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	Operation Ivy - Biography - AOL Music
		One of the first bands to fuse revivalist ska with the energy and aggression of post-hardcore punk rock (after the Mighty Mighty Bosstones), Operation Ivy were also one of the few ska-punk bands to earn critical acclaim.
		Thanks to their early breakup (the group was only together for two years), Operation Ivy became an enduring, even legendary influence in the neo-punk underground, especially after half of the band went on to hit it big in a new group, Rancid.
		Operation Ivy were formed in Berkeley, CA, in May 1987 out of the ashes of several local bands.
	music.aol.com /artist/operation-ivy/13865/biography (488 words)

	Operation Ivy
		Operation Ivy was an innovative and great punk/ska band.
		Operation Ivy was together for two years, from 1987- 1989.
		Operation Ivy played their last show on May 25, 1989 at their legendary club 924 Gilman Street.
	www.angelfire.com /ri/opivy52889/opiv.html (174 words)

	All punk rock, punk music, punk bands
		On September 26th, the band released their fifth full-length album, entitled The Art of Drowning, which showcases exactly what it is AFI has evolved into-- a band with a sound unlike any other, a sound where chilling melodies collide alternately with furious aggression and somber melancholy.
		While their music is firmly rooted in both punk rock and hardcore, they have effectively blasted away any distinction between the two and can claim an army of fans from both subcultures as well as virtually every other underground or extreme music genre from goth to metal.
		Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre.
	www.1musicsearch.com /genre/punk_artists.htm (974 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Operation Ivy - The Band
		Operation Ivy were a band that existed for roughly two years in the mid-eighties.
		Jesse Michaels was frontman and vocalist for Operation Ivy and was also the one responsible for the cover and t-shirt art for all of the bands cud's and apparel.
		Operation Ivy were formed in March 1987 in the East Bay part of California specifically centred around the Gilman Street club/punk collective in Berkeley.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/filmnetwork/A3868662 (599 words)

	Operation Ivy : Operation Ivy - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		After Operation Ivy called it quits at the end of the '80s, Lookout put together this compilation of all of the recorded studio material ever released by the group.
		Being one of the first bands to pursue the ska punk sound in California, Operation Ivy was a trailblazer in a genre that quickly became generic due to a glut of like-minded artists.
		This might be the best ska punk collection by a single band committed to disc, and anyone with even a passing interest in the genre should do themselves a favor and buy this album right away.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1149517,00.html (305 words)

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		Operation Ivy is one of the more memorable bands from the latter-1980s California Bay Area punk scene.
		Infused with these many genres of music, Operation Ivy was destined to remain a favorite even after their tragic breakup in 1989.
		Maybe its the hundreds of thousands of fans, many who picked up one of Operation Ivy's records after they had disbanded and realized what a great sound it was that flowed out of their stereo.
	www.geocities.com /opiv_33415 (369 words)

	Operation Ivy - Energy - RUTHLESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There are a thousand and one ska influenced bands kicking around, from The Specials and The Selecter to Citizen Fish but one band stands out head, shoulders torso and testicles above all the others, nah scratch that, above pretty much most bands that have ever existed.
		Operation Ivy did everything right, they released a couple of tracks on a compilation 7", recorded a great EP called "Hectic" and one mind-blowing motherfucker of an album called "Energy", then they split up, which is what all good punk bands, ska or otherwise should do.
		I wouldn't say Operation Ivy were the greatest musicians that have ever lived but they knew how to use what they had to write some fucking great tunes.
	ruthlessreviews.com /site_backup/operationivy.html (347 words)

	Punk Tops - Green Day Bio, Punk Shirts, CDs and Posters
		The band decided to take some time off after the Pop Disaster Tour closed, to spend time with their families and, ultimately, to decide whether maintaining the band was in anybody’s best interest anymore.
		The band, understandably upset, chose not to try to re-create the stolen album (Armstrong feared that it would take their fan base "back to about 50"), but instead started over with a vow to be even better than before.
		In addition, they underwent serious "band therapy," engaging in several long talks to work out the members' differences after accusations from Dirnt and Cool that Armstrong was "the band's Nazi"[1] and a show-off bent on taking the limelight from the other band members.
	www.punktops.com /band/greendayBio.html (2312 words)

	Amazon.ca: Energy: Music: Operation Ivy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Operation Ivy takes a lot of heat for spawning Rancid (a pale imitation of The Clash) and a huge crapfest of awful bands who played pop-punk with horns.
		What Op Ivy really did back in 1988-89 was combine punk, ska, and reggae (with a little hardcore edge thrown in), and record the whole mess nice and lo-fi--original and totally excellent stuff.
		Op Ivy was a punk group with a bit of a ska flavor to them.
	www.amazon.ca /Energy-Operation-Ivy/dp/B00004W52U (1052 words)

