Exploring Punk Rock Music With TNT 

@The Adventures Of TNT My mom was a kid in the 50s & they had what they called Punk Pubs & Cafes. She said it was mostly Beatniks & Bikers who adopted the slanderous term. "Yea, that's right, we're Punks!". Some say it goes back into the 40s. & the angst music had multi names (as does still) & Punk was also used back then. So it blended & mixed with the expanding scenes. Hippies & Rockers mostly & my mom was a bit of the 4. Later 60s mostly Hard Rock & then Metal, & she worked with a lot of the big bands of that time in the Philly scene. Being born to a teenage mom at that time, who took me along to mostly everything was a great experience. Being so close to NY the area scenes crossovered a lot & then so did the music more & more. Fans traveled then formed bands & Tri-State+ support fueled so much. Mostly small places hosted local shows. Then CBGBs was taken over by the Punks. It was a scene & not a genre. Many of bands that played were varied styles, later all under the Punk term. Patty Smith, Iggy Pop, Ramones, to Misfits etc. Many different sounds & styles, all coming together. Fan base grew & many made it into the mainstream. Similar scenes formed all around the world. Many in the US. Yet UK stepped it up. Tape trading became huge. My moms friend would travel all over. To LA & UK mostly & would bring back so many tapes. Got to hear Sex Pistols, Motorhead, Venom Iron Maiden & Def Leppard, then Suicidal Tendencies, Motley Crue & Metallica from their starts. & I traded copies to hear more like Forced Entry, DRI, Die Kruzen, Seduce, Helloween & so on. So bands didn't have to be huge to be heard & tours & shows became plentiful. Many made it to the US & influencing the next waves & so on. Clubs were opening like crazy. Rollerskating Rinks after hours & even Chuck E Cheese had Punk & Metal bands playing. & yet many bands that were of the heavier kind had hard times getting booked. Luckily there were a few to axxomadate them. Around here we had City Gardens. & Randy Ellis kept the shows cheap. Thankfully most were low cost then. Even stadium shows were under $10. Cheap enough to go check out a show & not know anyone & leave with some hand printed shirts & a few copied recorded tapes of new bands. At least a few great shows a week. Sometimes a few in 1 night. My time from MetalHead, who loved Punk & many styles, but became a Thrash Baby❣ As many did & then they had many Punk side projects, some of which got big too. Continued going to shows with my Mom. Dreams of opening our own club+. Followed in my Moms footsteps some, working in the scenes & with bands & went beyond with Promotions, Photography, Production, Recording, Management & so on. Right before some big things & a dream world tour that was planned, a drunk driver hit me head on & all spiraled down & i was out of the scene for several years. Had little contact with a few & all i heard & saw seemed sad. Bit after Y2K i started to get back into some. Got out to some shows & fests & got real sad when i saw how things ran. John Connelly from Nuclear Assault/Anthrax & Billy Milano SOD/MOD recognized me & got spinning bear hugs. We caught up some during load off, which they had no one they trusted to help. Yet my reputation remained & we were trusted to help. There were a few "working" females, yet i don't know any that were really trusted. Most knew, i was not in it for the fame or fortune. & i did not F my bands! In any way! All for the love of music! & treated like a brother. Sadly, the tight Brotherhood that once was, was killed by what came after... I started doing more what i use to do, the way i use to as much as i could. Worked with some of my old bands. Got others to reunite & new bands. Even got to run a club that had the dream theme & many aspects me & my Mom wanted oddly. She loved bringing her friends there. I reignited the scene around here a bit. Upping the ante & lit a fire under rears of other clubs so that they treated the band's better. i tried to instill some of the old school ways & mindset on the younger bands. Those who claimed to be Punk, didn't know most of the fundamentals. We mixed shows up & shared stories of how it was & should be again. I like to think some understood & got a bit. Unfortunately not enough. Thus why is said Punk is dead. Yet the true few rage on still. So the good ol stuff lives. & some new were lucky enough to some how get it, or in part enough to be taken serious by their forefathers. I pray everyday somehow the words keep spreading enough for the clueless to het it & help those who are struggling & scenes around the world light up as they once were, or even half way i would settle for! Sorry for the novel- but that's a bit of my perspective ~

