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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Can I really be that old? .... Magazine; shot both sides. buzzcocks et al.
Firm believer that we children of the John Peel generation are forever young
... then it's all spoiled by Boomtown Rats |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It was shit though, wasn't it??  I grew up on punk, it's exciting, but not very inspirational is it?"
I expect 'growing up' listening to the music a generation or so too late, would not be 'inpirational'
I've never classed myself as a 'punk' I think I missed that boat but I do beilieve it was much more than just the music... which thinking on, can probably be said about every other 'big shift' in musical expression.
All that stuff is a sign of their times I guess, and special to those in that time but to rest of us.... it just music innit?
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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago
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punk was a revolution,of high morales,anti establishment anarchy,we're young,we're here,fuck yous.
now they're no longer young,drive Volvo's,sell insurance,or butter.
the alter ego,of all they portrayed,phony bastards.
made some good music though. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Following it through ... Stiff little fingers 'alternative ulster' ... Billy Bragg , leading me on to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Hard to imagine more inspirational music ... Or maybe influential is the better term |
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"It was shit though, wasn't it?? I grew up on punk, it's exciting, but not very inspirational is it?"
It inspired a golden era of British music and certainly inspired me to get into music. My favourites to this day include Magazine, Stranglers, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order and lots more... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Too much red wine and a poor choice of words... Shouldn't fab when d*unk 
Punk did inspire me to make friends, learn to play and write music and play in bands. I suppose tastes change as we get older and I guess some of it just sounds a bit unambitious to me now. I apologise for being a div  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Been on least once before.
When deconstructed as BBC 4 love to do it's no over statement to say it was the Biggest load of pretentious, arty-farty middle clars manufactured pap ever.
How exciting when it was actually going down though. Without going into how it's permeated into all areas of today's culture.
Asked this before: any veterans from RAR Victoria Park May Day 78 here?
How about Derby King's Hall? |
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Contemporary music's worst era - a celebration of lack of ability, poor dress sense and expectoration. Oh dear, look at all those competent musicians, isn't it boring, let's just thrash a couple of power chords, shout some teenage angsty lyrics about the establishment and stuff, and gob over everyone. Dire, I hated it all and was glad to see it die |
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By (user no longer on site)
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? But is it art? Does it take much deciding as to which is best: cross legged at a Yes concert or Pogoing at a Clash one? Surely there's an immanent thread form Woody Guthrie to punk and beyond? A cross between Woody, George Orwell and Andy Warhol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How about Derby King's Hall?
Saw AC/DC there in '77   "
Nice one. Saw them in 81 supporting the Who at Wembley. Fink I remumber the Kings Hall one but wasn't there. saw Budgie there in 76. Youth Club took us in the mini-bus. Then too many punk bands to mention. Some good memories such as Buzzcocks on Love Bites tour with Joy Division as support |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Whatever people think of punk - it certainly gave all sorts of people with varying amounts of talent the confidence express themselves - it provided the foundation for lots of original music in the last 30yrs |
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"How about Derby King's Hall?
Saw AC/DC there in '77
Nice one. Saw them in 81 supporting the Who at Wembley. Fink I remumber the Kings Hall one but wasn't there. saw Budgie there in 76. Youth Club took us in the mini-bus. Then too many punk bands to mention. Some good memories such as Buzzcocks on Love Bites tour with Joy Division as support "
I was 14 when I went and my 18yr old cousin took me, he even saw Fleetwod Mac there. I was at boarding school, but managed to see Led Zep at Knebworth in '79
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By (user no longer on site)
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In the words of Tom Robinson himself on why they packed it in, "because we weren't very good". Sums the period up somewhat. Punk had its moments, but by and large, very forgettable.
Not unlike Pscyhedelia in the 60's, it created a niche, but in retrospect very little of it is enjoyable.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How about Derby King's Hall?
