Why Punk HAD to happen

[Haitch]

My post, "ha ha - ever had the feeling you've been had", wasn't directed at you, specifically, Andy, was at lots.

And a damn fine post it was.

 

[Andy in Sig]

My post, "ha ha - ever had the feeling you've been had", wasn't directed at you, specifically, Andy, was at lots.

That's fair enough. I'll accept my due share though.

 

[Haitch]

It was cheated. Anyway this is no fun since Great Uncle Andy joined in, so byeeee.

And it was "get" not "had", but that doesn't detract from the damned-fineness of Mark's post.

 

[User169]

The Screamers. So punk, they never released a record.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUzRlDMhRo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Wobblers]

There's no contradiction between the two. The fact that kids had the chance to do what they wanted doesn't mean that they would necessarily produce something which lots of other people would have found enjoyable. To produce things on a musical instrument which anybody other than yourself might enjoy requires some sort of technical ability (however minimal). As I said to you, I had nothing against punk but not much of it appealed to me personally. OTH it was good to see it happening in terms of the wider effects it had. If you want to engage in a possibly fruitful discussion, I'd be delighted to join you. If you want to score points that aren't there to be scored, then crack on.

Er... Andy? The fact that punk was so popular - and still is popular - rather suggests quite a lot of people did enjoy it. The whole point about it was that it wasn't just a bunch of musicians indulging in overly complicated, overly long solos to demonstrate how good they were. Punk was something that you listened to and thought "F***, I could do that". And so many did. Yes, most of it was dross. Just as most of what came before was dross, and most of what came after was dross. Even the very best started out very rough round the edges: the early stuff by the Banshees, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, the Cure are all rather rough. But who cares? They improved things. Just about everything I have, from ABC to Xymox is punk, post punk or influenced by punk. Thank **** for punk.

 

[Wobblers]

[QUOTE 3003580, member: 1314"]**** off of the thread?[/QUOTE]

Easy tiger! Why not quaff another beer and another curry instead of all this angst-y stuff?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Today's Punk song of the day; Nobody's Scared by Subway Sect. Vic Goddard is a genius and that is a FACT.

 

[MarkF]

It came, went in a flash, and everything carried on as before.

1981

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3035718, member: 259"]Strange that one of the best punk bands on the UK scene were Aussies with long hair.

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I've still got the 7" single somewhere.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 1409592, member: 1314"] 1976 wasn't completely ****e - Boston Tea Party by Alex Harve.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=0JvHroG3u5E

Rest of the stuff on tonight's show was still unbelievably ****e, though. [/QUOTE]

Just been digging through my small singles collection - some real gems amongst them in including SAHB's Boston Tea Party and:
Be Bop Deluxe
The Damned
Stranglers
Scritti Politti
Eddie and Hot Rods
The Gorillas
Early Billy Brag - I don't care for his later stuff

 

[Rezillo]

And some pop punk....

 

[User6179]

View: http://youtu.be/9udxbvHiqGw

 

[User169]

Sad news. Tommy died yesterday.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imf25Squ8ro&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sad news. Tommy died yesterday.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imf25Squ8ro&feature=youtube_gdata_player

the last Ramone.

 

[02GF74]

no ramones mbut the music lives on forever..

joey 2001
dee dee 2002
johnny 2004
tommy 2014 (july 11)