Oldschool punk, hardcore punk, postpunk 9 releases from 1980 that all fit into any collection, Do you have a favorite or a completely different choice? #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #hardcorepunk #postpunk #1980s #history #punkrockhistory - ThreadSky

Some classics right there. Personally, "Songs the Lord Taught Us" ... at least right now.

Oof, that’s a tough list to choose from. Fresh Fruit still gets regular play from me (as recently as today), but there is a certain mood that strikes and only Joy Division can satisfy it.

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katymcgbysea.bsky.social•110 days ago

The Dead Kennedys. I’d add Scream, This Side Up for one more!

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azconservative.bsky.social•110 days ago

Love them all. Just need to make the list 200 long. 😆

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casmudde.bsky.social•110 days ago

Circle Jerks

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spuddhism.bsky.social•109 days ago

Great albums to pick from but for me it's gotta be The Black Album from The Damned. Some great stuff in general but it's the 17 minute Curtain Call that I keep going back to.

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mikebrookes.bsky.social•110 days ago

The Cramps.

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jackzero1.bsky.social•110 days ago

I love em all but the standouts for me are DK JD The Cramps and The Clash

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kungfucsious.bsky.social•110 days ago

Circle Jerks, 15 1/2 minutes of blistering punk.

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neil1364.bsky.social•110 days ago

Killing Joke, fantastic debut album.

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mcclarky01.bsky.social•110 days ago

First Killing Joke album is superb. Absolute classic.

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masterzolive.bsky.social•110 days ago

Dead kennedys in first!

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alexshumway.bsky.social•110 days ago

Kids — consider that just a starter kit into your punk rock education. There is much more where that came from.

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cathoderayzone.bsky.social•110 days ago

Of these? X, followed closely by DKs.

Outside of these choices? This one.

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anotherscott.bsky.social•110 days ago

Great list!
I’d swap Psych Furs for “Kings of the Wild Frontier” by Adam & The Ants and add “in The Flat Fields” by Bauhaus as a bonus.

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macduffy.bsky.social•110 days ago

Circle Jerks and Dks 👍

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ollie.com.br•110 days ago

Flawless list. Dead Kennedys on top probably, but not a single throwaway.
📌

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mcpattyrealdeal.bsky.social•110 days ago

DKs, X, Ramones

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okerrago.bsky.social•110 days ago

Dead Kennedys and Ramones

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squirrelygirl.bsky.social•110 days ago

Cramps represent.

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levin.bsky.social•110 days ago

Would love to see this account use alt text. You are sharing a lot of auditory culture.
People with low vision or no vision love music. Let them engage with your posts!

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punkrockhistory.bsky.social•110 days ago

If I can put the identical post behind the ALT text, that shouldn't be a problem

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punkrockhistory.bsky.social•110 days ago

I really don't have the time at the moment for a more detailed description of the picture or something similar, sry...

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lukelynne.bsky.social•110 days ago

Poison Idea - Kings Of Punk
Bad Religion - Suffer
The Exploited - Troops Of Tomorrow
No Means No - Wrong
Fugazi - Fugazi EP
are must-haves from the 80s as well.

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riproaringstuff.bsky.social•110 days ago

Killing Joke

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heydavidbailey.bsky.social•110 days ago

X — Los Angeles was one of the first albums I bought that none of my friends knew about. I made a lot of cassette copies of that one!

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gregfirth.bsky.social•109 days ago

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wesleyberlin.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista for me, I know it has some filler, but it also has some absolutely amazing songs.

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tohell.bsky.social•110 days ago

A year or two after its release I saw someone's Best of Sandinista list, and it had very little overlap with what I would have chosen. Rather telling that people tend to agree that there are too many songs on it, but not on which ones are superfluous

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workingclasspunx.bsky.social•110 days ago

X Los Angeles

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walhornknight.bsky.social•110 days ago

Magazine, Joy Division and mostly Public Image Limited

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americanrain.bsky.social•110 days ago

❤️‍

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gerontonimo.bsky.social•109 days ago

If I really have to choose it's DK all the way.
But only if I have to ...

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mikelame.bsky.social•110 days ago

X - an incredible album for a first release. Confident, polished, unique.

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mcpattyrealdeal.bsky.social•110 days ago

Ray was a good choice as producer

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punkdemigoddess.bsky.social•110 days ago

Love them all, but Ramones are my fave 🔥☠️

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butcherpete.bsky.social•110 days ago

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rockawayanyway.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista!

A masterpiece imho.

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trickfall.bsky.social•110 days ago

End of the Century

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mitchelltrips.bsky.social•110 days ago

Fresh Fruit all day.

