I was listening to the Dr. Demento show on KMET, Los Angeles back in 1977. He was doing a 'Tribute to England' show playing comedy songs, but the last song he played was the Sex Pistols doing 'God Save the Queen'. I went out immediately and bought the import album on Virgin, since it had not been released in the U.S. on Warner Bros. yet. Right after that, I found the 'Rodney on the Roq' radio show on KROQ and starting listening every Sunday night at 9:00. I was lucky to have lived in LA at the time, since the scene there was an important one in the history of punk rock.

When I was a kid in Australia, there was (probably still is) an all-night music video show on ABC TV every weekend called Rage - for me and my mates around the same age it was an amazing source of eclectic music, and pretty much where we discovered punk rock. Because the show ran all night with no host (except the occasional guest programmer from a touring band), they had about 8 hours of air time to fill and would play anything and everything, seemingly at random!

I think I'd already heard the Sex Pistols and The Clash, but at about the age of 13, Rage was the first time I was exposed to The Saints, Radio Birdman, Birthday Party, The Ramones, Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, The Pogues, NYC noise bands like Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore, and Australian contemporary punk bands like the Hard Ons. It was definitely love at first sight and sound with all this stuff!

"It's Alive" is just a tremendous album... One of the best live efforts by any band anywhere, anywhere.

Here's a clip:

http://youtu.be/imf25Squ8ro

GODS!!!

GABBA GABBA HEY!

Ramones live were great, I have yet to see concert footage that captures the loud, speed and excitement of the shows, i was lucky to see them a few times and meet joey outside the hoilday inn one night.

the Ramones "Ramones" 1976 album added to the National Recording Registry in the U.S. Library of Congress.  Joins this years inductees of Dark Side of the Moon and Saturday Night Fever among others

http://business.time.com/2013/03/21/dark-side-of-the-moon-saturday-...

I see what ya mean, gag-shop scary! Did their other stuff besides 'Poontang' rock? Haven't heard anything else.

James Porter said:

Oh, I got an ugly album cover for ya. So ugly I'm only gonna print the link.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0000/279/MI0000279535.jp...

See, Cliff and Claude Trenier were handsome dudes, but that colorized B&W picture has got to go!!! Makes them look like they were mounted and stuffed!

Oh, I got an ugly album cover for ya. So ugly I'm only gonna print the link.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0000/279/MI0000279535.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

See, Cliff and Claude Trenier were handsome dudes, but that colorized B&W picture has got to go!!! Makes them look like they were mounted and stuffed!

Here are Witchfinder General plus topless extra starring on the cover of their rather good Death Penalty album:

Even worse, however, is the cover of a great album by D.I.

I love Swamp Dogg's music, but some of his album covers ...

Horny Bell Ends. From Utah ? Wow.

dave said:

Maybe not ugly, but scary.

here is the album cover for Utah reggae band Wasnatch's Front to Back. Their music, sadly, does not live up to the promise of the artwork. What could, really? But I bet Wasnatch tear it up on the Utah reggae circuit.

Heino would be proud.

Tersicore said:

I´m at a loss for words! :D

Maybe not ugly, but scary.

here is the album cover for Utah reggae band Wasnatch's Front to Back. Their music, sadly, does not live up to the promise of the artwork. What could, really? But I bet Wasnatch tear it up on the Utah reggae circuit.

Cheers ChazDaddy! Good call, Bob Log III is brilliant, and Doo Rag too! I haven't heard much Guided by Voices but will check out more of their early stuff for sure.

ChazDaddy said:

Awesome list Ben E! Actually many great lists here as usual. I would have listed almost everyone you did, I could add Bob Log III or early GBV.


Ben E said:

The Gories, The 5678s, Pussy Galore, early Blues Explosion, Guitar Wolf (their first album, Wolf Rock, was recorded on a walkman!), Ty Segall (especially his first couple of albums), Bloodshot Bill, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Mark Sultan, Dirty Beaches..

Budget Rock = The Mummies and Jonny Manak & The Depressives are a great team.

Lo - Fi = The Gories/early Dirtbombs are the best, period.

Awesome list Ben E! Actually many great lists here as usual. I would have listed almost everyone you did, I could add Bob Log III or early GBV.

