I can remember the exact moment that I bought these on cassette tape in the late 80s. This was the foundation of my lifelong love with punk music, my Mt. Rushmore if you will. Feeling nostalgic, so I'm posting this for you all to read.

Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality: Paid $7.99 using saved lunch money at the age of 14. Bought it because the cover looked ominous. Asked my dad to let me run into the record store on our way home from helping someone move some furniture. Went home and put it on and didn't know what to think of it. A week later it was the soundtrack to the rest of my life.

Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death: Bought at the same store as The Misfits about a month later. Recognized the DK logo from the back of Thrasher Magazine so bought it on a whim. Instantly blown away. Was this psychotic surf music? Jello's voice was so unique and it's still one of my favorite records ever.

D.R.I. - Dealing With It: I already liked some metal by the time I bought my first punk record. When I heard D.R.I.'s Crossover album, it was cool but I didn't love it. Then I bought Dealing With It and was drawn to how it blended those same influences in a cohesive way that was fast and fun. It captured the suburban teenager experience more than my other favorites.

Black Flag - Who's Got The 10 1/2?: My friend told me to buy this one if I wanted to get into Black Flag. And I really wanted to get to know them because that logo was everywhere. I still recommend this as an intro to the band this day. The record is energetic, well-produced, and features some of their best songs in my opinion. And it showed to me that punk can carry a serious message and still be a lot of fun.

So I'm an old guy now, but instead of buying a Ferrari I purchased a boombox and these 4 albums on CD. And I blast them constantly now. Because no matter what I drive or do for a living or what any of those other social markers try to define me as, I'm still a punk rock kid at heart.

Thanks for reading this.

Allowing your “art” or any other output to be used to facilitate war crimes is a political act, sir.

https://youtu.be/k-QsFMIoPa8?is=PGPHBl1yBdIvzxW9

11/14 I will be celebrating my bicentennial in the bar. come by and say hi. I will wearing the kilt with the Mohawk.

12/4 and 12/5

does anyone know if this image is from the band themselves or the venue??? either way very disappointing

Hits way harder than it did back-in-the-day!

I used to be like those kids out there. Moshing and stage diving, and living reckless.

I only just turned 30 like 3 weeks ago and it was like a switch getting flipped. Went to a show, tried to mosh, couldn't keep up and got winded. The drinks upset my stomach, now my back hurts so bad this morning.

What have I become?

Older punks who are still at it, how do you keep the dream alive?

We just put out the first single off the new record and this is the first video off it, just wanted to see what people thought

CRASS - Ten Notes On A Summers Day - their farewell album in 1986 saw the farm sold to Gillette & Max Factor for dog rescue money @ Stonehenge Festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SglAXyOrSrE

This is a cassette bootleg recording of a live Chumbawamba performance from May 30th, 1985 at the Library Theatre in Luton.

The challenge with this one is that it really sounds like a lo-fi cassette bootleg that has been kicking around since the 1980s. That one quibble aside, this is Chumbawamba at their most ferocious and passionate. People who enjoy the Revolution EP and the Pictures of Starving Children LP will find a lot to dig into here, as many of the songs are embryonic forms of things that end up on those records. The band's anti-racist, feminist, and anti-capitalist ethos is all on full display, but it is also joyous in a way that is hard to fully capture in words. For my money, Chumbawamba were the best band in the world on the night that this was recorded.

Pinhead Gunpowder full set at Irving Plaza in New York. Playlist with a bunch of the songs as individual videos is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMLPRY_SIXEw

This was just released, and I figured many a few of you would like to take a listen 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sean Sellers from Good Riddance/Pulley on the kit, mixed/mastered at Blasting Room

I've traditionally never been an AF fan. Never liked that style of "tough-guy hardcore", and liked that style's fan base even less. Maybe they were even more of a metal/crossover band then hardcore?

But really only recently did I discover that "United Blood" and "Victim in Pain" are two of the greatest hardcore records ever recorded. Holy shit those records rip...

So, I've seen they've been touring lately. Touring small venues even. Touring with hardcore bands that I like and respect. This seems to suggest that perhaps they are taking a "back to their roots" angle and are worth seeing? Perhaps not. Anyone see them lately and can report back? Extra points if you don't care about anything post-84 like me.

all over the place hardcore punk this rules! super underrated

Ramones style misfits esque uk punk for anyone who wants to listen

so i collect cds and thus get gifted them a lot. recently i was gifted a pristine copy of live at starwood by the germs (with the posters and everything) and cant figure out whether to keep everything in its condition or hang the posters up. also wanna keep the cd in my car so i can listen to it but im paranoid about it being stolen. yall have any advice?