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Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY (Critical Media Studies)

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This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Especially interesting are those operated by dropouts from the middle class. Other respected older labels are often run by people with upper middle-class backgrounds. A third group of labels are operated by working-class and lower middle-class punks who take a serious attitude to the work.
Using the ideas of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this book shows how the field of record labels operates. The choice of independent or corporate distribution is a major dilemma. Other tensions are about signing contracts with bands, expecting extensive touring, and using professional promotion. There are often rivalries between big and small labels over bands that have become popular and have to decide whether to move to a more commercial record label.
Unlike approaches to punk that consider it as subcultural style, this book breaks new ground by describing punk as a social activity. One of the surprising findings is how many parents actually support their children's participation in the scene. Rather than attempting to define punk as resistance or as commercial culture, this book shows the dilemmas that actual punks struggle with as they attempt to live up to what the scene means for them. Top to learn more

Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution

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Recreating the complete story of the punk phenomenon — including where it came from and what it turned into — Punk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: from 1975 to 1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalists — including John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, Maureen Tucker, Gerard Malanga, Lou Reed, Johnny Rotten, Danny Fields, Legs McNeil, Bob Gruen, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Tommy Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Cherry Vanilla, and Malcolm McLaren, former manager and ringleader of the Sex Pistols — Punk brings to life the profound effect punk music had on global popular culture in the words of those who created it. With reverberations in style, fashion, attitude and philosophy, the birth of punk music released the greatest shockwaves in the popular culture since The Beatles. Punk tells the story through the words of the people who were closely tied to the mania and through hundreds of contemporaneous color and black-and-white photographs.

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No future
Mostly photos and quotations, many of the quotations apparently from interviews the authors conducted with insiders. Seems okay being such a large book given that the alternative would have been several volumes and with smaller photos.A Sex-Pistols-centric, British view of Punk, but with a good opening on Warhol, the Velvet Undergound, the New York Dolls, Ramones and other U.S. influences. By stopping with 1979, however, such American bands as the Plasmatics, the Circle Jerks and Black Flag aren't covered.Finding out what happened to Sid Vicious's remains may be the best value from this book for me.What ever happened to rock n' roll, punk or otherwise? One of the best things about this book is that it can bring you to that time. It's sad that Coldplay passes as good music nowadays. However remarkable the fashion and the events, 70's Punk was basically lots of great music. Who knew what a vacuum would follow it?
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September 18, 2005 (Roseburg, OR USA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4

For a Pistols Fan, a Priceless Work of Art
This book does come across as more of a Sex Pistols book, as opposed to the punk book it promises to be. Granted, there are moments in which artists such as The Ramones, The Clash, Blondie, and Siouxie and the Banshees [the horror!] are mentioned. However, such moments are few and far between, and for a fan of all-around punk, these rare moments fade dismally into the background, blatantly overshadowed by the massive amount of Sex Pistols content.If the reader is a huge fan of the Sex Pistols, this book is a rare and priceless addition to one's collection. There are countless photos of the Pistols which have never before beenseen by the general public, and each of these photos is of superb quality and possesses great artistry. One such photo is the one of Johnny Rotten smoking some 'chalice' in Jamaica. His head is bent downwards, smoke wafting out of his nostrils and surrounding his head; the photo is oddly hypnotic, beautiful, and serene. There are soem early shots of Sid...
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March 29, 2002 | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 4

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If It Ain'T Cheap, It Ain'T Punk: Fifteen Years Of Plan-It X Records

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Discovery

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Perfect for the first time daft-er
Even if you bought this record just for it's liquefied metal cover, you would not be disappointed. This is truly a fantastic album in every sense of the word. And the techniques used in the creation were just fabulous. One of the things my friend said when he first heard me playing it was "the samples sound so CLEAN!" And they do. Every sample has been processed at incredibly high quality, there is no "Lo-Fi" on this record. The entire record is permeated with funky-style samples that you swear you know but just can't seem to place. Every song has some fantastic SOMETHING about it:1.One More Time - the perfect party track! a thick thumping bassline and everybody-that's-not-a-raver's-view of the raver world lyrics -:)-, catches your attention immediately.2.Aerodynamic - by far, the most significant bit on this track is the squealing pseudo-guitar solo. It may be simple, but it sounds REALLY COOL!3.Digital Love - early 80's motivational tapes samples...
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May 3, 2001 (In Space above Planet Earth) | Helpful Votes: 47 | Rating: 5

