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The Undertones were of the era and very important. The Clash, The Pistols, Siouxsie, Crass were the ones I listened to. Joy Division and U2 were part of the New Wave thing that overlaps with punk. And they are pretty outstanding bands.
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I prefer The Clash to The Sex Pistols, but I think my favourites would be New York Dolls. Or maybe The Ramones.
Their New Rose is officially recognised as the first punk release after all. I also listened extensively to The Velvet Underground, Nico, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedys, Sham 69, the Anti-Knowhere League, UK Subs, The Stranglers, Nina Hagen, Stiff Little Fingers, Ultravox, early Adam and the Ants, The Cramps, Buzzcocks. Elvis Costello, Generation X etc. I was six when The Damned released New Rose in 1976. I bought my first album of theirs when I was about 11 and have everything they've ever released and a crush on Dave Vanian which has not faded with time
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The only thing close to a real punk band is Milk Music who are very good at it if you like that Husker Du SST thing.And Kicking spit and there kind of the same mixin a mide 80's U.S Underground sound.
Also check out there music if you have the time. http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8704-milk-music/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1190Cq3PHvQ |
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It was for people with little to no talent then?
Of course those that really had no talent soon fell away, the good bands moved on rapidly |
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rose coloured spectacles? not me.. however i do think the true cultural impact of punk was and is being misunderstood. if anything i think we under estimate its true impact.
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lol..i know you! (not personally, just your type). the people punk meant little to were people who had their own music and frankly didnt 'get' punk. (you obviously do get it..but generally) prog rockers in particular were guilty of utter snobbishness towards punk. disco goers hated it.. of course people werent all affected... my argument with jacko fans is that he didnt influence my life at all. similarly punk didnt directly affect many others... but for huge amounts of people it did, in a larger way then id suggest any other genre has. it was certainly in evidence in my family, friends and 'da kidz' at the youth club. ... maybe you were from a 'well off' home, with a career planned ahead. punk spoke loudest to the kids who didnt.
![]() My dad was a plumber all his working life and my mum worked in a Video rental shop, so hardly "well off". when I left school at 16 in 1979 there were 3 million unemployed and the Winter of Discontent was just around the corner so most of us faced the same option many school-leavers face today - the Dole queue. Quote:
those artists you list became successful on the back of punk.. (except ian dury, he did his own thing anyway)
but if youre a 'rock fan' you see things from a rock bias...im a music fan, always have been, i like contemporary pop from the 60's to today.. that includes the many variants of rock. i have no agenda...i like the music i like no matter what genre. |
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i liked the noise that these made
sham 69 angelic upstarts was jon bentley of The Gadget Show in a punk band? I thought i had read somewhere he was in the Skids, but I can't find any links. Have I been misinformed? [edit yes - it's Richard jobson I was thinking of.] i would have thought the pistols were the top punk band. stranglers or clash maybe. jam don't count as punk, do they? |
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I think John Lydon is a very clever, highly intelligent man who was happy to play along with McLaren's scheme whilst it suited him as it gave him a profile and allowed him to go on to form PiL. John Lydon himself has often said the work he did with Public Image Limited is the work he is most proud of and would like that to be seen as his legacy.
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Only really appreciated Crust Punk and Oi Punk stuff.
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Severin interestingly put it, that in terms of cultural legacy, their work is an extension of glam rock, and that they were the next logical progression on from Roxy Music
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Interesting article written by Simon Frith about a Disco in 1978 http://www.djhistory.com/features/th...-of-disco-1978
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It's interesting that the general Punk movement (formed from the initial rock sphere of music) has absorbed Disco influences the most.Some Progressive rock bands did absorb disco elements to their sounds soon after disco formed - Roxy Music, ELO, Genesis (Abacab (1981)) etc., but it's not generally associated with dance music at all these days.Perhaps the only other major rock genres that has Disco (& it's offshoots New wave, synthpop, Rave, Hip-hop etc.) associations are Madchester & Nu-Metal which are associated much more with Punk or Hardcore than Progressive rock is.Not to mention the more obvious Disco-punk sub-genre.
