Search - Exploited :: Let's Start a War (Reis)

Amazing

music listener | 09/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are trying to get into the exploited, this is probely the one. It is before they went to thrash, but late enough so that the band has devoloped themselves enough. The Exploited were the first true street punk band. They were exactly what punk needed. Back in the late seventees and early eighties punk was on a decline. Crass had already declared punk dead, the clash was relesing reggae tunes and Devo and Elvis Costello were being considered punk. The Exploited come saying punk is NOT dead and realese a fury like no one had experianced before. I mean these were the days which the craziest thing on the scene was the Sex Pistols. I love the Sex Pistols, they are one of the greatest punk bands ever, but the exploited had a heavier sound that delivered a barrage of power punk like nothing before it, and the Sex Pistols had a seventies sound . The seventies sound was usually a snotty voice with three power chord songs. The Exploited brought on the new age of punk. They gave the go ahead for bands to scream and play fast and be agressive. I'm not going to say that the Exploited founded the eighties scene, they obviously didn't, black flag had been around since 77, but there sound was powerful and showed what punk could be, and definatly helped bring on the eighties scene. Every Street punk band of today (unseen, casualties, virus, cheap sex, krays, blanks 77, devotchkas, lower class brats) basically recreated the exploited's sound in there own way. They may not be the fathers of punk but no question they are the fathers of street punk."

Punk as $%&@!

E. Magnuson | USA | 04/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"the birth of hardcore punkrock. inspiring the bad brains, cro-mags, sick of it alll.... everyone."