![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spencer Kaufmanĭon’t let its gentle score distract you: “Unsatisfied” is brimming with a bona fide punk attitude. ![]() Hearing Danzig sing “I got something to say/ I killed your baby today” on top of an upbeat, ’50s-inspired rock instrumental is one of punk’s most disconcerting moments, but, hot damn, it’s catchy as hell - so much so that Metallica famously covered it, as did a bevy of other bands. The demented mind of Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig brought a new subgenre called horror punk into the world, and the song “Last Caress” contains some of the most infamous lyrics in rock history. Is there anything more punk than an anti-punk punk song? Against Me! were already getting slack for “abandoning” (read: progressing from) the thrashing sounds of their earlier releases when they dropped “I Was a Teenage Anarchist,” a melodic cut that calls into question the rigidity of punk’s “bloodless ideology.” The line “the revolution was a lie” is screamed out as the music drops away, drawing a rebuttal from Rise Against on “Architects.” But damn if Laura Jane Grace didn’t have a point. Against Me! – “I Was A Teenage Anarchist” It would become a staple of the latter’s career, even after Hell left the Heartbreakers in 1976. Instead, Hell took it to the Heartbreakers, his band with Johnny Thunders. It was intended to be a Ramones song, but the band rejected it due to the overt heroin references. Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers – “Chinese Rocks”įew songs have as much punk pedigree as “Chinese Rocks,” written by Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell. ![]()
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