconstrained by commercial interests, and hormonal; even if it’s mis-labellled, or arbitrarily sub-labled by the music industry as hardcore, alternative, etc.

PLEASE no neo-garage. I dislike any genre that tries to recreate something from the past. To my ears, neo-garage sounds plastic, and I dislike nothing more than identifying 3 or 4 garage songs which have been directly copied in part, and stiched together.

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 29, 2021

tymespan · Sep 30, 2021

The Last-She Don't Know Why I'm Here

13th Floor Garage · Sep 30, 2021

It's 1970, there's a drum machine and seems to be a one man band. Most members here have probably heard it, but if not, it's worth a listen.

Laurent Bigot · Sep 30, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 30, 2021

13th Floor Garage said:
It's 1970, there's a drum machine and seems to be a one man band. Most members here have probably heard it, but if not, it's worth a listen.

1970, but pure sixties punk which appears in TeenBeat Mayhem! Definitely no drum machines back then! It's one of Mark and I's favourite spins in the bunker. You should hear it straight off the vinyl on a good hi-fi: "blasts your face and burns off your hair" (metaphorically speaking). Sixties garage didn't stop dead in 1967, but died off in a bell curve pattern with a few strands reaching into the early '70s.

Laurent Bigot · Sep 30, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in said:
Definitely no drum machines back then! .

rarely heard on recordings but there were drum machines available in the 60s.

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 30, 2021

Laurent Bigot said:
rarely heard on recordings but there were drum machines available in the 60s.

Okay, I stand corrected, but certainly not in this recording.

Laurent Bigot · Sep 30, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 30, 2021

Laurent Bigot said:

Nice one! I didn't know it. I think it qualifies for entry in TeenBeat Mayhem, as it sounds more like late '60s garage rather than something new.

Laurent Bigot · Sep 30, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in said:
Nice one! I didn't know it. I think it qualifies for entry in TeenBeat Mayhem, as it sounds more like late '60s garage rather than something new.

yes but it's from an album.

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 30, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in · Sep 30, 2021

Laurent Bigot said:
yes but it's from an album.

Probably a good candidate for this thread:
http://www.g45central.com/forum/index.php?threads/whats-your-favorite-non-45-songs.5212/

Outside_Lookin_in · Oct 1, 2021

Even though this is well known, I'm including it to highlight a point I make in the intro above about neo-garage bands. Even though this is cover of the Missing Links' song, the Saints have completely owned it and made it a product of their era. They've resolved the dichotomy between doing a cover, and doing an original. Compared to a neo-garage band doing an original, but trying to sound like a sixties garage band, to my ears the Saints' cover sounds more original.

13th Floor Garage · Oct 1, 2021

Outside_Lookin_in said:
Even though this is well known, I'm including it to highlight a point I make in the intro above about neo-garage bands. Even though this is cover of the Missing Links' song, the Saints have completely owned it and made it a product of their era. They've resolved the dichotomy between doing a cover, and doing an original. Compared to a neo-garage band doing an original, but trying to sound like a sixties garage band, to my ears the Saints' cover sounds more original.

If I was only allowed to keep one "punk" release in my collection, this would no doubt be the one.

I realize that this is irrelevant, but I'll share it.
Here in the states, 8-tracks were being heavily discounted in the late 1970's. Local drug stores and "five an dime" stores would carry hundreds of titles for around $2.99 (including Sex Pistols, Ramones, Kinks, Badfinger etc..) As a teenager on a limited budget, I made a blind purchase; based on the fact that this was on Sire records. After my first listen, I could never listen to the Sex Pistols or the Ramones the same way ever again.