Brilliant. Awesome. I'd like to play it "One More Time"
Now this is interesting. Apparently these guys have been famous for quite a while, yet somehow I'd never heard of them. All that was remedied recently though. When I heard that Leiji Matsumoto had created a full-length animated feature with stunning animation based on an ablum by Daft Punk, I just had to check it out. While my opinion of that excellent piece of animation is mixed (I just didn't dig the story or think most of it matched the songs all that well), it did something to me. It made me buy the album it was based on "Discovery". Wow.In this case, it seemed more like the music video was just a distraction than an extension of the music. When I first started listening to the album I thought it was okay, but as I progressed through it, listening to the songs in order, and then repeating some just to hear them one more time, I got HOOKED.It's hard to describe. I love electronic music and techno and all that sort of thing, but this is different. The voices...
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November 10, 2004 (Dublin,Ireland) | Helpful Votes: 45 | Rating: 5

Superb!!
Since the release of the excellent single "One More Time",I've been anticipating the release of this c.d. eagerly.If I was to sum this c.d. up very briefly for Daft Punk fans-it's a lot more One More Time,then the previous c.d. Homework.In fact there is very,very little of the sound of Homework on this c.d. Okay 14 tracks running close to one hour;8 of these are instrumental.The tracks with vocals are pretty much all done with vocoder and this is shared by Daft Punk themselves and two guest vocalists-who actually all sound pretty similar.The tracks are all way shorter then those on their last c.d. except for the closing track "Too Long".I'd heard all sorts of sneak previews that Daft Punk were going way different on this c.d.Some said pure 70's disco,others Euro-Disco and still others said it would be quite like their Gallic compatriots Air.I have to say that none of these predictions were wrong,yet none of them were accurate either.It's a mixture of those 3...
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March 21, 2001 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

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The French twosome behind Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, get away with an awful lot. They go around impersonating aliens and robots in their interviews, they put records out only once every three years, and they make music that evokes a million other artists--while not really sounding like any of them. The keyboard noodlings of Jean-Michel Jarre are in there somewhere, along with the otherworldly imagery and giant hooks of '70s rock icons like Boston or even Electric Light Orchestra. There are dashes of 1999-era Prince and oodles of new wave and disco cheese, from Harold Faltermeyer and Gary Numan to the Bee Gees, all set off with efficient house beats. So how have they managed to position themselves as electronic music's next great crossover artists? On Discovery, the follow-up to the 1998 worldwide smash Homework, the answer is obvious: they have no shame, and they know how to make us dance.

Starting off with the irresistibly hummable "One More Time," the record blows through a head-spinning array of styles and samples, creating a pop-culture stew of funky loops and dance-floor anthems. "Aerodynamic" eschews breakbeats for an Yngwie Malmsteen-ish guitar interlude that somehow ends up meshing in a crazy blend of stomping bass lines and hyped-up harmonics. "Digital Love" starts off silly and gets sillier, but the monosyllabic lyrics lull the senses just right, allowing the song's summery groove to grab hold with authority. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a resounding standout amidst the retro/Vocoder deluge that transpired after Cher's Believe turned the kitchy disco device into a worldwide pop music trend, spinning a clever groove around an ever-escalating string of computerized seduction. Everywhere on the record, gigantic beats are dropped with pinpoint precision, giving songs a momentum that transforms repetitive melodies into sudden revelations. The record's only misstep, the aptly named "Short Circuit" utilizes a keyboard riff that is nails-on-a-chalkboard awful, but it can't keep this from being one of the best records of 2001. --Matthew Cooke Top to learn more

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Great punk hardcore sampler nothing fancy it rocks
Fashion, By A Thread. Starts wimpy then rocks for 4+ minutes. Classic Alt vocal over great rocking band. Song title is the lyric which works, power playing band allow the singer to speak then they take over and rock, singer rocks to. Great song.Pheasant by Shook Ones. Punchy punky band playing behind punky singer. 160 seconds of straight punk. Love it.Higher Learning by Down To Nothing. Nice intro & nice guitar on loud punk song, harder & louder than previous track, bit'a metal roots, in your ears kinda chatty vocal, song kills for entire 138 seconds. Very nice.Looking Back by Bold. More punk w/speedy play poor sound, high energy 133 seconds of intense, very nice.Judge play Bringin' It Down. Another no apologies high energy punk song. Less than 2 minutes great.Shai Hulud play This Song: For The True And Passionate Lovers Of Music. More metal here, a lot of shouting straight vocal over hardcore band play.Twisted...
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November 19, 2011 (Houston) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