Respect to CRASS! Growing food, feeding people, educating people about freedom and self-sufficiency

Cheers for choosing Subvert City ! Subhumans playing the Earl in Atlanta on June 7, can put you on guest list if you want to see it live?! Cheers! Dick (singer)

Brit punk here. There back in '77. Turn sixty in a week. How the bloody hell did that happen. First wave Brit stuff you've got Pistols, Clash, Damned, X Ray Spex, Slits, Penetration. Second wave is Ruts, UK Subs, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects, Stiff Little Fingers and the third wave is the more hardcore stuff like Discharge, GBH, Exploited, Anti Nowhere League, Crass and all the other crusty bands. There's still some good bands out now, Knock Off being my standout band. Great seeing someone discover the music I've loved for the last forty six years. It's not a fashion it's a state of mind. Once a punk always a punk. Keep diving bud.

PUNKS picnic was held in princess street gardens below Edinburgh castle for years , but moved on to an island on the river forth and is still held every year and oi polloi are regulars

Thanks for making this video. 56 year old punk here from OC and LA. Brings tears to my eyes when people rediscover and appreciate our fight. ... that we still fight.

- Ratos de Porão - Bad Brains - Crass - Minor Threat - Oi Polloi

Discharge had their own sound and were big influences on bands like Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and the like. Very influential band. See Nothing Hear Nothing Say Nothing, Ain't No Feeble Bastard, Never Again, State Violence State Control are stand outs.

Now that you've crawled down this rabbit hole, there's no turning back. Now you're one of us.... one of us, one of us... 😁

Been Uk punk since I was 15 (42 years ago)! Love how you introduced this video and how you talk about some of my favourite bands subhumans crass etc. Crass imho we’re a class apart… penny Rimbaud genius songwriter and visionary. Crass were massive in the Uk in their time with almost zero media coverage

You gotta check out Toy Dolls - Livin La Vida Loca. Or Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl... a couple of Happy Punk Bands

As an 80s Punk kid, it was all about DK, ST, Subhumans, Bad Brains, Decedents, Misfits, Black Flag, and Minor Threat.

Your comment about "how metal was shaped..." You are right on point my friend! As far as the Motorhead comment. I read an interview with Lemmy and he emphatically said essentially..., "We are not a metal band. We are more like punk than anything else. We are rock and roll. If you have to categorize us, we play "MOTORHEAD MUSIC"

Bad Religion’s music literally saved my life. Will always be my favorite band of all time.

@The Adventures Of TNT Got on late & replaying now. Oddly reflecting on EC Punk scene. Punk Nite &or set weekly or monthly Live Streams❣️You got a great ear & love your dead on interpretations! TC💜🤘

Just a thought..., I spoke with my friends, Mike Watt (Minutemen - Bassist) and Kira (Black Flag, Dos - Bassist). We were having a conversation about hip hop and my observations that a lot of punks were getting into hip hop. I asked them their thoughts and they told me, " because it is the last dangerous music". I asked them who their favorite artist was in hip hop and they BOTH replied, "RAKIM". I could not disagree. Rakim and DJ Premiere are part of the back bone.... Yes, Ice T has a heavy punk and metal history. We used to go to the RADIO club in Los Angeles where Ice T MC'd after we worked punk gigs at the Olympic Auditorium back in the day....

I’ve been a subhumans fan since ‘83 when The day the Country Died came out. Changed my world. If you really want a masterpiece though, Listen to From the Cradle to the Grave. It’s 17 minutes long. The band I played bass in opened for Bad Religion and GBH (1986) at Jackie Robinson YMCA in San Diego. It was so cool of the local promoters to give some local bands a chance to be heard too. Dag Nasty! Another great band. Unbelievable live. Meatmen! Good lord. Tesco Vee sounds like nobody else. So fun. Great times. Thank you, sir

If you want to hear bands that influenced all this modern Techno/Rave music, check out - Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Pailhead, Pigface, KMFDM, My life with the thrill kill kult, Front 242, NIN, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, and any other Industrial Punk Band.

