"A PUNK CALLED HESHER!"
342073
In the 26 years of watching Joseph Gordon Levitt grow-up before our eyes,"HESHER" was quite a departure from his days on "3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN",,and inspite of this movie's brutal and crude approach to life,the Anarchistic charecter that Levitt plays,was almost mystical-of a sort!
the deep and emotional impact of the movie's two main charecters,,TJ and his Father,was certainly understandable,having to deal with an intimate tragedy,with the loss of his wife,we watch little TJ going through hell,,being bullied by a punk kid,who does vulgar things,,being in an uncaring and unsympathetic world,as the little boy tries to save his mom's car-his only tie to his mother,,and then his encounter with Hesher,which has to be the ultimate mind blowing experience for a child to deal with,watching an unapologetic,i'll do what i want,charecter,who pulls no punches-although the scene,where Hesher hits the boy with his van,,that's kinda hard to accept,and cold blooded,,but then,"HESHER" shows a raw and all too real view of what life is like,in the mind of people,like the title charecter! Hesher's interactions with TJ's grand mother,played by the talented Piper Laurie ("CARRIE","CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD") showed some signs of compassion,,but this movie is hardly an idea theme for compassion,until the
scene,where the grandma dies,then the charecters all come to the gloomy part of their personal tragedies,that Hesher tries to make them all understand,in his own,anarchistic manner!  if viewers can survive the profanity and crudeness of this movie,"HESHER" was actually a well made labor of love-if you love a charecter that looks like a "grunge band" reject,and acts like a king punk from the streets,then this movie is for you! we're
left wondering if TJ and his dad are well on their road to recovery,as Hesher leaves them both,with a mangled car,that used to be his mom's car-the ultimate reward,in this crude,but somewhat uplifting film,that journeys into the misfortunes of life,and those,who have to deal with such great loss!
Joseph Gordon Levitt delivers a superior role,that shows how far he's come,from the days of playing little "Tommy Solomon"-a gifted actor!!
603166
Everyone knows about "Never Mind the Bollocks", "The Clash" and "Damned Damned Damned". Those are all great albums but this obscure comp (actually released in 77) displayes UK First Wave punk at its rawest and most pure! NO wasted tracks here with band who never went anywhere (although one of the Killjoys went on to form DExy's Midnight Runners). My favoritea are "move on" and that Motown cover ""get moving". This is NOT easy to find- in fact the new CD is probably now as rare as an original LP! Grab it while you can!
3351453
The Vandals are some of the funniest guys ever.  I like the way they avoid the topic of polotics(i.e. They do mention the government in "If the government could read my mind").  They just write about the stupid things that pop in their heads or they witness in their everyday lives.  This band is lighthearted and jovial all while keeping up a tremendous amount of energy and firing an arsenal of endless catchy punk riff's.  This album is my second favorite vandals next to The Quickening.  I have yet to here their new one.  I love every song on this album with my favorite being...errmmm....so many to choose from....Their cover of So Long Farewell from the sound of music!!!! Yay!  If you don't like this album then you are prolly an angry person with cancer or the AIDS who can't laugh and hates everything more than I do.
149286
This is the final and best CD from New York City's punk stalwarts, The Nerve! Their other CDs were independently released and next to impossible to find anywhere. But this is the one to have anyway. Not really a punk record in the true sense of the word (more of a 90s grunge/heavy rock feel), but there's a strong punk influence and an honest punk sensibility that really comes across on this disc. Extremely catchy, fun, heavy, aggressive, grungy, punky songs that stick with you long after you've listened to them. Lyrics run the gamut from insightful, intelligent and political ("Really", "I Feel Like Singing", "Happy" and the untitled "bonus" track), to outright silly ("The Things You Can't Live Without" which made me give this disc 4 out of 5 stars but still a fun song). Also an unexpected gem in the cover of the Rolling Stones' "Citadel". Zowie! One of my favorites on this disc. Great musicians too, with the guitar chops and emotionally shattering voice of Randy Nerve being the highlight. The production by infamous guitar shredder, Bumblefoot brings this band right up close and in your face. This was a band to be reckoned with that should have taken over the world. By the way, the release date of 2006 listed here is wrong. According to the album art the disc was released in 2004. A hugely recommended disc.
4725399
The Transplants album is perhaps the most radical album made in a good 10 years. On each song, other genres of music are adapted to match the inherent intensity of punk rock. Songs like "Romper Stomper" and "Death Wish" have screaming lyrics and heavy guitar riffs, reminescent of dearth metal tunes. Other songs, such as "Diamonds and Guns", with its fly piano melody, and "DREAM", originally Wu-Tang's "CREAM", both have much to owe to rap. Other songs are much more punk in nature, such as "Tall Cans in the Air" and "DJ DJ", both have an old-school punk flavor, reeminding me of The Clash. They even mellow out on such songs as "California Babylon" and "Down in Oakland". While you may not enjoy every track on this CD, there are at least a few that you will find to kick total ass. Hoperfully, Tim, Rob, and Travis will get back together, write some more music, and help this radical genre-bending punk style growing. If they kept up at it, this debut album would only be the beginning of something great.
68383
I bought this on CD because, even including postage, it only cost about half the price of the mp3's.  But it looks like that deal was only available once.  Anyway . . .

