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Undertones
11
26%
Damned
9
21%
Buzzcocks
22
52%
 
Total votes: 42

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Re: three punk bands

Postby The Modernist » 23 Mar 2018, 22:01

I like just about everything about The Undertones, but I have a special liking for the psych tinged pop towards the end. Such a shame they split when they did. Both of these are excellent.




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Re: three punk bands

Postby clive gash » 23 Mar 2018, 23:33



Positive Touch is their killer. If I don’t hear Teenage Kicks ever again I’ll cope.
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Re: three punk bands

Postby Sneelock » 24 Mar 2018, 00:12

my hand, of it's own volition, voted for Buzzcocks and I'm cool with that.
still, I'm surprised to see them sweeping up. I don't know the u.tones so well but the Damned ain't exactly chopped liver.
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Re: three punk bands

Postby Quaco » 24 Mar 2018, 01:37

Alleged Local Policeman wrote:I didn't realise The Undertones were not widely known/ listened to here. Our pals band played here last week and they did Teenage Kicks and I looked around to find nobody at all singing along. When we were talking about this later they said they played it for me in the knowledge I would be the only person who knew it, which really doesn't feel right. US punks, please explain yourselves!

I'm not exactly well-versed in UK punk, but I had never heard "Teenage Kicks" before we learned it for the Paris jolly-up. Read about it, sure, but not actually heard it.
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Re: three punk bands

Postby copehead » 24 Mar 2018, 22:50

I voted Undertones because they had an innocence about them the other two lacked although all three bands wrote great pop music.
The Damned were always a bit too cartoon for me and Buzzcocks a bit too cool, The Undertones hit it just right.
Plus Wednesday Week is the best song that any of those three wrote.

I saw the Damned 3 years ago and they were still a brilliant live act about 30 years after the previous time I saw them.
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Re: three punk bands

Postby martha » 25 Mar 2018, 05:25

In the 1980's I'd have said Damned. But now it's Buzzcocks for me.
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Re: three punk bands

Postby Snarfyguy » 25 Mar 2018, 06:11

My brain says The Buzzcocks, but my heart says The Undertones. How punk is that? : /
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