As a kid who grew up listening to punk the second I heard hard gangster rap I felt a kinship. A lot of us who had hard times can relate to these genres and the oppression of police presence on the less fortunate regardless

Would have joined this if it wasn't in the middle of the night on a work day for me. Glad to see punk being explored. Off to see Stiff Little Fingers in Manchester on Friday. Should be a great gig.

Punk rock and early hip hop are cousins to each other. Yall are correct! Very similar. Came from the underground, many came from lower social status/upbringing/poverty, in your face, rebellious, outspoken against injustice, strong messages, sacarstic/funny, catchy music and vocals, good bass guitars, etc. Both genres grew up with each other in big cities back then too (late'70s, '80s) in smaller night clubs. There was 'goofy" punk rock too like new wave, garage rock, early indie/alt. BTW lol . Anyhow, those who says punk is dead are normally older grumpy gatekeepers. Ignore them lol. Punk never died it just evolved just like any other genres as well. Many subgenres. Also, yes. Body Count is crossover punk (punk fusion with rap, metal, etc) . DRI, Bad Brains, Suicidal Tendencies, Municipal Waste, Beastie Boys, MOD, SOD, Anthrax, etc are similar to Body Count too . Same subgenre.. Lot of crossover punk bands came from the coast too. NYC, DC, etc (east coast) and LA, SF, etc (westcoast) where rap and punk have heavy scenes and blendings. Also Houston , TX (DRI, etc). Ska-punk is very big too (mixture of ska/reggae and punk). Same thing. Lots of ska/reggae and punk bands grew up together in the underground scene and clubs (UK, LA, NYC, etc) . Started influencing each other musically. This is why many skaters love punk, ska/reggae and hip hop at the same time lol.

Dude you have the best show going with this topic

@The Adventures of TNT : Your thoughts at 11:00 ... Dude, you just summed it all up. I could tell, and so could others, that you listened to older stuff and HEARD the difference. You GOT it. Yep, I've relaxed in my older years... I like SO MUCH STUFF that is NOT punk. But I still bristle at people calling things "punk" when they just AINT.

Missed your stream, chat so will post here, my journey in punk started in 1983 when a mate gave me two singles Sex pistols - My way 12" and Angelic upstarts - im an upstart (green vinyl 7"), got into 77 punk, UK 82 punk and OI! music, then i got more into Crass etc and turned more Anarcho punk, then got more into Grindcore, reggae, free festival stuff.

I just found you in the past 24 hours and 110% join for all the live streams of punk and metal.

Thank you...for exploring Punk Rock music and actually exploring punk rock music!!! It was heavy English...no problem with that. There was a The Screamers in LA doing Peer Pressure... and other areas of punk arriving at the same time. BUT... I LOVE you are at real punk...

BTW, love Crass!! Great bass guitars.

I was born in 1982 and was a teenager when punk was underground but coming to the pop forefront. Watching you discover this has made my whole day. Thank you for receiving our chaos pain and alarm warnings with such an open heart and mind. I love it.

Grew up on a lot of these bands as well as old metal and hip hip. I’m so stoked you listened to I want to conquer the world by Bad Religion. Such an amazing song. They were definitely one of my favorites specifically that album. The Descendants are another rad OG California punk band you should check out if you haven’t yet. Milo goes to college is a classic! 🍻

Sham 69 made my heart happy!

Punk music unites if you let it. It's too bad most of culture is so caught up with status instead of educating oneself how the machine (GOV) works and what they do to try and keep us numb and dumb. So glad I discovered this music through Metallica and thrash in 85. Crossover was a huge thing here in the bay area late 80s. Metal heads and punks moshing together at shows. At first the punks hated the metal heads and vice versa. Then DRI came along to unite us all with the Crossover record defining a new genre. So glad people like you TNT are exposing yourself and your followers to it. Best from the SF Bay Area.

See how happy the songs made you though!

I remember seeing GBH supported by English Dogs ( check them out) at The Grot in Stafford, UK. Nearly collapsed the sprung floor and brought the ceiling down, mosh pit so good!