I don't usually like frantic free jazz.  But I don't usually hear people that are this damn good at it!!  This is just as entertaining as punk rock, and has a similar attitude to it.  I can see Lee Ving providing vocals.  Onetwothreefour onetwothreefour!  It's freaking brilliant is what it is.
652675
This will never be recognized as one of the great punk records, but it should be. its the most truly inventive thing i've ever heard.
devo + the ramones + crack = hypno-punko.
joey and company do it again!
436485
Aside from being beyond hilarious- this album simply rocks. Worth the price of admission for Tomorrow, Favorite Things, Sci-Fi double feature and Don't Cry For Me Argentina- alone (Not to mention the cover- the album should come with a frame). And it's full of interesting punk rock homages (such as kicking off Favorite Things with the intro to bad religion's classic tune, generator). The only song I don't care for is Cabaret (which I probably misspelled, to boot). Better and more fleshed out than their first (Have a Ball) and equal to their most recent (Blow in the Wind)- MF &the G G's are the only punk-rock super group that matters!
4373328
Man, I have said it countless times before, and I will proudly say it at least once more again: Green Day is pure, hardcore, pro-capitalist, money-making, radio- and Disney Channel-friendly punk at its very best! If you don't think that Green Day and drummer Tre Cold are the most hardcore incarnation of punk since the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys, then you must be a poser-teen who loves watching Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel!

I also tremendously respect and enjoy how Green Day have just become increasingly loyal to the punk ethos. A great example of this is putting out a "new" "CD" every couple of months since last September in order to make as much money as absolutely possible and cement their reigning status among the 1-percenters of America and the world! If this is not the very epitome of anti-establishment rebellion and social justice that punk epitomizes, then I bet you also think that Barack Obama is just a wealth-redistributing socialist Marxist!!!!

Anywho, on to the songs, all of which are the very embodiment of punk rawk! Take Brutal Love, as just one example, the unbelievably catchy pop hooks and woo-woo choruses easily make it among the very best pure-punk songs that have ever been devised. To boot, Tre's mad drumming--that is easily at home on a Hannah Montana record or, better yet, a Spice Girls live DVD offering!--is just punktastic! This can easily be said about many of the songs on Tre because Green Day is so, you know, original and not derivative at all with their songs. A Little Boy Named Train is a bit of a weird inclusion here because it is all about Green Day's love and devotion to the band Train. However, now that I have thought about this for a little bit longer, I agree that its inclusion makes perfect sense since Train, too, is the very epitome of one of the hardest, most aggressive and anti-establishment punk bands that has ever crawled out of the San Fran Bay Area (Hi Nancy Pelosi!!).

In short, I urge you to go out right now and purchase Tre, thereby helping Green Day perhaps become among the even more elitist 0.5-percenters! Now that Obama has won reelection with a stunning and powerful mandate that is defined by barely getting more than 50 percent of Americans' votes! If you don't buy Tre, then I guess you're just a Nick and Disney Channel poser!
24520
Thru and thru every song on this is astounding.  The Vandals cross intellectually humurous lyrics with speedy punk tunes.  The music is well done and catchy...the lyrics are hilarious.  My favorites are How did this loser get this job, I believe, Stop smiling, Aging orange, And then she spoke, and It's a fact.  If you like humorous punk...this is it.
4093036
This CD starts off right from the start ( with "How Sad") with all those catchy punk rock sing-a-longs that we all know so well. It won't take long before you find yourself humming some of the catchiest Adicts tunes right here on the "Sound of Music". A personal favorite of mine on here is "Johnny was a Soldier". I can listen to that song a million times and not get tired of it. It is just very, very catchy and to me is worth every penny of this cd by itself. Don't overlook the other tracks, they are all great songs. Very addicting from one of the most influential punk rock bands in history...and the longest lasting punk rock line-up in punk rock history. Enjoy!
2901792
after listening to this album i was inspired. The quick bass lines and the maximum guitar riffs provide a heavy old school punk sound. complemented by a talented singer this band is going places. I definatly recommend this one  to all you true punks.
741536
They are in punk rock, rather than folk/hip hop mode here. The songs are still protest songs, and are still excellently produced. I'm always amazed at how good this band was for a bunch of artsy self described anarchists.  They lampoon commercialism, corporate tolerance of apartheid, politics, racism, and especially good, religion and feminism.

but don't pay these rapist prices for used cds.  The material will be rereleased.
3857797
TO A REAL FAN...RAMONES, IGGY POP, THE STOOGES, DEAD BOYS, THE DICTATORS, X-RAY SPEX, RICHARD HELL, THE MISFITS, DEAD KENNEDYS, TSOL, THE CRAMPS, THE DAMNED, THE GERMS, BLACK FLAG, ADOLESCENTS,

X, SOCIAL DISTORTION, SUBHUMANS, EXPLOITED, AGENT ORANGE, THE VANDALS, BLACK FLAG, U.K. SUBS, DESCENDANTS, MINOR THREAT, G.B.H.

