The Swarm

July 02, 2009

Best All Time Punk Logos? ... FAIL...

Andrew Flanagan

Combining the words “the greatest” in the same sentence as “punk”, as Yahoo did this morning, is generally a fool’s errand. Most basically: there’s no strict definition of what punk sounds like (to blast beat or not to blast beat?), where it came from (The Sonics? MC5? Death?), which bands are punk and which aren’t (Ramones? Napalm Death? Wavves?), and whether or not it’s dead. That is some nebulous shit.

Regardless, people like to parse and sequester the history of punk – whatever it may be and whichever flavor strikes their fancy – probably because they think it’s dangerous (nowadays it’s about as dangerous as Fairport Convention) and kinda cool (it is). So if you’re going to write about something as arguable as punk rock, at least do some research.

Further notes:

-Minor Threat did not start straight edge. They wrote a lyric about not getting drunk all the time.

-The Offspring’s logo is so ugly it doesn’t even work as a mudflap.

-The Sex Pistols were a boy band; constructed and packaged. Argue about The Offspring being punk all you want, but they started their band themselves.

I’ll summarize with this: where the fuck is the Crass logo?

(via Yahoo)


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#1 Sherman says:

Since you took the Crass logo I'll offer the other usual suspects:

The Exploited skull logo
The D.R.I. logo
The C.O.C. "Eye For An Eye" logo
and while not exactly a logo I always liked the versatility of the acronym M.D.C.

#2 Fuzzgun says:

Hello? Black Flag? Perhaps the greatest of all.

#3 zerocool says:

oh internetz....

like the article a lot man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight...


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