Another great reaction video brother glad I subscribed

Punk isn't dead, as always, the good stuff is just primarily underground and you have to seek it out

really like your channel, well the punk stuff anyway i’ve been into punk from a young lad, im 57 now, still live a alternative life and live with anarchy and peace in my heart ✌️

Congratulations, you are one of the few not growing up with punk that understand the message and the movement. Great selection of bands but pitty your focus is on the more well-known U.K and USA punk bands. When punk popped up in 1976 it popped up in every western country, when hardcore take over at the end of the 70's it popped up allover the world. From Peru to The Philippines from South Africa to Hungary. Maybe something to think about. Being in the punk movement from the mid 80's and playing in some bands myself I can send you some nice stuff. Grts

Sham 69, what a driving influence in my young life!!!

TSOL, Dead Kennedy's, misfits, 45 grave, exploited, black flag, gorilla biscuits, minor threat. Especially minor threat one for the founders of hardcore. And you should listen to DRI early music.

2nd wave uk punk is the difinitive music for me. GBH, the Exploited, Subhumans, Conflict, Cockney Rejects, the 4skins, Last Resort all had albums out early 80's that i consider classics

SubHumAns gigs were fantastic...very bouncy and fun...

Bad Religion's "I Want to Conquer the World" is killer live. Lots of crowdsurfing. 🤘

I'm loving the comments, thought this was a pretty solid turnout for an ep 1. Hopefully there will be more where this came from!

I love how happy this music makes you.

Aus-rotten are one of my favorite bands, awesome to see someone reacting to then. Try out these as well : Nausea - Cybergod, Behind Enemy Lines - The Global Cannibal, The Pist - Your America, World Burns To Death - They Want A War

What a great stream! Lots of real good picks! I never heard that awesome Shitfaced Penguins song before! That Meatmen joint was badass too. Really, every sing on this stream kicked some ass. I want more of this☝️🤘🤘🤘

Love Sham 69! Thanks for posting this song.

Punk is a wide sonic and esthetic spectrum... Everything from almost retro-sounding dirty rock'n'roll with basic chords and shouty street protest vocals, from melodic singing and upbeat slow tempo to extreme speeds, even more extreme than some of the metal bands, not to mention extreme vocals, lyrics, esthetics and practically almost noise sounding bands. There are many subgenres of punk and styles of it. Some are more well-known, some are more underground. pop punk, street punk, skate punk, hardcore punk, crust punk, oi punk, etc...

All about the subhumans, CRASS & Conflict.

I found punk when i was about 11 a friends older brother was in a punk band and had the mohawks and all the associated garb. He would give us burned tapes to scope out Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, Misfits Earth Ad, Seven Seconds Walk Together Rock Together, and Bad Religion Suffer, those 4 albums were and still are pillars 32 years later.

Punk was the only genre created in reaction to pop music. When the age of disco was force-feeding people trends before music, dirty kids with no musical ability said "fuck it. If you won't give me what I want I'll do it myself." At least in the states. In the UK it was about a hopeless future, no jobs, etc. Though even from the get-go the genre was hypocritical to some degree. I mean the Sex Pistols were formed like a boy band.

i played Big A Little A for a few of my friends who mainly listen to mainstream hip-hop stuff just to see what they thought, and they were bobbing their heads so hard i thought they were gonna get concussed.

Punk rock made me a man, Black flag, Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers, Fang, Scratch Acid, and Wipers are some of my faves!

MINUTEMEN? Clean guitar solos, they were punk with jazz elements and Workers lyrics!! From San Pedro, CA. Bassist Mike Watt went on to play with Iggy...

