Punk Rock
J. Patterson | CT | 12/16/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Isn't there something great about bands that play guitars?
Sometimes I think not. Sometimes I just listen to hip-hop. And I embrace technology in all of its futuristic glory. But then sometimes I just want some goddamn guitars. And Led Zeppelin is great, and I always go back to them, but sometimes I need something more white. Something more suburban? Something more immediate? Something without layers of sound, just three or four musicians in a room. Listen to The Thermals' album The Body, The Blood, The Machine. Or Green Day Dookie. There is energy and urgency and immediacy. Punk rock may be a commodity, but that was only inevitable. The attitude is still real. Understanding the world around you, but instead of ignoring it or letting it get you down, you confront it and sneer at it as if you couldn't care less.
(Seriously, though, check out The Thermals and then recommend a better punk rock band. I don't know if you could...)
The Body, The Blood, The Machine is an energetic and entertaining rock record with punk attitude and lyrics about God, The Bible, and existentialism and war and it's good."