Why Punk HAD to happen
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I remember when I first heard 'Live at the Roxy'. To this day, the stuttering clumsy drumming and sax of 'Oh Bondage', and Poly's screeching vocal, just defines punk for me. That song IS pure punk. It was my introduction to punk at the age of 15 and it changed the way I thought about and experienced music. Prior to then, I'd been listening to Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and such like (my brother's records really) so it's hardly any surprise.
brockers
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Watch and weep TOTP May 20, 1976.
Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
Make your kids see it so they understand, too, why Punk created year zero.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly. I only saw ten minutes but it was truly awful. Sometimes the black acts can save these early TOTPs, but alas there weren't any in the bit I saw.
Watch and weep TOTP May 20, 1976.
Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
Make your kids see it so they understand, too, why Punk created year zero.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly. I only saw ten minutes but it was truly awful. Sometimes the black acts can save these early TOTPs, but alas there weren't any in the bit I saw.
Andy in Sig
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I think punk probably did have to happen but I agree that it was largely shite. What it did do was open the doors for some bands who probably wouldn't otherwise have got much of a look in. The Only Ones spring to mind.
brockers
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Mind you, there's a prog on at the mo about the Carpenters. I think Karen Carpenter's voice was something truly special, so not all pre-punk 70's stuff was dire!
Fnaar
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Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b011g8pg
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What was it with early/mid 70s harking back to the 50s... Showaddywaddy, Mud (apart from that disco number), lots of the Bay City Rollers, etc...
Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b011g8pg
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What was it with early/mid 70s harking back to the 50s... Showaddywaddy, Mud (apart from that disco number), lots of the Bay City Rollers, etc...
Fab Foodie
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Totally agree, fabulously crafted songs by Richard too.
You need to be careful with comments like that, fnaar.
Firstly, that's only three bands from the 1970s, and I'd hesitate to include the Bay City Rollers anyway, so it's hardly the music of a jilted generation.
It also ignores the punks who did similar (Stray Cats, Billy Idol?), and whole genres mixing the the 50s with punk (ska/2 Tone and rockabilly).
Music always echoes down the ages, from the Beatles to Oasis to the White Stripes, and waves, like the Teddy Boys or Girl Power or Boy Bands or the current R'n'B theme runs through the charts almost constantly.
slowmotion
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Excellent point!
Lookee here at The Knack 1979. Retro madness with a totally mad guitar solo that goes absolutely nowhere but has a certain charm perhaps?
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just jim
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Perhaps the first post- punk-post by Andy in Sig ever, coming in under 2 lines!
threebikesmcginty
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Fnaar
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Somehow or other I seem to know most of the lyrics to Mud and Showaddywaddy songs... and Mud's version of "Tobacco Road" on "Mud Rock 2" is worthy of critical praise.
MontyVeda
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[QUOTE 1409575"]
Watch and weep TOTP May 20, 1976.
Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
Make your kids see it so they understand, too, why Punk created year zero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b011g8pg
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I thought that Marmalade song was the most offensive... who the feck bought that?
I can sit and moan and grumble about 'modern rubbish' but when i see a rerun of TOTP... it's always been fairly poor
Watch and weep TOTP May 20, 1976.
Mud doing disco shite. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.
Make your kids see it so they understand, too, why Punk created year zero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b011g8pg
[/quote]
I thought that Marmalade song was the most offensive... who the feck bought that?
I can sit and moan and grumble about 'modern rubbish' but when i see a rerun of TOTP... it's always been fairly poor
