Right now I'm pushing myself through Dropkick Murphy's #The warriors code# complete with bagpipes Nice music, punkish, lotsa Irish influence but quite a bit of OI in the older stuff
New Dropkick Murphys is terrible. But they have three fucking great albums, but if I want to hear good old punk I'd rather listen to Cocksparrer or Stiff Little Fingers.
SLF are also good No sleep 'til Belfast is the only one I got with 'em, but I can't really put these guys in the same league as DKM. For the punky side I prefer Clash, Ramones, a a slew of bands you never heard of. Swedish small bands, even if fe Strebers have made about 10 fullength albums
if you like that REO album, you could also look at Boston. The album with a guitar on the cover (hehehehehe)
Their biggest hit - "More Than A Feeling" - is on their debut album (Boston). And you can't go wrong with Kansas or Journey either.
I've never heard of? Sir, I'm offended at your lack of faith in my knowledge of punk, something that I grew up obsessed with. The Clash being my favorite band of all time, and many, many Euro bands being high on my list of awesome. Do you like Dead Stop?
Nops, never heard of dead stop. Coca Carola, Radioaktiva Räker, Ebba Grön, KSMB, Stockholms Negrer, Zynthslakt, Cosa Nostra, Nero, Living Sacrifice, Gone, Hiroshima, Grönöga Streetband, Asta Kask, De lyckliga kompisarna, Mjölner, Charta 77... examples of the "slew" I mentioned... I would be quite surprised if you knew 'em...
I wouldn't consider Living Sacrifice a punk band. But, yeah I've heard of a couple of those listed bands, but I don't listen to them often. As far as the punk stuff I listen to it's mostly older English shit and some limited American stuff. I listen to hardcore more than punk now, but when I was younger it was allll punk Edit: And holy fucking shit, the guys in Living Sacrifice found their way to some terrible fucking bands. POD, Norma Jean, Evanescence, holy fuck those bands are all horrifyingly bad.
Living Sacrifice started out as a punkband, girlpunk even the latest "New song" I heard from them is a cover of "Hellraiser" (Ozzy) but with an ABBA break in the middle Most of those guys sing only in swedish, and most bands would not "make it" as englishsinging bands, what with the competition and such crap, They are too focused on their (mine also) patch of dirt