old school punk rock

[zoetrope]

I'll second Wire's "Pink Flag", early Replacements, and Minutemen. Also early Husker Du, like "Everything Falls Apart." What about Iggy Pop and the Stooges "Raw Power." Odd mix, great album.

[uqbar]

Midwest 80's punk / underground classics:
Naked Raygun - Jettison
Big Black - Atomizer
Negative approach - Tied Down
Necros - Conquest for Death
Goober and the Peas - Complete Works (Detroit cowpunk band- might be relevant)
Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty
Stooges - Funhouse


hope this helps...
mark

[vvv]

Eleventh Dream Day.

True Believers.

DB's.

Drivin' and Cryin'.

Blasters.

Dream Syndicate.

Rain Parade.

Let's Active (when will this be on CD?)

All of the above are more punky then country but still have that edge, and have a bit of psychadelia, also.

[wrenhunter]

My favorite to this day has got to be The Replacements landmark contribution to punk...."STINK".......great songs like "Kids Don't Follow"....."Dope Smokin' Moron"......"Lazy-White"...etc....

Might as well press on and get Let It Be also, to hear Sixteen Blue followed up with Answering Machine.

[danv1983]

oh, i know i haven't thought of any cool ny punk bands for you to hear yet,, when it comes to new york i'm much more into the experimental no wave and hip hop electro disco stuff that was going on at the time, maybe check out the misfits although they started out in new jersey. there was this french punk band named metal boys that friggin rock hard. I'm only listing stuff based on production values really, there is a lot of other goods out there where the recording proccess was largely a no brainer,, if you are going for a dirty diy sound ,, just use a 4 track fostex and some 57's and radio shack mics or something, and use like 3 mics on the whole drum kit,, let everything just blead into eachother. if you ask me,, my fav punk bands of all time are: the ex, flux of pink indians, lack of knowledge, the subhumans, the stranglers, nuerosis, left over crack, falling sickness, against all authority(first-album), catholic discipline, black flag, aus rotten, kill your idols, what happens next, doom, man is bastard, subincision, the unseen...and a whole heck of a lot more,, but hey guess thats another thread

cheers

[takeout]

Two words: "Bad" and "Brains". Essential. Makes me want to drive faster, put my fist through walls, holler, etc.

Anything up to (but not including) "Rise". Ignore everything after that.

[gravy boat]

Check out the Yahoos record "Fear not the Obvious" on Bloodshot.

One of my favorite albums ever made... it's a great 'rock and roll' album... but isn't really any kinda 'punk alt. country'... great album none the less!!!

Punk in the sense that it's not pro-tooled to death to fit into a radio station's "format". To me that's kinda punk rock these days. lol. And there are some twangy bits o guitar work sandwiched in with the rock.

[The Scum]

Punk in the sense that it's not pro-tooled to death to fit into a radio station's "format". To me that's kinda punk rock these days. lol. And there are some twangy bits o guitar work sandwiched in with the rock.

For some good twangy punk, definitely check out the Minutemen, as well as the Dead Milkmen. Both responsible for some good Telecaster work.

Byron Jacquot