Ben E said:

The Gories, The 5678s, Pussy Galore, early Blues Explosion, Guitar Wolf (their first album, Wolf Rock, was recorded on a walkman!), Ty Segall (especially his first couple of albums), Bloodshot Bill, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Mark Sultan, Dirty Beaches..

This week's show had music from Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Undertones, The Sonics, The Scenics and music form Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin's Reverse Shark Attack album. 

Listen/download to the show here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20130319-1030-t1363685400.mp3

Blog post about Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin's Reverse Shark Attack here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2013/03/reverse-shark-attack-show-447.html

The Play List:

1. Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs – Have A 100
2. The Coastliners – I’ll Be Gone
3. Jan & Dean – Horace The Swinging School Bus Driver
4. The Reply – Better You
5. The Waldos – Busted
6. Alex Chilton – Just To See You
7. Steak House Mints – Don’t Mess With Me
8. Shotgun Jimmie – Growing Like A Garden
9. Wire – Love Bends
10. Boats – O Telescope
11. Papermaps – You Are My Gallows
12. The Evens – Sooner Or Later
13. Vice Creems – Won’t You Be My Girl
14. The Sonics – Maintaining My Cool
15. The Scenics – No Sleep
16. Travel Check – Tripping Waves
17. Carbonas – Butcher
18. The Adverts – Back From The Dead (BBC Session)
19. UK Subs – Tomorrow’s Girls (Single Version)
20. Undertones – Get Over You
21. Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind
22. Paul Jacobs – Being Yourself
23. Paul Jacobs – Wrong Medication
24. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – High School
25. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – I Wear Black

The first show i went to watch was 20/20 performing at the Whisky a-Go-Go, Los Angeles back in 1979. They had just released their first album entitled 20/20 and the single from it was "Yellow Pills" which received a lot of airplay on KROQ at the time. They were a new wave/power pop band and they never had a hit song.

I saw Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs at Springlake amusement park in Oklahoma City in the summer of 1965 when their current hit was "Ju Ju Hand."

When I was in junior high in OKC a couple of years later, there was a local band called The Inmates who had an intense Yardbirds fixation and did a vicious version of "The Hanky Panky." They were pretty punk.

I saw The Fall in Santa Fe in 1981 play in Santa Fe in an old movie theater. Before the show I got to interview Mark E. Smith, who told me The Fall wasn't punk rock. He was right but he was wrong.

The first proper gig I went to was a grungy pop punk band called Ratcat at a small bar in Kings Cross, Sydney. I was only 15 and got in with somebody's paper driving license. It was packed and a great gig.

First punk show was The Ramones in 1991 at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion. They were great but the support band was even better - local band the Hard Ons, who concluded their set with bass player Ray Ahn doing an amazing fire breathing routine..

Best show (or one of the best) was Einsturzende Neubauten, Beasts of Bourbon and Sydney punk band Nunbait at the Phoenician Club, Sydney in 1992. Amazing line-up, cool venue, and I used the same fake ID to get in that I used at the Ratcat gig..

First punks shows were probably some friends bands - can't even remember. Some of the best would be Zero Boys, Zeros, Testors, GIZMOS NYE show. D.O.A. private party show. 

Currently all the Toronto summer bridge shows are without a doubt a blast. This will be the 4th (?) season, most fun I've had at shows in recent memory - usually doesn't matter who is playing, but mostly good local bands anyway - School Jerks, Kremlin, Career Suicide,....etc.

Upcoming shows looking forward to. Red Cross and later Diamond Head. Both old, but hopefully they will still be good.

Still Active all female or female-fronted: The Moaners, Black Belles, The Kills

Not active, but worth looking up: Pandoras, The Brood, Trashwomen, Bobbyteens

Female-fronted b-movie monster rock? The Horrorpops is all that comes to mind, but they're Dutch I think.

The Flytraps are all babes out of Los Angeles I've been keeping an eye and ear on

New Black Angels album out soon. Check'em out!

That Brazilian band is cool. Of course Venom are amazing, but I never really thought of them as stoner rock, though I'm sure a lot of people get stoned and listen to them, so whatever. Atomic Bitchwax, Monster Magnet, St. Vitus are all great never heard the rest—should look into them.

I recently acquired a long time want, Melvins - Ozma. Been rocking the heck out of that one recently.