we don't exactly know what this article from Japan says, but it seems to be cool anyhow...

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The Punkles - Punk ! / Beat The Punkles
Rabble-rousing jesters from east of The Rhine alert ! The Beatles ! Played in a punk style.
By Germans in Ringo wigs. How dare they. Actually, it's simple, It's effective, It's fast and it's kind of funny in a ‘Hey, have you ever heard this?’ kind of way.
In fact, It's blutig amazing nobody's ever thought of it before (actually somebody already has, but they were Gruppo "Beep Beep Love" Sportivo and they were Dutch not Deutsch). Like some kind of mop-top Minotaur, The Punkles are part Beatles at CBGB's and part Ramones at The Star Club, Hamburg.
And it isn't entirely unreasonable to say that they scorch through theLennon and McCartney songbook like The Rutles with Werner von Braun designed ballistic missiles shoved up their Fab-Four fundaments.
However, rocket science it aint. Both these albums are based on the same simple formula. Take a Beatles tune, rev it up, hang on to the harmonies, hit the drums harder and add a catalytic punk element (for example, stick the intro to "Pretty Vacant" on the lead-in to "Yesterday") and that's it, that's pretty much what Joey Lennon, Sid McCartney, Markey Starkey and Dee Dee Harrison (yes really) have got to say for themselves.
One can deliberate on the cross-cultural complexities of it all. One could spew forth about capturing the zeigeist and wax lyrical about defining the relevance of The Punkles in a post-industrial competitive society. But that would be utter bollocks (nice mock Jamie Reid artwork on the Punk! album, by the way). Whack this on the sitting-room stereo at your next party and stand well back as the bodies converge into a Merseybeat-flavoured moshpit of over-exuberance. Miss Lizzy would be very dizzy indeed.
[story submitted 4/3/03 at 1:47:51 PM. written by kevin maidment]

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The Punkles - Punk!
It was not easy getting your hands on good rock and roll in 1977, especially if you were 8 years old at the time, like I was. But there I was at Cheapo's (still around- I bought on overpriced Cactus record there a couple weeks ago), two crumpled dollar bills in my hand, looking for sonic action. I was actually hoping to find another Sex Pistols record, not knowing 'Never Mind' was their sole contribution to rock and roll at the time. Hit Parader magazine wasn't really much of a help, unless you really dug Styx. The goatee'd guy at the counter explained punk's inherent worthlessness to me, steering me away from the Ramones, and convinced me that I really ought to pick up a Beatles record. I didn't want to- I mean, I had already heard them on the goddamn radio every day of my life, and quite frankly, preferred Sabbath- but back then we listened to our elders. He hooked me up with "Sargeant Pepper's" and sent me off to play in the traffic. I got about halfway home before I ran into this older kid Eddie, who was kind of a creep, but had sold me a pretty good stolen bike for five bucks earlier that summer, so I felt obligated to talk to him.
"So, what record you got?" He asked me. I was already aware that it really wasn't that cool to be dragging around a Beatles record in these days of KISS and Alice Cooper and Johnny Rotten, but if I refused to tell him, he would have just taken the bag anyway. So I showed him. "The Beatles?" He sneered, derisively. "Nobody listens to this old shit anymore. The Beatles are out, man. Punk is where it's at." And it was true, but for Christ sakes, I was 8, and there was only about 5 punk records in existence at the time. I snatched my record back and went home, determined to get my two buck's worth of enjoyment out of it. Didn't really work, though. First of all, I had heard all of the songs on it already, and worst of all, the guy at the record store said it was their "Psychedelic" record, but my friend Ricky's older brother played me some 13th Floor Elevators when we were hanging around his basement, watching him smoke pot, and he said that they were psychedelic. And "Sgt. Pepper" didn't sound nearly as cool. A few days later, I traded it with this guy Jeff for a bunch of Mad magazines, and I never bought another Beatles record. Which neatly brings us to the Punkles, a Hamburg-by-way-of Liverpool supergroup comprised of Andi from stoner space jammers Nixon Now and his heavy friends, thrashing up Beatles hits and crowd pleasers. I like it alot better than the real thing. Stacey would like to point out that these covers are not "Really punk, they're just fast", but let us not get mired in nuance. The Punkles manage some neat liquor tricks along the way- copping a Pistols riff for the intro to "Yesterday" is particularly inspired- and although I'm still not convinced that it's cool to like the Beatles, I am absolutely sure it's all fuckin' right to dig the Punkles.
   
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The Punkles – ‘Punk!’  / Reviewer: Pete Aldridge
First things first, let me ask you a question, were the Beatles punk? Do I hear laughter? Well tribute quartet the Punkles (or the pukles as my keyboard likes to call them) may disagree with you. This lively foursome speed through thirteen of The Beatles’ best known and best loved tracks as well as three other great rock and roll tracks of the same period on this 28 minute long album.
As the side project for members of German band, ‘Prollhead’ the Punkles has proven a very popular venture, actually eclipsing the band’s previous projects, leading them to headline international tours and even the chance to realise their dreams by playing a set at the famous Cavern club in Liverpool, the very club where the Beatles started their careers. The reason for the popularity of the band is simply because they cover Beatles songs so damn well. The songs sound raw and raucous, while keeping all of the hooks and riffs that helped the Beatles on their way to success.
The obvious novelty value of a band such as this is not all that this album has to offer the band all obvious genuinely love the Beatles’ music as well as the raw, fast and anarchic sound of ’77 punk and they bring these influences together to excellent effect, most notably on tracks such as ‘Give punk a chance’ and the never-ending choruses on the always classic ‘Yellow submarine.’
When you first listen to ‘Punk!’ the first that hits you is the novelty of a Beatles cover band and the album is very entertaining on that level alone however it’s after a few listen and you give the mixture of melody and powerchords a chance it really does start to feel like these songs are at least as good as the originals and in some cases such as ‘And your bird can sing’, stuffed full of sweet licks and solo to bursting point, that the song actually is better than the originals and shows how the Beatles could’ve benefited from a touch of distortion here or a higher tempo there.
Among the excellent Beatles covers there are also covers of the classic tracks, ‘Please Mr Postman’, ‘Dizzy miss Lizzy’ and Chuck Berry’s ‘Rock ‘n’ roll music’ again these tracks have been transcribed into punk in a loving manner resulting in three of album’s best tracks.
All in this entire album is hugely entertaining every song is catchy, melodic and also not too far removed from the mosh-pit to disappoint hardened punkers. Despite being a very strong album this isn’t the kind of album that you listen to over and over again, partially because the novelty value does wear off after a while, partially because even though the album is good it also seems to make it plainly clear that the band’s strength lies in live performance, but mostly because since you already know most of the songs inside out you may not listen to it as much as you would listen to an album of original material. But the album is still a good album, if you like the idea of a Beatles punk cover band go out and buy the album it certainly is the best in the sense of Beatles covers, but if you aren’t so sure then I definitely would recommend that you track the band down and see them live it would certainly be a great, fun night out.