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Methodist Church – The Girls
Pure Punk Picks Methodist Church – The Girls A couple of summers ago, I met singer/musician/songwriter Richie Parsons, a person you might know, especially if you grew up in the early Boston punk...
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Butcher Baby – The Plasmatics
Pure Punk Picks Butcher Baby – The Plasmatics “Butcher Baby” was the first song I ever heard by The Plasmatics, I heard it on college radio and it’s their best. And for those who don’t know- The...
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High School – The Mc5
Pure Punk Picks High School – The Mc5 I was never a big fan of The Mc5 (Motor City Five). But why we have to bring up my sexual prowess or lack there of at this time, is beyond my comprehension. I...
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Navvy – Pere Ubu
Pure Punk Picks Navvy – Pere Ubu It seems “experimental” became a music term in the sixties to describe music that “used unorthodox means or expanded beyond the accepted musical boundaries.”...
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Frenchette – David Johansen
Pure Punk Picks Frenchette – David Johansen This song is by the lead singer of The New York Dolls who were America’s finest glam/glitter band- bar none, in the early seventies. And they are also...
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Bored – Destroy All Monsters
Pure Punk Picks Bored – Destroy All Monsters “When I woke up this morning I was really bored. (2x) When I woke up this afternoon I was so bored. When I woke up in the evening I was really bored,...
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R.A.M.O.N.E.S. – Motorhead
Pure Punk Picks R.A.M.O.N.E.S. – Motorhead When I think of the best song written by a band about another band- in a tribute. Well, there is only one winner, rat stew dinner. And that’s the song...
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Better Off Dead – La Peste
Pure Punk Picks Better Off Dead – La Peste La Peste is French for “The Plague”, which is one of the books by the famous French writer Albert Camus. He was a pretty good writer but then, not as good...
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New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones – Fear
Pure Punk Picks New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones – Fear “New York’s alright if you wanna get pushed in front of the subway New York’s alright if you like tuberculosis New York’s alright if...
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Drunk In Babylon – The Saints
Pure Punk Picks Drunk In Babylon – The Saints Babylon, among the Rastafarians, is “a contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the...
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Warm Leatherette – The Normal
Pure Punk Picks Warm Leatherette – The Normal “See the breaking glass, in the underpass (2x) Hear the crushing steel, feel the steering wheel (2x) Warm Leatherette” Warm Leatherette released in 1978...
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Too Many Creeps – Bush Tetras
Pure Punk Picks Too Many Creeps – Bush Tetras There’s a young woman I have as a friend on my Facebook page, which is really just for bands and fans of the music scenes we cover. And though I haven’t...
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John, I’m Only Dancing – David Bowie
Pure Punk Picks John, I’m Only Dancing – David Bowie I remember ordering this single by mail in the seventies, not because of hearing it being played on the radio. As it wasn’t even released as a...
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Editions Of You – Roxy Music
Pure Punk Picks Editions Of You – Roxy Music I was an arty fellow when I was young. I guess I still am. Art and music were my teen obsessions, poetry and literature came later in my mid-twenties....
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This Is The Modern World – The Jam
Pure Punk Picks This Is The Modern World – The Jam I was never a huge fan of The Jam, though I’m fairly tall and hung like a mouse. And I’m probably still not a huge fan, though fairly mousy. But I...
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Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets – Alice Cooper Band
Pure Punk Picks Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets – Alice Cooper Band When I was a teenager there was a popular Friday night rock show on television called “In Concert” that came on at ten or eleven at night...
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It’s Too Late – Jim Carroll Band
Pure Punk Picks It’s Too Late – Jim Carroll Band “It’s too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate.” (Slaughtered by the Charles Manson clan, she was a Hollywood actress). “But it’s too soon to ask me...
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I Got A Right – Iggy & The Stooges
Pure Punk Picks I Got A Right – Iggy & The Stooges Two snare hits and then the avalanche, overload of guitars cascade in eventually, met with a high-pitched yelp like someone stepping on the...
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Spellbound – Siouxsie & The Banshees
Pure Punk Picks Spellbound – Siouxsie & The Banshees “You hear a laughter, cracking through the walls. It sends you spinning, you have no choice.” I’m wondering how many reading this might know...
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See Her Tonite – The Damned
Pure Punk Picks See Her Tonite – The Damned “She don’t fit in any so called scene. (That’s where all the people who became punks landed). She don’t like going where she’s already been. Afraid...
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