Original Punk-ster

steven — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Lately my music tastes have been going crazy. Today I had the random urge to obsess over The Distillers. So I decided to write this post.

Back in the day…like 1998 when I first started to listen to music, I liked to tell people I liked punk music. What did my punk music consist of?

Over the course of grade 3-6 the following bands cycled through my ‘punk-loving’ musical mind.

Blink 182 became my favourite band for the longest time.

I was a fan of older Green Day…until American idiot

Simple Plan was cool until all the 10 year old girls liked them…and I was 13.

Of course there were a few more bands but this is what I referred to as punk music. As I got older, so did my musical taste…sort of. I tried on some more classic punk music like these.

Pre Sing The Sorrow A.F.I was pretty hardcore and raspy.

The Misfits grabbed me with a few of their tracks, never loved them.

Finally, The Distillers whom I really liked.

After listening to these bands for a while, I realized all the raspiness and crude quality of music wasn’t to my liking. I moved on from this genre somewhat. I still like AFI, but the their more current albums (Sing The Sorrow and December Underground). The Distillers are in my opinion a great punk rock band.

Punk styles.

Not because I like them, or for a punk chick Brody is hot (maybe not in some pictures), but because their songs appealed to the masses and they developed quite the following. They had some popular tracks and released 3 albums.

Give them a listen. Its awesome.

This song is one of my favourites. My album of choice? Coral Fang.

feel the punk.

-steven

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Original Punk-ster