Saw AC/DC there in '77
Nice one. Saw them in 81 supporting the Who at Wembley. Fink I remumber the Kings Hall one but wasn't there. saw Budgie there in 76. Youth Club took us in the mini-bus. Then too many punk bands to mention. Some good memories such as Buzzcocks on Love Bites tour with Joy Division as support
I was 14 when I went and my 18yr old cousin took me, he even saw Fleetwod Mac there. I was at boarding school, but managed to see Led Zep at Knebworth in '79
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And then the Kings Hall was proceeded by the Ajanta in the early 80s post punk days. Even U2 played there. I didn't go to that one. But did to many others. SLF, etc. |
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In the words of Tom Robinson himself on why they packed it in, "because we weren't very good". Sums the period up somewhat. Punk had its moments, but by and large, very forgettable.
Not unlike Pscyhedelia in the 60's, it created a niche, but in retrospect very little of it is enjoyable.
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Never Mind the Bollocks is one of the most influential records ever made and much of the other stuff has stood the test of time in its own way too |
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In the words of Tom Robinson himself on why they packed it in, "because we weren't very good". Sums the period up somewhat. Punk had its moments, but by and large, very forgettable.
Not unlike Pscyhedelia in the 60's, it created a niche, but in retrospect very little of it is enjoyable.
Never Mind the Bollocks is one of the most influential records ever made and much of the other stuff has stood the test of time in its own way too "
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In the words of Tom Robinson himself on why they packed it in, "because we weren't very good". Sums the period up somewhat. Punk had its moments, but by and large, very forgettable.
Not unlike Pscyhedelia in the 60's, it created a niche, but in retrospect very little of it is enjoyable.
Never Mind the Bollocks is one of the most influential records ever made and much of the other stuff has stood the test of time in its own way too "
slaughter and The dogs ....suburban studs ...mekons ..lurkers , wire , ( I am The fly is priceless ) ...clash get my vote , strummer possibly The most talented Turk ever ...did you hear him playing that old piano in rubeboy ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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At 13 years old it was the zipper teeshirts and bondage trousers for me. Some thirty six years later who'd have thought would still be into the bondage gear just in a different way. |
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In the words of Tom Robinson himself on why they packed it in, "because we weren't very good". Sums the period up somewhat. Punk had its moments, but by and large, very forgettable.
Not unlike Pscyhedelia in the 60's, it created a niche, but in retrospect very little of it is enjoyable.
Never Mind the Bollocks is one of the most influential records ever made and much of the other stuff has stood the test of time in its own way too
slaughter and The dogs ....suburban studs ...mekons ..lurkers , wire , ( I am The fly is priceless ) ...clash get my vote , strummer possibly The most talented Turk ever ...did you hear him playing that old piano in rubeboy ?"
Crass invented the Crusty scene. Clash invented globalisation with Washington Bullets. X-Ray Spex invented post-modern feminism. Oh Bondage Up Yours. What a swingers anthem |
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By (user no longer on site)
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watched it best times just left school and watched spitfire boys playing as queen drove past on her uk tour thought it was brill revolution never started though sadly |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The Damned?
1967 Love - "Alone Again Or" v The Damned 1987
1968 Barry Ryan - "Eloise" v The Damned 1986
I rest my case.
Notwithstanding the more rudimentary equipment used in the sixties, nor the mahooosive bonus points for being original and creative.
Several bands could claim to be the forerunners of punk, but it didn't start in Britain, not musically anyway. Gobbing on the street granted.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Weren't Love classed as garage punk during the 60s? Though have to admit, even though I love punk, and was proud to have been a part of the movement in the late '70s, "Eloise" by Barry Ryan is one of my all-time faves!
"Ere - is that Johnny Rotten?"
"Hope not love - I've only used it six times so far......." |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I grew up on Iron Maiden. I know, they've never been punk, but they were post punk New Wave of British Heavy Metal. And that was a nice introduction to punk when the right time came to appreciate it. |
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