THE SWANKYS

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TOTAL CONTROL 00:00 Tools
FUNDAMENTAL 00:00 Tools
OPEN THE WINDOW 00:00 Tools
Knife Will Not Open Because Of The Rust 00:00 Tools
LIFE STYLE 00:00 Tools
Old Fashion 00:00 Tools
Blood spit night 00:00 Tools
SHE WILL NOT LIVE 00:00 Tools
Maniac 00:00 Tools
Bad Brain 00:00 Tools
DAMAGING NOISE 00:00 Tools
FREEDOM 00:00 Tools
THIS IS DOKATA SONG 00:00 Tools
Lifestyle 00:00 Tools
No Bondage 00:00 Tools
Knife Will Not Open Because Rust 00:00 Tools
Five Star 00:00 Tools
Finally She Run Out Of Patience 00:00 Tools
Swank Dinner 00:00 Tools
Black Or White 00:00 Tools
Water Branket Lover 00:00 Tools
I'm punk 01:33 Tools
Good Friends 00:00 Tools
Stuffy 00:00 Tools
I DON'T KNOW I DON'T CARE 00:00 Tools
Belife 00:00 Tools
I DON'T KNOW 00:00 Tools
THE KNIFE WILL NOT OPEN BECAUSE OF THE RUST 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Please For Kiss Me 00:00 Tools
Knife 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
BELIEF 00:00 Tools
CRANCY 00:00 Tools
Little Star 00:00 Tools
Foolish 00:00 Tools
FEMINIST 00:00 Tools
HOW LONG DO YOU GIVE ME 00:00 Tools
Fundamental Human Light 00:00 Tools
Tokyo 00:00 Tools
WE ARE THE REFIND WHITE CATS 00:00 Tools
BRANKET 00:00 Tools
FINALLY SHE RUNS OUT OF PATIENCE 00:00 Tools
I'm Gambler 00:00 Tools
How Long Do You Give Me? 00:00 Tools
Punch Bowl 00:00 Tools
Punch Bowl (I'm A Punk) 00:00 Tools
This Is Dakata Song 00:00 Tools
I' M Punk 00:00 Tools
Pop Rocker 00:00 Tools
watch out 00:00 Tools
FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN LIGHTS 00:00 Tools
catch the future 00:00 Tools
CHAOTIC LIFE 00:00 Tools
BLANKET 00:00 Tools
CRANKY 00:00 Tools
I'M PUNK DON'T PUNK 00:00 Tools
I DON'T LOVE 00:00 Tools
Fuck My History 00:00 Tools
Low Kiss (Please for Kiss Me) 00:00 Tools
The Knife will not open Because 00:00 Tools
low kiss(please for kiss me) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know, I Don't Care 00:00 Tools
Fivestar 00:00 Tools
BLOOD SPIT NIGHT! 00:00 Tools
Crazy 00:00 Tools
Joke Joke Joke 00:00 Tools
Finally She Run Out of Pantience 00:00 Tools
Good Friend 00:00 Tools
stuffy to day 00:00 Tools
i'm gambler (vo_loods) 00:00 Tools
PunchBowl 00:00 Tools
Low Kiss 00:00 Tools
Be Life... 00:00 Tools
How Long 00:00 Tools
Swankdinner 00:00 Tools
WHAT'S YOU NEED 00:00 Tools
Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie 00:00 Tools
TOTAL CONTEROL 00:00 Tools
Rock'nroll History Fuck Off! 00:00 Tools
water blanket lover(help?) 00:00 Tools
The Knife Will Not Open Becaus 00:00 Tools
Finally She Run Out of Patienc 00:00 Tools
(Catch The) Yes!! Future 00:00 Tools
FUCKER 00:00 Tools
01 Open the Window 00:00 Tools
(Catch The)Yes!! Future 00:00 Tools
To Mohicans 00:00 Tools
rock'n'roll history fuck off! 00:00 Tools
06 Total Control 00:00 Tools
Help?(Water Blanket Lover) 00:00 Tools
The knife open because of the r 00:00 Tools
the knife open because of the rust 00:00 Tools
08 Blood Spit Night 00:00 Tools
02 Fundamental Human Light 00:00 Tools
Stuffy Today 00:00 Tools
be lief... 00:00 Tools
Rock'n'Roll History Fuck Off 00:00 Tools
open the window (very best of hero LP 85) 00:00 Tools
BE LIFE 00:00 Tools
lifestyle (rest of... demos) 00:00 Tools
bad brains (rest of... demos) 00:00 Tools
fundamental human light (lifestyle 7' 85) 00:00 Tools
Fundamental Human Ligut 00:00 Tools
Knife Will Not Open Because Of Rust 00:00 Tools
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The Swankys were a Japanese punk band from Kyushua island that started out playing Sex Pistols influenced 77-punk before becoming Japan's first hard core punk band. The Swankys were heavily influenced by the "Bristol" bands Disorder, Chaos UK and Chaotic Dischord. Once the Swankys had started playing the more aggressive hard core punk style repeated violence at shows quickly banned the band from local gig venues forcing the band to change name to Gai for about a year. This helped the band get a few concerts but the scam quickly folded as the band's fans of course knew all about the name change and venue arrangers quickly wised up to it -but by then the band's popularity proved to be worthwhile as band's reputation spread. In the end the band changed back to the original name, and ultimately to the original Sex Pistols inspired punk rock style. Under the name Gai a demo and a flexi were recorded, today seen as genre forming 'noise punk' classics. After a year or so band changed back to the original name The Swankys and went on to record a LP called Very Best of Hero. Towards the end of the mid-1980s the band changed musical style to something more akin to the style they started out playing, namely catchy Sex Pistols punk. The second LP entitled Never Can Eat Swank Dinner has Swankys delivering many older songs in a very original hybrid of well-produced almost pop production bubblegum punk songs mixed with significant elements of the bands' hard core noise punk trademark vocals. The singer of Swankys, "Watch", went on to play in many post-Swankys projects including Space Invaders (a sort of post-punk hip hop band), Mouse (oi-punk with drum machine) and others. Guitarist of Swankys started Speakers which played Johnny Thunders inspired punk rock. Bass player of Gai/Swankys also formed and sang in Sieg Heil. Watch also started a punk label called Kings World Records (KWR) starting out releasing punk cassettes and compilations and going on to release records of many other local punk and hard core bands. The label is now owned by Edison's recordshop which is still going (2009) and regularly reissues Swankys records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.