Average boring person from Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. I'm running the music blog 12XU. My main fedi handle is @groschi@elefant.onetwoxu.de. It turns out Lemmy and Kbin subscriptions don’t really work with Pleroma yet so i made this auxiliary account to keep up with the discussion.
As far as traditional '77 style punk rock is concerned, you can't go wrong with this one. Super solid songcraft that still holds up!
Way too many favorites to pick a definite one really, but i'm just gonna go with Mush by Leatherface for the raw emotional pull it still has on me to this day.
https://leatherfacemusic.bandcamp.com/album/mush-2
Among the closest contenders for me would be these:
Wire - Pink Flag
Big Black - Atomizer
Wipers - Is This Real?
Mission Of Burma - Vs.
Fugazi - The Argument
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Ruts - The Crack
Television - Marquee Moon
... plus a ton of shit i'm sure i'm forgetting right now.
Just to sprinkle in something contemporary, ill also mention Härvest by Poison Ruïn.
Reddit has always been famous for headline readers, and it seemed more often than not, that’s all the punk subs were too. Bad Religion or the Interupters get hundreds of upvotes in minutes, likely from people who don’t even click through to listen to the music, but anything unfamiliar would get ignored, or worse, downvoted.
Haha, i stayed clear of Reddit back when it was a thing but i can feel your pain. Getting people, even punks, to listen to anything new, unknown or niche is always an uphill battle - one i've too been waging for a while now with my own little place on the web. I see !punk_rock@lemmy.ca as an ally in that respect. Keep up that good shit! Of all the different flavors of lemmy punk communitiy, this is the cool place to be.
Citric Dummies - Everyone I Know Will Forget Me
from the album Zen And The Arcade Of Beating Your Ass
Zen And The Arcade Of Beating Your Ass releases November 3rd via Feel It Records.
Datenight - Clueless and Hangless (2023)
At first glance i wasn't quite sure if this Nashville group's newest LP isn't gonna be just a bit too mellow for my taste but eventually, the sheer strength of their Lo-Fi indie rock songcraft wins me over once again, the whole thing having the feel of a scrappy odds-and-ends collection which might just be the case. This assessment is only being reinforced by the fact that the songs appear in alphabetical order here - the tunes themselves are pure A-grade stuff though.
They Had So Many Names - Ghosts & Girls (2023)
from the album We Are Having A Wonderful Time Here On This Wharf
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5240764
> We Are Having A Wonderful Time Here On This Wharf releases September 22nd via Spared Flesh Records.
Office Dog - Big Air (2023)
Spiel releases January 26th 2024 via New West Records.
The intricacies of god's love are another rabbit hole altogether. You could write whole books about it... oh wait, people actually did! 😄
There is a god who created the world and watches our every move and we as humans are fallen creations who can't live up to his super holy expectations with our sinful lives. But don't despair just yet because that holy god has set up a blood sacrifice solution involving his own son and all you have to do to not end up in eternal damnation is to believe in the blood magic of a god for which no evidence exists whatsoever outside of the ancient myths of primitive bronze age men - a god who chooses to remain hidden for some weird reason although he apparently wants to be worshipped and believed in. Easy right? Also, if your life isn't working out quite right for some reason, that's certainly your own fault because the lord's blessings are very dependent on you doing those very fuzzily defined Jesus-ing activities right and you're quite obviously doing something very wrong, have sins in your life, aren't believing hard enough, doing it with an impure heart or whatever...
You couldn't make this shit up if you tried!
This is probably not 100% lemmy's fault but interoperability with other branches of the fediverse could be better. For example, i can create posts and subscribe to lemmy communities from my pleroma instance but federation of posts and discussions from lemmy to pleroma is somewhere inbeteween "unreliable" and "nonexistant", depending on the moon phase or whatever. Sorting that stuff out would be crucial for making lemmy communities a real fediverse-spanning, platform-agnostic thing.
Pleaser - Pleaser (2023)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4755602
> Following up on their incredible 2021 demo, this Copenhagen group delivers an equally exciting debut full length. On one hand, this sounds vaguely familiar as the local legends Lower and (early) Iceage have sure left their mark on Pleaser's music - having a similar appeal of larger-than-life drama tangled up in chaotic and emotional no-holds-barred performances - in addition to lesser known Copenhagen groups like Melting Walkmen, Echo People and Spines. But then again, Pleaser totally hold their own owing to top-notch song substance and plenty of neat little surprises like some black metal flourishes in the instrumental The World Says Its Name, Morricone stylings and a Murderer-esque psychedelic cowpunk haze in Drive of Distress while Light and Fire and This Is How I Die have some distinct Poison Ruïn vibes to them. Last but not least, in The Dream, a good bit of Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty collides with some 90s Leatherface or Samiam vibes as well as somewhat younger noise pop acts á la Star Party, Times Beach, No Age, Male Bonding or Joanna Gruesome.
Red Dons - Generations (2023)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4755007
> An unexpected new EP of the fabulous Red Dons, whose mastermind Daniel Husayn apparently has, in recent years, been mostly busy with mastering great tunes rather than playing and recording such. So now here we have the first new material in close to six years of the originally Portland-based group . It's among their most solemn, moody and quiet stuff so far and the gamble pays off just admirably thanks to their unwavering songwriting excellence, an unbending performance and that certain harmonic sensibility that is very much their own.
Ian Svenonius, that one hurt! The details are still murky as fuck but that's part of what's so infuriating about it. Nobody seems to be talking about it anymore.
Good thing i never gave much of a shit about this band to begin with. :-D
Cut Piece - Accept Defeat (Don't Sabotage Me)
from the album Cut Piece
Cut Piece releases September 22nd via Dirt Cult Records.
Sick Thoughts - Sick Thoughts
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4383314
> Born To Blitzkrieg releases October 6th via Rokk Records.
Insane Urge - My America
This group's second cassette on Impotent Fetus or Down South Tapes or whatever it's called this week, considerably one-ups their previous one in terms of undiluted fury while carrying across all the traits we've come to expect from that label's output - rough and grimy as fuck yet unexpectedly catchy at the same time. A perfect storm of garage- and KBD-infested hardcore primitivism.
Negative World Status - Demo (2023)
This philadelphia group has hammered into existence an unwashed bastard of a debut EP - a sound on the intersections of garage-, KBD- and oldschool hardcore punk, presented in a delicious Lo-Fi aesthetic in a fashion similar to anything from the Deluxe Bias or Impotent Fetus catalogues. Think something along the lines of Exxon, Motor Corp, Everyone Is Alone Sometimes, The Vortex, Modern Needs, Fugitive Bubble, Insane Urge, Fried E/m or Septic Yanks.
I've been lucky enough to catch these folks playing Nijmegen, Netherlands earlier this year. Incredible group, such a fucking force of nature!
Rejekts - Paranoid
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2717512
> https://rejektsboston.bandcamp.com/track/paranoid > > Manmade Hell releases September 1st via No Norms Records.