Your favorite lesser known punk "finds"

[sunvalleylaw]

Heard this one on the way into work this morning. Was thinking to myself whether Krashpad would call it punk. i say yes, and it has all sorts of stuff I like. I was hearing Who, Kinks, even some Monkees maybe, and a good helping of The Clash, but lighter sounding. Then I found out it was Joe Strummer's first band before he joined The Clash and it all made sense. Cool!

So post up some other lesser known punkish finds sos I's can find some more stuff I didn't know about!

 

[FrankenFretter]

The Skids, Bouncing Souls, and Buck-O-Nine are some of mine. Buck-O-Nine is more Ska-Punk, I guess. Dropkick Murphys are kind of punkish, but I'm sure you've heard of them.

 

[bcdon]

I'm not much of a punk fan, but a guy I know from East Germany gave me a bunch of East German Punk
I'll see if I can find some of it.

 

[guitartango]

Here is a band from my local town (about 1981)

 

[sunvalleylaw]

FF: Ska-punk. I love that stuff too! I'll check that stuff out. Esp. Buck-O-Nine. BCD, east german punk sounds interesting. The scene seems to have been in the 70s, not too many decades removed from the war. East Germany would have been an interesting place for musical influences, I would think, just having watched The War on PBS and seeing what the allies ran into out there at the end of the war.

guitartango, that track was fun. I little Suicidal Tendencies-like.

 

[guitartango]

FF: Ska-punk. I love that stuff too! I'll check that stuff out. Esp. Buck-O-Nine. BCD, east german punk sounds interesting. The scene seems to have been in the 70s, not too many decades removed from the war. East Germany would have been an interesting place for musical influences, I would think, just having watched The War on PBS and seeing what the allies ran into out there at the end of the war.

guitartango, that track was fun. I little Suicidal Tendencies-like.

Glad you liked it , here is another one about Margaret Thatcher (Prime minister in the 1980's). I went to college with the drummer.

 

[Retro Hound]

One Bad Pig and Nobody Special (AKA Pat Nobody). These aren't their best songs, but the best I can find in a short time.

One Bad Pig even did a song with the Mighty Johnny Cash.

 

[Tig]

Glad you liked it , here is another one about Margaret Thatcher (Prime minister in the 1980's). I went to college with the drummer.

Big flashback there!

A few from Tulsa's hardcore band, N.O.T.A. I can't count how many times I saw these guys.
Real American punk:

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Then there is this guy! He kinda rocks!@!

http://www.myspace.com/crashpadband

 

[markb]

A few post-punk DIY ethic favourites from back in the day. I was packing the original 7" vinyl copies in boxes ready for moving earlier.

 

[deeaa]

Heh, here's possibly the best known local punk act:

http://shitterlimited.com/

 

[guitartango]

You may of heard of this band from a town called Woking in the UK

 

[Tig]

You may of heard of this band from a town called Woking in the UK

I was into The Jam back in those days. They had several well written songs. More mod than punk, but the spirit was there.

 

[Spudman]

I like Danko Jones a lot for that punk feel thing.

 

[deeaa]

I dig Danko a lot indeed, seen them live too twice, and yeah, maybe there's a punk vibe there somewhere.

When I really think of it, all the bands I like the best have a certain punk vibe at least hidden somewhere in there...or, maybe it's better to say I seldom like bands that lack the punk vibe entirely there has to be some punk in everything!

 

[R_of_G]

The Thermals

@SVL you ought to like them on geography alone. They're from Portland.

Their first three releases are all awesome. The last two, not so much.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Took me all of 3 or 4 chords to like that Thermals number. Thanks!

Not sure, but think this is lesser known. I am trying to learn it well enough to record and post. See weekend thread for update details.

 

[R_of_G]

Figured you'd dig that.

This is one of my favorite punk bands, the Devil Dogs.
The song is a cover of a Dictators' song that shouldn't be be probably is also "lesser known."
Here are both versions...

 

[NWBasser]

Hmmm, does Rancid qualify as "lesser-known"?

I love Matt Freeman's bass playing.

 

[guitartango]

From the Late 70's the Mooddogs were a Irish new wave band with their own British TV show