Talk:The Skunks

This page should not be deleted for numerous reason. First, the Skunks were Austin's first punk band. The band was hugely influential. Various bands including Standing Waves, the SKPs, the Huns, the Mistakes, Eddy & the Inmates, Max & the Make Ups, to name a few, attended the first gig by the Skunks in February 1978 and decided to start their own bands. Songs by the Skunks have been recorded by other bands all over the world. The Skunks served as the launching pad for the careers of Eddie Munoz (later of the Plimsouls) and Jon Dee Graham (the Lift, True Believers, John Doe Band, Michelle Shocked and numerous others, as well as his successful solo career). Founder/bass player / singer / songwriter Jesse Sublett went on to a successful writing career, authoring crime novels, memoirs, essays and history documentaries. The Skunks are still a performing band and are recognized as one of the seminal forces in Austin music, a band that as critic Margaret Moser of the Austin Chronicle has said, "helped put Austin on the rock n' 'roll map." The Skunks song "Cheap Girl" entered the lexicon in 1978 and is still a popular phrase in Austin today. Jesse Sublett coined the term "new sincerity" to describe the type of faux-earnest, usually acoustic style of music that became popular in the mid 1980s. The term was adapted in general usage around the world. The Skunks song "Earthquake Shake" has been recorded by numerous other American bands, also by bands in Germany, France and Japan. Blanco Pagina Blanco pagina (talk) 19:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)