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I m a student who study in fashion design, now i m thinking that to hava a collection about 80's punk, so can you please tell me more about the 80's punk culture or the attitude.

― cat, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

wristbands

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Heroin

― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

or the attitude.

Fuck off. Go the fuck away, lousy cunt.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

sausage parties

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

short people

no fun

you had to be there

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

rich kids

CB jackets

Canal Jeans

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's too late. You're too young. You missed out.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that film, about a suburban punk gang called "the rejected"? You should watch that. And Repo Man. This is a terrible idea!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Suburbia"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Harley's pitbull

bad shows at the anthrax

sketers hemming their jeans with safety pins

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

go rent "hated in america." for the exact opposite, listen to all of the minor threat and fugazi cds you can get yer hands on.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The hair was everything.

At least, I think so.

I missed the 80's.

That sucks! Two years too late for the end.

Bule eye shadow?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

wargames

― kephm, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Suburbia"! YES!!! that's the one. The bit where they're robbing garages, and one of them leaves a dead cat in teh washing machine!! Or the classic exchange of all time:

redneck (to camo-clad punk) hey! where's the war?

camo clad punk .... . . ... up your ass??

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Shorts and tights!

I have a picture of my mom wearing that.

Colorful

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

How about "50ft Queenie"? Although, I guess that's still 30 feet too short.

― Mr. Helpful, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, motherfucker

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.brightonrock.ca/brightonbeach02.jpg

― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"50ft Queenie" is not 80's punk, fer chrissakes!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"times square" (1980), starring tim curry, trini alvarado and robin johnson. that is all you need to know.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're talking films wherein "80's Punk" is depicted, seek ya also "Downtown `81", and "After Hours".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Just watch Desperately Seeking Susan and call it a day.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You could rent The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization for a look at US hardcore punk in early 80s.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If you really want to know what it was like, listen to an ELO record. Then think about why you hate it so much. Then listen to the newest Strokes record and ask yourself why we have gone 30 years but still come no further. Then start your own band.

Don't try to duplicate what already happened. Today's fashions should indicate what a disaster of an idea that is.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Read Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. There are photos, too.

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"50ft Queenie" is not 80's punk, fer chrissakes! "

Sorry, it was suppossed to be a joke. The thread name reads "80 *foot* punk" see...I'll go away now.

― Mr. Not So Helpful, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Make sure it sounds exactly like the Fall, only severely un-fun. Write at least three songs about "posers" and trucker hats and Williamsburg. Obsess about cred 'til your hair falls out. Die alone and bitter at 38.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't do 80s punk fashion, thats been done a bazillion times. Unless it's 2080's punk fashion, then it's cool.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Write at least three songs about "posers" and trucker hats and Williamsburg

for heightened effect, do this while actually being a poser and wearing a trucker hat and living into a $700,000 williamsburg condo

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG JUST LIKE TEH STROAKS!!1

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Reagan fetishization.

― mike a, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What if you like the ELO record?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

then you have no business talking about or even listening to punk, maaan

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Read Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. There are photos, too.

-- scottontharox (scott.kundl...), February 17th, 2004. (later)

Not to be Mr.Pedantic, but while it's truly an amazing, essential book, that's almost exclusively relegated to 70's Punk, not 80's.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Get the "Chipmunk Punk" album by Alvin & the Chipmunks!

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of these answers remind me of that recent Friends episode where it shows a couple of the guys in college in 1987, and everyone is dressed like freaks, with day-glo clothes and outlandish hairstyles. So totally not true to life.

80's punk fashion? Grey sweatshirts. Short hair. Tight jeans. Sneakers.

Go put models in that, and then go fuck yourself.

― usual channels, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Matthew Broderick's character in "War Games" was an 80's punk.
hackers = 80's punk rockers

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

watch square pegs....that wierd blonde guy was totally punk.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"times square" (1980), starring tim curry, trini alvarado and robin johnson. that is all you need to know.

this movie RULES. one of the most beautifully absurd films ever.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Was Nick Cage's character in Valley Girl a punk or proto-emo? errgh. I need to get this straight.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

American Hardcore is a pretty good book about 80's hardcore/punk.

From feral house

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0922915717/002-2018424-0404846?v=glance

it was a fun time even though at the time it didnt seem quite so fun

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, wouldn't it be ok to say that there was *NO* 80's punk? I mean, didn't the first wave of punk last from around '77-'80? I always thought that everything after 1980-1 was post-punk or New-Wave (shudder). I know for sure that there is no such animal anymore, sadly. And I did live it - through it, under it, in it and all over it. Even though I'm a shade under 40, I do remember those days - well most of 'em anyway.

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I think '77-'80 was probably more the case for stuff coming out of the UK than the US.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cat, what do you consider punk? Black Flag? The Dead Kennedys? Fugazi? DRI? Bad Religion? That might help to narrow it down.

As for pictures, Rollins's "Get in the Van" has a lot of pictures, although his fashion seems limited to black shorts and t-shirts. I also have a book called "Punk: The Illustrated History of a Music Revolution," by Boot and Salewicz, which has a lot of pictures.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Clothes Suck.

― ameriganza (ameriganza), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, I want to revise my ealier ELO/Strokes comment. ELO was just an example of one of the many bands of a particular sound that you just couldn't escape in the 70's. (In retrospect, they aren't so horrible - although I still don't like 'em.) The Strokes just remind me of ELO.

So a better example of same exercise is - listen to Orange County ska-punk that is on every quasi-punk pop station. Think about why you hate it so much. Then start your own band. Play the opposite of what you hate.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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