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Women of 1970's Punk from Rockin Rina. Lene Lovich! Poly Styrene! The Waitresses!
posted by thatwhichfalls (14 comments total)
 
Palmolive (best known as Joe's one-time girlfriend) is now a fundy living on Cape Cod.
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:22 AM on November 15, 2004


Relevant thread
posted by glenwood at 6:18 AM on November 15, 2004


yay. flex is the second album i ever bought! but was that really punk? hmmm. maybe i was an unconscious rebel.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:51 AM on November 15, 2004


Palmolive became a fundy fer crapsakes?

That which does not kill us makes us stranger....
posted by alumshubby at 7:39 AM on November 15, 2004


Mmmmm.. Siouxsie.
posted by ZachsMind at 7:50 AM on November 15, 2004


Palmolive became a fundy fer crapsakes?

My initial reaction was to blame the punk movement for being such a men's club-- Palmolive (or any of the women referenced in the post) were destined to become merely footnotes before the recorded anything, I thought. Women in punk were almost always novelty acts. (Granted, I don't think that the Slits were very good, but there should be better examples.)

Then I realized that playing in a regional Christian rock band in the basement of some sect's church is twice as dignified as anything John Lydon's for twenty years. She's got more integrity than Mick Jones, too.

side note: does it piss off anyone else that Mick let GM use "Should I Stay or Should I Go" for that series of Pontiac ads? I realize that the song had already been licensed to Levis in the early 90's, and Mick was the primary writer of the song. But the ad ends before you hear any of the lyrics. The only voice you hear is the intro scream, which is Joe.
posted by Mayor Curley at 8:18 AM on November 15, 2004


Thanks - brought back memories! I was fond of The Delta 5, The Modettes, The Chefs (Brighton), etc. Cardiff had Young Marble Giants (Alison Statton) and Moira and the Mice ...
posted by carter at 9:15 AM on November 15, 2004


Damm, I'd forgotten about the Young Marble Giants. They were great weren't they?
posted by thatwhichfalls at 9:25 AM on November 15, 2004


I'm reading "Locas" (a love and rockets collection) right now, and I'm wondering if there's any connection between bands like "Ape Sex" and the actual LA punk scene.
posted by drezdn at 9:50 AM on November 15, 2004


No.

YMG's "Final Day" (1.43) may be the scariest, saddest, truest song ever committed to tape.
posted by adamgreenfield at 4:15 PM on November 15, 2004


I was there at the time but never made the connection between the Germs and the Go-Gos. Jeez.
posted by billsaysthis at 8:05 PM on November 15, 2004


Go-gos? Mmmm.. Jane Wiedlin..
posted by ZachsMind at 6:39 AM on November 16, 2004


Nina Hagen...whose albums are not available in nation where Truth is suppressed.
posted by quercus at 3:34 PM on November 17, 2004


Mmmm.. german psychopaths.. *drools*
posted by ZachsMind at 7:00 AM on November 18, 2004


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