Who thinks the NOFX ep the decline is a punk rock masterpiece?!
Question: If you do you rule!
Can you suggest any punk rock album, ep, or song that comes even close to how epic it is? or good? Chances are i've heard it, but you never know.
Answers: If you do you rule!
Can you suggest any punk rock album, ep, or song that comes even close to how epic it is? or good? Chances are i've heard it, but you never know.
EPs:
Hectic - Operation Ivy
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Albums:
...And Out Come The Wolves - Rancid
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Songs:
Wonderlust King - Gogol Bordello
Annabel Lee - Tiger Army
I could give you a TON more, but two each is enough. I used to love NOFX about 11-12 years ago, and seen them live several times, but they haven't been the same since Punk in Drublic.
it is in my opinion. green day has that long song that's like 8 minutes, off their last album, but they are nowhere near as good as nofx.
I do. I saw NoFX play a couple years ago. I seriously thought I was going to die in the pit lol.
Yeah, the Decline is a solid EP, often overlooked when people discuss the NOFX cataloger. That said....there are hundreds upon hundreds of albums much better. When you say epic, what do you mean? Also, another term you use -- punk rock -- is a loose term that can apply to different sorts of music spanning nearly 40 years.
Here are some I think are better than the decline. (song, or album)
The Who - A Quick One While He's Away (among others)
Rancid - any of their albums, Operation Ivy
Velvet Underground (especially 2nd album, and 1st one too)
Clash - London Calling (and all other lps)
Still Little Fingers (first two albums)
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Offspring (Smash, Americana, maybe Ignition)
At the Drive -In (any of their albums, eps)
Mars Volta
Black Flag (early stuff, My War)
Lars and the Bastards (1st)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits (any song, any album) (must include Glenn Danzig)
Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis (sketeches of spain), Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon
any Wagner opera (Gotterdamrung is my favourite), Verdi, Mozart
JS Bach (espeicially piano works, played by Glenn Gould)
Vladmir Ashkenazy's performance of Rachmaninovs 2nd and 3rd
Stooges (anything)
Nico
Rolling Stones (from beggars to exile)
QOTSA
Kyuss
Backwoods Payback
New York Dolls
Ramones (my favorite of theirs is 'Its Alive')
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Daniel Johnston : Songs of Pain
Coheed and Cambria (debateable)
Green Day (dookie for sure, some others debateable)
Pink Floyd (ONLY their first album when Syd was there)
Fugazi, Minor Threat
Bad Brains
The Germs
Joy Division
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
White Stripes
Black Sabbath (all up to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)
Lower East Side Stitches
Leftover Crack, Choking Victim
Patti Smith, Television
Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die (that was their only good album/epic)
etc
Nofx sucks.
"Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death" - Dead Kennedys
"Damaged" Black Flag
"My Brain Hurts" Screeching Weasel (no FAT WRECK SH*T!)
"Rock For Light" Bad Brains
"Pretty Ugly" Lunachicks
"Energy" Operation Ivy
my favorite album: "Sh*t Split" Blatz/Filth
Lookout Records Compilations:
Can Of Pork
The Thing That Ate Floyd
"Group Sex" Circle Jerks
"Death Rides A Pale Cow" Dead Milkmen
"Hungry For Stink" L7
Live DVD The Plasmatics
Crimpshrine
Bikini Kill
Nasal Sex
Jack Acid
Lookouts
Isoracy
Corrupted Morals
Vice Squad
7 Year B*tch
Criminals
Gr'ups
Masterpieces, b*tch.