So I found all these old cds of local bands from my hometown, and started really craving some new punk music to listen to.
I like stuff that:
-is loud
-is fast
-you can still understand [some of] the lyrics
-bonus points if there's a female singer or deuling male and female singers.
I don't like:
-grind/thrash/anything that seems like a close cousin to heavy metal.
-pop punk
So tell me what to listen to! I don't care if it's older or more recent.
When I think of female fronted punk bands I think of the first wave LA punk bands like the Bags and the Avengers. I think the Bags only put out a single and one compilation track, but that one single (Survive b/w Babylonia Gorgan) is SO FUCKIN good! Then Penetration, the Plasmatics (who are probably a bit close to the metal spectrum).... Have you heard This Is My Fist? Poppy punk, but in a smart, Dillinger Four (who you should also listen to if you haven't - even though none of 'em are lacking Y chromosomes) way. I just recently discovered a British Oi! "girl band" circa 1980 called the GymSlips. That must've been a pretty rough scene for an all female group to come up in... My brain is not working right now...
Right now I'm all about Fucked Up
Philidelphia band from the 80s. Not punk exactly but loud, fast and really weird. Male and female vox. There's a taster of them here:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/stickmen.html
Other than that I no longer know where to get MP3s online for this band. I probably got all my stuff from Post Punk Junk.
I just remembered a great german anarcho band called Lost World. They put out an awesome double seven inch called Capitalism Is A Disease and a really good debut full length that are fast loud and melodic, they really sound like no other punk band I've heard. Their second album is supposed to be gloomier and less good...
Hey, try the cd We Rebuilt This City by the band Closet Monster. There Awesomeness is so great that they could totally physically incapacitat a person with a couple power chords, a base riff and their lyrics...and it deserves its own capital letter and everything ^.^
Fucked Up, definitely.
The Measure (SA);
http://www.themeasuresa.com/
Though I'm biased because I've seen them 3 times and they quote me in their press section. Female and male-fronted sorta country-influenced punk.
Kind of poppy but not really, more akin to what you feel like listening to when you're pounding back shots of something ugly alone at a bar. Good stuff.
Spitboy? I never was too into them when they were around, but listening to them 10 years later, they were pretty fucking good.
The Gits were a great female fronted, beer soaked bluesy punk band from the Northwest.
If you like Naked Aggression, you might like the Voids from LA. And you might not like I Object from Buffalo, even though they're awesome.
off the top of my head:
circle jerks
youth of today
the abused
bad brains (first album's a must)
paint it black
tragedy
vitamin x
for more immediate satisfaction, go to http://www.7inchpunk.com/
A couple of my friends are friends with I Object and toured with them, but you're correct in assuming that I don't like their music.
i object are amazing people, but i agree, i simply cannot endorse their music. the lyrics however are great.
Speaking of The Gits, I've been meaning to ask:
I used to have this version of Another Shot of Whiskey which was a bit rowdier than the regular version and instead of saying "leave me well enough alone", she said "leave me well the fuck alone". I accidently deleted this off my computer and haven't been able to find it again.
Does anyone have it or know which album it's on (although it may be a live recording)?
It might just be mid-90s Chicago nostalgia, but I'd also recommend The Letterbombs. Probably tough to find, and maybe not really worth the effort, but sort of like The Bollweevils with a female singer. If I ever digitize my 7 inches I'll send you copies.
Thank for the tip to Pandagon.
I can't believe no ones listed them. Dueling male/female vocals, hard ass crust punk.
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Check out this band
awesome new band out of Fl.
or
I just put this list of good current punk (or close enough) bands on another thread here:
Wax Museums
Home Blitz
Black & Whites
Cheveu
Tyvek
Bassholes
Hibachi Stranglers
Frustration
The Black Lips
Human Eye
Black Time
Knaughty Knights
CPC Gangbangs
Nothing People
The Hipshakes
Anteenagers MC
Jay Reatard
Evolutions
Fe Fi Fo Fums
Time Flys
VCR
The Wrists
Busy Signals
Spider
Volt
Terrible Twos
Blank Dogs
Nobunny
etc.
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