#punk rock saves lives

[safety-pin-punk]

Punk 101: Volume 2

I put the covers together so that the ‘inside’ pages would line up. Music map will be released on its own after I get back from work today. 🧷🤘

Link to pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Lp-971nj5tHCXKYA0A5qL6bSzSgA-ni/view?usp=drivesdk

[the-cactusclique]

I went to Punk Island NYC today and wanted to show off my haul

[rgr-pop]

the other night i was showing him my old punk vest with the jokes i embroidered on it (IM BRINGING HER BACK FOR SPRING) and i was laughing so much at “punk rock drove me to the clinic” and i was like “im such a visionary…” and he made a crack about how i was egotistical. i was like ITS A JOKE?? ITS A JOKE??? I DO NOT THINK IM A PROPHET BECAUSE I THINK A JOKE I MADE 13 YEARS AGO IS FUNNY? HAVE YOU EVER MET A WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE? HOW MUCH HATE COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE IN YOUR HEART FOR THEM?? HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED ME TO HATE AND PUNISH MYSELF BEFORE YOU CAN FIND PEACE??? anyway i’m listening to the white stripes - ball and biscuit

[songshowdown]

Favorite FOB Song?

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) vs 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Sex Pistols –God Save the Queen

[oh2e]

Discovering little known, long broken up bands with one album who are solidly mediocre is a delight

[poprocklyrics]

We can live forever if you've got the time.

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back, My Chemical Romance

[princesserica84]

I’m With You

I recently had a really interesting conversation with someone about the lyrics of Avril Lavigne's "I'm With you". This song can mean many different things to different people, but I'm going to tell you what it means to me and why I instantly started crying when I saw her perform it live. I'm standing on a bridge I'm waitin' in the dark I thought that you'd be here by now There's nothing but the rain No footsteps on the ground I'm listening but there's no sound

Isn't anyone tryin' to find me? Won't somebody come take me home? It's a damn cold night Trying to figure out this life Won't you take me by the hand? Take me somewhere new I don't know who you are But I, I'm with you I'm with you

I'm looking for a place I'm searching for a face Is anybody here I know 'Cause nothing's going right And everything's a mess And no one likes to be alone As a teenager, I always felt this song was about someone who was thinking about jumping off a bridge and they are begging for someone, anyone to come stop them, but no one is there. As a bullied teenage girl with few friends and no self esteem, this song made me feel like I wasn’t alone. It stopped me from jumping off the bridge. 

When I heard Avril start singing it live, it was cathartic and peaceful. The whole audience was singing it back to her. It was amazing. I cried for that insecure teenage girl, because she’s not alone anymore, and she saved herself. 

[theindyreview]

Live Report: Goldfinger, Save Ferris, Unwritten Law at The Wiltern (July 19, 2024)

Live Report: @GoldfingerMusic @SaveFerris_1 @Unwritten_Law #Urethane at @Wiltern (7/19/24) An evening of pure energy and entertainment from some 90's greats still going strong @BigNoise @JohnFeldy @nickgross @earshotmedia @AvrilLavigne #livemusic #ska

Last Friday night at Los Angeles’ The Wiltern was the place to be for any fans of 90’s ska and pop-punk, but even better, it appeared to be a wonderful family-night-out as many old school fans of Goldfinger, Save Ferris and Unwritten Law came and brought their kids with them. And the kids all seemed to be having a blast. I have seen all three of the main bands before, so arrived with a decent…

[harmcityherald]

My Artemisia

[aprilthemonth11]

I have a weird relationship with rock music because of my dad but I’ve been recently inspired to listen to it again and I just love it

[apocalypta-secundus]

(A cute lil Picrew) Under a cut because it's like 4 characters, and apparently you can't do multiple hair colors. So Akina gets to suffer without dye.

[rokanroller]

Generation Sex - God Save The Queen (Glastonbury 2023)

[songshowdown]

Favorite FOB Song?

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) vs 27

[misscinnamonroll16]

I briefly, in my own brain, had an au of basically the second and third movie combined. Except it's John Dory. And he's been living as a rock troll a good chunk of those years. He's worked his way up the ranks and now is one of Barb's right hand trolls. The bros come to "save him" but he's really not in trouble. Unless they find out he was born pop (going off the basis that Brozone is rock and pop). He is kind of running a school to teach how to be punk rock and just looks super edgy which is jarring to the other brothers because JD looks angry and a little sad. Briefly got this thought while listening to 'Punk Rock 101' by Bowling for Soup

Imagine for reference on he kinda looks in my brain (not mine)

[zivazivc]

What kind of nu metal music fits Les's band?

