Mark Ronson.

he's working at Jumbo Records on the 3rd

Alkaline Trio, Taking Back Sunday & Kids in Glass Houses.

Enter Shikari.

Two Door Cinema Club this morning, quality album!

The Specials first album is one of the best ever man. Listening to a lot of old punk and ska recently. It's been a while.

I've gone all folk since the last page ...

Not Mumford & Sons I hope Jerry?

never been out of punk. i remember 1977 well as i got suspended from school for having a blue and yellow mohican

That's ace! What was society's perception of punks at that time?

They were detested. I think people were scared. Everything was bland disco or stuff with 10 minute keyboard solos and then bang! In came 3 minute rock and roll songs.

No it wasn't that's a complete myth created by the punks and supported by the media. 77 was a great year for music AC/DC let there be rock came out in 77, 30 mins of pure rock n roll that left anything the punks could come up with bleeding in the gutter. Iron maiden was around but refused a record deal because they wanted them to cut theirs hair and look punk. Judas Priest and Motörhead where leading the charge for fast based british metal. Not forgetting the biggist band in the world by some way was led zeppelin. Punk was just a fad, with the execution of 2 or 3 bands

It was a fad over quickly but it's influence was huge from new wave, new romantic to today. Bands like oasis and razorlight credit punk as having a huge influence on them.
I love ac/dc but they are, and were, mainly an album/touring band. Iron maiden iirc became big about 1980, after punk had gone.

Punk wasn't a fad!

Nah, their "unique" sound isn't quite so unique when you've heard the same track ten times on one album.

Eddi Reader for one - have a listen to her "Love is the way" album when you are in a good, but very chilled out mood.

Punk & heavy metal = money for old rope, turn the amps up to 11 to disguise the lack of musicianship and songwriting ability.

Peace and Love man, and cake.

Try


Attic Lights
Band of Skulls
Band of Horses
Beach House
Best Coast
British Sea Power
Catherine Wheel
Colorama
Cooper Temple Clause
Cosmic Rough Riders
Death Cab For Cutie
Decemberists
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Duke Spirit
Eskimo Joe
Evermore
Field Music
The Fireman ( guess who it is using a pseudonym )
Flaming Lips
Frank Turner
Fresh and Onlys
Goldspot
Grant Lee Buffalo
Grim Northern Social

Etc etc...... I could go on... All brilliant. Love my indie music

you only like bands up to letter 'G'?

Either that or I could not be bothered going further through my iPod....which is the good old fashioned one with 160 Gb. Now full with 30,000 songs

Throw in Oasis and their ilk and that's an apt characterisation of musical taste for the average RLFans user, who typically stopped listening to new music sometime in their 20s.

Except that those bands that were mentioned were around when I was in my 20s, there isn't much that is new anymore.

Except some of the best musicians of all time play metal, which cannot be said about punk, bar 2-3 exceptions.

Ps I love punk the clash started out punk and are one of my fav bands & some of my other favs are punk influenced and some of my fav all time songs are punk.
But it was a fad.

Frank Turner is the mutts nuts.

Punk 4 Life!

Some good stuff on there, check out Swedish indie posters, The sounds. Great band