There SEEMs to always be a CULT FOLLOWING amongst COLLEGE RADIO STATIONS with OLD PUNK.... Do you remember THE BUSH TETRAS TOO MANY CREEPS and JAPAN and X-Ray SPECS and THE PLASTICS, and BLOTTO....I WANNA BE A LIFEGUARD? In the 80's you could get these 7" vinyl's in NYC at 99 records and there also was a GROUP 999. Nowadays my local record store isn't even selling cd singles anymore. Remember PRINCE'S EARLY 7" and ya just WANTED to HEAR the B-SIDE so BAD and see the poster/calender stuff? How can ANYONE SELL THEIR COLLECTION?

All my punk and Prince is on vinyl and only Death will make me part with them!!!! It brings back a great time in my life hearing this stuff. I have lots of b-sde and obscure stuff.

Zelaira, I love your music threads, you've got good taste! When I read the names of the groups you listed, I immediately thought of this movie:



Great classic movie documenting the current Punk/New Wave scene at the time (1979/1980)

Devo,Klaus Nomi,the Go Gos,Gary Numan,999,Echo & the Bunnymen,Dead Kenedys, & the Cramps were just some of the groups in this movie.


Klaus Nomi


DEVO


Cramps

Probably because of legal issues with getting all the groups involved consenting to it's release, it probably won't be rereleased on DVD anytime soon .Bootleg copies will have to do.Another doc movie that's MIA is the L.A. Punk documentary, Decline of Western Civilization


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PhilG said:

i've heard so much about that movie...i wanna get my hands on it one of these days! and yes, old-school punk is a HUGE love of mine.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Supposedly coming soon to DVD, but I'm not sure when or the holdup .

http://www.declinemovies.com/

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i know i have this mouldering away on VHS in a box of junk somewhere. i used to watch this all the time. darby crash was a trip in it, talking about how he and his girlfriend beat up a housepainter because "we don't like painters".

and fear and early phranc and x and all kinds of good stuff...i'd love a copy on dvd!

Wall of Voodoo... Call of the Wild. great album!

god, what kind of punk stuff was i into in the '80s...DKs, definitely...ramones...dead milkmen, tragic mulatto, butthole surfers, a bit of crass...i liked the arty stuff, but i was more goth than punk at the time...kinda had my fingers in all the cool subcultures, though. i picked and choosed what i liked in music and styles and philosophies and scenes.

I saw both of those movies at THE WAVERLY In NYC. Great Movies. Also great were THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALLS and RUDE BOY by the CLASH. Waverly and BLEEKER Street Cinemas ALWAYS had ROCK N ROLL FILMS. Ever see Bowie's CHRISTIAN F? Anybody EVER SEEN GREAT ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE? 8th Street PLAYHOUSELSO had some AWESOME FILMS...They did like Festivals..So COOL..

Zelaira said:

i own christianne f. on dvd! i have it mainly for the scene where bowie is singing 'station to station' in that james dean costume...SO sexy. i saw the ziggy stardust concert movie at two boots cinema on avenue a, and i'm sure i've seen some other old punk movies at cinema village and the quad. i loved all those skanky little arthouse village movie theaters, i wish i could have packed them up and moved them to chicago with me...i have century landmark cinema and the music box here, but it's not quite the same. almost, but not quite.

Zelaira said:

Zelaira, have you seen Downtown 81? A little artfilm about the downtown/NY No Wave scene & it featured Mudd Club bands like DNA, the Plastics, Tuxedomoon, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, and James White & The Blacks.There's even a cameo with Debbie Harry as a fairy godmother! You can rent this at netflix like I did.
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Yeah, Bowie was AWESOME.... You sound like me Anx. I bought the book her in Florida at a used bookstore. Did you like THE REPLACEMENTS and FRANK BLACK? What HAPPENS to all theseGroups? Damn.... How about JOAN JETT and PIL with JOHN LYDON? How about XTC? XTC and Split Enz ROCKED.... Those Cinemas were great. I think it's sad that alot of them are gone.

Zelaira said:

I just don't wanna go..
Out in the streets -
No more!

Anxiety said:

Zelaira said:

I quite liked the "'Mats", the Pixies and Joan Jett. I actually got to go backstage on the Replacements last tour.

Ace said:

PhilG said:

i just saw this recently. it took a lot of patience to get through, but damn new york used to be hip, didn't it? and jean-michel was so pretty.

Anxiety said:

Seems to me that X never got their due. They were one of my favourite punk groups.

Ace said:

i like 'em. not a big fan of exene's singing, but john doe is pretty awesome. i got the X anthology over the summer, and the recent knitters CD. it was my intro to X...good stuff.

Anxiety said:

Yeah, the film was really much to do about nothing.Basquiat on the prowl looking for places to crash every night while checking out these groups.It was cool when they showed him creating his famous street art.Basquiat himself was in a group whose name escapes me.

Anxiety said:

He's a great singer. His first solo album (Meet John Doe) is punk in no way, shape or form, but has some things that I really like on it.

And I'm sure you know he is also an actor who appeared in the horrible Great Balls of Fire (among other things). Didn't he also duet with Sandra Bernhard in Without You, I'm Nothing?

THis is a cool thread. Takes me back to my G.B.H, Exploited, X-Ray specs, T.S.O.L days. Anybody remember the movie Suburbia?

Oh yeah, cant forget my Steve Stedham board!

stedhamedit
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Zelaira said:

for me, their last great moments were:
Cassette (or Album or Cd, depending on your preferred format)
This is what you want...
Happy( especially Fat chance Hotel)

I wish I could hang out here, but I'm too busy talking to Chico on the Five Star thread.

I wasn't so cool in the 80s.

Ace said:

oh yes! i'm very aware of his duet with sandra! i have that sucker on videotape somewhere in my apartment, probably right next to my copy of "decline of western civilization", ha. i love that scene - sandra plays a pretentious soho-ite who buys some potlatch at an auction to feel closer to the simple life. very funny stuff.

I'm more of a post-punk guy myself, but I love my fair share of oldschool punk as well. You're making me wanna dig some of it out.

A lot of this stuff I discovered after the fact throughout the 90s. Never saw any of them in their heyday.

DECLINE was great also PENELOPE SPERIS makes cool films..HEY how about SID AND NANCY? COURTNEY LOVE is in it...YA EVER READ NANCY SPUNGEN'S BOOK ...I DON"T WANNA LIVE THIS LIFE? TROUBLED. HEy PIL is AWESOME..I liked the FLOWERS OF ROMANCE and of course 1 and 2. Ya have to see POLICEMAN'S BALl 1 and 2. EXCELLENT..STING is GREAT....Did ya ever hear ANIMAL LIBERATION? Too bad JELLO BIAFRA is Not The lEAD singer of DEAD KENNEDY'S anymore. Did anybody like JOHNNY THUNDERS and DAVID JOHANSON? FUNKY,FUNKY BUT CHIC and THUNDERS CHINESE ROCK? EXCELLENT TUNES.....I CAN"T BELEIVE NOBODY MENTIONED PATTI SMITH! HORRORS..... JESUS DIED FOR SOMEBODY'S SINS BUT NOT MINE she says and BECAUSE THE NIGHT BELONGS TO LOVERS.....MISS SMITH RULES and how about JOE JACKSON? This album is SO OVERLOOKED ..BEAT CRAZY...LOOK SHARP is his MOST FAMOUS or NIGHT AND DAY...STEPPIN OUT.....
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Zelaira said:

And I must point-out that "Because the Night" was co-written by the guy below, on the right:

listen to music choice channel "retro"
and u will be in new wave/punk heaven