Progressive Punk Rock!

[Ein]

List some bands you know of. Here's what I got:

Propagandhi
Strike Anywhere
Rancid (on social issues)
Five Iron Frenzy
edit: NOFX! HOW COULD I FORGET.
FUGAZI (going with the posts)
Oi Polloi
Christ on a Crutch
Bad Religion
Crass
Anti-Flag
Discharge
Dead Kennedys
Jello Biafra
Lard
Social Distortion
The Pop Group
Crucifux
Stiff Little Fingers
Gang of Four
G.G. Allin (if that guy wasnt a liberal, I don't know what is)

I know there are many, many, many more. Fill me in guys.

[Tom Kitten]

1. Progressive music or progressive politics?

Either way, I always liked The Fall...

[Ein]

3. LOL, they are seperate

Progressive music cannot coincide with Punk music at all. Progressive music is too intricate to play at the speeds bands link NOFX played.

Although, I don't doubt Mike Portney could play his drum parts for Dream Theatre that fast, the guy is amazin.

Besides, I did mean Progressive in the political sense, forgot about that.

[Tom Kitten]

4. Consolidated ok, then?

ex-roomie of mine was in the band....remember "Typical Men Think With Their Dick"?

Ok, more hip-hop than punk, but they went more guitar later on, and lost their audience...

[Ein]

5. what year was it?

I'm extremely interesting in the blending of hip-hop and any type of music. Limp Bizkit was dubbed the originators of that stuff, but if you look back a band called Orange 9mm was doing it in the early 90's (and it sounded good too, lol, but rap was also better back then as well).

[Tom Kitten]

12. Early 90s....

Their prime...they did some great stuff, about as left as can be, they used to have an open mike at the end of their shows and recorded snippets for excerpts on their following cds...I remember something like "Meat is good, and if you don't like meat then get out of America"....also..."I don't care what you say...You're going to Hell...I'm not!"....these were just audience reactions...

[Fixated]

6. um...

Ever hear NOFX's 18 minute "The Decline"?

[Ein]

7. Yes

Fellow members, Club we've got ours.
I'd like to introduce your to our host.
He's got his, and I've got mine, meet the decline. (thats just from memory)

Great political messages. I forgot NOFX completely (thier new album was great), forgive me I will add them.

[Section_43]

2. FUGAZI

[Section_43]

21. and Minor Threat

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. Oi Polloi

See that whaling vessel sinking into brine?
Taken out by a limpet mine

See those trees standing so tall?
They've been spiked so they won't fall

See that excavator going up in smoke?
Sugar in the petrol tank - that's no joke

Ecosabotage in the dead of night
like mushrooms break through concrete in the moonlight

[UnAmericanJoe]

10. Well,

They've been running on fumes for years, but I was always partial to Bad Religion.

[newyawker99]

31. Hi UnAmercianJoe!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Clovis Sangrail]

9. Christ on a Crutch

It's your story
and I'm just the antithesis

It's your american dream
and here I sit in this fucking nightmare

- In on your joke

[Clovis Sangrail]

11. Crass

Conflict
Anti
Flux of Pink Indians
Naked Aggression
Christ on Parade
MDC
Chumbawamba (_early_ chumbawamba)
Subhumans
Citizen Fish
The Dicks

...mmmm don't really listen to punk much anymore, but they are all pretty political

[Tom Kitten]

15. Also Discharge...

Realeased several mighty singles...Also, I have a great single by a band called the Insane, "El Salvador"...

[leftist_rebel1569]

13. you forgot Anti-Flag!

[Ein]

16. Keystone light does things to the head!

I swear to got the band I omitted by idiocy I was thinking of when I wrote this post, thanks man.

[Section_43]

14. How about Dead Kennedys

[Ein]

17. I getting suicidal j/k

I only own Give me Convienence or Give me Death and Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetable. I was thinking of all these bands when I posted. Another act of involuntary omission, thanks.

[Tom Kitten]

18. obviously, my bad...

Classic example...how about the Crucifux? and to think I was going to mention Stiff Little Fingers and the Gang of Four!

How about the BeatNigs or Mecca Normal ?

