The Saints — ‘No Time’

Now, normally, I don’t like getting too much into “oh this was early punk” or “oh this is proto punk” or “oh you really need to listen to this it’s super early punk” ever since I got my punk buddy Dylan to download the Velvet Underground off of limewire in middle school and we both looked at each other with complete confusion once we actually were able to put it on. We both went back to listening to The Adicts and I largely stopped recommending music to people after that.

But! This is the b-side to “I’m Stranded,” which, like many super duper early punk records, is ultra slow and doesn’t sound all that punk. “No Time,” though, is urgent and fast and still quite fun. I’m particularly fond of the guitar solo that is all of three notes.