Really the only punk song on here is the last one (by Snuff), although I suppose that some of these geezers used to be punks. There's the Clash, Red Rockers (the "American Clash" back before they went new wave), and Johnny Thunders. Alex Chilton, if being sloppy drunk in the studio counts as being a punk.
At a stretch, you could add Hazel O'Connor and Elvis Costello. Maybe even Mick Hucknall (that ginger bloke out of Simply Red) -- he was once in a punk band. Divine probably out-punked them all in terms of attitude and REAL rebellion against social norms. Grace Jones, too. They were punks before you or I was a punk.
Anyways, here's the tenth in a series that I never thought would go this far, and a series that has been relatively popular in terms of downloads. Collect them all!
Pixeldrain seems to be working at the moment, but (as always) if you ask politely, we will upload new links to another host. ("Any help?" is a comment that I deeply dislike. Get some help from Ella Jenkins or Miss Manners, you impertinent punk!)
Today I replaced a number of dead Krakenfiles links from 2022-23, including my MKE 80 comp of singles and EP's released by Milwaukee artists in 1980.
There are a dozen songs on my laptop in a folder called "Punks Got Soul v11", and I'm opening up the request line. So if you're having a good time dancing with your baby, pick up the phone and ask (nicely), "Hey Mr. DJ, can you play that song..."
Punks Got Soul vol. 10: https://pixeldrain.com/u/sqtAQdqW
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Bless ya Jonder for re-uppin' link usin' yer own initiative! Love love love this selection of stuff we dug up. On the synchrony note: Posting today a similar cover to Alex's opener....Boogie Fever by Lite Frost....check it out!
ReplyDeleteAlways grateful and, "Hey Mr. DJ, play that one called" "Pipeline" by Johnny Thunders...so s(l)ick
ReplyDeleteThanks for the request. Great song! But is Pipeline a soul tune? There are definitely soul instrumentals (like Soulfinger and pretty much everything by Booke T and the MG's). And how about Sleepwalk? An instrumental with a deeply soulful feeling.
Deleteja ja ja --fair; wasn't thinking...a perpetual problem for me!
DeleteNo, your suggestion jumpstarted a train of thought -- thank you!
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Not strictly soul. A little bit o'Soul by Four One and Onlys. When you put Simply Red on the spot, well, Rob, the guitartist of the Onlys was in a straight ahead punkband De Mirandas. We are broadening the lines here, When soul crossed over to disco Funkytown was done well by WDE
ReplyDelete"A Little Bit o'Soul" by Four One and Onlys is a great suggestion, thank you! Somehow that idea reminds me that Iggy's version of "Time Won't Let Me" is also kinda sorta soul-adjacent.
DeleteThere are so many volumes of this series that I honestly don't remember... have you hit R.E.M.'s "Tighten Up," Lizzy Mercier Descloux's "Funky Stuff" or The Contortions' "I Can't Stand Myself?"
ReplyDeleteBritt Daniel (of Spoon) recorded a surprisingly great solo version of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" for an obscure Portland, OR label compilation a few years ago. (Spoon, like R.E.M., not punk, but still great)
R.E.M.'s version of "Tighten Up" and The Contortions' "I Can't Stand Myself" have been included, but I think only Lizzy's version of "Fever" (aka "Tumour") and "Simply Beautiful" are in there. I had to make myself a list after realizing that at least two songs have appeared on more than one volume.
DeleteI will look for Britt Daniel's version of "Bring It On Home to Me". That song has been included twice: once in this volume (sung by Hazel O'Connor), and once by the late Chris Bailey (who might be the greatest of all punk soul singers).
Nice one, thanks Jonder. I wouldn't classify Grace Jones under punk, but I love her version of Use Me for sure! Can't think of any unusual punky soul cover right now...
ReplyDeleteGrace Jones may not have sounded like a punk, but she challenged gender norms and the narrow-minded idea that female beauty must always be "feminine" soft, and soft-spoken, rather than bold and uncompromising. That is why I say that she and Divine were punks. Rebels may be the better word.
DeleteAnd if it wasn't Grace herself, SOMEBODY down in Compass Point had the excellent idea that she should sing Iggy, Joy Division, The Pretenders, The Police, and "Warm Leatherette". Oh, to be a fly on the wall during those funky sessions in Nassau!
There are songs that I consider to be rockabilly simply because "they have a rockabilly heart".
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, GRACE JONES has an in-your-face punk, or rebel (if you prefer), sensibility.
The same way that JERRY LEE LEWIS is firmly a rebel who colors over the lines into an almost punk ethos (a non-conformist, anti-authoritarianism stance).
And lest we forget, if there were no GRACE JONES, there probably wouldn't have been a DOLPH LUNDGREN.
https://vocal.media/geeks/from-bouncer-to-king-nereus-how-a-chance-encounter-with-grace-jones-changed-dolph-lundgren-s-life