| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 2/28/2007 4:15:20 PM | Once a mod always a mod...we had style,class,and music you could actually dance to...if you had greasy hair and spots you became a rocker..if you were a moron you became a punk...if you were cool you became a mod...  ...the last bit was said tongue in cheek before I get verbally abused on here..
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 2/28/2007 4:28:03 PM | hey while we on the subject, can anyone name a punk band member with a bald head , has to be from the seventies, and fairly well know , i cant think of one.
to stay on the thread all the music from these genre produced excellant stuff | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 2/28/2007 7:55:13 PM | | I was all the way into Punk when I was younger. I didn't get full into the dress but I would have been a good punk I think... hahah | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 2:59:48 AM | I got into the punk scene from 1984 to 1989 because some of my mates I used to hang about with were punks. A few of my mates at school in the late seventies and early eighties were into youth cults but I didn't get into it at the time. I remember many parents were horrified at the punks because of the outrageous way they dressed.
I remember it was a violent time too in the late seventies and early eighties when youth cults were at their height because punks used to fight mods. And sometimes mods used to fight sknheads and casuals. By 1984 though youth cult rivalry had died down a lot mainly due to the rise of scooter boys or scooterists which included a mixture or mods, skins and a few punks and casuals. This website here www.punk77.co.uk gives a big insight into the early punk scene from 1976 to 1979. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 3:19:07 AM | "We are the Mods"
Bands like The Jam really opened my very young and impressionable mind to some of the best music you're ever likely to hear. The Kinks epitomise everything i could want from a band. (except maybe Chrissie Hynde dressed in her leathers)
Punk was o.k, but it just became a parody once the 80's kicked in.
As for the Rockers, well they had Buddy Holly didnt they, if he'd lived i believe he would have become the greatest Musician/songwriter of all time bar none. The true King of Rock & Roll
Now where did i put my fishtail......... | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 4:05:07 AM | Here's a puzzler.
The Who. Probably one of the biggest icons of the MOD genre. But if they don't play rock music I'm not sure I know what rock is.
I find there are far to many grey areas with music for me to fall neatly into any pigeonhole.
Every genre has it's good and bad. I prefer to cherry pick the best bits from all of them.
Apart from Jazz. People who can't play a proper tune making it up as they go along. What's that all about? | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 3/1/2007 4:36:59 AM | There's no such thing as "mod music"...mod was a fashion statement more than anything else...it was about attitude and style and the music that mods have listened to over the last 40 years varies from old rhythm and blues,soul,motown,northern soul and psychadelic rock through to bands such as the jam,ocean colour scene,stone roses etc.
Rock music, as you would call it, stemmed from bands such as the who and small faces...it was a progression for them...proper rockers listened to 50's rock and roll...although as time has gone by things have indeed blurred. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 7:29:30 AM | Got to be punk for me. Still sounds as fresh as a daisy.
Then again you can't beat a bit of pre-Reggae ska either. Then again as you get older I think that you do tend to open up to more kinds of music. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 3:38:42 PM |
The Who. Probably one of the biggest icons of the MOD genre. But if they don't play rock music I'm not sure I know what rock is. I find there are far to many grey areas with music for me to fall neatly into any pigeonhole. The Who played heavy rock style music, not late 50s style rock'n'roll which the sixties rockers listened to. This thread is confusing because it mentions rockers. There are two types of rockers the 1960s rockers who were the follow on from the Teds who still listened to rock'n'roll but brought in new fashions such as leather jackets and rode motorbikes. Then there are the heavy rockers who appeared right at the end of the 1960s and who listened to more modern heavy rock music. Two seperate cults but with the same name. | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 3/1/2007 11:35:53 PM | I went through so many phases but punk was the longest & best. loved the music, clothes, hairstyle (although my mum wasn't impressed at the time!)
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Posted: 3/1/2007 11:43:58 PM | Have to be the mods for how they dressed, I love a suited and booted man, mmmmm 
the men looked so smart, well under the parka's anyway..
I was a mod in the 80's and was always down carnaby street. I prefer a Lambretta to a Vespa, but a big meaty road bike would be better  | |
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Posted: 3/2/2007 3:03:47 AM | Yes Mods, and then into the skinhead culture. The clothes were good, always looked smart. Scooters were amazing, but best of all its got to be the music......keep the faith | |
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Posted: 7/9/2008 8:34:27 PM | | Man, I envy you all, I wish I had bee born during those years to experience life at the time. One of my favorite movies depicting this era is "SLC Punk" if anyone has ever seen it. I definitely would have been a punk, since I already dress punkish/metal-headish and listen to heavy music. Of course, I think going backwards a decade and being a greaser would be even better! | |
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Posted: 7/9/2008 10:40:45 PM | Mods every time very very stylish, smart hair, clothes, shoes etc etc.
The music was very varied and in the 80's mods music ventured into ska also and teamed with the skinhead culture locally to me.
My first concert ever was The Specials on mid-summer common Cambridge the marque was full of mods and skin heads quite a bit of trouble i seem to remember with the band arrested afterwards for inciting a riot.
lol lol happy days! | |
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Posted: 7/9/2008 11:51:28 PM | | Sitting here in my Ben Sherman top its Mod definitely -the culture is still going strong - look at the Modfathers - Paul Wellers following still - and the best music in the world ska is still doing the rounds in different forms today. Scooter rallys are big news too. | |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 12:05:06 AM | I was a bit of a chameleon I think .. never totally into any of those three groups, but enjoyed dipping into all types of music (and to some extent cultures), in addition to the hippy music ..
However I think that one or two people are confusing "punk" with "new wave" music ...
Now I find that I can listen to almost any kind of music from Jack Jones , grace Slick and Generation X, to Delibes and Wagner ,,, depends on the mood !! And the woman I am with .... | |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 12:22:34 AM | | The reason the mods had so many mirrors on their hairdryers, was because they were such posers that they would rather look at themselves than watch the road, thats why you saw so many crumpled scooters, and the press used to blame us rockers for doing the damage! | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 7/10/2008 3:54:33 AM | I was a Mod as a young teen but I evolved into a scooterist by about '86. as it was a better scene.
i remeber riding my Sx190 200 miles to exmouth scooter rally, and when I was on my way home the flywheel fell off. thank god for the AA... | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 7/10/2008 5:17:43 AM | Got to be Mod for me as I was one once you know,
I had a few scooters and did all that Mod thing.
it was a great life and the women were pleanty LOL
but i think it was just the lurr of the scooters and our looks,
not many lads our age wore suites and ties lol
I still love the music from back then.
I think the Mod erra is on its way back as I see alot of scooters running about again now.
AHHHH Them were the days :-) | |
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| Mods, Rockers or Punks...
Posted: 7/10/2008 8:56:46 AM | I was a punk, and as an angry young 15year old in 1977, it came quite naturally.
Me and my girlfriends also had our own band called The Fannylips. Not quite as eloquent a name as The Slits, but not bad for smalltown Fife!
I still love the music, along with all of the new stuff that punk still influences.
I retain some of the punk attitude, and still have a low bullsh*t tolerance level.
Dresswise, black and red are still my default colours, although now I look more like middle-aged Goth. | |
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