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Ok, the new school punk

19:15 / 13.02.03

I can't stop listening to these

Hot Water Music - Caution
Thursday - Full Collapse
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Strung Out - American Paradox
Boy Sets Fire - Live For Today
Rival Schools - United By Fate

and this one I can't pry out of the multi-disk tray and even the crow bar doesn't work:

Rise Afuckinggainst - The Unravelling

rizla mission

10:07 / 14.02.03

You should come and live in my house. Those are all my housemates favourite records at present, seriously..

I'm afraid I don't have much good to say about any of them though.. er.. Rival Schools were surprisingly good when I saw them play, but I can't see what the deal is with their recorded output.. um..

Locust No longer

19:21 / 24.02.03

I can't say I'm much of fan of any of those bands, none of them are at all punk in my estimation but you might want to check out some more underground stuff like Orchid, Yaphet Kotto, and Kill Sadie. They're more political, punk rock versions of the bands you mentioned.

I hope that didn't sound pretentious or elitist but it's hard to hear bands like Thursday and Sparta referred to as punk rock when they're way more regular rock and pseudo hardcore than anything. Hot Water Music and Boy Sets Fire did, however, come from the hardcore DIY punk scene.

Seth

19:57 / 24.02.03

Rival Schools remind me of the Stereophonics. A shame, considering the standard of the individual members.

I've said it elsewhere: the video for Baby I'm On Fire by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is the punkest thing I've seen in a long time. And by rights they should be old farts in career decline.

Most of my favourite new(ish) punk seems to be made by old farts, people in genres not usually associated with a *punk sound* and the Japanese. Always the Japanese...

05:41 / 25.02.03

Damn straight, Reflect, the Japanese can't seem to put a foot wrong when it comes to punk rock, whether it's straight pop/punk/rock'n'roll like Supersnazz or Banana Erectors, or rather off-the-wall stuff like Melt-Banana or Ex-Girl.

Zerone, I insist that you go and buy a record by Dillinger 4 at once.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

19:12 / 25.02.03

Bad Seeds and Melt Banana aside, I haven't heard of - let alone heard - any of the above mentioned bands before.

Lets face it, I'm old and out of touch.

The Falcon

03:38 / 26.02.03

There's a band called Yaphet Kotto?

Fantastic, G.

rizla mission

14:12 / 26.02.03

Basic -

I think it's safe to say that if you dig Melt-Banana but have never heard of Rival schools, you are magnificently *IN* touch..

Oh, and here are some bands of a vaguely similar nature to the ones listed at the start of this thread who I think are actually worth listening to:

The Icarus Line
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Your Enemies Friends
The Blood Brothers (tbc- i've only heard one track)
Part Chimp
3 Stages of Pain
Million Dead

Jack Denfeld

00:17 / 27.02.03

Those are all the bands the Hardcore kids listen to around here. Download some Hot Hot Heat. They're like Elvis Costello meet the Cure meet Jack Kirby.

04:16 / 27.02.03

Rizla- "The Blood Brothers (tbc- i've only heard one track)"

...then you've pretty much heard 'em all. Not that that's really that bad a thing.

Apparently they've recently signed to a major label. I really think someone's going to loos a lot of money there. I can't really imagine an abrasive hardcore band selling half a million copies of a record, or whatever amount it is that major label bands have to sell nowadays.

rizla mission

12:52 / 27.02.03

Well in a world where the 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster make the top 30, anything's possible..

(And I shall take this oppurtunity to say yet again that anybody with a vague interest in 'punk rock' should go and listen to Ikara Colt, Mclusky, 80s Matchbox.. etc. About the finest crop of noisy UK bands ever, IMHO).

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