The Fall of Folk Punk? An Elegy
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- 0:00 Intro
5:25 Interviewees first exposure to folk punk
10:03 How it All Began
11:37 Entering the Spotlight
13:08 The Classics
19:09 After the Storm
21:24 Inclusion
22:28 The Stigma
25:36 The State of Affairs
28:12 Local Accessibility
31:34 Crossroads
32:46 The Distinction
34:52 Metamorphosis
37:09 The Fight for Survival
39:32 The Plea
This is a class project documentary detailing the rise, change and future of folk punk. Interviews include artists, band-members and fans of folk punk in Columbus Ohio, Newark Ohio, and Austin Texas.
My intent was to trace the roots of folk punk from the beginning, through my childhood discovery of the genre, the current state, and the projected future of folk punk itself. Enjoy.
All borrowed video clips from youtube channels are honored in the credits and are utilized according to the parameters of Fair Use.
Music produced by featured artists are found below:
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As a student with limited capacities and resources, there are certainly aspects of folk punk that I have left out. Please comment below with thoughts, corrections and critiques.
While I think this was a good idea for a documentary, if you look at folk punk beyond the scope of your local scene and the older big names, folk punk is very much alive and doing much better than before
True we don't really have a secne in Belgium but the Netherlands is booming from what i know
I saw the Sharp Knives a couple weeks ago and they are just improving more and more. It’s the music of the apocalypse as far as I’m concerned, and will be the ultimate Rock genre , that I can imagine being around entertaining us in the wreckage of civilisation!.✊🏽🌎🌻
A truly d.i.y genre deserves a truly d.i.y documentary
fucking hell, it's actually perfect when you think about it hey haha
Finding this video almost 6 years late but there is so much heart in this project! I'm happy to know others share the same fondness for folk punk that I do. Beautiful work!
Thank you so much for this video. More people need to see this. It freaks me out when I’ve only ever met one other person who likes this kind of music, then watching all these people name drop every single artist that has kept me from sinking these past few years. I’m no longer ashamed to admit I *exclusively* listened to AJJ all of 2017
I feel you on that 🖤
As a wise man once said, perhaps to himself and perhaps to everyone who holds this genre dear. Your heart is the size of your fist, keep on loving, keep on fighting and hold on, hold on, hold on for your life"
As someone who doesn't really fit the punk astethic (at all) but adores the musical talent, conviction, and just overall amazing sound of folk punk, I'm very glad to see this. So glad I stumbled upon old time memory and somehow staggered down a rabbit hole to AJJ. I wish I knew anyone who actually enjoyed this amazing genre.
Folk punk still isn't dead but we've lost some of are most amazing talent and it hasn't been the same but we're still fighting
I wanted to take this seriously but then a group of folk punks from Ohio never mentioned Defiance Ohio.
in the interviewee section they do get mentioned several times, however I agree I would have liked more mention of Defiance Ohio and Nana Grizol.
i loved this it brought up every major topic that is happening right now in the scene and really gave me some hope for the future of folk punk.
Punk killed folk punk.... just as it always does, it starts out honest and inclusive, but grows into an elitist circle jerk of gatekeepers and punk puritans. Lots of hard times and pain brought people together but ends up driving people away. Kids grew up and wanted to get clean and not be broke, which can get you branded a sell out. It became less about the music and more about far-left politics and activism which started alienating people. Social justice and call-out culture would eventually start eating its own as we saw with Chris Clavin and others. There was a disillusionment that some of your heroes were flawed individuals who didn't always practice what they preached. Folk punk has its charm, but it has a reputation of being crusty, dirty, drunk, homeless, smelly, and addicted. And that is like a black hole that can suck you in, chew you up, and spit you out. I still love the heart-on-your-sleeve sing-along house shows and stripped down music but the cliches of punk rock were what killed it.
i always felt like that when it comes to metal music and i got into punk bcos it was more "free to express yourself" than for example how black metal used to be
Spot on, my dude!
I'm literally living proof I'm in the Fuckin' Navy now 😂
wow. great video Alex. had me hooked from the beginning. watched the entire thing .. Ben cracks me up.
