MY FAVORITE RECORDS #22: "THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION SOUNDTRACK" 

Later on in the '80s, The Replacements were my favorite band. I think they ended up being the best band of the '80s.

I saw the movie when it came out, and I've seen it multiple times since. I'd say it's the best punk rock documentary. By the time it came out, I'd already met the Ramones at a record store and seen the Ramones, the Clash, and Blondie. I was listening to the Buzzcocks, the Damned, etc. I was really into the early Black Flag stuff, the Adolescents, etc. I had a huge jambox, and I was playing this stuff on cassette as well as vinyl. I was constantly buying D batteries to feed the jambox so I could blast it outside. I saw X in the early '80s a bunch of times and they were my favorite. I loved Billy Zoom, and yes, that was D.J. Bonebreak on drums. I kept thinking about getting a tattoo of the X logo, but I never did. I saw the Descendents, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks. Those were the days! 😄

I grew up by the Cuckoos Nest in Costa Mesa so a lot of those bands played at that venue. The Decline was a major influence on me and I was lucky to meet Lee Ving and tell him that. I saw TSOL in the early eighties they are one of my favorite bands. Ron Emory is an incredible guitar player that had an impact on other guitar players like Jeff Hanneman. Anyone taking about the Decline, Suburbia, Germs, Circle Jerks, X, Black Flag, TSOL, Vandals and playing Rikk Agnew Christian Death/OTOP songs on guitar knows their punk. You would have fit right in with me and my friends in OC listening to the Decline and talking music in the early eighties. You may have seen this documentary on the Nest but here it is just in case. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_5U4OaiWwSM.html