“Hey, music fan, do you love punk? Of course you do! Then you’ll love this collection of punk’s greatest hits. Sure, we didn’t include the Ramones, Circle Jerks, the Clash, or X-Ray Spex, but we do have the anarchistic Huey Lewis and the News, riotous Love and Rockets, and the totally anti-establishment Thompson Twins. You’ll be shouting F*CK THE MAN while listening to Crowded House and their crust-punk classic ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over.’ The Dead Boys? Never heard of ‘em. I’m too busy listening to the original bad boy, Tommy Tutone.”
Such is the message of a wonderful commercial from the 1990s that features two “punks” (“YEAH!”) hawking a compilation of the finest songs punk has to offer, including “Karma Chameleon” and Toni Basil’s “Mickey.” I know “punk” is a BS phrase that doesn’t mean anything, BUT: for the love of Joe Strummer, why did this happen? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put a pin through my nose and listen to INXS for the rest of the day.
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Wow. Trolling DID exist in the 90s!
I totally used to jam to Erasure while babbling on and on about anarchy.
YOU TOO?!?!?!
NO WAY!
I think the real travesty is that it is above $20 for all of that junk. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go watch Freedom Rock.
I instantly regretted that. The first comment said “Tucker Max sent me here!” and now my day is shot. I’ll be in a shower scrubbing myself with an S.O.S. pad.
Thanks for that, because I was about to do the same.
The Love and Rockets? Umm… maybe you mean Love and Rockets, and as Bauhaus alum they do qualify as post-punk/goth. Also the Tubes were punk before the top 40 hit, and 90% of the rest of the bands, like The Cars, The Fixx, INXS may not be punk but are cleary New Wave. And finally, try to do better research because you don’t understand punk or the music industry. 1) Bands collect zero revenue from collections such as these. 2) While bands like Ramones, Circle Jerks, the Clash, or X-Ray Spex are punk but only the Ramones and Clash are semibnal punk bands. It is insulting not to list the Dead Kennedys, X, Black Flag and others of true punk ilk.
How old are you? Did you mosh to the Ramones? Did you pogo to the Dickies? I think not.
epic fail on this article…..
You are the WORST.
^ Seconded
can we please stop calling The Clash a “punk” band. Likewise, The Replacements. Love ‘em both, but seriously…
I want to kick this comment in the stomach really hard.
woah, this guy sucks
There’s nothing more punk than Trolling.
I stopped being a punk rock snob oh, ten years ago or so. That being said, this offends me.
No Avril Lavigne? This is bullshit.
About ten years ago my daughter tried telling me that Avril Lavigne was “punk.”
To be fair, today she would probably punch herself for saying something like that. At the time I all I could do was laugh my ass off.
My favorite was always TRL referring to Blink 182 as punk.
Uh… or so I heard. Cuz I would never watch something like TRL. See!
*flashes rub-on tattoo of a skull*
*combs hair into a faux-hawk*
Am I too late to send the $21.95 for the cassettes?
Avril Lavigne is a fuckin country singer, not punk and blink is a pop group, The only band even closely related to punk in that whole cd is madness (being that they are ska and there a lot of punk/ska cross overs these days)
Y’all got punk’d! This compilation never existed and until a few weeks ago the commercial didn’t either.
Brilliant job!
Sadly this is real i remember this commercial from when i was younger.
umm…. but…. fuck yeah Devo. Even if Whip It is their worst song.