This is my favourite 999 record. A very underestimated punk band who should have been far bigger than they were. This video is an absolute classic, many thanks for the posting!!
My DAD got me into 999 in the late 70s after he heard them on John Peel and bought the first 2 LPs - which, incidently, are totally underrated CLASSICS
999 at the Nashville - couldn't be beat! I remember at the end of one 999 bash there, the notorious Strawberry literally running headlong straight out the main doors and crashing into a bus which was passing on the North End Rd. Great days!
The album that this is from is a proper 'forgotten classic' . Can't understand why it's so underrated. Great video, with all the energy and attitude that you could possibly want.
Anyone starting a guitar band could do a lot worse than just getting hold of '999' by '999' and learning it! Bass, drums, guitar, vocals - Bloody marvellous!
@ shade..tru..velvet underground still had some hippie in em..new punk sucks balls..not enough rage..or anarchy..now its about whinny boys with whinny girls..
Punk Rock and Punk are two separate entities. "Punk" was about the ethos. Even Hippies was involved in Punk and Punk Rock. The lyrics here say a great deal for the ethos not just of the punks but very much of the time. The music was a product of what was going on inside the youth; a manifestation and reflection of the ethos. But only a part of it. It has left a legacy that is just as strong today ;)
@hooraysweden - Spot on, mate. Look at the diversity of the original punk rockers - Mick Jones with his long hair, John Lydon with his spike, Paul Simonon with his quiff, Ramones with their...blimey. Even early 80s hard core punk rockers like around the time of Discharge and GBH became a little identikit punk., though the music was great. I know coz I was there.
Personally I'm not punk or anything else I'm just me :P but I love punk music!!!who cares what's punk and what isn't!doesn't matter who is and who isn't?!jeez people just enjoy the fucking music!!!:D haha
Obviously one of the bands that inspired Blur.....don't care about if you think its punk or not. If you think thats important, then you are NOT punk..Which you aren't anyway, because that was a name of a fanzine..And if you are a punk then thats by definition something else, in which case you should just go and get fucked!
why does everybody have to say punk was this and that? punk was just originally a raw, heavy, and underground form of rock n' roll, the people who set the standards for what punk was, were the big business record companies and other propaganda filled media junkies who were the enemy of the early music..not saying that i wouldn't say this isn't punk, just saying that that word drives me up the wall when umpteen people comment on a video to cram what they think is punk down a spectator's throat.
@IAmRonaldMcRaygun you're saying 999 is music,ok,I agree-I even owned a 999 tee back in '77- but punk was a hell of a lot more besides just the music,at least to us.nothing to do with record companies or the business,it was DIY and fuck society and all that.but if you just want entertainment,I have no problem with that.not my cup of tea,that's all.enjoying the debate going on here though,hilarious :)
sidnej.dzieki.to dzieki tobie ich poznalem.wiem czemu tak bardzo ci sie podobali.zawsze byli w dlugich rekawach.... tyle stary ze juz mi na to nie odpowiesz.... R.I.P
As soon as you try to give 70s Punk a classification (a look, a sound, a style, blah, blah. . . pop culture talk) you completely loose the entire meaning of the time. We considered a wide range of bands punk. And that is why if you weren’t there you will never understand. Back then very few people in the USA ever even knew 999 existed definitely Not a pop band.
@8anvils Lucky for me, I was in Los Angeles in 1977 and heard all the latest English punk singles on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio program--including 999, in fact, I just found an old photo of myself from '77 wearing a 999 badge. Just about any band that seemed DIY and not part of the established music industry passed as "Punk", so in 1977 I went to shows by The Damned, Blondie, The Ramones, The Dictators, The Jam, and Elvis Costello (among others), and everyone in the LA Punk Scene was there too.
@unmedication Read @8anvils' reaction. He (or she)'s right. Heck, even Elvis Costello was considered punk in them days. Wherever 999 performed you'd see spikey tops and black leather jackets all over the place.
