cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2118592/what-are-some-of-your-favourite-rock-punk-bands-around-the-world
I’m currently listening to BTR (Bulgarian), Kino (Russian), Luke (French), the pillows (Japanese), Bjornarna (Swedish), Nova Koma (Latvian), Melt-Banana (Japanese), Republika (Polish), Ornatos Violeta (Portuguese), Starshooter (French), Chewie (Scottish), Jufkamental (Bosnian), Kult (Polish), Die Toten Hosen (German), Die Artze (German), and Ska-P (Spanish)!
In my opinion, it’s better to listen to all the best bands from everywhere rather than a mixed bag of American and British ones. Plus, they all have their own unique flavour on top of the traditional rock/punk styles, so it’s fun to listen to them!
What are some of your favourite rock/punk bands outside of the U.S. and England? I would also like to listen to some from outside Europe (I have a few Japanese ones, but that’s about it)
Cool thread! I love The Pillows and Starshooter!
Here are some of my personal Japanese rock band recommendations:
The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda The Blue Hearts are kind of THE iconic Japanese punk band, and this song was very well-known.
The Pees - やっとハッピー (Finally Happy)
Tomovsky - 我に返るスキマを埋めろ (DON’T RETURN TO YOU)
Sunny Day Service - 心に雲を持つ少年 (The Boy Who Keeps Clouds in his Heart)
Flipper’s Guitar - Camera Camera Camera! (Guitar Pop Version) Arguably one of the main bands that defined the unique 90s Shibuya-Kei genre.
Magokoro Brothers - 空にまいあがれ (Fly in the Sky)
Salon Music - Spending Silent Night
Moonriders - Cool Dynamo, Right On Fans of the game Earthbound should pay special attention to this one!
And The Pillows - Midnight Down for good measure. RIP to Shinichiro Sato, the fantastic drummer of The Pillows who died in back in March of this year. I love the drums in this song, and so many of their others. He was a great drummer with amazing chops while still doing what was best for the song. As an American I feel very lucky that I was able to see The Pillows live a couple of times.
As for some French stuff that I like:
Téléphone - Un autre monde (Another World)
Les Fils de Joie - Adieu Paris
…and if anyone has any recommendations for me I’ll gladly check them out!
Gob (Canada). Plus, their style changes pretty radically between albums (while still staying loosely bound to the punk genre) so you have options depending on your tastes.
Hang Youth from the Netherlands. One of their iconic song titles translates as “You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism”.
Hinds are from Spain https://hinds.bandcamp.com/album/leave-me-alone - they did a great show when I saw them
Arguably not rock or punk, but
I adore this doom from Australia. Holy serpent - Endless. https://holyserpentband.bandcamp.com/album/endless
More doom, from Belgium: https://wolvennest.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-path-to-the-light
Australia had been producing some absolutely killer punk and pub rock bands over the past while. Some of my favorites are The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers, Ratsalad., The Gutter Girls, Mod Con, and Flangipanis.
From Japan: Otoboke Beaver.
From the Philippines: Tiger Pussy.
From Ireland: An Slua, Sprints, Gurriers, Nerves, Bucket, and some classic punk bands like Stiff Little Fingers, and The Radiators.
From Scotland: Cowboy Hunters, and Soapbox.
From France: Camera Silens, Rixe, Syndrome 81, Zone Infinie, and Tchernobyl.
Moscow death brigade
Honningbarna
Edit: saw too late they shouldn’t be from USA or uk, anyways I listen to: Destroy Boys, amyl and the sniffers, dead pony, pixies, lambrini girls, mannequin pussy, warmduscher, viagra boys…
I’ve made a Spotify-Playlist with my favorite german punksongs back then when I still used it. It’s pretty much my main genre. Maybe you can find some cool bands there.
I am very much not in the punk scene, all these names look like someone just made them up.
Still had fun reading, so ty
I mean, all band names are made up in the end of the day. A lot of them are based on various pop culture references (think characters in movies or TV shows), for instance, the French band Luke’s name comes from the American movie “Cool Hand Luke”, none of the members are actually called Luke.
Die Toten Hosen literally means “the dead trousers” in German, and it’s slang for “boring” (though their music is the opposite of that!), while Die Ärtze means “the doctors” in German.
Ska-P is short for “ska punk” which is a mix of ska and punk (and it’s an awesome genre to listen too!)
Kino is Russian for “cinema”, and there’s a variant of the “absolute cinema” meme that instead used a picture of Viktor Tsoi (the GOAT) with the words “absolute Kino”
Yeah, I knew the toten hosen and die artzte, but that might date me.
I just like the new names, thanks for taking the time of explaining a few <3