	Punk Globe Magazine Online
		RI: Will had a few bands before but nothing had ever happened with ‘em, musical differences etc, plus his musical taste was still developing.
		So from their mutual love of punk they set out to find the brave two men to complete the line-up.
		The fact that we play punk rock and roll is just cus that’s our favourite, but were not gonna worry if you don’t think were not cool cus Will like’s Razorlight.
	www.punkglobe.com /robbenislandinterview.html (1307 words)

	Operation Ivy Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		However, from 1987-1989, the band produced a variety of LPs and such on the Lookout label.
		This is a band that continues to have a profound effect on the music world today, nearly every ska band owes something to them as do some bigger name bands like Sublime and Green Day.
		What is more, the spirit of the punk rock revolution in Berkley during those years is still present in the band's lyrics, and music.
	www.punkbands.com /lyrics/bands/opivy/bio.htm (209 words)

	Punk Rock Patches : Punk Stickers
		A founding member of both Operation Ivy and Rancid, the 37-year-old from Berkeley, California is touring with Social Distortion, one of the biggest bands to come out of Southern California's Orange County punk scene.
		Rancid was born in 1991 out of the ashes of Operation Ivy, a short-lived but highly influential ska-punk band Freeman formed with friend and guitarist Tim Armstrong.
		I'm a punk rocker who plays punk rock, so to be asked to join Social D. was a huge honor.
	www.drstrange.com /pages/punk_rock_patches.htm (416 words)

	Top 25 Punk Albums Ever!
		This New Jersey band's album was released at a time when many thought punk was dead and gone, this record melded melodic hardcore with horror, love of the dead, decapitation, and plenty of other songs to create zombies by.
		They probably influenced as many bands as any punk band did at the time, and showed that you could just have fun playing songs you loved, and that the message didn't have to be meaningful, which was somewhat of a rarity among the first British punk bands.
		The band made it very clear that they intended to be a round peg in a square hole, though instead of gray-faced diatribes they welded irony and wits as their weapons as effectively as scapels.
	www.shreddingradio.com /punk.html (1615 words)

	Operation Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page is about Operation Ivy, the nuclear test.
		For the ska punk band, see Operation Ivy (band).
		Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests, coming after Tumbler-Snapper and before Upshot-Knothole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy (351 words)

	Operation Ivy News
		Street punk is a path that has been tread upon so deeply that it has ceased to be a path and become a tunnel.
		When the members of underground ska-punk band Operation Ivy called it quits in 1989, it's a safe bet they never envisioned a tribute act in their honor taking the stage in Vermont to play a Nancy Sinatra cover.
		M ost bands born in the Bay Area never expect to leave their parents' garage.
	www.topix.net /who/operation-ivy (587 words)

	Epitaph Records
		One of the cornerstone punk bands of the '90s, Rancid's unabashedly classicist sound drew heavily from the Clash's early records, echoing their left-leaning politics and fascination with ska, while adding a dash of essential hardcore crunch.
		Critics praise their political commitment, surging energy, and undeniable way with a hook and the band's strengths have made them one of the most revered punk bands ever.
		Lifelong friends and longtime punk fans, the two had grown up together in the small, working-class town of Albany, near Berkeley; they'd also played together in the legendary ska-punk band Operation Ivy.
	www.epitaph.com /artists/artist/61 (202 words)

	Ska-Punk Downloads - Download Ska-Punk Music - Download Ska-Punk MP3s
		In 1996, the band helped organize the Safe and Sound benefit album in response to Boston-area family planning clinic slayings, and also perform frequently at benefit shows for battered women's groups; most of their concerts also feature information booths from the Anti-Racist Action Group.
		Combining equal parts of deep funk, high-energy punk, and frantic ska, the Los Angeles-based Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s.
		So many mid-'90s bands combined ska with punk rock, and so few of them did it in any memorable way, that it's a genuine pleasure to be able to report on one that makes it work perfectly.
	www.mp3.com /ska-punk/genre/345/subgenre.html (3879 words)

	Operation Ivy (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Ivy was an influential ska punk band that originated from the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
		Other bands to cover 'OP-IVY' songs include a rendition of "Healthy Body" by Area-7, "Sound System" by Big D And The Kids Table, "Caution" by No Trigger and more covers of "Knowledge" by both Millencolin and Evergreen Terrace (band).
		During Rancid's 2006 US tour, Operation Ivy alumni Armstrong and Freeman were playing a select few tracks from their previous bands catalog.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy_(band) (1025 words)

	Punk As Bands: The Deadbeats
		The Deadbeats are a school-age ska/punk band from the North Shore possessing a rare old school sound for a band so young.
		They have been described as sounding in a similar vein to one of the greatest of the original UK punk bands, Stiff Little Fingers, but state their influences as the more contemporary Operation Ivy and Rancid.
		The band are concentrating on their live show, with no immediate plans for recording or touring, rather to continue creating an impact on the Auckland scene.
	www.punkas.com /thedeadbeats.html (111 words)

