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Bio:
The Putrid Flowers were founded in NYC with personal and musical connections to the New York City Hardcore and Punk Golden Age of the late 1980s and early 1990s. They quickly impressed critics with their energetic live act and a social consciousness that they were able to couple with the spontaneity of old punk/hardcore acts.
Indeed, the band would often bring homemade baked goods and hand them out in the middle of their set. Later, they went through a period of playing 2-3 gangster rap covers in their set, often taking out chairs and acoustic guitars and playing them as close as possible to the originals, adding to the fun and absurdity. Their tireless efforts established a reputation among a loyal cache of fans who followed them around to scores of gigs in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. The energy of their live shows would be captured on a series of seven inches and singles recorded by Chris Fasulo, a student at 5 Towns College, in the school's studio on weekends and vacations. These early tracks were to surface on many prominent punk rock compilations of the mid-late 1990s.
Their first release, "...and for the little children, sing.", was released independently, as the group consciously tried to court underground music fans. Although all the songs had a certain poppiness to them, they were interested in connecting with people who felt the same way they did about music. These were people who searched out obscure bands and shared them with their friends, and whose identity was forged through a religious devotion to music. The underground did respond well. Fanzines reviewed the album to almost universal praise getting them high marks in reviews in sources like Hybrid Magazine, World Wide Punk and Punk International and mention on top album lists by sources such as PunkRockReviews.
Weary of past experiences, the Flowers turned down a score of prospective record contracts. At that point they were satisfied with the level of interest that they were able to generate through informal channels like underground radio, internet and friends they'd made while playing out. They had matured and now weren't so concerned about competing with popular bands.
By the summer of 2001, the group slowed their touring schedules and began writing an ambitious follow-up to their first record, which was tentatively titled "On The Eve of Saint Agnes" but later changed to "Young for the Last Time" when released in 2005. The songs, which focused on innocence (in both the personal and political sense) and the limitations placed upon it, seemed especially appropriate in the wake of 9/11. Although their initial dire pessimism subsided, the group used 2002-2003 to put together a masterful tapestry of punk songs united by age old literary themes updated and applied to the postmodern era. Enlisting the help of John Agnello, the producer of the Chainsaw Kittens (one of PF's heroes), the lyrical maturity and social understanding rarely found on punk records has earned the group a new generation of underground fans.
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Members:
John, Ed, Chris
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Influences:
Chainsaw Kittens, Crimpshrine, Fifteen, The Misfits, The Hard-Ons, Get up Kids, Token Entry, the Zombies, Wilco, Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, 80s post punk hardcore like Minor Threat and Husker Du, early Replacements, etc
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