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Blokman s my dad !
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20/10/2007
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If anyone's into punk and rock bands please comment 
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Doreen
hippies understudy
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 21:52
Could it be , Calling London, by the Clash?
Dordygail 
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Another
Traycle Mine Overseer
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Posted - 24/10/2007 : 08:48
The song most referred to In Wiki for having a subliminal message is "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zep - Satanic quotes from Aleister Crowley are in there. Nolic
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Bruff
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Posted - 24/10/2007 : 10:36
It will be O Superman by Laurie Anderson - 'Here come the planes. They are American Planes'
This song was written in response to the US's failed rescue attempt of its hostages held at the embassy in Tehran. Was it perhaps banned during the Falklands conflict? Several songs were at the time, including 'Shipbuilding', by Robert Wyatt, covered most famously by Elvis Costello.
Richard Broughton
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Zeke
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Posted - 24/10/2007 : 22:34
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Bruff wrote:
It's not so much punk per se that gets me all misty eyed, it's the explosion of what I think we term new wave bands that followed in it's wake from about '79 through to '83. At the time, the New Musical Express was full of adverts for compilation cassettes you could buy from bands in almost every town in the country, rejoicing in names such as Armpit Juice and Norman St John Stevas's Nipple, to name just two. Bands in Pendle grouped together and formed NELCOL, the North East Lancs Collective and put out stuff on the Snotty Snail record label. Most famous of these were The Not Sensibles from Burnley, who enjoyed momentary fame with 'I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher' and 'I am the Bishop'. The former had a photo of Thatcher on the record sleeve flashing a V-sign. I had a copy.
I had an enormous collection of these records from all over the country, which I used to order from Slater's record shop in Barlick - bands like The Fall (with the legendary Mark E Smith, and still going strong), The Cravats, The Nightingales, Ski Patrol, The Frantic Elevators (with Mick Hucknell on vocals), The Mekons, Gang of Four, John Cooper Clarke (Salford punk-poet, still going, who refuses to play Burnley - 'or anywhere else where they still point at aeroplanes, and Kung Fu phone boxes') and so on. Plus of course Skipton's own Muggins Blight, whose 'Mr Somebody' was one of Andy Peebles' records of the week. I ended up getting them nicked in Sheffield - today, they would be worth a fortune.
That time is all set out in a great book called 'Rip it Up' (from the Orange Juice song). In those days, you could sit on the dole, have enough money for fags, beer and food, and spend your time putting out music - and it's amazing when you look at the line ups of all these bands, how many went on to great things, or became producers, or other music/art industry types. Some of course vanished without trace. That all stopped during Thatcherism - sitting on the dole and putting out music, and I'm not sure it was a good thing necessarily.
Richard Broughton
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jill harwood
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Posted - 22/11/2008 : 22:53
Somewhere in a cupboard OH and I still have our collection of vinyl punk /new wave -(damned/clash/pistols/vibrators). I know this is an old,dead thread, but what the heck.
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IndustrialInspirations
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 16:48
We used to go to The Headbangers Ball when it was at Heywoord Civic Hall. Ah those were the days! :)
Edited by - IndustrialInspirations on 06/01/2011 16:50:38
Edited by - IndustrialInspirations on 06/01/2011 16:51:09
Phil and Nise
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Sunray10
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 18:39
I worked with a punk rocker in the early 1980s. He was ok and certainly no problem on that score. I used to play lots of punk rock when I ran my own mobile disco.
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poony
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Posted - 24/08/2011 : 10:41
Your own mobile disco? How would you describe it, do you mean a kind party bus?
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Sunray10
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Posted - 24/08/2011 : 18:19
No, my own mobile disco which was transported to various places in the north-west by my dad in our car. I did the dj stuff. I was resident up at Colne Rugby Club around 1980. They loved all that punk stuff. Clash, Crass, Pistols, oh and Bad Manners and Madness - though they were not really punk. Had some good times, but all things come to an end at some point.
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Posted - 03/09/2011 : 03:55
For me the best thing of the punk era was that other bands came on the scene as well, that were not punk. . Squeeze come to mind from that time, top band, great lyrics, superb musicians. I have seen lots of bands over the years,but nothing as good as Squeeze at the Vouge theatre in Vancouver, almost three hours of non stop music, the place was jumping and i had never seen anybody play bouncing keyboards before or since Paul Carrack was amazing that day
Still a fan of both Squeeze and Paul Carrack
Barlick Rog
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Posted - 03/09/2011 : 13:03
Very interesting thread.
Like most types of music, some Punk was good, and some was bad. I think the youth of the time wanted something different to what was available. The majority of music was either hippie/glam rock or soppy pop type music. This is explained in the documentry film, "The Filth and the Fury". Punk Rock exploded onto the scene the way it did because it was unwittingly helped by the media. First, the Sex Pistols swore on live TV, which was very shocking in 1976, (here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNOUz7uefA) and a short time later they released their record "God Save the Queen" to coencide with the Queen*s silver jubilee. This was promptly banned by the BBC and most TV and radio stations accross the UK, probarbly helping it reach No. Two in the UK charts.
I think Punk era was just a passing fad that fitted in with the times and no one took it very seriously, but some good tallents came out of it like The Clash and the Stranglers. For me it's good nostalgia and fun to listen to, but also an important part of British rock history.
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