X - Los Angeles

X is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1977. While they achieved only limited mainstream success, they were widely considered one of the most revered of Los Angeles' many punk bands. Formed as part of the first wave of American punk, their 1980 debut record Los Angeles resonated with the citizens of the city that it is named after to the extent that the band received an Official Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles in acknowledgment of their contributions to Los Angeles music and culture. They were influential on various genres of music, including punk and folk rock.

Original members were Exene Cervenka (born Christine Cervenkova, vocals), John Doe (born John Duchac, bass and vocals), Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell, guitar) and DJ Bonebrake (born Donald J. Bonebrake, drums). After Zoom retired from the band, Tony Gilkyson replaced him on guitar. Zoom reunited with X in 1998. The original line-up tours after having reunited in the early 2000s.

Their first four albums had a hard-driving sound that occasionally flirted with rockabilly and blues; one critic suggests that X "were not just one of the greatest punk bands, but one of the greatest live rock acts of all time." By the time of their fifth album, Ain't Love Grand!, the band had taken a more mainstream hard rock-oriented direction, and began to appear on shows such as American Bandstand. X, however, had previously appeared on television for a 1984 performance on Late Night with David Letterman.

In many ways from songwriting to performances X's first albums were distinctive when compared to many of their punk peers (except Cervenka, all band members had previous musical experience before forming X). One critic writes that X were "too self-conscious, artsy and ambitious to simply spew" in typical punk fashion. In 2003, X's first two studio albums, Los Angeles and Wild Gift, were ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as being among the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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she had to leave los angeles all her toys wore out in black and her boys had too she started to hate every nigger and jew every mexican that gave her lotta shit every homosexual and the idle rich she had to get out she gets confused flying over the dateline her hands turn red cause the days change at night change in an instant the days change at night change in an instant she had to leave los angeles she found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend she bought a clock on hollywood blvd the day she left it felt sad she had to get out

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[leatherneck0005]

and fuck people who only know the song from video games. eat a dick

[xpunkoramax]

tony hawk"s undergroun 2 :3

[leatherneck0005]

@Scone54 yep. your mom has good taste

[Scone54]

@leatherneck0005 my mom told me about this band because she worked in a record store in the 80's, she said this band was pretty popular at the time

[ArbolitoAzul11]

too many kids on youtube

[kaylortheawesome]

streetlight manifesto is best punk rock.

[awesomolopolis64]

idc if i new this song from a video game, cause now i listen to good music, unlike music by artists whom dont even write thier own lyrics.

[MrDanielSonSon]

@leatherneck0005 lolololololololololl loser. c:

[leatherneck0005]

@MrDanielSonSon shit my bad man, you're into Portal and Skyrim and all that so you must be like THE coolest dude at Dragon Con.

i do feel like a loser having never beaten a video game in my life. is that as fulfilling as i'm imagining?

[reigellatte17]

Less than zero brought me here...