Post by You probably can't touch this. on Sept 16, 2009 21:26:47 GMT -8
Here it is, the punk rock mix.
www.sendspace.com/file/2snkjb
Tracklist:
1. Something I Learned Today - Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü are one of the greatest bands of all time. Though, before they made big as proto-alternative rockers, they were massively influential on the hardcore punk scene. This song explains why.
2. We're Coming Out - The Replacements
Friends and Contemporaries of the Hüskers, The Replacements were a bit more subversive in co-opting traditional sounds and putting them in a hardcore tune. This just as much a finger to the punk community as it is to traditional music styles.
3. That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma
Mission of Burma didn't start out in hardcore like their contemporaries in the early alternative rock scene but they definitely had a punk edge but had an intelligence to it which can be heard here.
4. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Feeling as though I was covering to much hardcore turned alternative, here's a classic of American punk rock. Notice the intro similarity with CCR's "Run Through the Jungle."
5. Return of the Rat - The Wipers
The Wipers are the oldest band of the entire list by forming in 1977 while the rest formed a year or two later (or more). As such, this is the most straight forward punk tune but without being imitation. The Wipers would come to have a great influence on the grunge scene that came far later with Nirvana covering two of their songs. Of course, the Wipers were better than all that shit.
6. In My Eyes - Minor Threat
Coming out of Washington D.C. in 1980 under the tutelage of Bad Brain's H.R., Minor Threat came to be seen as the prototypical hardcore punk even more than other influence acts like Bad Brains and Black Flag. Had to include them somewhere.
7. The Prisoner - D.O.A.
Another early hardcore punk band from Vancouver, I included this mostly because it is my most favorite anthemic hardcore punk song. There is no way you can not feel like a revolutionary when singing along to this.
8. Think For Me - Die Kreuzen
This one if more typical of hardcore punk but Die Kreuzen really did go on have a huge influence on much of the better alternative rock that followed years later.
9. Look Out! Soul Is Back - The Nation of Ulysses
Now we are coming to music that would later be called "post-hardcore" in that after everyone got tired with hardcore punk they started writing under a larger variety of influences. Ulysses were big in defining American punk after the 80's by rejecting 60's and 70's music and style.
10. Merchandise - Fugazi
Fugazi was formed between the singer of Minor Threat and the lead singer of the hardcore, proto-emo band Rites of Spring. Fugazi was mostly hardcore punk with strong influences from reggae/dub and noise. Here's is one of their more straight forward, politically focused songs.
11. Bionic - Unwound
While Unwound are a far cry from punk proper being more of an amalgamation of post-hardcore, math-rock, post-rock, emo, and other words that make them sound like shit, this song is straight forward punk of the Wipers variety. As such, it sounds a lot like Nirvana and featured suicidal lyrics (which the Wipers tended to sing about, as well). It's also awesome.
www.sendspace.com/file/2snkjb
Tracklist:
1. Something I Learned Today - Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü are one of the greatest bands of all time. Though, before they made big as proto-alternative rockers, they were massively influential on the hardcore punk scene. This song explains why.
2. We're Coming Out - The Replacements
Friends and Contemporaries of the Hüskers, The Replacements were a bit more subversive in co-opting traditional sounds and putting them in a hardcore tune. This just as much a finger to the punk community as it is to traditional music styles.
3. That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma
Mission of Burma didn't start out in hardcore like their contemporaries in the early alternative rock scene but they definitely had a punk edge but had an intelligence to it which can be heard here.
4. Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Feeling as though I was covering to much hardcore turned alternative, here's a classic of American punk rock. Notice the intro similarity with CCR's "Run Through the Jungle."
5. Return of the Rat - The Wipers
The Wipers are the oldest band of the entire list by forming in 1977 while the rest formed a year or two later (or more). As such, this is the most straight forward punk tune but without being imitation. The Wipers would come to have a great influence on the grunge scene that came far later with Nirvana covering two of their songs. Of course, the Wipers were better than all that shit.
6. In My Eyes - Minor Threat
Coming out of Washington D.C. in 1980 under the tutelage of Bad Brain's H.R., Minor Threat came to be seen as the prototypical hardcore punk even more than other influence acts like Bad Brains and Black Flag. Had to include them somewhere.
7. The Prisoner - D.O.A.
Another early hardcore punk band from Vancouver, I included this mostly because it is my most favorite anthemic hardcore punk song. There is no way you can not feel like a revolutionary when singing along to this.
8. Think For Me - Die Kreuzen
This one if more typical of hardcore punk but Die Kreuzen really did go on have a huge influence on much of the better alternative rock that followed years later.
9. Look Out! Soul Is Back - The Nation of Ulysses
Now we are coming to music that would later be called "post-hardcore" in that after everyone got tired with hardcore punk they started writing under a larger variety of influences. Ulysses were big in defining American punk after the 80's by rejecting 60's and 70's music and style.
10. Merchandise - Fugazi
Fugazi was formed between the singer of Minor Threat and the lead singer of the hardcore, proto-emo band Rites of Spring. Fugazi was mostly hardcore punk with strong influences from reggae/dub and noise. Here's is one of their more straight forward, politically focused songs.
11. Bionic - Unwound
While Unwound are a far cry from punk proper being more of an amalgamation of post-hardcore, math-rock, post-rock, emo, and other words that make them sound like shit, this song is straight forward punk of the Wipers variety. As such, it sounds a lot like Nirvana and featured suicidal lyrics (which the Wipers tended to sing about, as well). It's also awesome.
