Thread: Second Best SoCal Punk Band Ever?

Face to Face has been rocking me extra hard lately

"never going to see what you like
You're never going to wake up and change your mind
You're never going to keep what you hold
You won't accomplish anything on your own

You can't have what you wanted
So make up your mind and come to your senses

You'll never win if you don't bend
It's not so complicated
If you decide to change your mind
You'll find your inundated

You're never going to do what you say
You'll always try to make up another way
You're never going to act on your own
You're never going to see that you're all alone

And so you're here and you don't know
If you can choose the way to go
It's not about the way it is
So don't become a realist
You've got time to make a choice
Don't think aloud but have a voice
And when you think the time is right
Don't ever be afraid to fight"

OK I will bite who is the first?
NOFX?
Bad Religion?
Social D?
oh shit,
Black Flag, sorry.

What is that, the Repo Man soundtrack?

no my list of best punk shows I saw while living in SoCal, followed by the one band I was never able to see, but wanted to.

Honest answer for Woodsy: Social D is my favorite socal punk band. I'm not even sure what "best band means". Social D and Face to Face manage to exposure the vunerabilities and insecurites in life that really speak to me.

you listen to hot water music dont you?
if not you should.
good points but black flag was , well black flag.
and if you ever got a chance to see Bad Religion I hope you did.

[QUOTE=Woodsy]you listen to hot water music dont you?
[QUOTE]

HWM is my favorite band EVAR! Their new stuff doesn't vibe with me the way their older stuff does (i.e. Counting the Rhythms, Fuel for the Hate Game, Forever and Counting)...but they put on such an intense live show. Love these guys.

[QUOTE=Tyrone Shoelaces][QUOTE=Woodsy]you listen to hot water music dont you?

HWM is my favorite band EVAR! Their new stuff doesn't vibe with me the way their older stuff does (i.e. Counting the Rhythms, Fuel for the Hate Game, Forever and Counting)...but they put on such an intense live show. Love these guys.

Live at the Hardback lives in my car CD wallet.
Turnstile onnit rools
saw em @ DV8 hear a few years ago.
good show but I felt really really old

Black Flag or Social D = tie for #1, beotches.

how'd we get this far into a discussion of so-cal punk bands without anyone mentioning X?

Originally Posted by fez

how'd we get this far into a discussion of so-cal punk bands without anyone mentioning X?

that's a good band there, X.

not sure I'd call them "punk" exactly. Same with Social D.


True socal punk I'll take black flag and (you don't know them) the angry samoans

ballsy the angry samoans, good call Ice.

Originally Posted by Woodsy

Live at the Hardback lives in my car CD wallet.
Turnstile onnit rools
saw em @ DV8 hear a few years ago.
good show but I felt really really old

oh yeah Live at the Hardback is great. Their cover of Leatherface's Springtime on that disc rules. Was fortunate enough to catch both Leatherface and HWM in Lancaster, PA a couple of years back. Stubbsy and Chuck sang it together while HWM rocked it out. Ahhh...good times, good times.

FYI -- Leatherface version of Springtime .mp3 available here, takes about 5 secods to register through yahoo groups:
http://x1984x.com/shipyards/discog/

Springtime

There's a little bit of springtime in the back of my mind
Remembers when there was a time when we danced
And we laughed spent some time drinking wine
And somewhere in there there's a little child without a thought
Without a doubt that every cloud is silver lined
He is warm and everything is new and everything is clean
And everything is free and there were still so many things to see
So many things so many things left to be very small drop in the
Middle of the big sea of high and mighty things
Your fascination for larger than life your brand new appetite
As though we'd invented it and we danced
There's a little bit of springtime in the back of my mind
Remembers things perhaps as they should have been
Rather than the lies rather that the cruelty
That sometimes we were guilty of as everybody knows
We were only young and really couldn't have known
We were very young and though it's nice to know there's a place to go
There's still so many things left to see
Little drop in the middle of the big sea of high and mighty things
Your fascination for larger than life your brand new appetite
And there's springtime in my mind and I'd rather be alive
As though we'd invented it and we danced
It could have been the longest time and I'll remember it
You don't know what's in store when we laugh

A few others:

The Germs
The Minutemen / Firehose
The Dream Syndicate
Circle Jerks

Other favorites: Universal Congress of, Red Temple Spirits, The Creamers, Sasquatch, Crimony (sp?), Sandy Duncan's Eye, Babalonian Tiles, Paper Bag, The Ugly Janitors of America


Not SoCal, but best show ever: Mission of Burma at Florentine Gardens back in, like, 81 or so.

Let's clarify the Flag:

Black Flag through "Damaged", plus the songs "My War", "Can't Decide", "Slip It In", and "Black Coffee".

Late Black Flag was a bag of ass.

"I'm crazy,
I'm hurt"

Originally Posted by Spats

Late Black Flag was a bag of ass.

Bag of Ass....also another good punk band.

Blink182 anyone?

Originally Posted by FNG

Blink182 anyone?

Ooohhh my goood gooolllllyyy gosh I loooooove like BLink 182 like totally soooo much I wanna marry him hes so like hot and like so cool and like hes not dirty like the punks and like oooooohhhhh my god.

Originally Posted by Woodsy

Live at the Hardback

i think i just cried a little.

Originally Posted by tuffy109

i think i just cried a little.

stop oppressing me![

you're the one using big letters.

it was a sentimental cry, not b/c i feel sad for you. well, not that i really ever liked hwm, but that's another story. the hardback's the first bar i ever played in.

X and Minutemen
And if you say they aren't really punk it is because they were punk before punk was a musical formula that defined all those who didn't use it as "not punk enough."
Circle Jerks honorable mention - automatic 100 points for the cover of "Golden Shower of Hits", then one of the punkest names ever after Dead Kennedys

the face to face live album is the shiz to the nit. Walk the walk is probably one of my favorite songs ever.

Originally Posted by tuffy109

the hardback's the first bar i ever played in.

I was only in G-town once, and only went to the Hardback once.

Playing that night: Green Day.

Shit, you were probably *at* that show.

Originally Posted by Spats

Let's clarify the Flag:

Black Flag through "Damaged", plus the songs "My War", "Can't Decide", "Slip It In", and "Black Coffee".

Late Black Flag was a bag of ass.

"I'm crazy,
I'm hurt"

That is pretty funny.

Anyway, who the fuck cares about SoCal punk, lets talk about Florida…
Assuck, it the best *BAND EVER* from the Land of Stolen Votes.