@GLOatYT Agree with you guys. There was different shades of punk rock, pop rock, and pop... The range of of styles was luxurious in the 80's. It is stupid to try to say that one is punk, that one not. A kind of bad habit from our (my?) education :-(
Imagine in the late 70’s driving through small towns in the USA’s deep south in a Triumph Spitfire, mohawk, painted leather jacket, blasting 999; it’s hilarious now looking how it just absolutely terrified people. :-)
Superb video. THE most under-rated of the first generation of punk bands. If these sessions had been commercially available in 77/78 (MTV etc) this band would have been up there with the Clash and the other 'big name' bands. Nick Cash's vocals are superb, some timeless singles and album tracks and in the day a fantastic live show. I saw them supporting the Runaways in Nov 77 and headlining their own tour in 78 and many times since. Tis one of life's great mysteries why 999 weren't massive.
Black jack - wanna quack Never get your money back Pack attack - in the back By a bloody maniac Better see - industry Take it fast and make it last Go away - make 'em pay Never make the same mistakes Sometimes care- sometimes not See 'em bleed and see them rot wonderful.
This guys could really rock as hell,Sex Pistols was a non plastic odd bunch of wankers. 999 made it through all,they still play,even if Jon Watson left the group for a couple of years ago.Good lads.....
Sorry I gotta say this. I was there back in the day as well and the Stranglers were a punk band in the early days, but like so many bands they began to try and distance themselves and melted into the more sanitised music industry friendly New Wave era. That didn't detract from the fact they were still a great band
Stranglers were still quite good in their New Wave years, and there were also plenty of good New Wave bands overall. There were actually many that never reached the mainstream, too, probably more than ones that did, even though the genre was supposed to be a commercialized form of punk.
well "69" why did you see and comment this if you don´t like it?I think 999 made a couple of great pop/punk songs.accually I think they were one of the greatest at that time.
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they were a garage band before a punk band but still one of the best, there are still punkd doing it, don't believe the hype oh and diy start ya own fucking band, mix it up with practice and attitude ta match ya got a deal and all the spolis, if ya aim is make a mill, f off i can smell a rat at ten paces, viva! i am looking at you, we don't need you
There are some comments about the death of the 'old grey whistle test' ..... don't mock - these programs keep visual history for UTUBE - search .... Later Jools and find the new Whistle test,
BTW - I think Jools is creating a fantastic musical history (although not to sure about his interview technique :-))
Sex Pistols were not overrated. There was english punk west coast punk and east coast punk. Sex pistols were the best by far that came out of england.
Agree, punk had many flavors, and i have yet to meet somebody who wasn't amazed when they heard The Sex Pistols for the first time back then..I truly respect what The Buzzcocks, The Damned and The Clash did. But in 76/77 the Pistols was in a league of their own in the UK
The Stranglers were never a punk band. I was around at the time and they definitely stood outside the punk scene - they were not only much older than the Pistols etc, but much better musicians. They released some great stuff, no question, but the y were more like a new wave version of the Doors.
so was i mate and seen em all,not from the armchair either so i can back up my comments,the pistols were a focal point but only through the media manipulation,same with the clash bernie rhodes and his toadies,but record sales dictate and the best band sold the most..the stranglers....nuff said.
Well, If you want to make a pissing contest out of punk rock, go ahead. But ricknblack, YOU are just making your own chart and tell other people whats right or wrong. Thats about as anti-punk as it gets. If you claim that the Sex Pistols didn't have an impact on the music scene that was way bigger than anything else in 77, thats fine with me. I heard them back then and the music and lyrics was and is great. Their management is a different story!
pissing contest ha very usa,my chart its you guys one album,couple of good songs,game over,maybe you could pogo to the country life jingle..ha were so buttery oh so buttery were pretty buttery....
@Random5able Preety simple. Sid Vicious was a junkie nihilist, he killed himself not recorded more than two songs. The rest of them never got even that popularity, and even they are preety much the same as Sid... go listen to idol, or clash, slash has got real talent... they made the genre famous, not nihilist idiots or ramones who didnt even know how to play guitars.
@andrewmerc That's what punk is all about. You don't seem to understand the essence of it. I'm not saying that one band is better than another, but trying to dictate what's punk and what's not is really illogical. In actuality, Ramones and Sex Pistols made punk just as famous as The Clash. Punk can range from 999 to Black Flag to early Green Day. There's really limitless possibilities when it comes to punk rock.
