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I'll comment here too and mention a few that I've got that are good. mostly hardcore punk -

misery obscura - the photography of eerie von - must have for any misfits fans. great pictures and anecdotes throughout.

this music leaves stains - great and only top-to-bottom chronicle of the misfits.

get in the van - awesome diary of henry rollins on tour with the mighty black flag.

spray paint the walls - history of black flag.

raymond pettibon - the books (1978 -1985). OOP and very hard to find but a lot of amazing and disturbing art from a fantastic artist from the scene.

fucked up + photocopied - lots of great art from the hardcore scene.

touch and go: the complete hardcore punk zine 79-83 - name says it all.

radio silence: a selected visual history of american hardcore music - tons of great photos of rare stuff from the era.

Punk is whatever you want it to be, and the guy standing next to you will have a different opinion.


Watch the documentary film "American Hardcore." It is based on a rather half-assed book written by a guy named Steven Blush. His attempt was to underscore the tribal nature of 1980s hardcore punk in the US. The book has been criticized for being mostly a work of opinion, especially by actual scene makers with differing opinions, but his research (done in a pre-Internet era) is mostly solid and seems like it would dovetail nicely with what you're trying to do. If not, it could also be one more source for your works cited page.

Good luck.

Short Music for Short People, it's a compilation, but its pretty awesome and super fast. Fat Wreck put it out.

http://www.amazon.com/Short-Music-People-Various-Artists/dp/B00000J631/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407126432&sr=8-1&keywords=short+songs+for+short+people

Destroy All Movies is the quintessential tome about punks on film, meticulously cataloguing pretty much every appearance of a punk in a movie.

My favorite punx are girl punx, so I'm really into Ladies & Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains. Plus, that Black Randy cameo is a killer! There's a movie from a couple years back called We Are the Best that I HIGHLY recommend to all punx.

Plus, Derek Jarman's Jubilee is one of the greatest movies of all damn time.

Hey pretty great on first listen! Read their new book it's incredible! About to finish it for the second time! https://www.amazon.com/NOFX-Hepatitis-Bathtub-Other-Stories/dp/0306824779

Have fun feeding yourself friend.

https://www.amazon.com/Tranny-Confessions-Infamous-Anarchist-Sellout/dp/0316387959

[Dance of Days] (http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Days-Decades-Nations-Capital/dp/1888451440/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_4) is an amazing book. It is focused purely on the DC scene and how it evolved over 20 years. It is a must read for any fans Dischord records.

This book exhaustively covers punks in film through the year 2000. From documentaries to movies with punk rocker characters to movies with punks acting in them to movies with a dude with a mohawk as an extra in the corner of a crowd shot in one scene. From big budget Hollywood to New York art underground.

Its a huge coffee table book styled encyclopedia that also features amazing interviews with directors, actors, and all kinds of people involved in the punk/film axis.

Its been out of print for a few years now, so its expensive. But its still worth it.

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Movies-Complete-Guide-Punks/dp/1606993631

Doesnt even mention that there is an awesome book about just this!?

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Movies-Complete-Guide-Punks/dp/1606993631

My pleasure! I saw it a while back, right after reading this book!

We got the Neutron Bomb is a pretty good read on some LA shit. This one is more on LA, but is focused on Darby and the Germs. Decline of Western Civilizations and Suburbia are two movies by Penelope Spheeris that can supplement both of those books.

Dance of Days Covers the DC scene from the late 70's through the early 90's. Great read if you are into that scene.

Lend? It's 8 bucks here; 7.99 here; 7.25 here; and $5.49 here. It's well worth the purchase.

As a musician, I don't hate on anyone for trying to make some money to live. Sure, this is overkill and so is this but it's not like they are 'underground'. I just appreciate them for what they used to be and what they contributed to music.

Lipstick Traces

Last Gang in Town

Our Band Could Be Your Life - The Butthole Surfers chapter is the best thing in the book

Englands Dreaming

Spirit of '69

Just Kids - Patti Smith

I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp - Richard Hell

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir - Viv Albertine

American Hardcore is my personal favorite.

Please Kill Me is good. Then if you are into the 90's Seattle scene, check out Everybody Loves Our Town as well.

That and Get in the Van are good for the gritty reality of touring bands

>and so is [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Rockabilia-Misfits-Air-Freshener/dp/B0028SBXZI)

Ahh, smells like spinal remains.

Neon Angel, Cherie Currie's autobiography that the 2010 movie about the Runaways was loosely based on. A cool perspective on the Hollywood glam scene in the 70's, Currie's experience with the band, and her life in general.

https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Terror-Omar-Higgins/dp/B07RSFBBPP/ref=nodl_

Dance of Days.

Slightly off topic, but Jesse Michaels just released a book!
http://www.amazon.com/What-The-Dead-Have-Say/dp/0615435874

Eh, what comes to mind is this: http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Lane-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/0441516645/

I know there were others, a lot of others but this is the only one that I could think of right now.

Green Day just had a biography put out, and i suggest the book Smash!

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin and Steve Olson.

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Evolution-Science-Religion-Without/dp/0061828513

That's a weird ass conclusion to draw ("The Monkees and the Outsiders started punk"). Obviously (and I'm sure the guy in the video would probably agree?) that there is no true answer, music and attitude just morphed into what got labeled as punk over time. If anyone is interested in this process, check out Nuggets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era,_1965%E2%80%931968) as well as the book Please Kill Me (https://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0802125360)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye: Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self

And I Don’t Want To Live This Life

If you like Bad Religion then check out Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by the lead singer Greg Graffin.

If you are looking for more information on the topic, there is a book called "Destroy all Movies" that has a definitive listing of Punk Rock related films. It is available on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606993631/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

We Got the Neutron Bomb. Its about the LA punk scene.

http://www.amazon.com/We-Got-Neutron-Bomb-Untold/dp/0609807749

I read that book (And I Don't Want to Live This Life) as a kid. She was born with terrible mental illness, and drugs exacerbated it of course. The rest of the family seemed relatively unassuming, can't imagine what they went through while she was growing up.

If you can get a hold of the book Destroy All Movies!!!, it tried to list all movies with punks in it. The book is out of print and hard to find now, unfortunately. Here is the link to the Amazon page for it, though : https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Movies-Complete-Guide-Punks/dp/1606993631