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		To pick five albums of the punk genre that has made an impact on my listening tastes and to recommend them as a must-have is truly a hard task.
		The punk rock community embraced him as a spokesman while the political community despised him for his "radical" beliefs.
		Whether in a punk club or a biker club, ANL became a voice for those that just didn't give a fuck about anything and were proud of it.
	www.poppunk.com /zine/issue9/top5.html (843 words)

	BEIJING PUNK ROCK
		PUNK ROCK REVOLUTION IN THE P.R.C. China’s seminal punk rock band, BRAIN FAILURE sings in English and Mandarin, belting melodic, upbeat ditties about politics, parties and “Anarchy in the P.R.C.” BRAIN FAILURE’S power-packed lineup is: Xiao Rong on lead vocals and guitar, Wang Jian on guitar, Ma Jiliang on bass, and Xu Lin on drums.
		Appearing on China’s first punk compilation, Wuliao Jundui, they soon started a punk rock revolution in the P.R.C. FAILURE has inspired an entire generation of Chinese youth, and an evolving punk and hardcore scene that is growing around the country.
		BRAIN FAILURE has since become the first Chinese punk band to release their album and tour widely on the international scene.
	www.brainfailure.com /english/band (638 words)

	Rancid biography @ Tartareandesire.com
		One of the cornerstone bands of the '90s punk revival, Rancid's unabashedly classicist sound drew heavily from the Clash's early records, echoing their left-leaning politics and fascination with ska, while adding a bit of post-hardcore crunch.
		Lifelong friends and longtime punk fans, the two had grown up together in the small, working-class town of Albany, near Berkeley; they'd also played together in the legendary ska-punk band Operation Ivy, Armstrong as "Lint" and Freeman as Matt McCall.
		The band's eponymously titled, first full-length album arrived in 1993, pursuing an up-tempo, hardcore/skatepunk style with few hints of early British punk.
	www.tartareandesire.com /bands/rancid.html (824 words)

	Rancid Online ...as punk as it should be... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I remember watching him keep the band together--and you could tell that he was turned up a little louder than Angus.
		I wrote a lot of punk rock songs on acoustic guitar, but personally I'd rather be plugged into a Marshall for five hours a day--that's my favorite sound.
		A band called Soup played, and from that night on my life changed and I've never been the same.
	ww2.punkmusic.com /rancid/oi.shtml (2326 words)

	Amazon.com: Operation Ivy (Energy): Music: Operation Ivy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This album never fails to animate and invigorate the souls of those who hear it, it's a virus in the classic Burroughsian sense, but a virus that fortifies and awakens those who are lucky enough to catch it: This music is passion in its rawest and most vitriolic form.
		For so many of us, coming of age in the early 90's- Op Ivy was our Clash, or perhaps one of those bands that caught their torch and ran with it.
		Operation Ivy sang about controversial issues such as the East Bay, police, and violence.
	www.amazon.com /Operation-Ivy-Energy/dp/B00004W52U (1694 words)

	Lookout Records - LK10 Operation Ivy: Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Operation Ivy a punk band in the truest form of the word.
		This is one of the greatest punk records,or for that matter any record of all time.
		In the end we will all see eye to eye and to me Operation Ivy has taken us to that next level, to the point where it doesnt matter who you are or what you have been through.
	www.lookoutrecords.com /bb/msg-list.php?bbthrd_id=4628&offset=0 (619 words)

	Operation Ivy Operation Ivy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The band’s sound has a lot of similarities with the group Rancid, but Operation Ivy is much, much cooler.
		A couple of band members reunited and started Rancid, but Operation Ivy had much more vitality in their music.
		Most of the songs are about simple, everyday observations about social problems that the band hates.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0100/operationivy.htm (344 words)

	PUNKSITE.COM - Punk Search Engine - Message Board Community - URL Redirection - PUNK/HARDCORE/SKA/EMO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		We are a 3 Piece Rock band based in Pittsburgh, PA. We offer a variety of music genres to the stage, but it mostly sounds like punk music to everyone.
		Pegleg is melodic Punk band from the east coast
		Official site from this band from this strange corner of the world, RG toured over there with bands such as, down by law, voodoo glow skulls and mustard plug.
	www.punksite.com /dir/Bands/General_Punk/more6.html (883 words)

	Band Search: RANCID
		From Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman's childhood friendship in the working class enclave of Albany, CA (a one-square-mile town bordering Berkeley), to the subsequent additions of Brett Reed and Lars Frederiksen (in 1991 and 1993, respectively), they have depended on one another for friendship, support and even survival for the better part of a decade.
		From its 1987 inception, Op Ivy would become the keystone of the East Bay scene that centered around the Gilman Street club/musician's collective; the scene around which the lives of all four Rancid members would converge.
		The band's 1989 break-up found Tim spiritually adrift for a spell, eventually straightening out with help from Matt as they co-founded Rancid in September 1991.
	www.punkmusic.com /bandsearch.cfm?iBandID=3299 (300 words)

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