I agree-and that's because punk rock is just stripped down rock n roll. One of the key differences between punk and other rock genres-especially metal and classic rock-is that punk is about the song, not about a bunch of "musicians" showboating or endless aimless solos that only pot heads can enjoy. it's like what Billy Idol said in that one Generation X song "a good musician is a disease, I'm gonna do what I want, play what I please."
@Random5able Not only that, but most of the people who are punk "purists" now were born 20+ years after punk started, and don't realize that punk is more than a fashion statement.
@someghettokid nah best mutation of rock is prog but still punk rules well did modern punk bands suck there all the same where angsty alternative teenagers playing three chords, wat happened to bands lik this an the dead kennedeys :(
I'd forgotten just how good this song is, great drum pattern to keep you listening, and then three hooks combined in the chorus - the descending arpeggio guitar chords, the instantly memorable rhyme of the line 'back in full attack', and the harmony to 'never give in until they crack' - to pull you right in!
LOL these are my friends cousins.
amishftw2 1 week ago
"What more do I want?" Ehm....., how about a correct spelling of 'Emergency'?
Shaytan67 3 weeks ago 3
This is my favourite 999 record. A very underestimated punk band who should have been far bigger than they were. This video is an absolute classic, many thanks for the posting!!
1962jacker 1 month ago in playlist punk stuff 2
Great song!
Magnidude 1 month ago
THIS is punk
xxAnemia 2 months ago
My DAD got me into 999 in the late 70s after he heard them on John Peel and bought the first 2 LPs - which, incidently, are totally underrated CLASSICS
pollmeister 2 months ago
999 at the Nashville - couldn't be beat! I remember at the end of one 999 bash there, the notorious Strawberry literally running headlong straight out the main doors and crashing into a bus which was passing on the North End Rd. Great days!
circassianlovechaunt 3 months ago
n e one know where i could look up tabs for this band?
LBDR22 3 months ago
I think that is one punk typo in the word "emergency" there :D
stickernation 3 months ago
The album that this is from is a proper 'forgotten classic' . Can't understand why it's so underrated. Great video, with all the energy and attitude that you could possibly want.
Anyone starting a guitar band could do a lot worse than just getting hold of '999' by '999' and learning it! Bass, drums, guitar, vocals - Bloody marvellous!
mredwards3000 3 months ago in playlist unfertyujj 2
Sometimes Care
Sometimes Not
See Them Bleed and
See Them Rot!
gasmaskboi19371945 4 months ago
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TheTensl 5 months ago
F**** great vid made even better by the faded film. This is what a punk band should look like. Thanks for uploading this.
mike1800S 5 months ago
@ shade..tru..velvet underground still had some hippie in em..new punk sucks balls..not enough rage..or anarchy..now its about whinny boys with whinny girls..
tubesockqueen 5 months ago
This brilliant song is just as good as anything the Sex Pistols put out.
It's a disgrace that the music industry buried these in favor of their recycled garbage. Screw 'em.
promisedeyes 5 months ago 2
Punk Rock and Punk are two separate entities. "Punk" was about the ethos. Even Hippies was involved in Punk and Punk Rock. The lyrics here say a great deal for the ethos not just of the punks but very much of the time. The music was a product of what was going on inside the youth; a manifestation and reflection of the ethos. But only a part of it. It has left a legacy that is just as strong today ;)
Shadegat3 5 months ago
punk/new wave, just the dogs bollocks.
kram83au 5 months ago
Nick Cash was a founder member of pub rock legends Kilburn and the High Roads with Ian Dury.
davymgaunt 5 months ago
@davymgaunt really ? wow i did not know that
thehoodedclot 5 months ago
@thehoodedclot Yeah. Real name is Keith Lucas. Was in the Kilburns from 1971 until 1976 when he left acrimoniously and formed 999.
davymgaunt 5 months ago
Greetings from Indonesia.
urbanguerilla93 5 months ago
he is back in full attack
rudikeegan 7 months ago
@hooraysweden - Spot on, mate. Look at the diversity of the original punk rockers - Mick Jones with his long hair, John Lydon with his spike, Paul Simonon with his quiff, Ramones with their...blimey. Even early 80s hard core punk rockers like around the time of Discharge and GBH became a little identikit punk., though the music was great. I know coz I was there.
andrewshere 7 months ago
What a song...+++!
kohlemainen 7 months ago
one my best punk 77 forever,i love 999
luigi7630 7 months ago
Crazy punk duuuuudes!
tomitook10 8 months ago
Good Stuff Kiddies!!!