BAD BRAINS, M.D.C., GOVERNMENT ISSUE, THE MEATMEN, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, ETC., ETC. ARE REAL PUNK!!! WHEN I MEET YOUNG PUNKS WHO DIG THE CASUALTIES OR NOFX I ALWAYS TRY TO EMBRACE THEM CAUSE THEY GENERALLY HAVE SOME CLUE ...AT LEAST FROM A SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVE...ABOUT THE ROOTS OF PUNK...THE CASUALTIES PAY HOMAGE TO EXPLOITED, BROKEN BONES, G.B.H, AND DISCHARGE WITH A SOUND SO REMINISCENT OF EARLY EIGHTIES POST PUNK/HARDCORE IT'S UNCANNY...WHY DO YOU THINK GREEN DAY WAS LABELLED GAP PUNK BACK IN LIKE 95 AND THE OFFSPRING WERE A NOVELTY ACT...CAUSE IT WAS SO OBVIOUS THAT THEY WERE A GIMMICK...MANAFACTURED AND PACKAGED FOR SUBURBAN ADOLESCENT CONSUMPTION...THE FIRST BANDS TO SHAMELESSLY DISRESPECT AND DISREGARD THE ETHOS AND PRINCIPLES OF PUNK AS AN UNDERGROUND REVOLUTION...AS AN OLD SCHOOLER I WAS MORE THAN LIKELY SKATING ON AN OLD-SCHOOL HOSOI PIG DECK/ TRACKER TRUCKS,92A POWELL CROSSBONES AND GRINDIN ON STOLEN PVC PIPE WITH JFA(SKATE PUNK)SONICALLY PEELING PAINT OUT OF AN OLD SONY TAPEDECK/GHETTO BLASTER WITH 4X6'S BACK IN 88' WHEN YOU WERE BARELY OUT OF DIAPERS...YOU NEED TO DO YOUR F**KIN RESEARCH BEFORE YOU START BABBLING ABOUT WHAT IS AND IS'NT REAL PUNK!
103328
They say when you listen to an artist on record and then see them live, that album takes on a whole new meaning. Now I can proudly say that that statement is completely true; "Hell is Other People" is a fantastic album, but when you see Heartless live, the tenacity and pulverizing brute force of this disc is amplified tenfold. It's 18 minutes off ear-shredding Punk straight from the sewers of the Underworld. And nothing has ever sounded better. Pick this up, and feel your blood boiling....
2324797
This CD is awesome! It has a lot more punk rock influence than "Enema of the State" did.  I think it is about better than "Enema"  and about even with "Dude Ranch" and "Cheshire Cat".  It starts off with three pretty good fast songs "Anthem pt. 2", "Online Songs", and "First Date".  "Happy Holidays"  is a strange song which is filled with profanities.  Then it comes to "Story of a Lonely Guy" which is one of my favorite songs on the CD because i really like the melody and the guitars.  Next is "The Rock Show", a song that you have probably already heard, that is about a guy finding true love a punk rock show.  Then is "Stay Together for the Kids", a really cool slower song about a broken home.  Next it picks up the pace again with "Roller Coaster" and "Reckless Abandon" (a song about kids trying to have a good summer and end up causing a lot of trouble).  Then the CD winds down with "Every Time I Look For You", "Give Me One Good Reason", and "Shut Up".  The final song, and definitely one of the best, is "Please Take Me Home.  This is a great CD and I would reccomend it to anyone, especially blink fans.
666383
This is a great look at the ideals of kids involved in the punk scene in the early 80's.

The Youth Brigade, Social Distortion, they worked pretty hard, traveling on a school bus that breaks down constantly, going hungry after not getting paid for their gigs.

I had a new respect for these bands. I look at Mike Ness with new eyes, which is funny since I have been a fan for a long time.

He is so young and open in his interviews, admitting to things like...watching General Hospital. You also see him actually putting together the song Another State of Mind.

He is so young and practically tattoo free, and this video gave me a taste of how they all paid their dues, and he is still doing it. He is still out there making great music.

Funny and poignant, this is a must have!

I'm glad I bought it...