Love 6ou for doing these

Cool and thanks for doing this! Punk is a genre so hard to breakdown because there was different aspects of it happening at the same time. While there was the U.K. punk scene happening in the latter part of the 70's there was also the American Punk scene going on at at the same time . Raised in punk rock here in Southern California we had our own punk scenes that developed in the early 80's and it varied as well. The 2 major scenes were the L.A. Punk scene and the Orange County Punk scene and soon after the Valley Punks each scene giving the scene some great bands. Great So. Cal punk rock bands to check out on your own time would be: The Germs, the Weirdos, Black Flag, Bad Religion, U.X.A., the Gears, Eddie and the Subtitles, Minor Threat, (old ) Social Distortion , ILL RePuTE. The culture of UK and American Punks were quite different and yet the same. Thanks again and hopefully on your own time check them out. There's a great documentary here on RU-vid talking about the early So. Cal Punk scene be sure to check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6QS_U4eOaTw.html

punkrock is brutal raeality on fast forward😁nice to see , that you understand the message. its so heartwarming for an old punk( I am 60) -Punk Never Dies !🥳

I’m almost certain that body count was heavily influenced by GBH. Iced-tea knows his shit when it comes to hard-core.

If someone told me that Meatmen cut at the end was from '85/86, I wouldn't question it.... that's the stuff I heard more and more at shows back then, and we called it "Speed Metal." As for your "punk influencing metal" idea: hard to say!! I felt Metal influenced Punk in the mid-80s more than the other direction. In retrospect, "punk" didn't go the way ~I~ wanted; it went the way everyone else wanted; and more kids wanted metal. Decades later, though, WOW, I respect metal; it's just as real.

love your reaction show kust a little history about me have been listening to punk/new wave since the early 80s and well the city I lived in wasnt punk friendly mostly cowboys and rodeo freaks here one song I would suggest looking at is Rise Against by the band Black Flag with Henrey Rollins as the lead singer it is in my humble opinion a song that was formative for west coast punkrock

How worrying that these songs are still relevant today, (even more so…..) Great show 👍🏻

You were spot on you said punk was about forming a community, I was twelve when I went to my first gig and my mum (you say mom) was worried because of all the bull the tabloids had written about Sex Pistols. She didn't have a clue about Crass, Conflict,SUB HUM ANS etc! Punk got a bad rap because of the media the way we looked and only the kids read the lyrics on our records.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thanks Cristofer🤘🖤🤘

@Skates Regarding DRI not being punk, but crossover: Sure, I LOVED the parts they had that were hardcore, and didn't want the crossover, ie Metal, parts. But to exclude them from seminal hardcore sounds makes us poorer, not that I would've said that nearly 40 years ago. YES, I got really good at fast-forwarding through metal bits of "Dealing With It" to get at the good parts (uhhh, Counterattack is a fantastic 30 second American Hardcore cut). YES, I was disappointed when their crossover album came out with the metal-sheen logo... it declared where they were, and alas, that wasn't where I was back then. These days though, I've relaxed; I don't recoil at the metal bits at all. I'm happy to include them, pointing at the pure hardcore bits, and recognizing they indeed Crossed Over.

great show good stuff

I bought the BP CD because of this stream. I had never heard of them. It’s great.

Yes CBGB in NYC very influential in getting punk movement going here. Iggy Pop, Blonde ( even) ,Steve Bator, The Ramones basically bands that couldn't play elsewhere had there " breakout" at this club. The punk look that I saw in England in the mid 70's I didn't see here till much later... but the movement did catch on....

Great reactions my man! Here are some good punk rock songs to check out: No - Subhumans The Economy is Suffering - Anti-Flag Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - Ramones 🤘

FINALLY someone reacting to punk music

For a current band that still has the essence of the old punk values, try the "Idles", and a song to start with that captured me into getting into them was "Grounds"

Fuck man you get it I love this I’ve been a punk ever since 15 years of age and I saw the pist last week next door from their show

In Birmingham UK we have a punx picnic every year put together by Adam Ward we had Australian south American and USA punk bands playing this year 24 26 27 28 and 30 july 2024 but there is alot of theses punk picnics going on all over the country they are great get together like Rbellion but done cheaper

Dead Kennedys always superb. Thanks.

Aus rotten has been my favorite band for 20 years... but im a huge fan of every band in this video...oi polloi, crass, subhumans are what got me in the scene

Subhumans, one of the best punk-rock band ever !

