At Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:25:13 Steve wrote:

>For 1st generation stuff, you can't go too wrong with the Undertones, or as
>Stewart mentioned, the Buzzcocks.  For other stuff from the Lookout school
>of pop punk, there's always the Mr T Experience, the Parasites, the
>Riverdales...and for modern day material, the Yum Yums would be a great 
>fit.

"Can't go too wrong with the Undertones"?

Have you HEARD Feargal Sharkey's vocals? Sorry, but as big a fan as I am of 
the 'Tones, this is not an act I'd introduce on the first date.....anymore 
than I'd stick "May The Road Rise With You" by P.I.L. or a number of catchy 
Jah Wobble offerings. As pop as they might be, these "singers" are an 
acquired taste.

And if she's into the Green Days, Rancids, and Blink 182's -- which are all 
*Americanized* pop punk -- going back to the British source material might 
be a deterent, not a lure. Or I could be completely wrong and she might very 
get a buzz off the exotic flavour of the British accents....I know I was 
when I was a teen.

How about Suicide or the Port Dukes a la Mike Bennett's hard-line approach? 
:-)

Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye

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