sixbigboys yeah I don’t think there are many bucks to be made anywhere near egg punk or chain punk or punk punk.
I couldn’t find my book this morning while getting ready for work so I grabbed Psychotic Reaction and Carburetor Dung to keep me off my phone at break time (clearly not working). Anyways been checking this thread between sessions of cutting wood with a dull blade. Sat down for my break and Lester is ranting and raving about copycats and boring music. Everything changes, everything stays the same. Someone comes along with a sharp blade cuts a new path then people keep going till eventually the blades too dull to cut anything, which reminds me it’s time to get back to work.

      Well, one of the more popular Egg Punk bands is playing Coachella this year and they're not the one on Third Man. So maybe it feels like it needed to be called out. I do think this whole things reeks of someone being embarrassed about their past and trying distance themselves from it. Personally I think that that's the part that sucks. Like someone covering up tattoos. Live with it bub. And if you have to keep on saying "Who cares" while you're following up writing about it then you kinda do care a bit. It would have been better if he just came out and said "Snooper, you're doing shit we did better for people slightly cooler than Mac Demarco fans and it sucks."

      Side note just in case - I have no horse in this race with Snooper. I think I've heard two songs and they were fine.

        I guess I’m in wrong place. I saw the word “egg” and thought I was back on the breakfast thread.

        Randall

        They were fine when they came out. I bought the 7"s and enjoyed them but I think they're long gone. So much of this stuff is like hard candy. It does the trick when you want it but a it's all just kinda sweet, no substance stuff and I'm quickly moving onto the next glittery thing or more likely, the next old thing I've not heard yet that I like a billion times more.

            going back to the original meme, I read this all as chain won the war

              FoolDiddly the chain was always meant to scramble the egg

                whos this martin guy. sorry he didnt spend time writing his songs each of mine i spend i dunno lets say 10 to 15 years.....

                  Neon Taste Records They were fine when they came out. I bought the 7"s and enjoyed them but I think they're long gone

                  Yeah they never made an impression on me. I saw them live and I will give it to them for being really tight. It’s pretty nuts that with just like 3 or 4 7”s they are playing Coachella so clearly they know more than I

                    Maybe it's bc I was so far removed from current punk at the time, but the first time I even heard the term egg punk was from that meme poster. And I actually found cool bands from it lol

                    BRB, starting an egg punk band as soon as I can buy all my ideas readymade.

                    I like Prison Affair fine, and, yeah, they were really good live. But I started to see them getting hyped in non-punk circles, and that was a bit of a head scratcher. Like why them over the other bands doing roughly the same thing? It’s gotta be their branding, right?

                    Also, that first Snooper record is good.

                    jm You are rad and do more for music in 2025 than most. Just from where I sit egg is not such a threat, but possibly I am wrong. Are the LES far right kids rocking out to egg punk?

                    There was also a movement called "indie sleaze" ten years earlier than shitgaze: strokes, yeah yeah yeahs, tv on the radio, oneida. Nobody called it that then though. There will be an official statement on this soon.

                      whatever ya think of the article or egg punk in general, I just think it's sick that people are talking critically about punk again.. it's interesting to see where everyone's heads are at with this kinda thing, and I think the whole egg/chain spectrum notion, even though born as a joke, has at least gotten people thinking and wanting to expand on ideas around punk which can only be a good thing...

                      I see what Martin's saying in the article, and I really like the guy and the Dumpers (was lucky enough to get to support them on their last show in st louis!) but ofc i disagree with the notion that bands have to try harder, especially in the realm of DIY and punk... there's just as many instances of bands trying TOO hard and having to release a heavily worked on LP retrospectively after the 5 year DIY band timespan passes haha -- how many great live songs have ya seen ruined by overworking them in the practice room over the years?? or great bands who took way too long to record and then got in a fight and left the recordings on a hard drive somewhere...

                      with martin's example of RMFC, the early records may be very influenced by egg punk world, sure, but the new LP is also heavily influenced by serious contemporary post-punk. i agree that the LP is put together better, but it also lost a lot of the spark and excitement of the early stuff. both phases of RMFC are interesting in totally different ways imo, and being prescriptive about "working harder" would erase so much thrilling music from being created (RMFC may not have existed if it was being drafted for eternity for example)... a good healthy punk ecosystem needs bits and pieces of everything, and i'm personally pumped to hear some new flash-in-the-pan exciteable kids make music, and i'm pumped to hear this hard-worked, highly constructed project martin's working on whenever it surfaces, sounds sick!

                      sorry for this essay length response, but it's a pretty interesting topic i reckon... and as someone in my late-30s (i assume similar age to martin), i can see myself falling into the same trap of trying to tell the next gen how to do things. i think there's lessons to pass on about staying within the realms of DIY practice and not falling for music industry tricks, to be autonomous and build a community rather than trying to become the ~ next great artiste of the punk world ~ , but that's besides the point... if the young kids (egg punk or no) are worth their salt, they'll read this and do what we all did at 19, and what all the punks thru history did too: which is to tell the older heads to fuck off and build their own thing their own way, with sounds that they love and appreciate.

                      (but i do hope bands of the future ditch the one-note high-pitched synth, turn the bass channel up, and write songs about more than just crayons or whatever!)

                      jm he says interesting things, but you could honestly replace egg punk with any other genre and most of it would still apply. There will always be people in every genre that don’t do anything different and rip-off other bands. To talk about egg punk like this always exaggerates how big of a genre it is. Snooper and Prison Affair are probably the two biggest egg punk bands right now and they’re really not even that big of bands.