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Stiff Little Fingers –“Inflammable Material”
Stiff Little Fingers – “Inflammable Material” Some may pick The Undertones but for me there’s no other choice than Stiff Little Fingers as the best punk band to come out of Ireland. And this album,...
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No Peace For The Wicked – The Only Ones
Pure Punk Picks No Peace For The Wicked – The Only Ones “Why do I go through these deep emotional traumas?” This pleasant, pop song inquires. “Why can’t I be like I always wanted to be, carefree?...
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New Rose – The Damned
Pure Punk Picks New Rose – The Damned “Is she really going out with him?” Before the music starts this song so innocently asks. Some might know it as the title of a Joe Jackson song, that came out a...
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China Girl – Iggy Pop
Pure Punk Picks China Girl – Iggy Pop With so many truly, great, classic punk songs by Iggy I don’t blame you thinking, “Hey, Slimedog! Couldn’t you have come up with a better choice?” But I’m...
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“What’s Next To The Moon?”– AC/DC
Pure Punk Picks “What’s Next To The Moon?” – AC/DC About 39 years ago or so, Andy Bang and I were going to punk show. And Andy, being the technology person he was and is, could make cassette tapes...
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No Tears – Tuxedomoon
Pure Punk Picks No Tears – Tuxedomoon I’m a huge fan of what, I guess is called- “electro punk.” Which seems to me, using synthesizers and electronic elements within a punk rock song setting. Devo...
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Fear In The Western World – Ultravox
Pure Punk Picks Fear In The Western World – Ultravox “Someone told me Jesus was the devil’s lover, while we masturbated on the magazine cover.” Ultravox eventually became a lame, somewhat popular...
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Sex And Dying In High Society – X
Pure Punk Picks Sex And Dying In High Society – X “You started out this way. You’d do anything to stay.” The lyrics and tone are angry and accusing. Also, wild and wanton, true and passionate. And...
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Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell
Pure Punk Picks Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell Love, or rather, sexual ejaculation does come in spurts. Our sexual organs squirt out their secretion onto the waiting sexual organs, mouths or...
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You’re Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges
Pure Punk Picks You’re Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges I’ve seen a lot of talking in other music genres about what song “was the first?” Like the first rock’n’roll song is...
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Nervous Eaters –“Record Ten”
Nervous Eaters – “Record Ten” So the Nervous Eaters was the first punk band I ever saw back in 1977. They were opening up for The Cars, before that band had a record deal. At that time, The Rat...
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Death & Blood & Night (Yukio) – The Stranglers
Pure Punk Picks Death & Blood & Night (Yukio) – The Stranglers The great philosopher, Madonna, and I only say that half in jest, taught us. That for women to be free, they not only had to be...
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White Riot – The Clash
Pure Punk Picks White Riot – The Clash The first punk radio show in Boston was on 88.1 Cambridge- WMBR. It was on Saturday afternoon, I believe, four to eight pm. Coincidentally, roughly the same...
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Out In The Streets – The Shangri-La’s
Pure Punk Picks Out In The Streets – The Shangri-La’s If you ask me what the most underrated musical genre is? I would, unequivocally say- “Sixties Girls Groups.” There was a lot of early sixties...
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Rise Above – Black Flag
Pure Punk Picks Rise Above – Black Flag When I first met Andy Bang, we were both working in a mail room, late ’79, for a National show store’s headquarters, walking distance from where I now live. I...
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Non-Alignment Pact – Pere Ubu
Pure Punk Picks Non-Alignment Pact – Pere Ubu Pere Ubu is my favorite koo-koo band. I believe, Deborah Harry has a solo album named that. I haven’t heard it but I’m guessing it doesn’t have what I...
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Ace Of Spades – Motorhead
Pure Punk Picks Ace Of Spades – Motorhead Andy Bang and I were driving to a punk show in the early eighties as we did most every weekend for most of that decade. “Do you wanna hear Motorhead’s new...
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Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek I’m sure all of you reading this, by now, know that Ric Ocasek, of The Cars, died this week. And please check out what bostongroupienews.com wrote about him. I’m sure, you’ll agree with...
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Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric) – Red Noise
Pure Punk Picks Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric) – Red Noise Before punk music happened- sure, I was into what would become known as “proto-punk”, bands that led up to the formation of punk like Iggy...
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Ex-Lion Tamer – Wire
Pure Punk Picks Ex-Lion Tamer – Wire Wire is an early, English art/punk band that made some notoriety when releasing their first album in 1977, “Pink Flag”, because it contained twenty-one songs on...
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