SKATINSCENE1982 8 months ago
Personally I'm not punk or anything else I'm just me :P but I love punk music!!!who cares what's punk and what isn't!doesn't matter who is and who isn't?!jeez people just enjoy the fucking music!!!:D haha
00deadlycereal00 9 months ago
Colin Firth on drums!
ch3l53a1 9 months ago
I love this band♥
Is addictive every song of 999 :)
And nick's voice is so so lovely! ♥
newyorkdoll72 10 months ago
Not bad
jc1daddy2 10 months ago
never!
meeeow77 10 months ago
Just like everyone to know that Keith , (The singer's real name) , is my friend's uncle who is sitting next to me as I write this. :)
rawriizbigga 10 months ago 10
There is no word to describe how awesome this song is
PunkLovingNerd 11 months ago 2
he sings then 5 seconds later realises he dropped the mic and picked it up and just carried on lol
darkwingx1 11 months ago 2
@darkwingx1 details.....his voice is powerful enough not to need a microphone.... :-)
goducks20101 10 months ago
LOVE THIS!!!!
gojohnnygojohnny 11 months ago
Hey RikiRude got any Chelsea - roxy era ? thanks from Frankie Euston London UK 999 nearley as good as menace
rocheroy 11 months ago
Hey RikiRude got any Chelsea - roxy era ? thanks from Frankie Euston London UK 999 nearley as good as menice
rocheroy 11 months ago
999 were great. Nick was a bit porky, but hey-ho.
kidwoofwoof 1 year ago
Obviously one of the bands that inspired Blur.....don't care about if you think its punk or not. If you think thats important, then you are NOT punk..Which you aren't anyway, because that was a name of a fanzine..And if you are a punk then thats by definition something else, in which case you should just go and get fucked!
Heatfarmer 1 year ago 2
Do drugs make me feel fine
do drugs with that make fucking fine
Fliunus 1 year ago
takes me right back does this!!!! f#ckin quality!!
1fitchy 1 year ago
Now this is some real rock-n-roll rock-n-roll, you know what I mean? :-D
promisedeyes 1 year ago
Wow, great sound. I love this song, wonderful nuances and vocal performances. Very cool video.
bbuteo 1 year ago
I saw them about 30 years ago in L.A. I thought they were great!
notseafood 1 year ago
CORPORATE MUSIC !! Yeah the banks funded em. I DESPAIR !!
MultiCapobianco 1 year ago
C'MON it was disco, hair bands, metal or PUNK/ NEW WAVE a response to CORPORATE MUSIC BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH
sunra3000 1 year ago
Im going to see 999 on Thursday in Dundeee
second time iv saw them
cant fucking wait
taking my girlfreind who has never heard them before
Seanwaste 1 year ago
why does everybody have to say punk was this and that? punk was just originally a raw, heavy, and underground form of rock n' roll, the people who set the standards for what punk was, were the big business record companies and other propaganda filled media junkies who were the enemy of the early music..not saying that i wouldn't say this isn't punk, just saying that that word drives me up the wall when umpteen people comment on a video to cram what they think is punk down a spectator's throat.
IAmRonaldMcRaygun 1 year ago
@IAmRonaldMcRaygun and you're not??
ida2x 1 year ago
@ida2x my point is that it's music and it should be listened to as music.
IAmRonaldMcRaygun 1 year ago
@IAmRonaldMcRaygun you're saying 999 is music,ok,I agree-I even owned a 999 tee back in '77- but punk was a hell of a lot more besides just the music,at least to us.nothing to do with record companies or the business,it was DIY and fuck society and all that.but if you just want entertainment,I have no problem with that.not my cup of tea,that's all.enjoying the debate going on here though,hilarious :)
ida2x 1 year ago 3
Salut, c'est trop cool les 999, merci beaucoup pour l'upload ....