I grew up on 70s-80s punk - Sub Hum Ans, The Cramps, The Faction, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and so many more. I am just excited now that I am sharing it with my 5 year old - who loves DK, Nick Cave, Skinny Puppy and the Special's. SubHumAns do some great tuned - Mickey Mouse is Dead, From the Cradle to the Grave. Xyclone B Movie, Waste of Breath

Aus-Rotten are by far the best punk band lyrically and musically. It's like you're listening to the mind of someone like Noam Chomsky or Michael Parenti with the revolutionary anger of someone like Thomas Sankara. Dave Trenga, the vocalist, formed another band that after Aus-Rotten split called Behind Enemy Lines, which is basically are harder, more mature version of Aus-Rotten, which I honestly prefer. Behind Enemy Lines is monstrously underrated. I have a bunch of their lyric videos on my channel along with Aus-Rotten.

Although I love all the Tea Punk that came out of the UK. I'm going to list my favs from LA and the OC. Vandals, Social Distortion , The Crowd, X, Simpletones , Rik L Rik, TSOL

Check out: Star Fucking Hipsters; The Suicide Machines - Destruction By Definition (1996); The Hanson Brothers - 1992 - Gross Misconduct; The Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell, Static Age; Career Suicide ‎- Attempted Suicide; Good Riddance - Thoughts and Prayers; Bishops Green - Tumbling Down; Rude Pride - Outta My Way ...

Has our host heard the Stranglers yet ? That's not a situation that can continue. How about we just kick off with 'Sometimes' - song 1 from album 1 and just plow straight ahead from there ?

I'm 45 years old and still love punk rock and hardcore with all my heart!

The Punx Picnic was an annual event, where the Punx and skins would gather in Princess Street Gardens in Edinburgh, we'd get drunk and then play a game of football. Later there'd be a few punk bands playing and of course Oi Polloi, were always a favourite so the night the played this for the first time was fantastic

First punk rock song that came out in the UK was a single by the Damed title Neat Neat Neat, New Rose

Just getting back into music after doing life, and stumbled onto Otoboke Beaver this year, an all female japanese punk band. Such a great sound. Checkout Otoboke Beaver "don't light my fire" (or any song really) ... it's fabulously controlled chaos ❤

well said

Motörhead even did a version of Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen,and Megadeth did a version of Anarchy in the U.K.

The Bouncing Souls or Face to Face. Both are great bands. 👍

subhumans are still around.....going to see them in march 2024.... his other band culture shock just played my town a few months ago. tons of these 82 punk bands are still bang at it. uk subs are doing a final tour at the moment. i grew up with this stuff. lucky enough there is a cool bar where i live and these bands are still playing. we still here.

You just got to love Jello Biafra's skills as a lounge singer in the beginning of "California Uber Alles"!

lived it big time.

Well shit I missed the one stream I could have contributed to

12:00 absolute fire. Keep burning trash lol. 👍👍

The Exploited, Discharge,GBH

Used to listen to Subhumans on a tape cassette when I was in school, they were ahead of their time, addressing topics that are still relevant today.

There was also a Subhumans from Vancouver at around the same time. One of the (Gerry Useless) ended up in jail for blowing up a factory where cruise missile guidance components were built.

Subhumans are one of my favorite bands ever. Subvert City is one of their best songs. Some of their other songs you should listen to are Society , No, Religious Wars, Dehumanisation, Apathy, This Years War and Labels. Also, the fact that some of their songs are 40 years old and are still relevant today. I can't tell if it's good writing or the fact that shit never changes. Also they are announced a U.S tour. And I read that they were going to be in Atlanta, GA June 7 you should go. They are a great live band.

T. You're one of us. Gotta listen to the subhumans album ' Worlds Apart'.

A recommendation from me listen to this song PRIMITIVE LOVE RITES by the Australian punk rock MONDO ROCK from the late 70's you'll gonna love it

Would love to see reaction to more Crass. “Do They Owe Us A Living” and “Rival Tribal Rebel Revel”. Crass tells it like it is.

Check out Cuture Shock and Citizen Fish, both bands are fronted by the same guy from the Subhumans with a ska twist.