Why Punk HAD to happen

[MarkF]

[QUOTE 2869449, member: 1314"]... and @MarkF mentioned Racy[/quote]

I've just checked, I was sure it was '76 but no it was 1979! How did it go from Mud & Disco Duck, through punk, then retro back to Racey in 2.5 years? Fat lot of good punk did.

This song and vid is a bloody nightmare, I am a laid back guy but I'd like to kick that singer in the balls, the song is right up there with Ottowan.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've just checked, I was sure it was '76 but no it was 1979! How did it go from Mud & Disco Duck, through punk, then retro back to Racey in 2.5 years? Fat lot of good punk did.

This song and vid is a bloody nightmare, I am a laid back guy but I'd like to kick that singer in the balls, the song is right up there with Ottowan.

That's dreadful, they should be thrown into boiling oil.

 

[Herbie]

[QUOTE 1409575, member: 1314"]Watch and weep TOTP May 20, 1976.

Mud doing disco s***e. Cringeworthy compelling to watch.

Make your kids see it so they understand, too, why Punk created year zero.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011g8pg[/quote]

Sometimes you think Punk never happened at all....is it a generation type thingy I wonder? wasn't the music scene always better when you were in your teens? I'm glad I was a teen when Punk happened...what have teens got these days that can compare? X- Factor etc etc what a lot of s***e

 

[Herbie]

I'm not sure history would agree with you there, Ludwig... I think it was hugely influential not just in terms of music, but of course in fashion, and also in pushing the boundaries back of all sorts of things. Maybe it's an age thing (don't know how old you are) but for me it coincided with my transition from adolescence into adulthood, and it had a massive influence on me personally informing my tastes in music, clothes, women, attitude, politics, all sorts of things.

Ditto

 

[MarkF]

Pap ruled, before, during and after, nothing changed.

1975 Number ones
1976 Number ones
1978 Number ones
1979 Number ones

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Pap ruled, before, during and after, nothing changed.

1975 Number ones
1976 Number ones
1978 Number ones
1979 Number ones

I dunno, The Wurzels are in there.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Punk to me wasn't so much a lifestyle/genre, as a kick up the arse to the music industry and record buying public to inject some life into a flacid industry.

And boy, do we need punk again.....

Aye more to boot the erses of these hip hop, manufactured boy girl band and so on about the place.

I'll admit to liking 70s schmalz, 80s some of, 90s and onwards nah..today ? get orf ma lawn

I'll also admit to have seen the Bay City Rollers (before they made it), Slik (dj'ed in between their set) Slade (excellent live) but it was all tongue in check and not to be taken serious, LBH Chicory Tip ? best new band for me ..Twin Atlantic

 

[marknotgeorge]

are we saying that music is reaching that point again? that horrible stunted point where something like punk has to come out of the jaded synthesized drivel the record industry insist on promoting.

i'm sorry i appear to have a chip on my shoulder the size of jersey.

I think so. I had the misfortune of catching some of a new song by Will I Am, Miley Cyrus, and some other twonks. It seemed to be about how they were all brilliant, had flash cars, the attention of lots of the opposite sex, blah blah blah. Saying nothing other than Look At Me! Having said that, the song at No 1 at the moment is a cheery pop song that isn't bad at all.

 

[captain nemo1701]

But punk was s*** also

About 90% of it, I would say. Like dance/techno etc, it was a musical genre that for one good track there were always a dozen bad ones. It was very amatuerish (some might say that's what was attractive about it) and DIY. It was, however, the musical genre of the (then) disaffected generation who stuck two fingers up at society and the aggression comes across in the music. But by the time I left school in 1980, punk had fizzled out in my part of the UK and was being replaced by the latest yoof fad - the new romantics, Duran Duran etc. I was about four years too young to really get into punk and relate to the politics behind it. Kids of my age were somewhat distracted in 1978 when a small sci-fi movie called Star Wars arrived in cinemas. Everyone I knew wanted to be either a Jedi or Han Solo. Nobody wanted to have spikey hair and wear safety pins on leather jackets by then.

Some would say that punk brought about the death of Prog Rock, which had become tired and bloated. Maybe, but it is interesting to note that just a couple of years after punk faded in fashion that the giants of Prog, Pink Floyd, had a chart smash with Another Brick In The Wall. They also persuaded a very punk-rock pre-Live Aid Bob Geldof to star in the movie of the album.

Don't get me wrong, punk did produce a few gems: God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols; The Day the World Turned Dayglo by X Ray Spex and a wonderful little oddity by The Dickies, a hyperspeed version of the Tra-La-La theme song to the Banana Split Show. I had it on yellow vinyl, naturally

 

[endoman]

I think so. I had the misfortune of catching some of a new song by Will I Am, Miley Cyrus, and some other twonks. It seemed to be about how they were all brilliant, had flash cars, the attention of lots of the opposite sex, blah blah blah. Saying nothing other than Look At Me! Having said that, the song at No 1 at the moment is a cheery pop song that isn't bad at all.

"The Music they constantly play, says nothing to me about my life"

 

[nappadang]

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.

God, I worshiped the Poly Styrene and Fay Fife when I was young. Top of the Pops and Oh Bondage, Up yours! Really sum up that era for me. Along with bands like SLF, and The Angelic the Upstarts and The clash

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

I just watched an old Top Of The Pops from 1979 on iplayer when I was on the boring turbo trainer. It opened up with Billy Idol and Generation X with the track King Rocker. I loved that track as a kid, not so sure now, but the energy of the miming performance etc, and the guitarist was actually quite good at times. Just seemed way more interesting than the manufactured X-Factor style total and utter shite that is on tv these days. lol.

 

[mr_cellophane]

I bought Generation Indigo when it was released 3 years ago. Shame Poly died a few days before. She was still a great singer and never got a chance with her come back.

 

[MarkF]

I just watched an old Top Of The Pops from 1979 on iplayer when I was on the boring turbo trainer. It opened up with Billy Idol and Generation X with the track King Rocker. I loved that track as a kid, not so sure now, but the energy of the miming performance etc, and the guitarist was actually quite good at times. Just seemed way more interesting than the manufactured X-Factor style total and utter s***e that is on tv these days. lol.

How some took the pee out of Billy Idol, but he still going strong and with $60m in the bank! He is a bloody good singer.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

How some took the pee out of Billy Idol, but he still going strong and with $60m in the bank! He is a bloody good singer.

I have to admit Billy Idol is one of my guilty pleasures Was really into his solo stuff in the 80's as a school kid.