El Mundo del Raymundo

Top Down!

Posted by: elraymundo at 11:42 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
From: Great Falls, Virginia
Filed under: Jeep

I was late to work today because, among other things, when I walked outside and felt the air I knew I had to take the top down on the Jeep. The thermometer on the Jeep hit 71Â° on the drive in. Seventy-one degrees…on February 6th!

I think it’s the first time I’ve enjoyed driving to work since December - which is when the top went up for winter.

I’ve been listening to a CD of punk rock songs that Jeff W. put together for me. As I told Jeff, it’s really great to find something completely new (to me anyway). It’s like finding all those funny hairs growing out of strange places on my body for the first time again.

I’ll end with that disturbing message and a roll call of the bands I listened to on the way in today: The Clash, Agent Orange, The Avengers, Black Flag and Dead Boys.

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Comment by Jeffaroo

02.6.08 @ 1:12 pm

I got a collection of punk for Christmas. Really good stuff, except for Joe Jackson’s “Is she really going out with him”. Not really full of angst now is it?

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Comment by elraymundo

02.6.08 @ 1:36 pm

Joe Jacksonâ€™s “Is she really going out with him”

That’s a punk song? Jeff Watson, can we get a ruling on this?

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Comment by Jeff W

02.6.08 @ 2:45 pm

Hope your comment window can handle a big post because your friend is refering to a Rhino Records compilation of early punk music which included:

Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
White Riot - The Clash
Heart Of The City - Nick Lowe
Boredom - Buzzcocks featuring Howard DeVoto
(I’m) Stranded - The Saints
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
In The City - The Jam
Final Solution - Pere Ubu
Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
Little Johnny Jewel - Television
One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
Born To Lose - The Heartbreakers
Search And Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges
Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) - Mink Deville
Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
1 2 X U - Wire
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
Two Tub Man - The Dictators
Hey Joe (version) - Patti Smith
Your Generation - Generation X
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes - The Adverts
Satday Night In The City Of The Dead - Ultravox!
What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
X Offender - Blondie
Lookin’ After No. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
Don’t Dictate - Penetration
Bingo Master - The Fall
Free Money - Patti Smith
The Modern World - The Jam
Chinese Rocks - The Heartbreakers
New Rose - The Damned
Ambition - Subway Sect
See No Evil - Television
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
Mannequin - Wire
Baby Baby - The Vibrators
Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
First Time - The Boys
Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
Trash - New York Dolls
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - X-Ray Spex
Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hot Rods
Ready Steady Go - Generation X
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've?) - Buzzcocks
Rocket U.S.A. - Suicide
Mongoloid - Devo
Homicide - 999
Mr. Big - The Dils
Warsaw - Joy Division
Where Were You? - The Mekons
Lexicon Devil - The Germs
(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures - The Rezillos
The Wait - The Pretenders
We Got The Neutron Bomb - The Weirdos
Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
Action Time Vision - Alternative TV
2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
We Are The One - The Avengers
Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
Wasted - Black Flag
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
I Love Livin In The City - Fear
She’s So Modern - The Boomtown Rats
Ghosts Of Princes In Towers - Rich Kids
We’re Desperate - X
You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) - The Dickies
Dancing The Night Away - The Motors
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos
Adult Books - X
The Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members
California Ã¼ber Alles - Dead Kennedys
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp - The Soft Boys
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Typical Girls - The Slits
Human Fly - The Cramps
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Babylon’s Burning - The Ruts
If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure
She Is Beyond Good And Evil - The Pop Group
Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
Get Over You - The Undertones
Love Like Anthrax - Gang Of Four
Peaches - The Stranglers
Into The Valley - Skids
You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory - Johnny Thunders
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

There are several questionable groups in this list such as Elvis Costello and The Cure. My first thought is no to Joe Jackson, but if Blondie is a punk band, then why not Joe? He certainly differs from what other non-punks were doing in the 70s. If he wasn’t on that list, what list would he be on?

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Comment by Jeff W

02.6.08 @ 3:21 pm

I guess I’m trying say that in the taxonomy of punk rock, Joe Jackson is the duck-billed platypus.

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Comment by elraymundo

02.6.08 @ 4:31 pm

Some of those look like New Wave bands. Are New Wave and punk often lumped together?

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Comment by Jeffaroo

02.6.08 @ 5:14 pm

It was supposed to be a compilation of 70’s punk. Of course anytime you have a compilation that was done by anyone outside of the actual punk scene you’re going to get some odd choices. I can see Blondie, the Cure, and others as far more sane choices than Joe Jackson. I noticed that you didn’t mention Devo by name. They certainly weren’t punk. But they ain’t Joe Jackson