(yes gen y, you can play too)
I've rediscovered...
(language warning - if you can understand anything)
I have really been getting back into my Punk recently.
Esp the late 70's early 80's stuff like The Slits, The Ruts and Sham 69
This is neat little no. from the Ruts. More reggae than Punk
the oils 
awesome band live!
aah misfits, sham 69....you young kiddies(gen y and after)..pay attention.. they didnt have ritalin in our day just things called dexies ... not this crazy lady gaga...she should put some pants on i say...now where are my reading glasses
The Jam
Most English ska
Husker Du
The ClasH
Sham 69
Radio Birdman
Then the Rolling Stones blew my mind
Gestalt - its easy to forget Lloyd Cole in the line up you have got
This lot I hate to admit looking back to when I was a really young tacka, lol. Here goes, Poison, Skid Row, Cinderella. At least I listened to Metallica and Guns 'n Roses around the same time.
My teens weren't so bad though, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Pantera, Sepultura, Smashing Pumpkins, KoRn, Foo Fighters. I could go on, but we'd be here for ever. 
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The Pixies came a bit later relative...love that bluebeat stuff as well.. my kids (5and 3) are into it (along with You am I's hip swinging mod stuff) and were so dissapointed that they couldnt see the Specials live ...(in shydaney in a week or two)
I took my (now ) wife to a Lee Perry gig as a 2nd or 3rd date. She didnt have a clue what dub was or what lee was like. With the mad proffessor setting the groove he came out on stage with a giant (1 foot long) reefer and what appeared to be a working girl who just sat at the back of the stage on a chair on the nod.....priceless...great gig
Neville staples specials gig a few years back got me back listening to all the old stuff - and with new technology you can hear the music - not like my old c90's copied off the phonogram
Never got to the Slits - will youtube later as an intro
I lived In WA in the mid 90's - no ska or reggea at all
Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Who, Richard Clapton, Chisel, Angels, AC/DC (Bon Scott), Lou Reed, Robert Cray,...
Stevie Ray Vaughan - saw him in concert at Perth Concert Hall and also in London. Both concerts were amazing.
and also my parents when they told me to turn the music down
My kids found a huge stack of albums in the cupboard on the weekend, and i could tell them what they were from 10m away,without my glasses. If they could invent a decent digital turntable I could play them again. Kids were fascinated by the little records Only embarrassing stuff was the early MJ. hardest question was " whats acid rock dad?"
Pennywise,Pennywise, Pennywise.
Sprung monkey, Unwritten law, Bad religon- yeh a bit of the seppo punk rock
Nirvana, Pearljam
Also liked and still listen to You am I, Tumbleweed, Powderfinger's first album(Parabals for Wooden Ears) for the Aussie stuff...
Oils, INXS, Chisel, Oz crawl, Matt Finish, dicky Clapton etc.
But the best was the Pistols, GO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!
yes it is ben555,
i also forgot to mention the sugar cubes.
there is so much great stuff. i still listen to all of it as well. heading into the 90's and the list would fill a forum.
curious why you guys want to convert vynil into mp3. call me old school but vynil sounds sooooo gooodddddd.....
As a Melbourne lad, you would often see me at the Seaview Ballroom - what have they done to that place? I was the depressed kid with a mohawk and more piercings in my ear that you could poke a stick at.
I reveled in the days of Olympic Sideburns, Corpse Grinders, The Bad Seeds, Shower Scene from Psycho, Painters and Dockers, Death Sentence, Dead Kenedys, Depression, Boys Next Door, Hunters and Collectors, The Cramps, Digital Calculators, Iggy Pop, Ramones, Blondie, Einsturzende Neubauten and probably close to a thousand other legendary and not so legendary shows.
Looking back I'm probably not that much different to my 13yo son - just fatter, older, enjoy legally available drugs and listen to bands that had better names than he does.
I think one of the huge differences between music of the past and music today is that it used to mean something.
It was a statement an argument a viewpoint of the youth, symbolic of the time and the place where we were.
Take for instance Combat Rock by the clash. That album had significant social importance despite being their most commercial album. It stood for something.
Todays music (not all but most) feels so manufactured, made to make money, plastic to the ear.
....and of the clash
Alice in chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Janes Addiction, Violent Femmes,
Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, NOFX,
The Offspring, Pennywise, Suicidal Tendencies, Primus, RedHotChiliPeppers, Ministry, Metallica, Danzig, TOOL .....the list goes on.
+ whatever was playing on JJJ aswell.
Panda - thanks for the thread...spent the afternoon trailing through old rekuds sans kids...Bliss
Relative - I now know what to do - thanks for the link - upsetters on mp3 COOL
Oliver - thanks for the memory recall - never got to see the Olympic sideburns - love that name - stood in the line and got turned away with my fake id (1986??). Did get to see Harem Scarem and deadly hume (again with my fake id)
TISM,
The Smiths,
Dead Kennedys,
Ramones,
The THE,
Violent Femmes,
The Cure, and others I can't remember.
brought back memories of early days at Point Henry and Sandy Point with big Tony dancing like Peter Garratt.
