As a kid, I collected not only your run of the mill sports cards, but also scads of non-sports cards as well. I had piles of Mork & Mindy, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Charlie's Angels, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Battlestar Galactica, Welcome Back Kotter, Incredible Hulk, and even Three's Company cards! They basically all followed the same format: an odd little photo with a painfully cheesy caption.
In honor of those old non-sports trading cards, I thought it would be fun to create a Retrospace line of cards. This time around, it's punk bands. Collect them all!
Note: All these photos were taken from Punk Lives magazines from 1981. Yes, I know - each card has 1978 printed at the bottom. My bad.
I never realized how lame and poserish a lot of punk bands looked. The Addicts was a punk band? Really?
ReplyDeleteI have far more non-sports cards than sports cards. I would NOT have collected these though, punks were those weirdos that spit on the band instead of clapping to show they liked it. ANd they had green Mohawks. Freaks. It was many many years later when I truly discovered punk.
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What, no Captain Sensible rookie card ?
ReplyDeletejeez, you had me fooled for a sec! this might be a hit if you did it for real!
ReplyDeleteI think the Adicts were called "punk" just because they started in the 70s, "indie" wasn't used much as a label yet, and "punk" was being exploited by the record companies. (That's got to be worth some irony points, right there...)
ReplyDeleteThey were more New Wave, which was just starting to get noticed. Blondie was occasionally referred to as punk, too.
What no Ramones?
ReplyDeleteI think the appropriate card set to follow this one would have been "Punk Band's Reaction to Their Punk Card"
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Wow, I haven't heard of a lot of these bands, just Black Flag and the Misfits.
ReplyDeleteThe Southern Death Cult became Death Cult and finally The Cult. Love love love them!
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