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savemeaseat.bsky.social•110 days ago

Los Angeles. Helped establish a whole scene and John & Exene just played off each other so well

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neilyoungsaveus.bsky.social•110 days ago

Seen 5 of em in concert! ✊

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indyspears.bsky.social•110 days ago

I love them all! X's cover of Soul Kitchen might be the best cover song from the Doors. Ray Manzarek produced and played organ a few of their songs.

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inquisitorspiff.bsky.social•110 days ago

📌

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stroejummer.bsky.social•110 days ago

Tough to not agree 100% with any of those!

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mooshhhh.bsky.social•109 days ago

#minutemen

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woody9six.bsky.social•110 days ago

Keeping The Cramps, X, Clash

Adding:
The Beat- I Just Can't Stop It
The Specials- More Specials
SLF- Nobody's Heroes
The Blasters- American Music
The Cure- 17 Seconds
Japan- Gentlemen Take Polaroids

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crabbyvaliant.bsky.social•110 days ago

DK & Circle Jerks debut albums are stone cold classics.

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oweneussen.bsky.social•110 days ago

All great albums, I would like to add:

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oldpunk.bsky.social•110 days ago

Dead Kennedys

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pudla.bsky.social•110 days ago

Can't decide between Circle Jerks and DK.

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sirfoxbat.bsky.social•110 days ago

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sportyman.bsky.social•110 days ago

U.K.Subs, Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts

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citizensullivan.bsky.social•109 days ago

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jkmeyer.bsky.social•110 days ago

What was your first punk album?
This was mine

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

I bought a ton of 45s first. Probably Talking Heads 77 not punk but one of the first... I was into Parliament Funkadelic earlier that year.

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punkrockhistory.bsky.social•110 days ago

Young, Loud and Snotty by the Dead Boys 🙂

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punksnotedd.bsky.social•108 days ago

It’s a toss up between Circle Jerks and X for me.

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1jk57.bsky.social•110 days ago

Dead Kennedys

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genomics-guy.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista - Clash
Los Angeles - X
Psychedelic Furs
Joy Division
are all really great...
But, you missed the best album from 1980:

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jackzero1.bsky.social•110 days ago

I love it but I overplayed it way back when. My favourite at the moment is "Name Of This Band....."
Considering when it was recorded the production values for a live album are amazing. Where there any studio overdubs?

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shipwreckhr.bsky.social•110 days ago

✅

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mrwhibbles.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yup!

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ericdouglas999.bsky.social•110 days ago

I'd choose the Dead Kennedys from those listed and would add these beauties:

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wilsonx2.bsky.social•110 days ago

100% agree to adding those three. I'd also add Suicide's Second Album (Alan Vega and Martin Rev) the self-titled album by The Birthday Party, Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth and Minutemen Paranoid Time EP

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ericdouglas999.bsky.social•110 days ago

Great additions. If we're including EPs, then the 3 EPs from Discharge (Realities of War, Fight Back and Decontrol) and Black Flag's Jealous Again for me.

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artcityrockers.bsky.social•109 days ago

X - Los Angeles

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andyt2912.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista for me. A lot of quality songs, loads of variety, some songs working better than others.

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laura.is.goblin.fyi•110 days ago

I love Sandinista! It doesn’t get enough love!

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firstnamebob.bsky.social•110 days ago

I'll take everything here and throw in:::

the Cure - 17 seconds
Feelies - crazy rhythms
the Jam - sound affects
the Beat - I just can't stop it

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vealllc.bsky.social•103 days ago

After all these years they do not mix, hardcore stands outside, and apart from, any "80's Dance Night" 👍

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indashadoz.bsky.social•110 days ago

X - Los Angeles.

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gwynnega.bsky.social•110 days ago

My favorite then and now is Los Angeles, though I also played those Circle Jerks and Dead Kennedys LPs a zillion times when they came out.

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theredshoes.bsky.social•110 days ago

Los Angeles is just evergreen.

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gwynnega.bsky.social•110 days ago

I bought it the week it came out, and it still sounds fresh!

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theredshoes.bsky.social•110 days ago

It's just fucking timeless. I LOVE their new one too

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

So did I! Saw them with Ray Manzarek at The Whisky.

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gwynnega.bsky.social•110 days ago

Me too!

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rstoakes.bsky.social•109 days ago

A completely different choice: The Feelies’ “Crazy Rhythyms.” Vastly influential, post punk.

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schnitzel63.bsky.social•110 days ago

The Clash and Killing Joke for me👍👍💥💥but of course the others are not worse. A good selection 👍👍

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paddyramone.bsky.social•110 days ago

The Cramps LP not only brilliant in its own right but got me seeking out the originals and opened up a world of undiscovered treasure.