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I meant people in general looking back at punk with rose-tinted spectacles, a lot of people do.
furthering my suggestion that punk doesnt get its true recognition... the greatest thing punk did was spark an interest in making music, (and fashion). punk mobilised a nation into having an interest in new music. punk was id suggest, directly responsible for the most diverse period in music we have ever seen. it encouraged people to experiment. the charts in 76 were piss poor, many would say the music scene was (at that time) the worst it had been. punk destroyed that appathetic view. ok not all music was touched by punk... disco, abba, kate bush.. but punk was directly responsible for new wave, two tone, new romantics, rockabilly, indie (which wasnt a musical style, even pete waterman was 'indie' ), goth, and get this... even the resurgence in rock which gave kids OF YOUR AGE! LOL.. a more musical alternative to the harsher more political punk. if you want to know what our charts would have been like without punk... just view the american charts 1977-82... Quote:
And yet you would be amazed at how many members of Punk bands were Prog Rock fans... as i understand it, many dropped prog rock when punk arrived!
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My dad was a plumber all his working life and my mum worked in a Video rental shop, so hardly "well off". when I left school at 16 in 1979 there were 3 million unemployed and the Winter of Discontent was just around the corner so most of us faced the same option many school-leavers face today - the Dole queue.
ahhh... you were one of the kids at the youth club i assisted ! lol.. 1977-79 'da kidz' (of your age) were into punk... 1980-82 they were more into rock as a new generation came to the club and the older ones left. rock was huge in 1980 onwards.. gillan, rainbow, whitesnake, judas preist, iron maiden, saxon.... succeded on the back on punk making rock popular!if you left school in 79, the winter of discontent was just gone! ![]() i can understand your view on punk, tbh you were just a little too young in 77, 14, i was 20, a 14 year old schoolboy could hardly understand the political reason that punk resonated with us young adults who were in the workplace and whos career was bleak... in the same way we could. Quote:
I like everything from Prog Rock to Punk, Thrash metal to Folk Rock and a lot of everything in between so I find plenty of new music to interest me every day within the Rock spectrum. I'm not adverse to other genres of music, far from it, like many Prog rock fans I like classical as well but something like modern pop music I find to be superficial and lacking emotion of any description. But that is purely my musical taste.
i hate prog rock... not as much as i hate philly though! i like good music that appeals to me from any genre.. world, classical, folk, my long term fav was always guitar based pop.. kinks, yardbirds, small faces..jam.. but now its TRANCE!
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I've tried to break down the musical landscape of the '70's below to get it into context.
1970's Adult-Contemporary / MOR (Easy Listening, Blue-eyed soul, Smooth Soul, Latin American pop, Country pop, Musical Theatre) Singer-Songwriter 1965 - 1982? (from then on merged with other pop-rock); Folk Rock 1965 - ? Soft Rock 1969 - 1980 Progressive Rock 1967 - 1981 (inc. Canterbury scene, German Prog (part of Krautrock), Jazz Fusion, Progressive Electronic etc.) Hard Rock 1967 - 1980 Early Heavy Metal 1967 - 1980 (Heavy Rock, Blues Rock, Country Rock) Glam Rock 1971 - 1976 Bubblegum Pop (inc. Teen Idol) 1967 - 1972 & 1974 - 1977 Metro Detroit/Garage Rock 1968 - 1976; Pub Rock 1971 - 1976; Punk Rock 1976 - 1979 New Wave 1976 - 1985 (inc.Synthpop); Post-Punk (inc. No Wave, Goth rock) 1977 - 1984; Power pop 1978 - 1985; Mod Revival 1978 - 1984? 2 Tone / Ska revival 1977 - Reggae (inc. Lovers rock) 1968 - ? Dub 1973 - ? Northern Soul 1963 - 1971/1981?; Funk 1967 - 1971; Disco 1971 - 1980 (inc.Disco rap/early hip-hop) Quiet Storm 1976 - ? I wonder which genres so called Punks dislike / don't mind & like - Punk tastes seem to be a little inconsistant to me & seem to been influenced by very diverse genres. Of course as long as it's D.I.Y. it's Punk isn't it |
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that happens with every genre though...
