I just wanted to say I love these posts. It's music I don't know much about and you're enthusiasm, knowledge and glee is awesome! Thanks so much! &hearts
You're welcome! I'm having a great time, sorting back through things and dragging out old albums to convert. And we haven't even hit a lot of the stuff I like the best yet.
I love these posts, and I love that everyone else is finding them, too.
The band I was curious as to whether or not you would include them was The Blasters. A rockabilly band from Downey, California. For some reason, they were incorporated into the LA scene and were pretty tight with Black Flag (awww Frank), at least according to wikipedia. Well, the LA punk bit, I know because my dad mentioned it and I was very wtf, the Henry Rollins bit is wiki based. I should upload a couple of tracks, even if I can't say how culturally important they were like you.
The band had an 'Original Recipe Tour' while I was in high school, and they were awesome. I love a stand up bass.
Oh! I only have the one track from them, and I'd love to see more. I don't know if I'd class them as punk, but maybe their other stuff is harder? Or...they're sort of cowpunk. They could fit in there, with the Meat Puppets and a couple of Texas bands that I have lined up for later.
(Henry Rollins has like the craziest music collection ever. He listens to *everything* I think.)
To my shame, i went through a dreadfully teenage phase of only liking unpopular bands, which lasted...oh, about 3 months, before I could no onger deny that yes, I did know all the words to S club 7's back catalogue. *hides*
I am so so happy you're doing these posts- I don't know enough about music, and love hearing about the social side of it, too, the evolution of a whole movement that wasn't just about the music. And also, American pop culture is a whole nother world for me, and one I'm very interested in. So thank you for that
(and dear god I hope I haven't come across as a music snob or anything- it's not me, is it? Tell me if it is, please? /puppydogging)
I have so little brain for new music these days - because if I don't know it I want to really HEAR it, not just la la la background the stuff - that I find I'm downloading everything you post, copying each essay into a Word doc, and just hoarding like a mad thing.
It's fun.
(Also: could not agree with you more on the dis/like-due-to-Q-quotient thing. grr argh. who the fuck CARES if they're popular if they're good at what they do? contrariwise, who the fuck cares if they're UNpopular if they're NOT?
Hee. I do that all the time--and then when I get a couple of days to myself, I sit there and run through everything I've acquired in the past three months, culling and highlighting and putting together these huge playlists that I forget to post for everyone else. I'm big on mainlining whole back catalogs and then wandering off to hear something new.
(Yeah. It drives me nuts, and I thought I was sort of over it--because let's face it, as a kid growing up in Ohio and listening to punk music, I got a lot of crap about my taste--but the bandom thing has brought it up again. Not because of stuff that people have said to me, really, but because I know that other people are getting nasty comments about it. And that's just not right.)
You're welcome, of course. When you get a chance to listen, feel free to hit me up for more tracks from anybody you really like. I've got additional stuff for almost every band I've listed so far.
yay! I love introducing people to new stuff. If you get the chance, definitely go find more Avengers and stuff from the Australian X. Great stuff, almost all of it.
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The band I was curious as to whether or not you would include them was The Blasters. A rockabilly band from Downey, California. For some reason, they were incorporated into the LA scene and were pretty tight with Black Flag (awww Frank), at least according to wikipedia. Well, the LA punk bit, I know because my dad mentioned it and I was very wtf, the Henry Rollins bit is wiki based. I should upload a couple of tracks, even if I can't say how culturally important they were like you.
The band had an 'Original Recipe Tour' while I was in high school, and they were awesome. I love a stand up bass.
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(Henry Rollins has like the craziest music collection ever. He listens to *everything* I think.)
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Marie, Marie
No Other Girl
Border Radio
American Music
Red Rose (There's a FOB song that makes me think of this one. I think it's Champagne... but I'm not sure.)
I'm going to stop there before I upload the whole two disc collection.
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To my shame, i went through a dreadfully teenage phase of only liking unpopular bands, which lasted...oh, about 3 months, before I could no onger deny that yes, I did know all the words to S club 7's back catalogue. *hides*
I am so so happy you're doing these posts- I don't know enough about music, and love hearing about the social side of it, too, the evolution of a whole movement that wasn't just about the music. And also, American pop culture is a whole nother world for me, and one I'm very interested in. So thank you for that
(and dear god I hope I haven't come across as a music snob or anything- it's not me, is it? Tell me if it is, please? /puppydogging)
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It's fun.
(Also: could not agree with you more on the dis/like-due-to-Q-quotient thing. grr argh. who the fuck CARES if they're popular if they're good at what they do? contrariwise, who the fuck cares if they're UNpopular if they're NOT?
(ahem. /opinions, for now.)
In conclusion: thank you.
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(Yeah. It drives me nuts, and I thought I was sort of over it--because let's face it, as a kid growing up in Ohio and listening to punk music, I got a lot of crap about my taste--but the bandom thing has brought it up again. Not because of stuff that people have said to me, really, but because I know that other people are getting nasty comments about it. And that's just not right.)
You're welcome, of course. When you get a chance to listen, feel free to hit me up for more tracks from anybody you really like. I've got additional stuff for almost every band I've listed so far.
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