Never Mind The Bollocks...

Holiday In Cambodia
By The Dead Kennedys

Oops.... Kinda forgot to update this blog last week :S. I figure the only way to make up for it is with some punk rock. It's a large logical jump to get to that assumption, but if this blog is about anything, its large logical jumps that don't really go anywhere.

Speaking of not really going anywhere... I don't have that much to say about this song. The Dead Kennedys are a seminal Californian punk band from the 80's. They've stolen everything that was good about 70's British punk (see below), but they do it in such an out of control way its OK.

Ever Fallen in Love
By The Buzzcocks

For things that are good about 70's British punk, check out this song.

Believe it or not, there wasn't really anything dirty going on behind the band name. At the time, in Manchester, the local slang for youngster/teen/delinquent was 'cock' (as in the chicken). So naturally (in another massive leap of logic that goes nowhere) the name originated from the phrase "What's the buzz, cocks?"

Anarchy In The UK
By The Sex Pistols

Generally regarded as the founders of punk (But they aren't! The Saints were doing it in Brisbane like a year before them!) they are also, according to the movie "24 hour party people" the catalyst of the entire British music industry.

There's also a ridiculous amount of mythology to the background of the band. For a start, the bass player Sid Viscous was so supposedly so bad that when they played live they would unplug him and have another guy hidden in the wings play the bass parts.

Furthermore, the manager of the band named them The Sex Pistols as a way to promote his clothing shop... Since this means that at its core, the first punk band was all about commercialism, I think it's safe to make the massive leap in logic that punks not actually dead after all, since it was never really alive to begin with.

Bonus Track:
Too Drunk To Fuck
By The Dead Kennedys

One more, for the road. I think it's pretty self explanatory.