i grew up kinda 'skate-punk' more skate at one point and more punk at another. i used to listen to many 'punk' bands. i think most are bad now, except maybe fugazi.

 

i used to have the mohawk, leather jacket, plaid pants, doc martins, the whole dealio.

 

it was fun, kid stuff, out grew it.

 

didnt look back..... okay, i still like the boots.

memories, cool 'intimate' 'gigs' such as henry rollins and fugazi

 

i like billy talent 'covered' fugazis waiting room...better, better sound anyway, as it is a bit less 'punk' sounding

    (billy talents version of fugazis 'waiting room')

 

 

Thanks for starting this thread Elanorgold.

I was actually just thinking of the music I enjoyed from this era. The Police stand out for me. I was/am a fan. I also enjoyed the euro music -- da da da. Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Siouxie and the Banshees  -- Thomas Dolby too.

"And I will paint her eyes so red, and her lips so blue. Raise her likeness on the (mast?) Caroline 452" (Radio Silence)

 

There were also many local (Toronto area) bands that I saw during this time, but they would be less familiar to most.

I like Thomas Dolby too. I only knew the hit singles back then, but have since bought two of his albums. The Flat Earth is fantastic. : )  Police: Wrapped around your finger was one I liked when I was 12. I thought it was Brass around you finger and had something to do with getting married, that maybe he thought he wasn't good enough. They had a great sound for sure. When I was 15, in Germany, I came upon the group B-Movie, and this awesome 12" remix of a song of theirs "Nowhere Girl"

 . It's got to be one of my favorite songs even now. It brought something new to the new, something Dance to the Duran-like sound. It could be that Euro sound. That was a transformative trip for me. I went over a child, and came back a full fledged teenager, with my first evenings out clubbing under my belt.

 

Stephen, That's interesting. I hadn't pictured you that way! I got into some punk bands later in my teens: the Ramones, the Dickies, Daisy Chainsaw and the Damned... I also liked the Damned's goth stuff, for a longer stretch I have actually. If Sonic Youth counts, I liked them. There was a guy with a mohawk in my grade 12 class, he was kinda cute, though not my type. I don't actually know Fugazi, but I'm curious now... so is this when you were 12/13?

 

Funny how you hear lyrics wrong and make up stuff that applies to you... like for If I Was, I heard:

 

If I was a painter, I'd paint a world that could contain her,

If I was a poet, all my love in curly words, I would show it.

 

That song seemed to me to be about all the things I could be when I grew up. And I didn't want to be a soldier or a sailor or a leader (though maybe I would when I grew up I thought), but poet sounded appealing to me! Maybe that was what gave me the first idea to write.

 

 

StephenBoothoot,

 

that's truly awesome aboot your past...kinda skatepunk, eh?

 

did you ever go to any henry rollins concerts? have you encountered any of his spoken word riffs?

 

Elanorgold,

 

I am really enjoying your latest avatar -- the way the sun washes out the image makes it look like a 70's polaroid...

 

 

Thanks Inanna, Yeah it does. The picture was a shot at the end of the roll of film, so some light leakage, but I like it that way, quite sunsetty.