Posted on 02/02/2007 8:34:10 AM PST by qam1
The Ramones released their first album in April 1976.
it was the first punk album to break the Billboard Top 200, reaching 111.
The Damned released "New Rose" in October 1976
It broke into the UK Top 100 Singles.
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Qam, if you don't have "No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion" cd box set, you should go get it...today!!!
It's an odd list that includes Generation X, but omits X and omits The Germs.
True punk burned itself out so fast that it's ghosts (new wave, retro punk, grunge, speed/death metal/ hard core) are just illusions. Plus, they cleaned up the garbage in London. Glam rock ended. Studio 54 closed. Disco died. Detroit automobiles got better. The economy got better once the socialists and CINOs were booted from government decision making apparatus.
All there is are rich kids wanting to rebel against rebels. The next wave of outlaw music? Classical chamber music.
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Punk was glam rock without the outfits.
Johnny Thunders was the last great glam guitar hero and the first punk rock star.
So many punk riffs were cribbed from T. Rex and the New York Dolls.
That was 1977. Punk ain't dead, it just drives a mini van (with DVD, GPS and 17 cup holders!) and wears orthotics in its black, high topped Chuck T's.
I will wear one of my many Misfits shirts and Chucks today, and maybe have some carrot cake in celebration.
THe first time I heard the Carnival Cruise Line ad using Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" I just about spit my coffee out.
I feel old.
Neither is mine! Oh well. That was kind of weird. It was just an album cover.
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How about American Express using a Spinal Tap song?
Usually a music "emerges" when it breaks into the pop charts - as punk did in '76.
Talking Heads are hard to categorize as a "punk band", but if that's the standard then the list is also missing The Dictators, Devo, Rocket From The Tombs, The Zeros, The Heartbreakers, X-Ray Spex, Gang Of Four, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, The Cramps and, unbelievably, the Buzzcocks.
He was a good and talented man. A conservative and Reagan supporter too.
And I say that as a non-fan of punk. I'm more of a hair metal guy.
Thanks for making me feel ancient. :)
When Henry Rollins appeared on a TLC program I knew punk had succumb to the mainstream.
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