furthering my suggestion that punk doesnt get its true recognition... the greatest thing punk did was spark an interest in making music, (and fashion). punk mobilised a nation into having an interest in new music. punk was id suggest, directly responsible for the most diverse period in music we have ever seen. it encouraged people to experiment. the charts in 76 were piss poor, many would say the music scene was (at that time) the worst it had been. punk destroyed that appathetic view. ok not all music was touched by punk... disco, abba, kate bush.. but punk was directly responsible for new wave, two tone, new romantics, rockabilly, indie (which wasnt a musical style, even pete waterman was 'indie' ), goth, and get this... even the resurgence in rock which gave kids OF YOUR AGE! LOL.. a more musical alternative to the harsher more political punk. Quote:
ahhh... you were one of the kids at the youth club i assisted ! lol.. 1977-79 'da kidz' (of your age) were into punk... 1980-82 they were more into rock as a new generation came to the club and the older ones left. rock was huge in 1980 onwards.. gillan, rainbow, whitesnake, judas preist, iron maiden, saxon.... succeded on the back on punk making rock popular!
if you left school in 79, the winter of discontent was just gone! ![]() Quote:
i hate prog rock... not as much as i hate philly though!
i like good music that appeals to me from any genre.. world, classical, folk, my long term fav was always guitar based pop.. kinks, yardbirds, small faces..jam.. but now its TRANCE! ![]() Prog has enjoyed a real upsurge in the last few years and there are some great bands young coming along who bare no resemblance to the bands of the 1970s. |
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I've tried to break down the musical landscape of the '70's below to get it into context.
1970's Adult-Contemporary / MOR (Easy Listening, Blue-eyed soul, Smooth Soul, Latin American pop, Country pop, Musical Theatre) Singer-Songwriter 1965 - 1982? (from then on merged with other pop-rock); Folk Rock 1965 - ? Soft Rock 1969 - 1980 Progressive Rock 1967 - 1981 (inc. Canterbury scene, German Prog (part of Krautrock), Jazz Fusion, Progressive Electronic etc.) Hard Rock 1967 - 1980 Early Heavy Metal 1967 - 1980 (Heavy Rock, Blues Rock, Country Rock) Glam Rock 1971 - 1976 Bubblegum Pop (inc. Teen Idol) 1967 - 1972 & 1974 - 1977 Metro Detroit/Garage Rock 1968 - 1976; Pub Rock 1971 - 1976; Punk Rock 1976 - 1979 New Wave 1976 - 1985 (inc.Synthpop); Post-Punk (inc. No Wave, Goth rock) 1977 - 1984; Power pop 1978 - 1985; Mod Revival 1978 - 1984? 2 Tone / Ska revival 1977 - Reggae (inc. Lovers rock) 1968 - ? Dub 1973 - ? Northern Soul 1963 - 1971/1981?; Funk 1967 - 1971; Disco 1971 - 1980 (inc.Disco rap/early hip-hop) Quiet Storm 1976 - ? I wonder which genres so called Punks dislike / don't mind & like - Punk tastes seem to be a little inconsistant to me & seem to been influenced by very diverse genres. Of course as long as it's D.I.Y. it's Punk isn't it why inconsistent? punk broke down the barriers that existed before when music was polarised...you were supposed to like one style. the point of punk was that it gave you the right to like anything you wanted to. pre punk music was tribal... you dressed the part and liked that style only, post punk you could like any music and that was cool. yes punk was diy, diy for people who wanted to try it but didnt fit the corporate image /style of what was expected... nowt wrong with that... it lead to the greatest variety chartwise we have ever seen. Quote:
Punk had the biggest effect on pop music of the time. In 1977 I was already in to the likes of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, etc., so the influence from Punk was less pronounced for me for that reason, especially as there were already bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Motorhead, coming through to spearhead the resurgence of Heavy Metal. Whether Punk had any direct influence on that, who knows. If you look at the sales of HM bands during the Punk period of 77 - 79 their sales remain strong so, because it was always essentially an underground movement, it is less affected by popular trends. The same holds true today.
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Those bands would have gone on to commercial success anyway, whether they would have had the impact they did in the singles chart, who knows? But Whitesnake and Rainbow were selling out venues in 77 - 78 and Gillan was always guaranteed an audience purely from being in Deep Purple. of course we will never know for sure... but as punk brought rock styles back to the fans, then died down by 80, i dont think its any coincidence that commercial rock in 80/81 peaked in popularity.
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some glaring omissions there dude... funk died in 71?.. funk was huge in the late 70's.... chic anyone?
