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Punk Rock We’re not into music. We’re into chaos.
Steve Jones, The Sex Pistols
DEFINING PUNK Gimme danger, little stranger.
I wanna feel your disease.
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The Punk Aesthetic
☠ Attitude over music ☠ “What’re you rebelling against?”
☠ Corporate rock bloat
☠ Poverty, authority
☠ “What d’ya got?”
☠ D.I.Y. (“do it yourself”) ☠ Counter-culture entrepreneurs
☠ Zines: self-made fan magazines ☠ Lo-fi: under-produced music
Proto Punk
☠ American pre-punk ☠ Crazy behavior, raw sound
☠ Iggy Pop & The Stooges ☠ The Motor City 5 (MC5)
☠ Artsy, heroin-chic ☠ The Velvet Underground
☠ Glammed-out shock rock ☠ The New York Dolls
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NEW YORK PUNK Nothing to do, nowhere to go.
I wanna be sedated.
CBGB
☠ Country, Blue Grass, Blues ☠ Central club for NY’s punks
☠ Only original music allowed ☠ Bands got in free
☠ Saw musicians as artists
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NY Bands
☠ Patti Smith ☠ Subversive poet ☠ Horses (1975)
☠ The Ramones ☠ Stripped-down rock, really fast ☠ 1st Punk band with a record deal ☠ Ramones (1975)
☠ Television ☠ Fashion anti-icon, Richard Hell ☠ Marquee Moon (1977)
ANARCHY IN THE UK Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
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London in 1975
☠ Extreme rich/poor divide ☠ High youth unemployment ☠ Rampant drug use (smack)
☠ SEX ☠ Malcolm McLaren’s S&M shop ☠ Anti-Fashion center for UK Punk
☠ The Roxy ☠ The central club of British punk ☠ DJ Don Letts spun Reggae & Dub
☠ Gave UK Punk a different feel
The Sex Pistols
☠ Created by McLaren ☠ Punk “nihilists” ☠ Launched Punk as a movement ☠ Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s
the Sex Pistols (1977) ☠ “God Save the Queen” ☠ “Anarchy In the UK”
☠ Gained national infamy cursing on live TV
☠ Self-destructed on 1977 US tour
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UK Punks
☠ The Clash ☠ Upbeat, complex and varied music ☠ Strong political messages ☠ London Calling (1979)
☠ The Buzzcocks ☠ Ramones-tinged, but artsy ☠ Singles Going Steady (1979)
☠ The Damned ☠ Very tuneful, sardonic and playful ☠ Machine Gun Etiquette (1979)
NEW WAVE Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation.
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Selling Punk
☠ New Wave ☠ A tamer, more commercial
version of punk ☠ Melody driven ☠ Pop, reggae & disco influences
☠ Punk evolved? ☠ Artistic growth - or - ☠ Selling out
London’s 1st Wave
☠ Public Image, Ltd. ☠ Johnny Lydon’s post-Pistols band ☠ Metal Box (1979)
☠ Elvis Costello ☠ Evolving pop-friendly artist ☠ My Aim Is True (1977)
☠ Joy Division ☠ Dark, droning lo-fi dance music ☠ Precursors of Goth ☠ Closer (1980)
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USA’s 1st Wave
☠ Blondie ☠ Model, gone punk/disco queen ☠ Parallel Lines (1978)
☠ The Talking Heads ☠ Uber-artsy, intellectual pop ☠ Remain In Light (1980)
☠ DEVO ☠ Math-rock, synthesizer pioneers ☠ Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are
DEVO! (1978)
So Many More…
Magazine The Slits Suicide
The Au Pairs X-Ray Spex
Siouxsee & the Banshees Black Flag Bad Brains
The Happy Mondays The Cars
The Knack …it never ends…
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