periods of punk

topic posted Sun, April 15, 2007 - 11:06 PM by  Unsubscribed
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So what are your thoughts?
You have 70's punk 80's, 90's and current.
Can current pop punk be considered punk? What is real punk an dwho really started it?
Thoughts please!
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  • Re: periods of punk

    Wed, April 18, 2007 - 4:12 PM
    There is no real punk anymore; it's all frickin nancy-pants ska.

    The last good punk band was Bomb (www.kittyfeet.com/hatefed.htm).

    If I'm wrong, please send me weblinks with some real punk music.
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      Wed, April 18, 2007 - 11:21 PM
      I think there IS reall punk being made as we speak HOWEVER as in most of the years, its way far underground. I think youll find it in scattered local scenes across america before you would ever find it on the radio!
  • Re: periods of punk

    Sat, August 11, 2007 - 10:10 AM
    Hmmm...who started punk....I have to look way back at the 50's. How about Elvis? He freaked parents out and turned girls into quivering piles of orgasmic jelly. Pretty punk for back in the day. Eddie Cochrane, bad boy and heavy drinker and wrote some pretty snotty stuff for back in the day as well. I think you can find the off the grid musicians in any era going back to Mozart. Whoever pissed of the majority and scared the shit out of people. That is punk! However...Thank Christ for the Sex Pistols and the Ramones! Music in the 70's? it was a musical void. Disco and and moronic pop shit. They came and made music dangerous. The 80's were awesome. LA was churning out some of the best music I ever heard. SF had some awesome and politically aware bands as well. The 90's...Thank you Seattle. I still have my grunge hair and flannel and wear it proudly.
    Pop Punk is still punk. Punk changes all the time. I was into loud bands slamming three chord tunes in sweaty and grimy clubs and loving it. How do you go more punk? Playing huge venues and playing for thousands of fans. This will change too. Punk is alive and well and playing in a basement or garage near you. As long as people are pissed off and want people to know it.
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      Sat, August 11, 2007 - 11:16 AM
      I agree with you Dan...but I think it goes back further than
      Elvis and Eddie. How about Chuck Berry and Little Richard?
      These guys were totally going against the grain ( at the time ).
      I always thought of punk as an attitude as well as a musical
      style. So in that regard...there's always been some upstart
      out there stirrin the pot! ( or maybe tipping it over? lol! )
      Others? : Sun Ra,Music Machine,Screamin Jay Hawkins,
      London Cowboys ( they predate the Sex Pistols by several yrs! ),
      That being said...I give major respect to bands like the Ramones,
      The NY Dolls,The Stooges and lastly the Pistols for fine tuning
      the sound and putting the punk in PUNK!

      I for one loath the new shit. BUT...
      I do still hear some good new(er) punk coming out.
      You definitely have to go looking for it. It ain't on MTV!
      ( thank gawd! ) I've never understood that station
      being a barometer for what's hot and what's not?
      It's all souless prefab crap imho. In conclusion
      I would say the punk I prefer is from my youth.
      70's-80's. But like I said...there is some newer
      stuff that gets me going.
      • Re: periods of punk

        Sat, August 11, 2007 - 1:00 PM
        Go Back even further: Robert Johnson sells his soul to the devil in an effort the become the greatest guitar player alive. The Delta Blues are full of stories about hard drinking, hard fighting players. Forging your own glass guitar slides out of beer bottle necks over an open camp fire. Back woods voodoo and road houses in Mississippi. I'd say the real founding fathers of punk were the Delta Blues players. I go to Mississippi at least twice a year to write songs and travel the dirt roads in towns long forgotten by time. Blues is the original punk!
    • Re: periods of punk

      Tue, August 14, 2007 - 5:53 AM
      Don't forget the mighty Miss Pearl Bailey. She's where nasty girl punk stems from. Without Pearl there could be no Lunachicks!
      • Re: periods of punk

        Mon, August 20, 2007 - 4:46 PM
        I agree with Johnny etc. I think "the Hardcore era of the mid eighties" were kind of boring comapared to the weirdness of the 70s and very early 80s but Punk itself has very deep deep roots and I actually like the current crop is treading back to the ideas of and ecclectic art form.

        Mike

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