I can't believe that in discussing the history/roots of folk punk, nobody mentioned Woody Guthrie or The Levellers.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this. Please make more, I'm literally taking notes watching this. Like. In a journal. This is really important and good work. This makes me want to take stock of how the scene is doing in Gainesville. It's still definitely here, but I want to know how it's changed and where it's going. Great work again.
Aliya Miranda woody Guthrie
I’m live in Lancaster,Ohio planning to start doing some folk punk soon
Tonys bar, no fucking way lol. I lived in newark for so long never wouldve guessed how many people like the same music here. This is amazing man :')
This was really good.
There were a lot of us bands in the 90’s that transitioned from playing uptempo punk that wasn’t skate punk (kind of replacements with a more punk edge) to just playing more and more country and folk music. We liked Billy Bragg, Young Pioneers, young fresh fellows etc. We were also just as much into hardcore from minor threat to Born Against as well as county.. as skate punk saturated the market we just went deeper into folk snd country. We were also into alt. Country and straight edge hardcore. Anything with heart.
Great doc!
Go to somewhere like Bearded Theory in the UK. Folk Punk is alive and kicking.
you wont find em on google but the Sick Prix from 1986 austin tx are the truest crusty folx ever!
Where at then your right I can't find it
Nice to see a flash of Harley Poe in there. Great band from my hometown of Kokomo Indiana
NEWARK OHIO S/O TO U MY HOME TOWN
It's still around bro. I was just talking with some homeless dudes at the corner store about ramshackle glory. In my town specifically they have get together almost every week and just get fucked up and blast music. Some genuine souls in there.
Why isn't Woody Guthrie named as the influence of folk punk? To me Woody had the ideas and flavor and drive that today still makes folk punk what it is today. To me I thought this doc was in depth, but its missing the biggest piece. You're only focusing on one era of not only the genre, but the movement itself.
Shut up.
what about woody guthrie?
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I agree. This whole movement for me (in from Oklahoma and now live in Olivehurst, CA and if you look through history its where us okies settled in CA after and during the dusty days, or the dust bowl) and woody is the biggest reason folk oh k exists.
Listen to Arlo Guntrie's Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving, it's such a fun song
Thanks, man. This was great!
This is so great, Alex!
What is the name of the first song played during the intro?
Intro song please? Artist and title?
Windows Break by The Taxpayers
This Doc is awesome
Cranford Nix??? Back 30 years ago
And Nicholas Cage peaks in Raising Arizona.
Thomas Davis yasss
pretty good documentary
Definitely deserves a wider scope both geographically and temporally. I can only speak from my experience, but the Bay Area scene between 2005-2011 or so would be just one of the many microcosms worth examining. Blackbird Raum, Shakey Bones, The Fucking Buckaroos, and more... czcams.com/video/j_m1oYIE3mE/video.html
There's plenty of us, we just get overshadowed by the hyper obsession towards the big names
Days and dayz and pat the bunny were my go to bands along with murder y death but there not folk punk
Oh there’s my backyard
Lol, folkpunx not dead 👹👹
2:01 man can i be friends with the guy with the bill cipher hat
Check out ash bricky he is a new folk punk artists
who is the dude at 40:00 ?
That would be me
@@alexnathans966 oh its mischief brew. Great shit. luv ya werk.
hey guys if you want a smaller artist id recommend virtual bird jane renyolds
1:49 pattttttttt
Naaaah man, no punk can't die, if you think folk punk is dying check out Punk With A Camera.
Song 1:48 ??
That's "Windows Break" by the Taxpayers
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A lament on the tremors within folk punk
Also Kevin Devine is alright. But c'mon. Too much liberal left facism. Pat is my hero. I'm a year older than him. But we all grow from our heroin days and really questionour stance on our own lives and realize we're just fucking people, and our hero's aren't really heros. They fucking die. They have flaws, and that's WHY they wrote these lyrics. On top of that they present a better view point of what we might want to live.
Lol @ "liberal fascism."
Laura's deadname wasn't a good move, no one wants to read it, just FYI for future trans artists