MyDenmon 1 year ago
One of the best punk songs ever
seanohalpin 1 year ago
no way The Ramones are OVERRATED
when u start a genre, i dnt see how u can be overrated
Daniel62593 1 year ago
sidnej.dzieki.to dzieki tobie ich poznalem.wiem czemu tak bardzo ci sie podobali.zawsze byli w dlugich rekawach.... tyle stary ze juz mi na to nie odpowiesz.... R.I.P
TheStrammer 1 year ago
seperates great album came with a free 12 inch waiting and action i have it
alanhug 1 year ago
999 are definately one of the greatest bands ever! I have this 7" the record sounds soooo good on vinyl...Cheers from the US!
utxyz 1 year ago
this is my sons FAVE song...he's 3 yrs. old!
vealshanker 1 year ago
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brought this album and played it to death in the 70s
momagic45 1 year ago
brought this album and played it to death in the 70s
momagic45 1 year ago
excelente banda, me encanta
peronistamuerto 1 year ago
excelente banda, me encanta
peronistamuerto 1 year ago
LOVE THAT SONG, FAV 999 RECORD, STILL SOUNDS GREAT TODAY.
1962jacker 1 year ago
had to see them live to see how good they were,barberellas, electric ballroom etc, ive still got the999 tattoo.
stirk999 1 year ago
what the hell....thank you!
awellfedbottomfeeder 1 year ago
Pure Punk from the Era of Punk !
Shades of Punk
From a Punk .
TheSinistere 1 year ago
hey my les paul looks just like that one
aaronwanker1 1 year ago
Emergency not Emergancy lol.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
One of my favorite 999 trax ever!
honeybane 1 year ago
Ah, great days.
G0IFI 1 year ago
Great lyrics, great song and weard but great video. Pure greatness! ;-9
KrisseSydan 1 year ago 2
this is good 77 !!! No stupid left commie only 77 !!!!!
Pampalini77 1 year ago
i can do that
paulmaguire12345 1 year ago
One of the most addictive songs I have ever heard
TheAlienFan 1 year ago 21
As soon as you try to give 70s Punk a classification (a look, a sound, a style, blah, blah. . . pop culture talk) you completely loose the entire meaning of the time. We considered a wide range of bands punk. And that is why if you weren’t there you will never understand. Back then very few people in the USA ever even knew 999 existed definitely Not a pop band.
8anvils 1 year ago 3
@8anvils Lucky for me, I was in Los Angeles in 1977 and heard all the latest English punk singles on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio program--including 999, in fact, I just found an old photo of myself from '77 wearing a 999 badge. Just about any band that seemed DIY and not part of the established music industry passed as "Punk", so in 1977 I went to shows by The Damned, Blondie, The Ramones, The Dictators, The Jam, and Elvis Costello (among others), and everyone in the LA Punk Scene was there too.
helenkrump 1 year ago
Its barely punk. Power pop at most. Eleguantly faked.
unmedication 1 year ago
@unmedication Read @8anvils' reaction. He (or she)'s right. Heck, even Elvis Costello was considered punk in them days. Wherever 999 performed you'd see spikey tops and black leather jackets all over the place.
GLOatYT 1 year ago
@GLOatYT Agree with you guys. There was different shades of punk rock, pop rock, and pop... The range of of styles was luxurious in the 80's. It is stupid to try to say that one is punk, that one not. A kind of bad habit from our (my?) education :-(
unmedication 1 year ago
@GLOatYT There is also a touch of Buzzcoks in my ear ;-) about this song.
unmedication 1 year ago
Too good to be punk.
hugobear1 1 year ago
Imagine in the late 70’s driving through small towns in the USA’s deep south in a Triumph Spitfire, mohawk, painted leather jacket, blasting 999; it’s hilarious now looking how it just absolutely terrified people. :-)
8anvils 1 year ago
@8anvils In the late 70's mohawks were not yet in fashion. Apart from that you paint an intriguing picture.
GLOatYT 1 year ago
Superb video. THE most under-rated of the first generation of punk bands. If these sessions had been commercially available in 77/78 (MTV etc) this band would have been up there with the Clash and the other 'big name' bands. Nick Cash's vocals are superb, some timeless singles and album tracks and in the day a fantastic live show. I saw them supporting the Runaways in Nov 77 and headlining their own tour in 78 and many times since. Tis one of life's great mysteries why 999 weren't massive.
stevie1961x 1 year ago
My dad saw them live in the Bones Club in Reading 1979,when he was a punk!!!
