History Main / PunkRock

+ {{Rockabilly}}, Surf Music, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, HardRock, sometimes KrautRock

** ''Music/{{Horses}}'' (1976)
** ''Music/RadioEthiopia'' (1976)
** ''Music/{{Easter}}'' (1978)
** ''Music/{{Wave}}'' (1979)

** ''Music/{{Ramones}}'' (1976)
** ''Music/LeaveHome'' (1977)
** ''Music/RocketToRussia'' (1977)
** ''Music/RoadToRuin'' (1978)
** ''Music/EndOfTheCentury'' (1980)

*** ''Music/DontWorryAboutMe'' (2002)

** ''Music/MarqueeMoon'' (1977)

* Music/{{Adam and the Ants}}

** ''Music/TheClashAlbum'' (1977)
** ''Music/LondonCalling'' (1979)
** ''Music/{{Sandinista}}'' (1980)
** ''Music/CutTheCrap'' (1985)

** ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols'' (1977)

*** ''Music/SidSings'' (1979)

** ''Music/PinkFlag'' (1977)
** ''Music/ChairsMissing'' (1978)

** ''Music/{{Damaged|Album}}'' (1981)

** ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}'' (1985)

** ''Music/GuitarRomantic'' (2003)
* Music/ForgottenRebels

** ''Music/{{Dookie}}'' (1994)
** ''Music/{{Insomniac}}'' (1995)
** ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'' (1997)
** ''Music/{{Warning}}'' (2000)
** ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' (2004)
** ''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown'' (2009)
** ''Music/RevolutionRadio'' (2016)

* Music/{{TSOL}}
* [[Music/XUSBand X]]

* Music/{{X}}

It all started in the mid-seventies with punk scenes growing in the US, thanks to Music/TheRamones, and the UK, thanks to the Music/SexPistols, the Music/{{Buzzcocks}}, and Music/TheClash. While the scene had been fomenting for a while, the big push of punk started, most say, in 1976 with the release of The Damned's first single and The Sex Pistols' first appearances. Out of all the first wave of punk bands, The Sex Pistols, in particular, were highly influential due to Malcolm [=McLaren=]'s clever marketing and their high visibility, even though they weren't that talented a band (not that this matters, because they're punk). They (Sex Pistols) caused quite a fair bit of controversy on several notes: [[ClusterFBomb mass swearing]] during [[RefugeInAudacity a live TV interview]]; releasing an anti-monarchy song named "God Save the Queen" for the Queen's silver jubilee; [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle their name]], "the [[PhallicWeapon Sex Pistols]]". This controversy also [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity resulted in the punk scene exploding into success]], causing the creation of the punk subculture and, by extension, the emo and goth subcultures, too.

By the early-eighties, with the increased diversity of influences and backlash against the cardboard-cutout punk bands starting to clog the scene, standard punk rock started to get replaced by harder, faster and more aggressive styles, in particular HardcorePunk. PostPunk, a less aggressive style that focused on more complex and experimental music, also evolved out of this initial punk explosion. This gave way to PostPunk and GothRock bands such as Music/JoyDivision and Music/TheCure, respectively, as well as {{New Wave|Music}} bands like Music/{{Blondie}} and Music/TalkingHeads, both of which existed during the punk explosion, but only came to prominence after it had keeled over. These genres incorporated elements from other genres such as Jamaican dub and {{Krautrock}}. Other notable(?) subgenres of punk include Music/{{Emo}} and PopPunk.

Throughout its history, Punk has been at odds with ProgressiveRock, which is often considered to be the epitome of technical rock. Many punk musicians decried its greatly elaborate and exhibitionist nature, claiming that these characteristics were stifling and discouraging to amateur musicians. (However, this wasn't universal, and its extent has been frequently exaggerated in the press, perhaps due to critics' disdain for progressive rock. Music/JohnLydon [Johnny Rotten], for example, was an avowed fan of several seminal prog bands like Music/{{Magma}} and Music/VanDerGraafGenerator,[[note]]Lydon's outspoken praise for these groups actually became a source of tension with [=McLaren=], who felt it would conflict with the Pistols' image[[/note]] and the genre was an unmistakable influence on his later work with Music/PublicImageLtd. The two genres ultimately wound up influencing much of the same music - Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/TalkingHeads, and Music/TheFallOfTroy, to name just three disparate examples, all bear an unmistakable influence from both punk and prog - and ultimately even cross-pollinated ''each other'' somewhat. The ProgressiveRock page has much further detail under the "Fandom Rivalry" trope.)

God, where to begin? Well, first, the music itself. Punk rock is characterised by fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. In short: if you want to be a rocker, and have [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth strong political views but little technical skill]], it's the genre to go for. That's not an insult towards punk, of course: it's just, people usually won't care. Punks do not care if they are untalented; they do it anyway. Were [[Music/SexPistols Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious]] good musicians? No. But they still played, and that was because they were punks. They didn't give a fuck about what other people thought of them, and that's a view many other punks share.

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