Question: Official Music League Thread

baimun said:
The best part of (and honestly the main reason I wanted to participate in) this league is digging for music I haven't heard in a while, or bands that maybe I haven't fully explored their catalogue.....


Fooook I'm having a good time with some of the stuff that I've uncovered whether it was applicable to the week or not!.....

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Blondie has such a great catalogue. They were enormous in the UK, they had #1 hit singles in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. Pretty incredible run.
 
Basically - if you (back in the day) heard a punk band on the radio, and it was not a small locally run station, they were no longer punk. That genre split into so many subcategories....
 
smurfco said:
Now I'm woried that my selection is not punk enough in sound.
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I went with something that is less traditionally sounding punk, but still punk, from a band that is traditionally a punk band.

If y’all evaluate the song on its merits rather than argue its punkishness in whatever your own context is, I might not totally suck in this round.
 
baimun said:
The best part of (and honestly the main reason I wanted to participate in) this league is digging for music I haven't heard in a while, or bands that maybe I haven't fully explored their catalogue.....


Fooook I'm having a good time with some of the stuff that I've uncovered whether it was applicable to the week or not!.....
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..and ‘local’ reduces the race/fight to post the obvious choices.
 
Someone's just put The Pistols on my local's jukey :grin:

I considered going for a bit of Orange Juice or Franz Ferdinand for the uber local element but fuck that, punk needs to be loud and I'm gigging a stone's throw from my pick's town tomorrow night and will be on the hot tub wine by 2am so I'm calling that local enough.

I mentioned the league / this round to a pal in work today who is very much of that time and movement. He started rattling off a bunch of Edinburgh punk bands (he's from there) but I mentioned it had to be local.

He rattled off some arty farty Glasgow bands which I argued weren't punk.

Turns out he said that Glasgow venues banned proper loud oi oi punk bands which explains why we had so many said arty farty bands in the 80s compared to the rest of Scotland.

Even in the mid 90s when I was getting into music the stuff coming out of Edinburgh was raw and loud while Glasgow was jangly and mod inspired.
 
jbj said:
...he said that Glasgow venues banned proper loud oi oi punk bands ....
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I know of the disambiguous use of "Oi!" as a chant or used in a punk song, but this 'merican has never used it the way listed above.

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Well now that will definitely be in my vocab, especially when talking about Scottish punk. "How's their Oi Oi game?" :baimun:

 
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There was a brief period in the middle of my hair metal days, where I was playing parties with some other dudes from college, and we each liked different music.... and the more I think about it, we were technically a punk band.

I mean, we would start with Ain't talkin' Bout Love from Van Halen.... but the "singing" was usually one of us randomly shouting the lyrics in the general vicinity of the mic stand... then mash our way through the song... then move on to The Police or Rush or our "party rock version" of a Beatles tune.... where every song was played too fast, with too much gain, didn't really know the lyrics that well.... but we shouted enough of the chorus that all the drunken party folk would dance the ever lovin shit out of every song. This was around the era of Blister in the Sun and then Daaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy.... aaaafter daaaaaayyyyy..... I willlll waaaaaallllkkk... and I... will... play........ whycantigetjustonefuck.... whycantigetjustonefuck... guessitgotsomethintodowithluck... oh mama mama mama oh my muh...


Hope my bandmates are ready.... totally going to fucking throw that into our next show... :baimun:
 
Feel like we're gamifying our way into becoming a content farm for Spotify Inc.

Do we actually care about this music? Hmm, maybe. But more importantly there is a deadline and some nominal reward system.
 
Oh yeah..... I remember now why I used to only play my guitar with the cable going to the tuner on top of the marshall, then a short delay in the effects loop. One) So I could jump around like an idiot with the rest of the band and there was never any shit on the floor to trip on or break... and Two) The delay was actually partially broken. I had stomped on it, broke it, took it apart and "fixed" it. The on/off footswitch didn't work anymore so I replaced the switch with an AC toggle switch that left the delay on all the time... and I replace another broken part with one that was close, but the output was a little lower, and clipped a little.... so in the loop it actually made the amp sound better at decent (ie: gig) volumes.... I just ran my finger under all the knobs to peg most of them at 10, twiddled a few, then just squinted at the 4x12 when it was the right volume.

Also, we didn't have a PA, so that was all the guitar sound, and the vocal mics ran through the aux in on the Bass cab (a 6x10). :helper:
 
Bones McHorror said:
Feel like we're gamifying our way into becoming a content farm for Spotify Inc…..
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If that’s the case, then I suggest we start a SECOND League… called “Music Against Humanity” and each theme hs to be something banal or innocent….

… and then we have to find the worst, sickest, most twisted, and funniest song answers.

Like “Girlfriend meeting Mom for the first time”

A few songs on the playlist….

Winger - She’s only 17

Prince - Pussy Control

Kix - I got the Itch.

@smurfco probably would agree with me. :helper:
 
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Gaaah... I wish I had more votes to spread around!... Probably my second favorite playlist since the colours one. Great songs everyone!!! :baimun:
 
I think we all know what's gonna end up with the most points on this one.
Someone had the trump card and played it. As well they should. It's deserving.
 
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