(Gobber -nickname)
NathanDjWildIsBack 1 year ago
999 in Brighton this thursday cant wait. I hope Billy Bollocks will be ther
ladytroner 1 year ago
wow where are all the fans i love 999
brianlowdown 1 year ago
haha...i actually like these guys. stumbled on them by accident. thumbs up!
soccerdon1981 1 year ago
Sounds as good now as it did at the time.Excellent song,never gets boring
TheAlienFan 1 year ago
What fun!
BetamaxBabe 1 year ago
SKIDDFACE 1 year ago
Brilliant!! Punk was the best!!!
SonickBlue 1 year ago
Classic! What a riff...well, just a chord, really :)
kohlemainen 1 year ago
fantastic enough said!
lediable6 1 year ago
999=epic win.
Anonymous5440 1 year ago
You´re full of shit! You can´t compare this to the Pistols. Although I somehow like some of 999.
mats666 1 year ago
This guys could really rock as hell,Sex Pistols was a non plastic odd bunch of wankers. 999 made it through all,they still play,even if Jon Watson left the group for a couple of years ago.Good lads.....
Toejack61 1 year ago
*emergency
guitarpop 1 year ago
I Alway's loved these Guy's... they Where A Big influence.....On Me...
Davofl 1 year ago
props liked tghis,where are theyh based?(city i mean) ? :)
blunklaura 1 year ago
Ugly devils.
Great music!
eff901 1 year ago
999 brilliant band saw them live have most albums
alanhug 1 year ago
999 Top band and did great live gigs with a raw edge.
worlockpa 2 years ago
Sorry I gotta say this. I was there back in the day as well and the Stranglers were a punk band in the early days, but like so many bands they began to try and distance themselves and melted into the more sanitised music industry friendly New Wave era. That didn't detract from the fact they were still a great band
worlockpa 2 years ago
Stranglers were still quite good in their New Wave years, and there were also plenty of good New Wave bands overall. There were actually many that never reached the mainstream, too, probably more than ones that did, even though the genre was supposed to be a commercialized form of punk.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
Never got the credit they truly deserved, really great group and songs!
Maxshard 2 years ago
well "69" why did you see and comment this if you don´t like it?I think 999 made a couple of great pop/punk songs.accually I think they were one of the greatest at that time.
MrSambillabong 2 years ago
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999 absolute shit
69shedhead 2 years ago
What more do I want? Well, for starter, for you to spell EMERGENCY correctly.
TwigDjango 2 years ago
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they were a garage band before a punk band but still one of the best, there are still punkd doing it, don't believe the hype oh and diy start ya own fucking band, mix it up with practice and attitude ta match ya got a deal and all the spolis, if ya aim is make a mill, f off i can smell a rat at ten paces, viva! i am looking at you, we don't need you
ampallang7 2 years ago
Emergancy, right.
Snett111 2 years ago
This takes me right back to Barberellas in Birmingham..... almost makes me feel like spitting all over the place again.
grumbletum 2 years ago
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this song would have been good, if it wasn't so repetitive, verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus. they should have changed it up a bit.
longinusmaximus 2 years ago
Yeah, this song has lots of attitude but little else.
ScottAln05 2 years ago
this is really punk yeah XD
pulungu 2 years ago
DANGEROUS AND EXCITING.
Their debut album was my fave punk album ever.
Look, listen and learn all you wimpy manufactured safe boy bands of today.
retroram 2 years ago 3
Musical punk - good comment about chord change.
There are some comments about the death of the 'old grey whistle test' ..... don't mock - these programs keep visual history for UTUBE - search .... Later Jools and find the new Whistle test,
BTW - I think Jools is creating a fantastic musical history (although not to sure about his interview technique :-))
markiemarqueUK 2 years ago
@ andrewmerc
Sex Pistols were not overrated. There was english punk west coast punk and east coast punk. Sex pistols were the best by far that came out of england.
Saboteur1 2 years ago
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The Clash baby.