[Tom Kitten]

20. For that matter, The Pop Group?

"We are all Prostitutes"...."everyone has his price"...something everybody could sing along to! Plus it's twenty years old!

[Blue_State_Elitist]

19. SOCIAL DISTORTION

At a social d show I went to last year someone was booing the lead singer mike ness for his bashing on bush. Mike Ness called the guy up to the stage and gave him the microphone. The guy said that if Mike talked bad about Bush again he would "light him up." Mike Ness proceeded to drop kick the guy from the stage and beat the shit out of him. The Orange County crowd went wild. Hell yes. Later another guy started booing and Mike threw 5 bucks at the guy and told the security guards to take the conservative idiot out but let him have the money for the 1/4 of the show he was to miss. Then Ness chucked the setlist off the stage and let in with a classic "Let's do this mother fucker."

[UnAmericanJoe]

22. Wow,

Sounds like it was a terrific show!

[dobak]

23. Dropkick Murphys

I'm not sure how progressive they are on social issues, but they are very pro-union.

They have covered a few Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger worker's songs

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Also:

-The Suicide Machines

-Internatonal Noise Conspiracy

[Ein]

25. DM has a song

where they recite liberal scumbag over and over, in a negative connotation, they are not liberal and best and anti-liberal at worst.

[DBoon]

24. Minutemen

n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

28. My daughter played on a bill with Mike Watt a couple of

months ago and said he was so friendly and cool. The show was in Lawrence, KS -- looked it up on her site. It was a treat for them to meet someone they'd admired for years.

[theemu]

29. Wait. Hold up.

I just looked up to see who performed in Lawrence, KS with Mike Watt on his most recent tour...

Is your daughter Amber Valentine from Jucifer?

Holy shit.

[DemBones DemBones]

30. Well. . .

Bingo! I'm Amber Valentine's mother, ask me anything! :7

But don't tell EVERYBODY, OK? If they read this thread, they'll find out.

Have you seen Jucifer live or just heard their albums?

[theemu]

36. I haven't seen them live

But I've definitely listened to their albums and like some of their music.

[mitchum]

39. That's so cool!

She and Ed are both incredibly sweet people. They were the first two people who said hello to me when I moved to this town last year.

[Ein]

26. HMM

my 'editing period' has ended, according to DU. I was hoping to compile a list for the public.

My general intent was to prove that punk is to the current, as jam bands and rock bands were to the 60's... guess its done

[goodhue]

27. The Strike

The Strike
http://www.artistdirect.com/showcase/rock/strike.html

[durutti]

32. G.G. Allin? No Way...

G.G. Allin was a misogynist. Rent the film Hated and you'll see what I mean.

[SweetZombieJesus]

34. Not to mention an idiot who along with Sid Vicious are the two worst punk

"icons" I've ever seen. If being a smacked-out moron is punk, count me out. I'd much rather look to Joey Ramone, Jello Biafra, Joe Strummer, John Doe, and Richard Hell as punk icons than two shit for brains no talents whose only power was being "shocking".

[dolo amber]

35. Yeah...

I saw Allin in Cincinnati years ago...at one point he flung the mikestand into the crowd, hitting my friend Dan in the face. Then he proceeded to taunt him because he was bleeding, stumbled around awhile, and fell off the stage. Too bad it was only inches from the ground. We left shortly thereafter, but friends told me that he later pulled down his pants and took a crap at the back of the stage. (Some say he did, some say he didn't, I'm glad I left regardless.) :eyes:

In the spirit of this thread, however, I would add the Circle Jerks if for no other song than "Killing for Jesus" which is to this day in my top 10 favourite punk songs ever. :D

[short bus president]

33. Operation Ivy!

punk/ska, but politically aware, either way.

[Squeech]

37. This Heat

Amazing band. That they did a song setting of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence is the least of their achievements. Only released two albums, unfortunately, plus a 12" single and I think a Peel Sessions.

[Syn_Dem]

38. Hmmm

Hardcore bands: Boy Sets Fire, some of Thursday's material for example "Autiobiography of a Nation"

Who could forget Anti-Flag (my personal favorite)
Agnostic Front
H20 to an extent
Pennywise
the former RATM
Reagan Youth
Dead Prez