{"id":347,"date":"2025-07-21T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:06:28","slug":"70s-punk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/?page_id=347","title":{"rendered":"70S PUNK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What a massively under-rated track. Breakdown <\/i>is rapid, harsher, more jagged than the self-proclaimed ‘pop’ hits the Buzzcocks are remembered by. Its tune gripping and vivid, its feel fresh and lively – and as one of the first punk singles to hit the UK in ’77, Breakdown <\/i>deserves triple the credit it gets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If you ever wanted to hear what a sludgy ghoulish dream would sound like, then this is the song for you! Like a lot of other tracks on their Static Age <\/i>album, In The Doorway <\/i>carries a gloomy, dingy sound that grumbles with distortion as it washes over you, Danzig’s vocal moving smoothly throughout, like rich velvet. Although it bears a different kind of energy to the other singles of the week I’ve posted, I really can’t shake this song. If you like it as much as I do, I’m sure it’ll be living with you for a good few days.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I would like to tell you that I chose this song without the intention to make a really crap and frankly insensitive joke about what\u2019s going on in the world right now, but I suppose I can only say that this version of Cough\/Cool <\/em>is one of the best things I\u2019ve heard from The Misfits.<\/p>

Obviously that\u2019s up to taste: I do really like the simple drumming and almost-out-of-tune distortion that you can hear in most of their well-known tracks, but there\u2019s something about this single that\u2019s honestly astonishing to listen to. Distortion in its tradition sense isn\u2019t what I hear in the 1977 Cough\/Cool<\/em> but I think this version is more raw than anything else The Misfits have done. There\u2019s something about the electric keyboard\u2019s blue notes and Glenn Danzig\u2019s velvet vocals sounding pretty far off yet still vital, as if the sound is bouncing around a churchyard. And fuck me!!!!! Manny Martinez on drums is a fucking magician!! The snare rolls are slithering all over the place and it sounds so brilliant with all the rest of the eeriness. I wonder what happened to him, he\u2019s the only drummer of the Misfits I\u2019ve ever heard who\u2019s worthy of remark. Maybe Danzig pissed on him or something.<\/p>

I remember hearing the later version of Cough\/Cool <\/em>on Collection II <\/em>like six years ago or something and still being taken aback by how it sounded. It was the first I\u2019d heard of The Misfits\u2019 ghoulish stuff at a more measured pace than I was used to, and I remember liking it. Everything sounds more sterile in that version – the drumming is considerably less interesting and the snare sounds like it belongs in a Bon Jovi song – but I\u2019ll link the two so you can hear the comparison and judge for yourself.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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BUZZCOCKS \u2013 BREAKDOWN What a massively under-rated track. Breakdown is rapid, harsher, more jagged than the self-proclaimed ‘pop’ hits the Buzzcocks are remembered by. Its tune gripping and vivid, its feel fresh and lively – and as one of the first punk singles to hit the UK in ’77, Breakdown deserves triple the credit it […]<\/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-347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebelagainuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}