TheThingThatThinged 2 years ago
Agree, punk had many flavors, and i have yet to meet somebody who wasn't amazed when they heard The Sex Pistols for the first time back then..I truly respect what The Buzzcocks, The Damned and The Clash did. But in 76/77 the Pistols was in a league of their own in the UK
lmtsonic 2 years ago 2
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fuckin bullshit pistols were a boy band manufactured by the ponce mclaren,the stranglers were and still the greatest punk band ever,tosser
ricknblack 2 years ago
Agreed. Fuck the Pistols. Nothing but McLaren's marketing tool. How the fuck else did they get to the top of the POP charts, eh? Fuck the Pistols.
TwigDjango 2 years ago
The Stranglers were never a punk band. I was around at the time and they definitely stood outside the punk scene - they were not only much older than the Pistols etc, but much better musicians. They released some great stuff, no question, but the y were more like a new wave version of the Doors.
gazzo45 2 years ago
so was i mate and seen em all,not from the armchair either so i can back up my comments,the pistols were a focal point but only through the media manipulation,same with the clash bernie rhodes and his toadies,but record sales dictate and the best band sold the most..the stranglers....nuff said.
ricknblack 2 years ago
wot a load of bollocks matey,you been on the bbc change history drugs.fekin wank one hit tossers.
ricknblack 2 years ago
Well, If you want to make a pissing contest out of punk rock, go ahead. But ricknblack, YOU are just making your own chart and tell other people whats right or wrong. Thats about as anti-punk as it gets. If you claim that the Sex Pistols didn't have an impact on the music scene that was way bigger than anything else in 77, thats fine with me. I heard them back then and the music and lyrics was and is great. Their management is a different story!
lmtsonic 2 years ago 3
Good point. "Thats about as anti-punk as it gets"
If thier ears cant tell the difference they should not be posting here go to brittney spears blogs.
Saboteur1 2 years ago
pissing contest ha very usa,my chart its you guys one album,couple of good songs,game over,maybe you could pogo to the country life jingle..ha were so buttery oh so buttery were pretty buttery....
ricknblack 2 years ago
To be honest I loved them back in the day but they were posers. Their music changed to try to be in the top 40 no matter what the genre
Saboteur1 2 years ago
The Sex Pistols screwed up, what's not punk about that?
Meltwoman 2 years ago 3
Great melody and chord change
It's a kinda punk but not .. too musical :-)
markiemarqueUK 2 years ago 6
Heh, 999 were far underrated. Just look at Sex Pistols or Ramones, who are far overrated... 999 was punk!
andrewmerc 2 years ago 18
@andrewmerc Who are you to say what is and what's not punk?
Random5able 1 year ago
@Random5able Preety simple. Sid Vicious was a junkie nihilist, he killed himself not recorded more than two songs. The rest of them never got even that popularity, and even they are preety much the same as Sid... go listen to idol, or clash, slash has got real talent... they made the genre famous, not nihilist idiots or ramones who didnt even know how to play guitars.
andrewmerc 1 year ago
@andrewmerc That's what punk is all about. You don't seem to understand the essence of it. I'm not saying that one band is better than another, but trying to dictate what's punk and what's not is really illogical. In actuality, Ramones and Sex Pistols made punk just as famous as The Clash. Punk can range from 999 to Black Flag to early Green Day. There's really limitless possibilities when it comes to punk rock.
Random5able 1 year ago 29
@Random5able
I agree-and that's because punk rock is just stripped down rock n roll. One of the key differences between punk and other rock genres-especially metal and classic rock-is that punk is about the song, not about a bunch of "musicians" showboating or endless aimless solos that only pot heads can enjoy. it's like what Billy Idol said in that one Generation X song "a good musician is a disease, I'm gonna do what I want, play what I please."
trapadoored 10 months ago
@Random5able Not only that, but most of the people who are punk "purists" now were born 20+ years after punk started, and don't realize that punk is more than a fashion statement.
hooraysweden 7 months ago 3
My first punk album. Great
cliffsmansbird 2 years ago 6
same for me :)
krullis55 2 years ago 4
yes 999 on 09/09/09 how cool is that
SirTweakAlot 2 years ago 6
wow. todays sept. 9 2009. real effin' deep....
wanderer1031 2 years ago 3
Punk at its best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheWigandgown 2 years ago 3
wow, what a great video. Thanks for posting.
erm, yeah this is punk.
srodgers66 2 years ago 5
Lovely tune from a lovely album!
