Sublime absolutely qualifies as punk. I loved their falling idols covers:
One of the best bands ever and a personal favorite since at least 1996 for me.
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Bad Brains, The Clash, Exploited, Circle Jerks all fuckin rock. Great choices. I hadn’t heard Raised Fist as far as I can remember but I’m digging em. I never understood the whole straight-edge thing 
Maybe it’s cause I’m big into personal freedoms or maybe cause I’ve always needed to dial my brain back a bit at times. At any rate, anytime I need to check my life and see how it’s going I still listen to this tune. The lyrics certainly make me re-assess things anyway 
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Where I live the straight edge kids hung outside bars and jumped drunk people in big groups. They were more of a menace than anything they claim the moral high ground on. Terrible people imo.
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@Dale It’s basically another religion mate and a way to feel righteous, I understand veganism and not wanting to get wasted but it got macho and definitely was contradictory to the true punk essence.
Fuck you think Minor Threat ever played to a sober crowd, haha no chance
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These guys got a little too soft and pop punk for me, but the earlier stuff is 
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I grew up shaving my head every day with a bic
Even shaved the eye brows now there like little bushes lol
Most underrated band on Fat Wreck Chords imo
Kiwi-Core haha
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I always liked JSBX. Even though they’ve got blues in the name they were always punky to me.
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Wow man I would have loved to see them live especially in their prime, very envious. I just edited the intro to include your legendary Reggae thread.
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Long time ago but yes they were great live . I dj’ed reggae between sets.
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Wendy-O and the Plasmatics
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That’s epic, it sounds you’re an old vinyl head too. My record collection is the only asset I own that’s worth anything haha
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Oh man, love this thread
some old
some new(er)
this always cracks me up
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Just the kinda shit that happened in my area in the eighties…
Tried another…soon….
Drunken injuns
Real.old school shit
wasted youth
Pil
Mear puppets
Mdc
I’ll repute
Fuck I can go on for ever
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Nuns
Sado _ nation
Corrosion of conformity
Mad ball
New York hard-core
So many more
Then in 86 or 87 it was all skin head music
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