Reply to: Best Punk Band

[shaunbhoy]

Having spent a bit of time in London recently, I have to say that the lyrics of that song have dated quite shockingly:

Nope
Nope
Not neither

And the chorus doesn't work any more:


If you take me by the hand and lead me through the streets of London, I'll just get even more depressed at how blatantly loaded everyone else seems to be. Makes Loadsamoney look like a total lightweight.

Yes, but doing an external lap of Harrods hardly counts does it?

[dang65]

'Streets of London' has to be one of the very few examples of a cover version being better than the original. Brilliant stuff!

Having spent a bit of time in London recently, I have to say that the lyrics of that song have dated quite shockingly:

Have you seen the old man
In the closed down market
Kicking up the papers,
with his worn out shoes?

Nope

Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags

Nope

Have you seen the old man
Outside the Seamen's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears

Not neither

And the chorus doesn't work any more:

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
and say for you that the sun don't shine,
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

If you take me by the hand and lead me through the streets of London, I'll just get even more depressed at how blatantly loaded everyone else seems to be. Makes Loadsamoney look like a total lightweight.

[wobbegong]

Anti-nowhere league.

Their cover of 'Streets of London' was brilliant, and 'So what' and 'woman' were classics. Still play them in the car sometimes (when the kids aren't with me!)

'Streets of London' has to be one of the very few examples of a cover version being better than the original. Brilliant stuff!

[mudskipper]

Anti-nowhere league.

Their cover of 'Streets of London' was brilliant, and 'So what' and 'woman' were classics. Still play them in the car sometimes (when the kids aren't with me!)

[Tingles]

Wayne / Jayne County.

[shaunbhoy]

Not a proper poll without the Ruts, the Skids, X-Ray Spex, or Sham 69.............to name but a few that are worthy of mention!

[Doggy Styles]

Strength Through Oi!

[Tingles]

When I was a lad...

I was a bank clerk at the Bank of England (circa '78) at lunchtime we used to go to a little record shop off Cheapside - there we listened to The Members, Sham69, The Slits, Desperate Bicycles, The Jam, Reckless Eric, The Ramones, The Stranglers, The Clash... etc.

'appy daze...

Then, unfortunately, I grew up.


Tone

[cojak]

I was going though my Mike Oldfield phase (never really left it to be honest).

But the Clash were the best I reckon.

[EternalOptimist]

You really were a bit of a yob EO. I find your recent posts about your exhuberant, crime filled past churlish and a bad example for todays youth. How must some of our younger, more impressionable contractors think!

Chess club and karate taught me discipline & respect.

shut it, sumo

[darmstadt]

Back in the mid-70's I heard the Stooges, MC5 and then the Sex Pistols and those early punk bands (used to go to the 100 club, Roxy, Electric Ballroom, etc.) and thought, this is the stuff and a few of us formed a band. None of us could play, I didn't even have an instrument (well a trumpet) and was the bassist. Eventually we got a bit better, I got a guitar and we had a tulip hot drummer who was about 13. Our first gig was a shambles but well received, particularly the last number, Noise, a tune where every member played what they wanted to.

Slowly people came and went but we got more proficient and more and more gigs up and down the land supporting bands such as the UK Subs, Vibrators, etc but our music started to get harder faster and slowly we got more into the Discharge, Charged GBH, Disorder style (actually they copied us....) but changes happened. The Oi scene came along and we started playing with bands such as the Business, 4-Skins, Blitz, Exploited, etc. We made an album, playing for another band who were crap and slowly things went downhill and I was kicked out for doing too many wiggly things on the guitar. I went off to play with friends elsewhere doing 'hippy punk' with support to bands such as Here and Now. They went off and called themselves Todays Kids (eh?), released a single under that name and got connected slightly with the right wing scene (although the drummer was Argentinian.) So I did have a bit of a punk interlude and still have a fondness for it. Maybe even dig out some singles later

[darmstadt]

I remember being on the top deck of a bus in Liverpool around 1980 and seeing a marker pen graffito:

When is a mod not a mod?

When he's on his own.

Flux Of Pink Indians:

I've got a target on my back but I ain't a ******* mod

[gingerjedi]

Define punk? I'd say 'The Stooges'.

[Zippy]

Out of the poll options I picked the Ramones. If the option was available I'd have gone for the Stranglers.

[Mr.Whippy]

Disappointing not to see the Anti-Nowhere League on the list of options......