Comments on: You’re So Punk

By: rick

rick — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:23:25 +0000

Hola there, haven`’t figured out yet about taqwacore but hope its only fun. I’ ve grown up in dirty rotten germany and hardcore and ethnicity are still no use for an answear ( nor thought). too fu**ing few desis over here who are into something else than business and “progess” of that sort. I just wantet too find something about recent punk/hardcore back in india. if anyone knows about good bands, could you post it? cheers, milenge. rick.

By: Arjun

Arjun — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:44:14 +0000

Also Poly Styrene was the only person apparently who actually frightened Johnny Rotten on the regular. Too punk for punk indeed.

By: Arjun

Arjun — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Actually, i do interviews, they usually ignore me though because I refuse to tow the party line. Yeah I said it.

By: KORE

KORE — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:56:17 +0000

We're on that ishq kick, the one that really gets you high. They'll have to take heads off.

Traditionally, ISHQ has always done more than just "take heads off" (wink).

At the Bulleh Shah minaar in Kasur (just 40 km outta Lahore), it says ISHQ SHARA DA VEIRA AI. Ishq is the enemy of Islamic law.

Sounds a lot like the bhakti tradition. Ishq/Prem defies the law, Ishq/Prem fulfills the law - both at the same time.

At the end of the day, there is no law but ISHQ!

By: Basim

Basim — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:05 +0000

Yeah, but I don't sing my songs to disprove fundos. I sing my songs to find people that think like me. I read too much Bulleh Shah.

You take it to the Punjabi roots, hiko alif, kar katan wal tihaan kuray, and the other poems by Bulleh Shah and it blows this Mullahs out of the water. We can go on, bring on the writers - Sultan Bahu, Sarmast, the list goes on. We're on that ishq kick, the one that really gets you high. They'll have to take heads off.

At the Bulleh Shah minaar in Kasur (just 40 km outta Lahore), it says ISHQ SHARA DA VEIRA AI. Ishq is the enemy of Islamic law.

Hamara na qanuni walla kaam hai, bhai!

By: kore

kore — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:38:15 +0000

Yeah Basim, but Rumi is not considered a “real muslims” by such folk, so him being a “homo” would just kind of proove their point – you know, that bid’ah such as Sufism lead to sins like homosexuality, or that homosexuality leads to bid’ah.

By: Basim

Basim — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:34:02 +0000

"Basim... rumor has it you once threatende to blow up a gay-friendly mosque? Is it true? "

Naw, Siraj Wahaj - an Imam from Brooklyn said he would burn a gay-friendly masjid down. It prompted a musical response from us, "Rumi was a Homo".

Tu nay kakh vi nai sikkhi?

By: Kore

Kore — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:52:09 +0000

after an exchange with Ms Bess (on another forum) on girls who rock, I took it on myself to do some digging. Here's an interesting example which will appeal ot all ye people of punk or hindu or multiculti persuasion. The Talented Ms Poly Styrene was the lead for the punk band Xray Spex in the late seventies and the powers that be didnt know what to make of her. She was mixed race (Somali-British), chubby and fancied day-glo clothes much as vot we now see on mathangi. she wrote and sang against corporations and most recently took a piss at Google to ask for musician royalties. Perhaps too punk for punk, she quit her day job and joined *drumroll* the Hare Krishna movement. Anyhow, just thought I'd share that. Canadian fans of Alan Cross' show on the 'Ongoing History of new music' - should check out this weeks episode featuring the top ten bands with female singers - Poly features. That is all. Back to your regular prgramming.

Several famous and/or semi-famous musicians have aligned themselves with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), ever since the 60s when the founder, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada stayed at John Lennons' house. The Beatles donated one of their properties to him and it has since functioned as The Bhaktivedanta Manor of England. It's a Hare Krishna Temple and Hindu Cultural Center. George Harrison's My Sweet Lord was written about Krishna and served as one of "the movements" items they peddled along with incense, candles, stickers and books in parking lots all across - well, the world.

Whats her name? Sweet Dreams Are Made of These, woman... anyway, you know her, short hair... um, anyway, she MARRIED a Hare Krishna follower (I'm pretty sure they are divorced though), and I think it was her guitarist.

There are several others - Chrissy Hines of the Pretenders did not join ISKCON but she took Vaishnava initiation from an Indian guru in India, for example.

Annie Lenox! The Eurythmics! That was it. Just remembered.

Famous British actress Haley Mills from the original movie about two twins who try to reunite their divorcing parents - what was the name? PARENT TRAP. Her son became a famous (in UK) musician and he also took vaishnava initition in India from the same guru and Chrissy Hines. Can't remember his name though, Crispian. Crispian Mills.

Krishna attracts musicians for some reason.

By: Manju

Manju — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:29:10 +0000

just want to make gobs of money and eat samosas with hot alloo filling and tamarind chutney mmmm.

bacon samosas are punk

By: bess

bess — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:25:49 +0000

just throwin' this one in:

electronica sound + punk attitude + pro Muslim/pro Palestinian lyrics = Muslimgauze.