What If.....the Plasmatics Never Existed?

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Plasmatics: Classily Sick or Big Thud of a Dud?

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With the not-so-sudden surge in faux-punk posturing (hello Pink, hello Avril), I'm reminded of Wendy Orlean Williams and Ye Olde Plasmatics (arguably never credibly Punk themselves). By today's standards, some twenty years after the above photograph was snapped, they seem positively quaint, sawing televisions in half and blowing up Cadillacs. Ah, but what about the music? Personally speaking, as ridiculous as it was then as now, there are some moments of both unintentional hilarity and rocktastic riffage on BEYOND THE VALLEY OF 1984 and the METAL PRIESTESS E.P. Poor since-departed, nature-loving Wendy gets name-checked for her sartorial/tonsorial statements, but how many people can actually NAME a single track of theirs (let alone hum it)?

SPEAK UP, MAGGOTS AND SHOW YOUR ALLEIGANCE.....y'know, ummm...or not.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"Say Goodbye to the World As You Know It."

If the Plasmatics never existed, I wouldn't be still looking for cheap copies of their records.

And Joan Jett may have seemed more shocking & more popular.

Kids watching the news might not have turned punk. (I remember all of the reports about these degenerates - blowing up a car, smashing TVs. Wendy O wearing electrical tape or shaving cream... Seems rather tame now...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

dave225 you are wrong

― joan jett's actual girlfriend (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Loved them when I was about 15, because they were so cartoony and silly and PUNK. My inner feminist is REALLY not sure. But I think that should make me love them more.

Can't actually remember any of their songs, though. Was there one called It's My Life And I'll Do What I Want, or something like that?

― kate, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant to add, "...or some such shit." so I wouldn't be wrong.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

They brightened up Sounds for a few weeks in 1980, but that's about it. I had to look up the title of their single just now, however (and now I've forgotten it again).

― Jeff W, Monday, 23 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

cover art = classic
songs = dud

― ddd, Monday, 23 September 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a punk compilation album featuring a track of theirs called "butcher baby" IIRC thee lyricks went "butcher baby, came the day/butcher baby, they took you away" I think it was actually OK, but can't remember too klearly coz I'm so old. The only other thing I remember was the sleevenoth on one of their albums, which said that durina an instrmental portion of one of their songs, the musicians were isolated from each other so they couldn't hear what each other was playing. I think more bands should smash televisions with sledgehammers & chainsaw electric guitars in half on stage. I thing this is what is missing from the modern musick scene, or something.

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Monday, 23 September 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

My junior high years would have suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

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