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jonewing.bsky.social•110 days ago

Killing Joke, Dead Kennedys & Joy Division for me - if I had to pick one, probably KJ. But my favourite album of 1980…

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wobblycol100.bsky.social•110 days ago

Red light on this literally blew me away when i first heard it.. Seedy as hell but magnificent...

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travelingpunk1234.bsky.social•110 days ago

X
This was by all accounts the weakest Ramones Album. As their biggest fan its saving grace is Danny Says.
Meanwhile this X record Slaps the hell out of about everything.

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julesobee.bsky.social•110 days ago

I'll take the whole lot, thanks!!

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coverstars1.bsky.social•110 days ago

X! Got to see them a couple of weeks ago too...

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

I'd add, one of my all time favorite L.A. Bands
The Fleaheaters
1980
"No questions asked"
Flesheaters became a supergroup with "a minute to pray, a second to die"

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squirrelygirl.bsky.social•110 days ago

I saw them a couple of times! Cool band.

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•109 days ago

Saw the classic line up several times.
John Doe, Steve Berlin, DJ Bonebrake, Dave Alvin, Bill Bateman, and Chris D.

Last couple of times at The Echoplex

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vealllc.bsky.social•103 days ago

Look so pretty in your Pony Dress 🎵

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

I was so lucky to be an L.A. boy, able to sneak out and see X, Fear, DKs, Circle Jerks, Minutemen, Alley Cats.. so many others. Then The Clash at the Palladium, New Order, Iggy, Siouxie, Stranglers... Good times.

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squirrelygirl.bsky.social•110 days ago

We were probably at some shows together.

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

Lots of Whisky, Starwood, Godzilla's, Roxy, The Vex, Palladium, Cathay de Grande, Lhasa Club, The Palace, and Alpine Village shows.

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squirrelygirl.bsky.social•110 days ago

All of the above! I lived close to Alpine Village.

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punkyfran.bsky.social•110 days ago

Dead Kennedys, quality band.

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reggiejworkshop.bsky.social•110 days ago

That's a tough one. But it's probably a tie between X's Los Angeles and Circle Jerks Group Sex!

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petz.bsky.social•110 days ago

Fresh Fruit is PROBABLY (?) my favorite. Just bananas and scary and wild and weird and Jello isn’t like anything that has come before

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

I remember being at The Whisky the 1st time I saw them. The bass was pounding my chest, then everyone bent at the waist and the slam dance began. I knew how lucky I was to be there.

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iracerx.bsky.social•109 days ago

The Pretenders
Might not be considered Punk but Tattooed Love Boys and Precious are just as Punk as anything else imo

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angrytexascatlady.bsky.social•109 days ago

Post-punk and early new wave.

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munkiman.bsky.social•110 days ago

I was there the night Ed Colver shot the cover photo for the Circle Jerks LP at Marina Skate Park. Not in the actual shot but I was there, in the skateboard bowl or whatever you call those things. But, I probably like the Psychedelic Furs LP the most of those pictured.

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johnpik60774011.bsky.social•110 days ago

Killing Joke and Sandinista - "don't pay more than £3.99'

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jasonmc82231536.bsky.social•110 days ago

I’d take Circle Jerks. Can’t go wrong with Group Sex ❤️ Then I’d go with the Cramps.

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nadettenoire.bsky.social•109 days ago

It's hard to pick, though seeing the Circle Jerks there instantly got the song World Up My Ass in my head.

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jameskinchen.bsky.social•109 days ago

All great choices but the Cramps shade it for me

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stillsurfing.bsky.social•110 days ago

Great choices there. Straight down the middle for me. Killing Joke, The Clash, Joy Division.

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levato.bsky.social•110 days ago

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ekranoplan.bsky.social•110 days ago

Have and love them all... it's hard to pick just one from 1980 and there are many more stunning releases from that year, including Fad Gadget - Fireside Favourites,DAF - Die Kleinen und die Bösen,LA Dusseldorf - Individuellos,Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope,The Cure - Seventeen Seconds,etc.

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jeffsmusicworld.bsky.social•109 days ago

Ramones, DK & X for me.

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julianwoodall.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista for me. Love them all in one way or another - but even now I have whole Sandinista days sometimes playing the whole thing twice over! Far better now than I thought it was at the time!

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schnitzel63.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sandinista is fantastic Album🎶🎶👌👌🖤

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foolishthingdesire.bsky.social•110 days ago

sister europe will always be a timeless song

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ronin420.bsky.social•110 days ago

Ramones, The Clash, DK, The Cramps were my rotation as a teen. A little political, but sometimes I like to get weird with it.
https://youtu.be/BZwSHU-8G7Q?si=sJ0jUqncvCoho_lN

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djflashback80s.bsky.social•110 days ago

Heard that just a couple of hours ago. Such a great live show.

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