this was my wife and I's song for "last dance" before we headed off to our honeymoon. Between this and the punk cover of summer days our wedding soundtrack kicked ass.
@beercatphil=that's so romantic..I love hearing about punkrock romances (esp the ones that end up better than Sid & Nancy !). I'd say my favorite husband & wife music team would be, from The Cramps, lead singer Lux Interior (RIP poor guy) & guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach. Look up the youtube clip of The Cramps-Like A Bad Girl Should=they're the twisted Sonny & Cher and this song/video is their bad/dirty boy/girl (yet still PG-13 & just wildly suggestive& funny) version of I Got U Babe. ;^)
Weird how the Dictators are mostly forgotten in Punk, even though they had their first record out well before Patti Smith, the Ramones, Runaways, Damned, Sex Pistols, and Blondie.
@psychkoala i think these guys are better than both of those bands there musically talented there more fun and they look very cool they should have got big like AC/DC this shouldve been a big hit at least in the 80s
@psychkoala i take back that comment well at least the part saying there better than the Ramones but yes those three bands are like the greatest i wish i coulda seen them all in there primes....R.I.P Dee Dee,Joey,Johnny(Ramone and Thunders),and Arthur Kane and whoever else died in those bands
@ebailey140 And the guys that did punk magazine did it because they heard this album. Possibly the whole thing would have been named differently, if Dictators hadn't done this album at the right time. But anyway, none of the above bands considered themselves to be a "punk band".
@Heatfarmer The term"punk rock" was first used by critics in the early 70s for the Nuggets compilation album of 60s garage bands like the Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, etc. A bunch of bands came along in the mid-70s influenced heavily by those bands, so the term started being applied to them. The bands didn't like the term, but it stuck, since it was a full scale scene in New York and then London.
Great version!
TheCoverHeaven 1 month ago
this was my wife and I's song for "last dance" before we headed off to our honeymoon. Between this and the punk cover of summer days our wedding soundtrack kicked ass.
Great song
beercatphil 1 year ago 2
@beercatphil=that's so romantic..I love hearing about punkrock romances (esp the ones that end up better than Sid & Nancy !). I'd say my favorite husband & wife music team would be, from The Cramps, lead singer Lux Interior (RIP poor guy) & guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach. Look up the youtube clip of The Cramps-Like A Bad Girl Should=they're the twisted Sonny & Cher and this song/video is their bad/dirty boy/girl (yet still PG-13 & just wildly suggestive& funny) version of I Got U Babe. ;^)
wmprokipchak 3 weeks ago
Great album, and the best version of this song ever recorded, for my money : )
psychkoala 1 year ago 2
Weird how the Dictators are mostly forgotten in Punk, even though they had their first record out well before Patti Smith, the Ramones, Runaways, Damned, Sex Pistols, and Blondie.
ebailey140 1 year ago 4
@ebailey140
Yeah, right there between the NY Dolls & the Ramones !
psychkoala 1 year ago 2
@psychkoala i think these guys are better than both of those bands there musically talented there more fun and they look very cool they should have got big like AC/DC this shouldve been a big hit at least in the 80s
RamonesFreak566 1 year ago
@RamonesFreak566 Oh man, I LUV the Dolls & The Ramones. I'll give all three of those great NYC bands the nod over AC/DC !
psychkoala 10 months ago
@psychkoala i take back that comment well at least the part saying there better than the Ramones but yes those three bands are like the greatest i wish i coulda seen them all in there primes....R.I.P Dee Dee,Joey,Johnny(Ramone and Thunders),and Arthur Kane and whoever else died in those bands
RamonesFreak566 10 months ago
@ebailey140 - the Dictators broke-up at a (relatively) early stage. Had they been able to continue, who knows how popular they might have become?
EdTracey347 4 months ago
@ebailey140 And the guys that did punk magazine did it because they heard this album. Possibly the whole thing would have been named differently, if Dictators hadn't done this album at the right time. But anyway, none of the above bands considered themselves to be a "punk band".
Heatfarmer 2 months ago
@Heatfarmer The term"punk rock" was first used by critics in the early 70s for the Nuggets compilation album of 60s garage bands like the Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, etc. A bunch of bands came along in the mid-70s influenced heavily by those bands, so the term started being applied to them. The bands didn't like the term, but it stuck, since it was a full scale scene in New York and then London.
ebailey140 2 months ago