First Punk Band?
 

What do you consider the first punk band and why?
What was the first punk band you heard/loved and why?

As far as first punk band I would really have to mull it over between Death or the Hollywood Brats. First punk band I loved was the Ramones. First time I heard it it was all over for me.

I'm sure this has been a thread before, but I'm brand spanking ass new, so I don't know what the ****s going on yet.

I consider Television to be the first punk band, by way of diy ethos and sound (Little Johnny Jewel came out in 75).

The first real punk album I listened to was AFI's The Art of Drowning when I was a sophomore in high school. Before that I was pretty big into grunge and late 90s/early 2000s radio rock.

Yeah, regardless I really love Television. Death recorded their first ep in 75 as well, and Hollywood Brats recorded their first album in 73 but it wasn't released until 75 when they had broken up. The only thing is wether or not Hollywood Brats are punk, but when I listen to 'sick on you' I feel like yes, but I suppose that is debatable.

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Oh damn, just hearing this for the first time now and it's indeed punk as ****. But then again some would say even Queen Bitch was really punk.

The Death singer has a lot of spots on the album that sound like HR from Bad Brains

But that's just because I'm racist

True, it's honestly such a subjective question, it drives me crazy sometimes

Lol yeah, I'd say reverse that, but yeah I've thought that too.

Also, love the Shane-O Mac gif homeboy

I missed seeing Death live a few years ago at our local music festival. Their sons are doing the band under the same name and I heard they still have it going on.

Oh and Black Monk Time was pretty punk for it's day as well. As were the Stooges, which I know a lot of people agree on being the definite first.

Yeah, I've often said the stooges, but recently read an article that kind of challenged my opinion on that. Pretty much can't go wrong saying the Stooges.

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glad to see you back man....hope you stay :)

Yeah! I grew up in Vermont playing music with their sons, namely Julian. Great family.

The Sonics

I love the Sonics :love:

WOAH WTF REALLY???

Dude tell us more please :tramp:

Yeah, I was good friends with Julian Hackney when I was living in Burlington VT. Everybody used to live or hang out at this frat house that a bunch of punks bought and turned into a punk house called 138 (we are 138) we used to all play music in the basement together, and Julian was there alllllll the time. It was really fun times.

That's awesome. Wish I had more opportunities like that in NC.

I haven't been able to find anything pre-Fun House that I feel confident calling straight up punk. This album makes me a ****ing danger behind the wheel, this album makes me feel invincible.



The earliest sound I've found that almost feels like punk is The Pretty Things in the mid to late 60s.

Check this out, 1966!



But it's still just a dirty blues-rock 12 bar, not nearly as off-the-rails as The Stooges were a few years later.

About 1983 in Portland I saw hometown boys Poison Idea




...open for Dead Kennedys

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But seriously now.

I like Plant but I'd like Zeppelin more if they had a masculine singer.

What exactly makes Communication Breakdown punk? Is it Page's sloppiness? :D

Ask Johnny Ramone.

https://dontforgetthesongs365.wordpr...ck-revolution/

And Plant's voice was perfect for Zep. When you have a rhythm section of Bonzo and JPJ slamming everything home in sledgehammer fashion, you need the high end to counter and compliment it.

Louis Armstrong made the first jazz fusion album if we're gonna go by that logic.

To be fair CB is pretty damn proto-punk.

I actually agree, I was just making a joke about Jimmy Page.

Flimsy by punk standards + pre-1976 = proto-punk

It's really only the guitar riff and drumming throughout, the rest is more standard classic rock.

Still the best Zep song and I'd put it on a proto-punk mix in a heartbeat.

Johnny Ramone says that CB, and the way that Page played it, was a major influence on the basic foundations of the Ramone's sound, i.e., PUNK.

MB members chime in on how JR's comments, back when The Ramones started to explode on the scene and influence EVERYONE, mean nothing.

OK, got it. This place blows my mind sometimes.

So you think that being an influence on punk means that it is punk? This may blow your mind but I really disagree with that. Can you back up how CB is punk in your own words?

"Sister Ray" was post-punk before punk, and has more punk energy and attitude than the vast majority of actual punk.

Go grab an electric guitar. Then turn up your amp as loud as it can go with tons of gain and distortion. Then close your eyes and imagine it's January 1969. Forty eight ****ing years ago.

Now play Communication Breakdown using nothing but solid down-strokes so that the root note is prominent.

Half a decade later everyone takes Page's approach and creates punk. Including the seminal Ramones.

Do the ****ing math.

Also, stop being the 2016 dick-weed Frowny. You're arguing with me just to argue. You don't have a point. You're just poking your tiny stick. Again.

Yeesh forgive me for trying to have an actual discussion and see your side of things, Mr. Sensitive (I'm not even sure how you think my last post was douchey). This persecution complex bull**** is getting on my nerves.

I still don't think that influencing punk is the same as being punk. That's called proto-punk. See my Louis Armstrong example. It'll take more than "1969!" to sway me.

Opinion: Who put out the first punk track, the Monks or the Seeds?

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