First of all I gotta clarify that I sent this ask myself because I accidentally lost the original through constant editing and drafting. I realize I could just make a regular text post but I'm quirky like that, and a question is a nice little attention grabber for those who are interested.

Anyway...

It's hard to point at one song and say this is their sound, because A: I'm picky, B: the band's style changes over time, and C: I don't know what I'm doing lmao

This answer is very long uhh I don't seem to be able to form short responses, mi scusi 😅

Back at home the brothers' music and then also the first year on the road with Flea the band sounds like the albums Music and especially Grassroots by 311. (Grassroots is such a banger of an album, I listen to it all the time, really recommend.)

Hed's the main influence on the band's sound because he's the main vocalist, songwriter and overall the most invested in the band succeeding (Les's main concern is making ends meet, and Flea is just enjoying the ride lol). At the start Hed and Les have had basically no contact with Rock Trolls so even though they're both more metal/punk than regular rock, their "rock side" is softer at this point. Hed also grew up with hip hop because of his peers so there's a lot of rapping in his lyrics. And he also incorporates reggae into his style a lot because of his favorite uncle, Kymani (one of the guys who live with Ish) who is a Reggae Troll. Hed is pretty much a sponge when it comes to music, much like Floyd. The closest I can come to describing his genre is a fusion of Rap Metal and Reggae Rock which are both already fusion genres jskksdjsk

(The band 311 has two singers and oddly they both sound like Hed and Les to me. SA Martinez (the higher of the two voices) sounds 100%, exactly like how I've imagined Hed's voice in my head. For Les I have a different voice claim because Les's personal style of music is much different from the band, but Nick Hexum (the lead vocalist here) is still in the second place when it comes to voice alone. Imagine my enthusiastic surprise finding voices for both brothers in the same band 😄)

examples from the two albums:

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While driving around and performing small gigs they come in contact with the alternative and nu metal scene and meet a lot of Rock Trolls (mostly various Metal Trolls) and other mixed trolls, and in the following couple of years their sound gradually becomes heavier (Hed rediscovers screamo lol) and they go from rock to metal.

A year into their "touring" is also around the time Hed meets and starts dating Liv and gets her to join the band. Liv's genre has the heaviest sound of all of them (Industrial/EBM), which influences Hed and the band too. And with Liv on the drums, Hed takes over DJ-ing and is also able to put more focus on the vocals, which also makes Les step down and only sing backing vocals with the rest of the band if needed.

The band in this era sounds like the album Revolution by Insolence and to some degree Introduction to Mayhem by Primer 55.

examples from the albums:

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Two years into the bands existence is when Floyd runs into them. At first he's more just standing there, observing their practices and performances warily, because he's had bad experiences with Rock Trolls in his one year alone and metal music still kinda freaks him out at this point. But he soon starts joining in in melodic parts and then it progresses into him singing longer and longer segments because he has the strongest vocals of everyone. And once he saves enough of his earnings for a guitar he starts playing the rhythm guitar too. (The guitar he took with him when he left the Troll Tree got stolen before he met the band.)

I guess I should clarify: Flea is the lead guitarist, Les is the bassist, and Liv and Hed switch on the drums and DJ-ing depending on the track. At one point they also get a keyboard.

It's also not that long before Hed and Floyd start actively writing songs together, sharing each others notes, and they start to split the singing parts more evenly. Hed even teaches Floyd screamo techniques, because he thinks Floyd has a great voice for them (He is correct, Floyd has a mean scream 😁).

During this time the band still pretty much sounds like Revolution by Insolence but with more melodic singing parts from Floyd (and screaming/shouting lmao). I think Verge of Umbra is another good band to compare, it sounds more clean and Floydy but still Hedy. (Man, I should write scientific research papers skjdkjf)

↑↑↑ song with the lyrics from the drawing at the top

From here on out I'm a bit unsure how the band's sound develops, but I'm pretty sure Floyd would unintentionally infect them with a mild case of radio friendliness (Pop trolls can't help their in your face nature lmao 😞). So for now I'm stopping here...

This took me days of searching and writing so I would appreciate to hear any thoughts you have if you've come this far and given some of the songs a listen. :)