I know I f*cking hate them.

That goes for the Anti Nowhere League too.

Oh and anything under the label of Oi.

^ditto

although i will say that at time Anti Nowhere League gets a few laughs for their incredibly crass lyrics (ie woman and so what)

but i could never understand the appeal of Exploited and or Wattie (sp?...not even worth looking up) he falls in the same lines of Tim Armstrong for me....trying way to hard to be the poster boy for punk rock....uuuhhhggg!

as for Oi....i feel like there was this brief time in the late 90s when the neo nazi skin thing was kind of dying out (at least in reno).....and the punk scene here was fucking flooded with this "traditional" skin bullshit....which i feel is not much different at all....save one group openly liked swastikas and the other behind closed doors.....still just brute music for brute mentality....lost a few friends during this period

I'm kind of more drawn to the intellectual art school side of punk rather than a bunch of thug like football chanting style punk.

Everyone was just so enamored of the uniform and the archetypal image it seemed to exude that post-adolescent boys would do anything to keep their Doc Martens laced and their heads freshly shaved, and their bomber jackets on while vehemently denying the implication that they might be a racist. It went so far as the SHARP movement (SkinHeads Against Racial Predjudice) which to me was nothing more than a bunch of whiney white kids struggling to justify their own outdated image.

I don't know you but I don't like you already.

Aw, but I like their song. Especially when they do it like this:

I Don't Care


Also, it's kind of unfair to compare them to the likes of The Clash and punk rock that came later because they swear that when they started in the mid-70s they were only making a trashy version of 1960s bubblegum pop.

No. Green Day. Not a big fan of The Exploited but their 82 album Streets Of Tomorrow is much less Oi and more Hardcore and I quite like it.

As for Dead Kennedy's they don't really do a lot for me either although I like Biafra's work with Lard.

Agreed. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension why Bad Religion does not get more credit and are not more well known. I'm a progressive rock fan by nature, but Bad Religion is absolutely one of my favorite bands. Not only have they not ever released a truly bad album, but they are certainly one of the most prolific bands in punk, starting in 81 and releasing albums at regular intervals since 1988.

i also really hate punk bands with a socio-political agenda, especially when the lyrics are pretty bad at getting the point across, like Crass

generally, i hate bad socio-political lyrics e.g. Manic Street Preachers

i think the ones that sound reasonable, or at the very least they're unintelligible when i listen to it, are Napalm Death

do not get the people who bitch and complain about a bigger band opening for a band (like the Bad Religion and Against Me thing here)

they do it because it gets more people in to see them, more people do not wanna be late, so will go see the opening band... but if you put them on after, people will just leave after they see the band they like, no matter how big they are. So better to have Bad Religion open for Against Me, as it guarentees more people will watch.