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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
Punk Rock
The members of fenix tx are good friends with this band? | Punk Rock
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Tom, Mike, and Yuri, these are the band members of? | Punk Rock
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it's the name of a street in Olympia. Yep. It sure is.
According to Kathleen Hanna, where can you find the carnival she sings about on the song 'Carnival'? | Girl Punk Rock
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by the Lacy Mall. Lacy is one of the scariest places I have ever been.
What label are Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Sleater-Kinney signed to? | Girl Punk Rock
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Kill Rock Stars. Formed in 1991 in Olympia, they are one of the best known indie lables.
'That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood, she's got the hottest trike in town'. What girl are Bikini Kill referring to? | Girl Punk Rock
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Rebel Girl. By far one of the best BK songs ever.
Kim Gordon. Kim and Thurston founded Sonic Youth, duh.
Rauool. They are little known and they only put out one record but they were awesome!
2. I think there are 3 now.
There is a legendary rivalry between two punk front women. They used to be in a band together until one kicked the other out. One went on to be hugely successful while the other remained pretty local and underground. Who are these two women? | Girl Punk Rock
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Courtney Love and Kat Bjelland. Courtney was in Babes in Toyland biefly until Kat kicked her out. Some say the song 'Bluebell' on Babes album Fontanelle is about Courtney's imitation of Kat.
Olympia. I lived there for a while, it sucks. Nothing to do but lots of music.
What all-girl punk band was Joan Jett in before going solo? | Girl Punk Rock
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What Christmas song was once covered by the Misfits? | Punk Rock
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Who proudly (and politically incorrectly) refers to themselves as white trash, two heebs, and a bean? | Punk Rock
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Who are the masterminds behind such classics as: 'Boogadaboogadaboogada', 'Teen Punk In Heat', and 'How To Make Enemies and Irritate People'? | Punk Rock
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Who HASN'T Josh Freese played drums for? | Punk Rock
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Who says 'I want to be stereotyped, I want to be classified' at the beginning of "Suburban Home"? | Punk Rock
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A Dead Kennedy. Jello Biafra was the lead singer for the Dead Kennedys.
Which band was NOT featured in the documentary 'Another State of Mind'? | Punk Rock
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'Why do you keep humming along, when you find out that you're no God?' | Punk Rock Lyrics
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Snuff, "Keep The Beat". Off "Fat Music Volume IV".
"He knows he'll be alone tonight, while contemplating, 'What can I do?'" | Punk Rock Lyrics
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Anti-Flag, "Angry, Young & Poor". Off the Fat Wreck Chords release, "Underground Network".
The English festival 'Holidays in the Sun' changed its name to 'Wasted Festival' in 2004. But it's still a punk rock nostalgia bonanza. Lots of bands from the glory days reform especially for the occasion. In what year was it held for the first time? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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1996. Some 'classic' bands that have played at the festival are: Stiff Little Fingers, Chelsea, The Boys, UK Subs, Sham 69, Vice Squad, Vibrators, Cockney Rejects, GBH, 999, The Exploited, Tenpole Tudor, the Damned, the Dickies, Peter & the Test Tube Babies, the Lurkers, Captain Sensible, Ari-Up's Slits, D.O.A., Dead Kennedys, the Adicts, the Notsensibles, Eater, Spizzenergi, Funeral Dress, Suicidal Tendencies, Slaughter & the Dogs, DRI, Anti-Nowhere League, Radio Stars, Jayne County & the Electric Chairs, the Drones, Alternative TV, Suburban Studs, Splodgenessabounds, Theatre of Hate, the Godfathers, Zounds, the Business, etc. Despite the previous name of the festival, the Sex Pistols declined to play.
In 1978 the New York band Suicide played a gig in the AB in Brussels, Belgium. They were support act for a quite different sounding band and the crowd didn't react too good to Suicide's droning synth sounds. In fact, they rioted. Chairs flew around, someone snatched Alan Vega's microphone away from him and everyone kept chanting the name of the main act throughout Suicide's set. In the end the police had to be called in. Who was the main act? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions. Costello was very angry with the crowd and called them small-minded fools. He played a very short set. Suicide's tumultuous concert was preserved for future generations on the bootleg '23 Minutes over Brussels'. The cd re-release of their debut album included the concert as bonus material.
After Adam and the Ants recorded the album 'Dirk Wears White Sox' in 1979 former manager Malcolm McLaren stole all of Adam's musicians to form which other band? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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Bow Wow Wow. Bow Wow Wow's singer Annabella Lwin was only 15. McLaren discovered her working in a launderette. He put her naked on the cover of their debut album 'See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!'. Her mum and the authorities were not pleased. Subsequently the cover of the album - a tribute to Manet's painting 'Déjeuner sur l'herbe' - was changed.
If you went to see them live on sundays their rasta faith prohibited them from playing hardcore and they would only play reggae.. They were also famous for their big dreadlocks. Handy for smuggling illicit substances.
When the Ramones recorded the covers album "Acid Eaters" in 1993 as a tribute to their favorite 60s bands (Love, the Who, Rolling Stones, the Seeds etc) they got one of their heroes to sing backing vocals. Who is - gabba gabba - one of us? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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Pete Townshend, the Who. Former porn star Traci Lords also provided vocals on the album.
Brian Eno. Iggy Pop has also collaborated with David Bowie, Ivan Kral (Patti Smith Group), Slash & Duff from G'nR, Steve Jones (ex-Pistol), Deborah Harry & Chris Stein & Clem Burke & Frank Infante & Gary Valentine (all of Blondie, but not with all of them at the same time), the Nymphs, White Zombie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Death in Vegas, Don Was, Goran Bregovic, Kate Pierson, Waddy Wachtel, Bill Laswell, Henry Rollins, Tony & Hunt Sales, Sonic Youth, Lisa Germano, John Hiatt, the Cult, Mooseman (Body Count), Buckethead, the Cramps, les Rita Mitsouko and he's even working with the Asheton brothers again.
Wayne County - now Jayne - of the Electric Chairs famously hit the singer of another band over the head with a mike stand. The victim was making threatening remarks about the fact County was wearing a dress. Who was on the receiving end of this sobering attack, suffering a serious head wound? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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Handsome Dick Manitoba, the Dictators. Manitoba and County have long since made up. BTW, clearly it couldn't've been David Johansen, cos he used to wear dresses himself, while in the New York Dolls.
Belinda Carlisle, Darby Crash, Don Bonebrake, Donna Rhia, Lorna Doom, Nickey Beat, Pat Smear - they've all been members of what band? | Random Punk Rock Questions
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the Germs. Belinda Carlisle used to be the drummer for the seminal LA punk outfit the Germs. Guitarist Pat Smear went on to play with Death Folk, Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. Singer Darby Crash (aka Bobby Pynn) died from a heroin overdose on December 7, 1980.
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