trying to start tagging my posts with genres. And like . American Poetry Club is not "long island punk". Also why is "[..] punk" considered a subgenre of metal?. Chosic is weird. Genres are weird. They don't make sense (chosic link)
[Spotify links] American Poetry Club: song1 / song2 / song3 / song4
[Spotify links] (based on chosic) long island punk: incendiary / regulate / Crime in Stereo
Basically American Poetry is like super soft lo-fi chill personal emo and long island punk is,, punk, hardcore intense political punk.
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Our 22nd label birthday celebration is coming! 🎉 Let’s announce some bands! Opening our main show 4/20 @ TV Eye is NYC’s own RADAR- killer new garage punk with a new LP coming on Dead Broke in May!
And opening our preshow 4/19 at VFW is Chicago’s PERMANENT RESIDUE- rough pop punk with members of Canadian Rifle!
Get stoked & 👀 for tix on sale soon. 😎🤘
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Powers, 1998.
Powers was the most awesome staff writer and editor I thought we had at the Compass, community college’s campus newspaper. He was considered a true punk with his tall lanky frame, slicked-back black hair, glasses, red cheeks, and leather jacket, and skinny jeans covering up his nerdy exterior. We had punks back in Brentwood but to me they were off-limits as they looked down on our alternative circle of friends and I. Powers was more approachable and accessible as we were on the same team so I got to know him. Eventually, he offered to cut me a tape and here it is.
On a campus with nothing but unchallenging Long Island club music, Top 40 radio, and lots of their shallow follower fan-base still holding on to their high-school mentality, This was iconoclastic. This was during a time when tape-trading and mixtapes (literally) was in full-swing, all before fire-sharing and burning took over. It was also during a time when tacky hot pink cowboy hats, fake blonde hair, and clean cut pop design was put on top of a pedestal forcing to be the best. No thanks.
You have your history-written essentials by The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders followed by The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. More UK from Crass, Sham 69, and Subhumans U.K., and Anti-Nowhere League. Then the state’s Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Dead Kennedys. One-timers in speed metal, goth, thrash, even garage that still connected to punk? Yes, they’re there.
It’s been years since I listened to his tape. Looking at the handwritten track-listing, I came a long way all by myself. We played “Born To Lose”, “New Rose”, “Ever Fallen In Love (You Shouldn’t Have Fallen In Love With?)”, and “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” on Omega WUSB throughout its course. We also played about more than half of these bands on this tape through our other shows and bonus Omega specials. With the wealth of ideas going on, another punk special is way past overdue and this lost tape lights up the entire matchbook.
What happened to Powers? I haven’t seen him since we moved on from community college. All I know is he’s somewhere in Boston, who should’ve enjoyed the last three Red Sox championships and a Bruins cup. As with all friendships of that era, we just can’t stand each other. We wear each other out, dissipate, maybe a visit or heads-up or two and that’s it. Sick of each other and never to be bothered again. And I’m perfectly fine with that.
Thanks.
Side A:
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers “Born To Lose”
Damned, The “New Rose”
Sex Pistols “Submission”
New York Dolls “Human Being”
The Ramones “Chinese Rocks”
The Clash “Janie Jones”
Eddie & The Hot Rods “Get Out Of Denver”
Dictators “Faster And Louder”
Buzzcocks, The “Ever Fallen In Love (You Shouldn’t Have Fallen In Love With?)”
Sham 69 “Borstal Breakout”
Boys “Cop Cars”
Crass “Do They Owe Us A Living?”
4 Skins “One Low For Them”
Anti-Nowhere League “I Hate People”
Exploited, The “Dogs Of War”
Real Kids “Do The Boob”
La Peste “Better Off Dead”
Side B:
Subhumans U.K. “Religious Wars”
T.S.O.L. “80 Times”
Mission Of Burma “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver”
Lyres “I Wanna Help You Anne”
Undead “Nightmare”
Bad Brains “Regulator”
Suicidal Tendencies “I Want More”
Misfits, The “Last Caress”
Minor Threat “Think Again”
Descendants, The “Hope”
Dead Kennedys “Terminal Preppie”
Circle Jerks “Back Against The Wall”
Motorhead “Another Perfect Day”
Chaos U.K. “Selfish Few”
Patrick Fitzgerald “Irrelevant Battles”
Dropkick Murphys “Finnegan’s Wake”
New Bomb Turks “Minivan Wages Of Sin”
Electric Frankenstein “Get Of My Back!”
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