{"id":12,"date":"2025-07-16T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:10:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My name is Syd and I write reviews and articles about punk bands I love and stuff that interests me about the scene. My favourite subgenre is UK82 but I love loads of others! I’ve been listening to punk since I was 14, so it’s been 13 years now and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s not a phase mom!!<\/p>

I’ve written about a lot of punk bands ranging from 70s, UK82, crust\/D-beat, hardcore punk, Oi! and US punk, so I’m hoping that there will be something on my blog for everyone. I’ve written a bit about new punk bands who are coming about, but I will be on the look out for new punk bands to cover, so I can do my bit to keep the scene going strong.<\/p>

I always add a YouTube link to whatever tracks I’m talking about, so you can have a listen while you read. And if you’re new to punk, my aim is to give you a good place to start! Thanks for reading.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MURDERER \u2013 I DID IT ALL FOR YOU (LP)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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So this week\u2019s \u2018single\u2019 of the week is an album (because I can do what I want and fuck you!). I\u2019ve only listened to this LP the whole way through twice so I won\u2019t be able to give a very good or exhaustive description of the entire album, but I felt like I had to mention it this week because I can\u2019t stop thinking about the way it sounds.<\/p>

You can pick up straight away that its tones are quite weird and deranged but the album doesn\u2019t sound too sharp or abrasive to me; it\u2019s definitely easy-listening but more in a way that\u2019s intriguing to the ear, like something disgusting in a horror movie you can\u2019t help but stare at. Its cohesiveness partly lends itself to the very consistent and precise punk drumming, and also to the simplicity and repetitiveness of the chord changes in tracks like Juicy Fruit Dream <\/em>\u2013 as with most punk, it\u2019s not what <\/em>is done that is so enthralling and interesting but how <\/em>it\u2019s done. And Murderer show in this LP that they can sort of appeal and repulse the senses at the exact same time.<\/p>

Songs like I Did It All For You <\/em>and Piece of Candy <\/em>sounds (and feel) just like a nightmare I would have as a kid, and I know it sounds a bit niche but if I\u2019m more specific, they remind me of the unending black sky over a motorway with barely anyone on it. The distortion, vocals and the constant metal bin lid snare is all obviously a bit creepy, but it\u2019s the snatches of cleaner notes in tracks like You and Me <\/em>which is what gives Murderer<\/em>\u2019s sound such a disjointed and disturbing edge.<\/p>

There\u2019s loads more to say about the tinkly music-box intermissions tracks (four of them called Perfect<\/em>), the mixtures and contrasts of pace and the workings-in of strangely deadpan psychobilly, but I want to end off on saying that this LP is impossible to stop listening to. From beginning to end this album is ace and I cannot recommend you listen to it enough.<\/p>

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I already know that the first line of an article is supposed to be catchy, intriguing, maybe shocking… but definitely in some way, is also supposed to make the reader feel ensured that the writer is informed. I’m going to do the opposite and tell you that I’m not a fucking punk scholar! All I have to hold on to is the hope that the perspective of a 20 year old \u2013 writing 42 years on from when the first punk single in the UK was released \u2013 is at least (vaguely) interesting and new. Though to help me out a bit, I’ll be including opinions and quotes from punk musicians who actually know what they’re talking about (all retrieved from interviews, documentaries and writings created by people much more talented and hard-working than me). Anyway, in order to give any kind of answer to the title question, I thought it’d be best to establish three things:<\/p>

  1. Is PUNK an ATTITUDE or a SOUND?<\/span><\/p><\/li>

  2. Does POLITICS make PUNK?<\/span><\/p><\/li>

  3. Did PUNK DIE?<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ol>

    Once we have a grip on a working, supported definition of punk and understand if or when it disappeared and in what circumstances, we can conclude whether it’s dead and gone, or been lying dormant to erupt again.<\/span><\/p>

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    What do you get when you combine two gigs, 44 units of alcohol, 2 burgers, 1 kebab and about 14 hours sleep? You got it… the last four days of my life! In celebration of surviving the week without developing scurvy and\/or hepatitis\/a lapse of sanity, I’m going to be reviewing one of the most ludicrously-good punk albums to date: the Dead Kennedys’ Plastic Surgery Disasters<\/i>. It’s chaotic, it’s brimming with sound and pace and riffs writhing around in every direction… yet against all the odds, it still works. Sounds a bit like me on a Monday morning!<\/span><\/p>

    As inappropriate as the metaphor may be (considering Dead Kennedys’ previous release In God We Trust Inc.<\/i> which sort of lambasted Christianity), I think Plastic Surgery Disasters’ <\/i>Side A <\/i>is a big fat holy DK bible full of punk truths. It sure sucks to be you if you’re a student, a mechanic, a scientist, hippie or a Yankee with a giant caravan, because Jello Biafra fits a lot of ‘fuck yous’ onto just 12 inches of plastic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

    Allow me to set the scene. Government Flu<\/i>‘s preamble, and the album’s introductory track, is a scary fairytale warped by steel-wool chaos.\u00a0Advice From Christmas Past <\/i>is the neat and sweet American Dream disfigured by social reality, and the Dead Kennedys will take the next forty minutes to tell you all about it. Government Flu <\/i>lets us know they’re not hanging about when it launches off in every direction at once, practically foaming at the mouth. Ray’s bright and sinister riffs, Biafra’s drawls, and Peligro’s muscular drumming in Government Flu\u00a0<\/em>sets the tone for the rest of Side A, because it sure as fuck doesn’t get much slower…<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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    about My name is Syd and I write reviews and articles about punk bands I love and stuff that interests me about the scene. My favourite subgenre is UK82 but I love loads of others! I’ve been listening to punk since I was 14, so it’s been 13 years now and I’ve been hooked ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}