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why inconsistent? punk broke down the barriers that existed before when music was polarised...you were supposed to like one style. the point of punk was that it gave you the right to like anything you wanted to. pre punk music was tribal... you dressed the part and liked that style only, post punk you could like any music and that was cool.
yes punk was diy, diy for people who wanted to try it but didnt fit the corporate image /style of what was expected... nowt wrong with that... it lead to the greatest variety chartwise we have ever seen. in retrospect.Think you are a bit confused about being corporate.Isn't pop / chart music all about being corporate (the singles chart anyway).Why would a punk fan worry about chart music when they are so anti-corporate minded.That's exactly the reason why the first wave of Punk collapsed.It was a victim of it's own commercial success & co-oped into Corporate record label culture - Punks (fans, artists) couldn't deal with that. The variety of music that was present after the first wave of Punk collapsed was much less than in the early '60's / early '70's for good or bad.I'm glad Punk swept away the MOR music that was present in the mid-seventies personally.Disco suffered due to Punk as well (the original orchestrated form anyway).It was replaced with Synth based form nearer to New Wave (a broad genre that borrowed alot from progressive electronic music BTW). You cannot get more D.I.Y. than present Prog musicians these days as far as a self-producing is concerned.If you are such a D.I.Y. lover you should also love present day Prog if you follow that logic. |
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You cannot get more D.I.Y. than present Prog musicians these days as far as a self-producing is concerned.If you are such a D.I.Y. lover you should also love present day Prog if you follow that logic.
![]() ![]() I know a few of the new Prog bands personally and it really is a self-sufficient cottage industry to a very large extent. |
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Punk had the biggest effect on pop music of the time.
Punk was hugely influential - but not in the way disco was ... not least in the use of tehcnology. |
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Whilst I've never subscribed to the idea that Punk "killed" Prog as most Prog bands were far more commercially successful, in terms of hit singles, in the early 1980s than they ever were in the 1970s, there is a delicious irony in that fact it is the new Prog bands that have adopted the Punk ideal of doing it yourself.....
![]() ![]() I know a few of the new Prog bands personally and it really is a self-sufficient cottage industry to a very large extent. It's quite ironic also, that punk rock had the effect of rock music becoming more commercially (in a pop sense) oriented after the collapse of it's first wave.One of it's objectives was to sweep away the commercialisation of rock music, supposedly.It had the opposite effect really.Punk was parcially responsible for the highly commercial Synth pop genre, for example.I hope you are proud of yourselves Punk rock followers
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Sorry - can't agree - disco did.
Punk was hugely influential - but not in the way disco was ... not least in the use of tehcnology. As Scratchy said: New Wave 1976 - 1985 (inc.Synthpop); Post-Punk (inc. No Wave, Goth rock) 1977 - 1984; Power pop 1978 - 1985; Mod Revival 1978 - 1984? 2 Tone / Ska revival 1977 - I would have said they were all directly influenced by Punk. |
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Sorry - can't agree - disco did.
Punk was hugely influential - but not in the way disco was ... not least in the use of tehcnology. |
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You've got to admit that Prog bands fundamentilly had to change their sound to gain chart / singles success though in the early '80's.In response to a virtual Punk bias take-over of the UK music media (especially the print press).They would have been slaughted if they kept producing a similar brand of music.That's one area that Punk certainly succeeded.Which also ment that the newly formed Neo-prog bands had a more commercial sound that borrowed influences from New Wave (there were common influences in '70's Prog & New wave & post-punk anyway).
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Disagree sort of, New wave (Synthpop) was the biggest influence on modern pop music, although it is regarded as a derivative form of Disco as well.Disco originally used a string & horn orchastrated / jazz like backing.Synths were used later & were derived from Synthpop.Not sure how much of an influence Punk had on the electronic side of New wave though.It was influenced more from Krautrock (generally regarded as a part of Prog rock), progressive electronic & progressive rocks forerunner Psychedelic rock (i.e. Funkadelic ; the name is self explanatory as far as their influences are concerned).
Moroder & Cerrone & also Stevie Wonder's use of synths: arpeggiators, using synths as basslines and for drums beats. |
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I wouldn't deny that at all. If anything Punk breathed new life in to Prog and forced it to change, which wasn't a bad thing at all in my opinion!
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