satanic skinhead

A wise man once said, "...since time began, Texas has poured out great bands the way that Chicopee, Mass pours out kielbasas. The ocean o' great Six-Oh Punk from the Lone Star State has only been partly charted a full 15 yrs after that decade shut down. No other area was so fertile. Maybe it was somethin' in the soil. Whatever, the collective sound o' seventies/eighties Texas p-rock has also been a cut above. Indeed, it might well prove t'be (fifteen years from now) the consistently best o' breed" (Byron Coley 1985)

That man was right. I don't think my being a Texan myself has biased me in any way when I say that old school Texas Punk is the best kind of punk music of any kind the world has even seen (even better than german punk, which is saying a lot).

So many amazing bands, and classic songs. AK47, (the legend of musical misanthorpy) Bobby Soxx, ****s, Bang Gang, Bomb Squad, (kings of crossover) D.R.I., Cringe, Ejectors, Hugh Beaumont Experience, Huns, Vomit Pigs, Terminal Mind... and too many more to name.

Any other fans of this old scene that just bloomed so wonderfully back in the day? There really hasn't been another movment like it where just about every band and every record was a winner, save perhaps Black Metal in Norway in the early 90's, but in the realm of punk, nothing before or since.

Come on, all, show your love for the greatest country on earth (Texas) and the great band it spawned! (Please don't mention MDC, though, that's the one ugly stain on the otherwise perfect record).