If you like 90's Punk/Hardcore
These are some of the bands that influenced Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Emo. Also it's cool to listen to underground music that I didn't have a chance when I was young & comparing it to underground now.
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November 27, 2011 (Brookfield WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

I don't know why Collision didn't become big?
In their debut CD Collision blended Led Zep grooves with high energy vocals and unbelievable energy. I'm not sure which songs are on this single but the full CD is excellent and will please most hard rock fans! They also have a follow up CD Coarse which grooves hard, sometimes similar grooves to Helmet only with better vocals!
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September 15, 1998 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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your money is going directly into Fat Mike’s wallet… which he uses to put out new records from bands you love, pay those bands, pay the Fat staff and of course, buy beer. Price: Our digital albums are only $8, and EP’s at least a buck less than anyone else Physical+Digital: When you order a record or CD, you get an instant download with it Rarities: Lots old singles & EP’s available digitally for the first time,... So now, when you browse around the Fat Wreck Store, you’ll have more choices of how you want to buy it and get instant downloads for LP’s and CD’s you order. Here’s what Fat had to say about it:. As per usual at Fat Wreck Chords, we’re staying ahead of the trends.

Sorry, but I don’t buy punk/ pop-punk records for inspirational messages pulled from self-help books. Thankfully, on its long-awaited ninth LP “Plans Within Plans,” MXPX wisely ditches most, but not all of the pop-punk banalities that have plagued its last few albums. Over the last 10 years of releasing sissy pop records, MXPX has lost its ability to convincingly play heavy, fast punk rock. Formed in 1992, MXPX (technically known as Magnified Plaid) was one of the founding groups of the punk-revival movement in the mid ’90s – the only openly Christian one. The best moments on “Plans Within Plans” echo the bittersweet nostalgia found on their earlier albums “Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo” and “The Ever Passing Moment”. I’d recommend checking out one of the band’s earlier records like “Life in General” or “Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo. Also, the reassuring refrain of the album closer “Nothing’s Gonna Change” seems frustratingly hollow, seeing as two-thirds of the band have retired from touring and this record took five years to make. If you’re looking to get into MXPX or vintage-ish pop-punk, this is not the place to start.

One point that’s often made in subtext is that punk’s scorched earth policy having wiped clean the idea of virtuosity as standard, much of post-punk’s more outre musical statements came about from bands attempting to play beyond their natural... You get the impression that what really swung it for post-punk in Reynolds’ case was that its prime movers were about more than what the music sounded like, and the fact that much of it still sounds exciting and relevant is almost a neat addendum,... While it leads to some odd approaches to the subject matter – Suicide’s Alan Vega takes the credit for spreading ‘punk’ as a musical term, Ari Up of the Slits claims to have brought hip hop to the UK, while Pere Ubu’s David Thomas is clearly... Although primarily an electronic music fan and early supporter of dubstep he’s always cast his critical eye wide, having made his name analysing the likes of rock’s gender issues and the sociology of early indie and later coined the term... From Public Image Ltd, Talking Heads and Gang Of Four through industrial and No Wave and taking in 2-Tone, muant disco, synth-pop, hardcore, sampling and New Pop, culminating in ZTT Records and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. His first retrospective book, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music And Dance Culture, , a coincidentally timely exhaustive evocation and definition of the different directions rock took after punk’s messy demise.

Never saw them walking around the boulevard or in record shops, though I did meet Wild Man Fischer at Platterpus Records on East Sunset Boulevard. After four years in Portland and Berkeley, I was anxious to get back to LA. It was clear by then that if you were going to be in the music game, LA was where you needed to be. I&rsquo. d improved as a writer and knew a bit better what I wanted to do. I thought if I could move down there and work for someone I knew from Systematic record distribution, I would be able to scope out film from music. The [LA] glam circle was very Brit-focused from 1974, at least, and they picked up on Brit punk then too. Do you have any theories as to why punk hit LA the way it did in the late 70s. Hardly anybody knew of these bands then, but outsiders did resent that the LA scene got a real movie, The Decline of Western Civilization, and they resented the Runaways, the Dickies, and the Go-Gos. t particularly looking for punk, but I was missing good hard rock as old faves burned out or sold out to radio. The Los Angeles Free Music Society circle of art bands and weirdos were on a Beefheart-Zappa template, and also putting out records on their own terms. punk-looking&rdquo. the idea that Southern California could even have punk rock.

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