Our Band Could Be Your Life
 

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If you like music at all, you must read this book. Its fascinating reading the stories and histories of all of these bands and learning how these bands paved the way for bands today. I know a few people here like a few of these bands, and even if you dont like them, its just a really interesting read. I think people should know where the bands they listen to get their influences from.

The bands included in the book are:
Mission of Burma
The Minutemen
Black Flag
Husker Du
Minor Threat
The Replacements
Butthole Surfers
Sonic Youth
Big Black
Fugazi
Mudhoney
Beat Happening
Dinosaur Jr

lol i suck. i have only heard of butthole surfers.

those bands sucked

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I would have at least thought you guys knew who Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Dinosaur Jr were....

the only reason i know sonic youth is because they played with the Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, Pete Yorn, and others at Lollapalooza '96.

You guys have never heard of Black Flag?? eek:

they get mentioned in that atari's remake of boys of summer, only time Ive heard of them

Somewhere in Maine, Wintersforge just threw up in his mouth and he doesn't know why...

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by far one of the most influential bands of all time.

i don't even know wtf band it is. how is it influential? Not starting a fight, but do you mean most influential band of this genre?

its Black Flag. i mean most "loud rock" is influenced by Black Flag because they started the underground hardcore punk scene. after recording and touring continuously for 6 years, they had spread hardcore punk throughout the US and then broke up. but since then, numerous hardcore bands started, and then most of them broke into the mainstream. examples are Rise Against, Bleeding Through, Give Up The Ghost, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Hope Conspiracy, and so many more.

Here's the Rise Against cover of Black Flag- Nervous Breakdown.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZtLQ73EutoY

Here's the original of that song (with leet "Falling Down" footage): http://youtube.com/watch?v=LWQZjHsCzNo& ... ed&search=

i was just watching it. nervous breakdown is such a good song. thats early Black Flag, with Keith Morris (from the Circle Jerks), years before Henry Rollins joins the band.

Yeah. YouTube has a lot of cool vids with Rollins. He was such a fucking whackjob on stage..love it!

I read his entire tour journal, Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag, and he really goes insane in 1984-85. his entries are all long poetic mind boggling passages of people dying, sex, and strange shit. he was one weird guy, but he went through a lot while on tour. bands these days have it easy.

He had such a rep (I'm sure most of it was due to his look) for being a tough guy back in those days he used to have people picking fights with him while on stage. Pretty crazy. I'd say he could lay a beating on you if he wanted to, but he doesn't seem like the type of guy who instigates.

I saw Rollins a few years ago on one of his spoken word tours. Dude is so smart and funny.

he wouldnt instigate them, but there were a few times where he beat some faces into the ground. he broke his wrist on someones head a few times. after years of getting spit on by the crowd and getting piss poured on him and shit, he was fed up. in one journal entry of his, some guy poured a pitcher of beer on him while he was playing, so his friend made sure the guy stayed in the place. after the show, they brought him backstage and kicked his ass. pretty gnarly stuff.

he's a person i look up to, after all the shit he went through with Black Flag, he still continues to make music and try to make a difference with the war and everything. he's a very respectful and intelligent guy.

herny rollins black flag > keith morris black flag

thats debatable. there is much more recorded stuff with rollins, but the keith morris version of nervous breakdown is so much better. Ron Reyes was good too.

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DANGER!

The bands included in the book are:
Mission of Burma
The Minutemen
Black Flag
Husker Du
Minor Threat
The Replacements
Butthole Surfers
Sonic Youth
Big Black
Fugazi
Mudhoney
Beat Happening
Dinosaur Jr

The bands in bold are ones worth listening too.

Butthole Surfers are good

dude, minutemen, big black, butthole surfers. . rock:

don't forget Black flag, minor threat, and beat happening!!

im not really a fan of those bands, i can understand its probably influential music but just didnt like it perrsonally

Read that like it was on Lord of the Rings stoned and you'll laugh your ass off.

oOo:

all the bands on the list are awesome and worth listening to. Minutemen and Black Flag especially.

our band could be your life
real names be proof
me and mike watt played for years
punk rock changed our lives

we learned punk rock in hollywood
drove up from pedro
we were fucking corndogs
we'd go drink and pogo

mr. narrator
this is bob dylan to me
my story could be his songs
i'm his soldier child

our band is scientist rock
but i was e. bloom and richard hell,
joe strummer, and john doe
me and mike watt, playing guitar

still punk

...glad some of you fellas have discovered some real gems. growing up in that era was an amazing experience. DC in the 80s and 90s was one of the greatest places to be if you were into punk/hardcore...

huh?

Along with southern california, hell yea. DC had Minor Threat and Bad Brains though, which are 2 of my absolute favorite bands.