They released an album the explosive title of which was unwittingly provided by a pair of Millwall supporting hot-dog vendors.

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Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. All fun and games, but the legacy of PiL endured; the dreamscape guitar work of Keith Levene in particular can be heard throughout the 1980s as replicated by REM, The Cult, and even The Smiths. Happy Birthday To Me, the LA trio’s third album, combines major-key melodies and effervescent choruses with lyrics that speak of personal shortcomings and quiet disappointment.Suffer was the band’s first album for five years – its predecessor had sold in the hundreds – and their singer, Greg Graffin, was a full-time student at UCLA (today he is a lecturer in evolution at Cornell University). Recorded for less than four thousand bucks, the pioneering concept set would play a key influence on Green Day’s American Idiot. Billy Bragg once suggested that Billy Idol’s sneer was so pronounced that it could only have been controlled by a roadie at the side of the stage with a line of fishing wire. With 11 million sales to its name, Smash remains the highest-selling independent rock record of all time.

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New recruit Travis Barker added seriousness to their playing with his breakneck speed, which balanced out their crude humor and set them apart. GQ may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.Early touchstones like Singles Going Steady and Milo Goes To College set the tone, whereas Dookie and Smash ramped up the momentum for a new generation. Singer David Kelling has cerebral palsy, and aims to use his group’s music to change people’s perceptions of the condition by which he is burdened. Mariachi El Bronx is the alter-ego of The Bronx, a punk group from Los Angeles who at their best rollock as hard, and as capably, as any of their forbears. Singer Dexter Holland was a student at the University of Southern California who wrote Come Out And Play, a song about gang violence, after driving through Watts and Compton en route to classes (today he holds a doctorate in molecular biology).

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With the release of their second album, Joy As An Act Of Resistance, Bristol quintet Idles cemented their justified reputation as the finest domestic punk group of recent years.John Lydon himself was once asked for his opinion on his one-time London rivals, to which he replied that Joe Strummer was a man not “overburdened with wisdom. Appalled by their friends’ appetite for self-destruction, Minor Threat helped popularise a punk subculture known as ‘straight edge’ that eschewed drugs and alcohol in favour of hard work and productivity.