ZLUGGO 2 years ago 4
Holy shit! I've been looking for this song on playlist forever XD
ireznor2day 2 years ago
cheers from Greece
DeksiosGiaPanta 2 years ago
ok there might be different"styles of punk" pop punk , ancarcho-punk, hardcore-punk
but at the end of the day it just Punk the greatest mutation of rock n roll in the history of rock n roll
someghettokid 2 years ago 27
@someghettokid fuck pop punk dude.
MLGRegulaR 1 year ago
@someghettokid there only used to be one kind of punk ..thank god commercialism got hold of it and milked another creative idea :)
Gazzthemightyarseole 1 year ago
@someghettokid NO ! f.; NO ! PUNK is the lawful son of the 70's.
The sequel, The history, the meaning of it.
unmedication 1 year ago
@someghettokid nah best mutation of rock is prog but still punk rules well did modern punk bands suck there all the same where angsty alternative teenagers playing three chords, wat happened to bands lik this an the dead kennedeys :(
AuT0maTe1 1 year ago
@someghettokid yes indeed
david6netzero 1 year ago
sorry mr.i invented punk. Mr.Rancid
you probabl only listen to the second wave
"call that punk your mad" wtf that shows how much you know about punk rock
someghettokid 2 years ago 4
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call tht punk thn ur mad
hugabugajuga 2 years ago
how is it not punk? right time, right place, simple music and meaningful lyrics. This is basically the definition of punk
billydai 2 years ago 5
If you call that spelling, you're mad.
m1chaelw0rkman 2 years ago 5
Such an underrated band. Should have been huge.
tigergambit 2 years ago 4
Yes should have been huge. Instead I saw them play live in a PUB in my town in March
hales95 2 years ago 4
Was just going to make the same comment tigergambit. 999 were totally underrated and should indeed have been very very big.
This music will last another thirty years too.
Maxshard 2 years ago 8
cheers from France
VIDEOCKS 2 years ago
cheers from israel
amital 2 years ago
to answer question...
maybe the correct spelling
pvw1966 2 years ago
cheers missed this song for long time ..it was an emergency
jamfen 2 years ago
The best '77 punk song made ever!! ;D. Cheers from Poland : ].
CityBabyRevenge77 2 years ago
punk rock at it´s best!!! perhaps you might like the angelfaces!!!
peterweikl 2 years ago
I'd forgotten just how good this song is, great drum pattern to keep you listening, and then three hooks combined in the chorus - the descending arpeggio guitar chords, the instantly memorable rhyme of the line 'back in full attack', and the harmony to 'never give in until they crack' - to pull you right in!
Fab stuff.
BackToTheBlues 2 years ago 2
Great song, what I want to know is why the fuck can i not find a video for Titanic (My Over) Reaction?
Xais56 2 years ago
I'm back in full attack - never give in until they crack - emergency,emergency!
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pandoracremosa 2 years ago
seriously, how the hell did these guys not get huge.
dgall91 2 years ago 3
God, this is like one of the best songs ever written! These guys should've been huge. Talk about underrated.
timothyspear 2 years ago 3
i dont understnd the drums i dont play so tht may help
TEDDY666KILLER 2 years ago
High ene-ene-enegry plan!
One of the best and underrated '77 LPs that I own.
CHVNX 2 years ago 2
77 club 1978 in Nuneaton, what a wonderful night, I'ved loved 999 ever since.
fujlop 3 years ago
Wednesday night Sept 14,177 at the Hope and Anchor in London..WOW !!!! Nick and the guys were freakin' awesome !!!
woonsocketrocket 3 years ago
Saw them at the Whisky a GoGo in Hollywood with Rachel Sweet in 1978. Blew me away. the bass player was awesome. Long live 999!!
msinthrop 3 years ago
A fantastic "punk" band...they never cuss! Their 1st 2 LPs are epic.
luckenbach81 3 years ago
Anyone remember when they played the 77 club in Nuneaton. I was there and they were brilliant, best punk band of all.
fujlop 3 years ago