Classic 70's Punk Thread
 

As someone previously pointed out, it's been 30 years since Sex Pistols - 'God Save The Queen' was released, here's a thread to discuss classic 70's Punk. The original and still the best.

Sex Pistols
Buzzcocks.
The Clash.
Sham 69.
The Skids.
The Stranglers.
The Dickies.
The Damned.
The Vibrators.
The Slits.
X-Ray Spex.
Siouxsie & the Banshees.

I've been on a Slits binge recently... god they're amazing.

This is a personal pov, mind, but I think punk (the music) was ****e, in the main. It was simply loud, proud and played, largely, by the hugely untalented. Anyone could pick up a guitar or some drumsticks, circa 1977, and make aggressive noise. Punk the lifestyle was different - it stood for something and was a symbolic way of life... it made the music make sense.
There are two things that make punk, as a genre of music, stand out in the 21st century. The first is that the lifestyle came before the music (unlike any genre before or since it). The second is that without it, post-punk (take most punk music and add an IQ) would never have existed... and god forbid!

That was the beauty of punk in the 70's.
And you're spot on with the post punk point.

Warsaw-Joy Division-New Order

From a bunch of ordinary lads picking up a guitar and drumsticks and making shite music, to the perfect post punk outfit, to a band that took music in another direction.

I'm not seeing the logical connection between something being untalented and something being shit. Also I don't see why the punk lifestyle validates punk as a style of music, it seems pretty irrelevant.

Yeah, I didn't entirely agree with that sentiment either.
They were generally untalented though, but their creativity made up for the deficit.

Dead Boys-Young, Loud And Snotty. 1977. Disgustingly overlooked punk album.


Nice thread RT.

Speaking of Dead Boys, Rocket From The Tombs don't get nearly enough recognition. They're usually classified garage rock/proto-punk, but I mean they played some of the same songs as the Dead Boys so how doesn't that make them punk?

Then there's unlikely to be anything I can say to educate you. Oh, hang on... how well do you play violin?

It validated it because it created it. The music was born of an era. Teenagers weren't an actual entity until the late 50s and so many restrictions were placed on them then - the kids finally make themselves "free" in the 60s and what do they do? Smoke a spliff and make daisy chains. Woop de woo.

Punk was the first real "rage" against the machine. The music was a direct result of the feeling.

There was rebellious music before '77, it just wasn't as loud or fast. Punk was more or less inevitable, imo.

As to your violin point, listen to Cale's viola playing in Heroin. It's abrasive, violent and atonal but still magnificent.