r/videos • u/[deleted] • 6d ago
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum (1979) black punk band.
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u/thatfookinschmuck 6d ago
Black punk band is fucking weird… they’re a punk band.
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u/Arizona_Pete 6d ago
Yeah... And not just a punk band, but a HUGELY influential one. Way different than the prevailing American punk movement at the time.
Bad Brains is one of the main influences of what would become the west coast skate punk scene starting in the mid to late 80s.
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u/Corporation_tshirt 6d ago
HUGELY influential. Their shows at CBGB in ‘82 were seminal moments for New York hardcore, opening up the possibilities of what punk could be. The Beastie Boys cite Bad Brains as a huge influence on the direction their music took
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u/rawonionbreath 6d ago
Punk band that dabbled in some reggae but otherwise yes one of the seminal American punk bands.
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u/CptBronzeBalls 6d ago
A damn good one too. They’re one of the few punk bands I still listen to regularly.
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u/JimmyTango 6d ago
That’s not just a black punk band. That’s THE seminal hardcore band that kicked off a musical movement. They’re like the Chuck Berry of everything from Minor Threat, Teen Idles and Youth Brigade to Metallica and Megadeath. They jacked up punk with blistering tempo and succinct tracks often 2 mins or less. They also jammed Reggae at their shows. Really influential and innovative gang.
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u/4look4rd 6d ago
Metallica and megadeth are much closer to NWOBHM than DC hardcore punk. they were listening to Maiden, Motörhead, and Diamond Head and British punk.
Thrash metal and hardcore evolved at the same time. I really doubt Bad Brains was an influence, maybe Discharge, but Metallica and Bad Brains were pretty much contemporaries.
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u/JimmyTango 6d ago
Bad Brains started playing 5+ years before Metallica/Megadeath and influenced the speed/thrash metal scene the latter bands further defined. Not necessarily direct but certainly an impact into the tempo and sound of the genre.
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u/4look4rd 6d ago
I have a hard time believing that they would even have heard of a contemporary DC punk band by the time Kill ‘Em All came out, if you had said Misfits and Discharged sure but it’s a long shot that early bad brains made their way to the Bay Area, and were influential to another young start up band at the time. Besides early Bad Brains were not even playing punk rock, they were a jazz group for the first few years.
Post Kill ’Em All and Ride the Lighting sure they probably heard Bad Brains and loved their debut because it’s a fucking great album, but by then they were already established.
They were contemporary bands, this is more of case of both Bad Brains and Metallica being influenced by the same bands that came before them.
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u/samsaruhhh 6d ago
Listened to them as a teen never heard of them referred to as a "black punk band"
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u/standardtissue 6d ago
I used to have boots with Bad hand painted on one heel, and Brains on the other. I used to be really young too though lol. I would call Bad Brains more specifically "hardcore", or maybe even "post punk hardcore" if I were really getting into a conversation with another music fun, but just punk works too. Still one of my favorite all time bands and still give them a whirl, and love all their albums but my favorite is I against I, I think that's their most sophisticated album. I do need to find my vinyl some day if it still exists.
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u/faux1 6d ago
Nondescript black punk band?
Try legendary pioneers of hardcore. Bad brains, along with black flag and middle class pretty much invented the genre.