All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1 (folk covers of seminal first and second wave punk music)
A wonderful cascade of covers from a friend has turned my thoughts to covers of punk music this week. As Katie noted in her send-along, much of which appear below, "the thread that runs from folk to punk seems such a vibrant and easily spotted one to pull at", and that sounds just about right; I'd even go so far as to suggest that, like folk in the generation before it, Punk both served and sprung from the hearts of a discontented youth counterculture, and - as I noted about Rap rather tongue-in-cheek last year - [...]
- Allo, Darlin' - I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones cover)
- Amy Speace - Dreaming (Blondie cover)
- Bad Livers - Lust For Life (Iggy Pop & The Stooges cover)
- Bill Janovitz - Dreaming (Blondie cover) -Till The Next Goodbye (Rolling Stones) Medley
- Calexico - Guns of Brixton
- Chumbawamba - Mannequin (Wire cover)
- Everything But The Girl - English Rose (The Jam cover)
- Frank Turner - Pay To Cum (Bad Brains cover)
- Hamell on Trial - Rockaway Beach (The Ramones cover)
- Indigo Girls - Clampdown (The Clash cover)
- J Mascis - On the Run (The Wipers cover)
- Jesse Malin - Questioningly (Ramones cover)
- John Frusciante - Havana Affair (The Ramones cover)
- Lisa Loeb & Steve Reynolds - Video Nasty (The damned cover)
- Petty Booka - Lost In The Supermarket (The Clash cover)
- Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Acoustic Demo) (Iggy Pop & The Stooges cover)
- Walter Schreifels - Society Sucker (Agnostic Front cover)
- Whiskeytown - Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
- Willie Wisely Trio - Monday Will Never Be the Same [Husker Du cover]




















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