Mitch C. yeah I didn’t really remember when the term was coined but apparently it was 2017 and Lumpy, Uranium Club, and quite a few other bands that I don’t really equate with the term were included. Most if not all bands I consider Egg Punk were not even around for another 2-3 years

      Randall
      I guess I get it if "Fast Devo" is the main criteria. I guess what I'm saying is that Uranium Club doesn't sound or present as lazy to me at all.

          I think people started conflating egg punk with both weird punk and devo core at some point, where I would typically think of egg punk as the intersection of those micro-genres. The meme that named the genre presented all these bands on a chain/egg spectrum, with the Dumpers at like 3/4 the way to full egg. So, by that logic even, like, Warthog was a little egg punk. Anyway, I think that spectrum both highlights the point that egg punk cuts across weird punk, but it also served to muddy the waters in making the distinction, which is probably why folks are too loose with the term these days.

          In any event, I feel like “lazy” is the wrong word here. Because it’s not like some kid churning out the most derivative of egg punk is failing to work hard—they’re just failing to be original.

          • Kkai

            • Post #144

            is there a weird punk explainer? that one passed me by

              hotsounds And what an incredible name hot sounds is! so much better than paperface! I totally understand bro

                  Mitch C. ok well have you listened to their latest record cuzz.....

                    Mitch C. agreed and the last uranium club record was totally slept on. its great to see a group evolve and steer clear from expectations.

                      kai To me « weird punk » is the Termbo name, ie « the OG name », while « shitgaze » is the name Spin or whatever-shitty-magazine came up with afterwards for all these bands from the mid to late 00s that have been mentioned here : Tyvek, Pink Reason, Home Blitz, Psychedelic Horseshit, Times New Viking, Eat Skull, etc. I think there was even a « the year weird punk broke » article in Termbo, maybe in like 2007? Or was it 2008? It was called like that because this wave of bands was a nice change from the orthodoxy of garage bands from the previous decade or so, including the 90s. Which can be explained at least partly by the massive democratization of file-sharing, hence of obscure/ « new » influences for bands, as it was the glory days of Mediafire, MegaUpload, etc. Anyway, that’s how I remember things, but I guess someone else might disagree.

                          ratcharge Ah those days of endless blog posts and mediafire! Here's the "Weird Punk" disc of a 12-disc comp that was posted on some blog or another back then. Obviously a mixed bag that no single genre term could really encapsulate...Mayyors, who rule, but no Puffy Areolas?!

                              ratcharge Puffy Areolas record is incredible. Top track is "get me out of houston".

                                Sukebe_GG Dear all, I stand corrected. Weird Punk is Egg Punk of yore in sense of the number of bands and varying quality.

                                Shitgaze similarity was just how invented by lifers (pink reason and wolf eyes) as a joke people thought was funny and inside baseball for a second, then started to react negative.

                                    It's funny how all these micro-genres names were created. "Powerviolence" was an inside joke of I-don't-remember-which-one from these California guys ; "Mysterious guy hardcore" was a joke by Brace "Fuck DAESH" Belden ; "crust de salon", the French saying, was a joke by parisian grindcore archivist Thrash Manu. But wait, now I feel like I'm posting this in the wrong thread. Oh well.

                                    • CClif

                                      • Post #155

                                      Sukebe_GG Puffy Areolas were the greatest live band walking this planet for a couple of years around 2010

                                        I disagree, the Puffys with Dusty(RIP) were even BETTER than everyone is saying.

                                        paperhose I'm just a nobody so what do I know but I always thought Weird Punk was more freeform, art-influenced, and psychedelic while Egg Punk was more simple, abrasive, and early hardcore-influenced.

                                          Saw Puffys 2 night in a row at Class. One night with krauty on vox and one without bc I think he got too fucked up the night before. Met Dusty and we stayed in touch a little bit. He was a sweet guy. But ya puffys, that first night especially is still one of the best live shows I've seen. True freak music. Sic alps also played and unholy 2. Tried to book puffys in Canada but dude said they'd get turned away at the border haha.

                                          Fuck man they ruled.

                                          Cheveu/Tyvek tour, with Damon from Puffys playing screaming wah guitar for Tyvek was peak weird punk.

                                          Here’s a harebrained theory for ya, it's far from original but:
                                          Within the punk adjacent music community (or whatver), a place briming with amateurism and potential, we may be putting too much stock into the “quick study” archetype. The folks who can mimic are the ones with “chops” even when said chops are used to make fancy free “wild” music. The ones who are unable to mimic make original stuff. Not a question of influences, intent and integrity so much as inability to get in on the trend. Incappable-rock. I think that is silent winner.