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Punk Rock We’re not into music. We’re into chaos.

Steve Jones, The Sex Pistols

DEFINING PUNK Gimme danger, little stranger.

I wanna feel your disease.

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The Punk Aesthetic

☠  Attitude over music ☠  “What’re you rebelling against?”

☠ Corporate rock bloat

☠  Poverty, authority

☠  “What d’ya got?”

☠ D.I.Y. (“do it yourself”) ☠ Counter-culture entrepreneurs

☠ Zines: self-made fan magazines ☠ Lo-fi: under-produced music

Proto Punk

☠ American pre-punk ☠ Crazy behavior, raw sound

☠ Iggy Pop & The Stooges ☠ The Motor City 5 (MC5)

☠ Artsy, heroin-chic ☠ The Velvet Underground

☠ Glammed-out shock rock ☠ The New York Dolls

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NEW YORK PUNK Nothing to do, nowhere to go.

I wanna be sedated.

CBGB

☠ Country, Blue Grass, Blues ☠ Central club for NY’s punks

☠ Only original music allowed ☠ Bands got in free

☠ Saw musicians as artists

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NY Bands

☠ Patti Smith ☠ Subversive poet ☠ Horses (1975)

☠ The Ramones ☠ Stripped-down rock, really fast ☠ 1st Punk band with a record deal ☠ Ramones (1975)

☠ Television ☠ Fashion anti-icon, Richard Hell ☠ Marquee Moon (1977)

ANARCHY IN THE UK Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

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London in 1975

☠  Extreme rich/poor divide ☠ High youth unemployment ☠ Rampant drug use (smack)

☠ SEX ☠ Malcolm McLaren’s S&M shop ☠ Anti-Fashion center for UK Punk

☠ The Roxy ☠ The central club of British punk ☠ DJ Don Letts spun Reggae & Dub

☠ Gave UK Punk a different feel

The Sex Pistols

☠ Created by McLaren ☠  Punk “nihilists” ☠  Launched Punk as a movement ☠ Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s

the Sex Pistols (1977) ☠ “God Save the Queen” ☠ “Anarchy In the UK”

☠ Gained national infamy cursing on live TV

☠  Self-destructed on 1977 US tour

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UK Punks

☠ The Clash ☠ Upbeat, complex and varied music ☠ Strong political messages ☠ London Calling (1979)

☠ The Buzzcocks ☠ Ramones-tinged, but artsy ☠ Singles Going Steady (1979)

☠ The Damned ☠ Very tuneful, sardonic and playful ☠ Machine Gun Etiquette (1979)

NEW WAVE Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation.

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Selling Punk

☠ New Wave ☠ A tamer, more commercial

version of punk ☠ Melody driven ☠ Pop, reggae & disco influences

☠ Punk evolved? ☠ Artistic growth - or - ☠ Selling out

London’s 1st Wave

☠ Public Image, Ltd. ☠  Johnny Lydon’s post-Pistols band ☠ Metal Box (1979)

☠ Elvis Costello ☠ Evolving pop-friendly artist ☠ My Aim Is True (1977)

☠  Joy Division ☠ Dark, droning lo-fi dance music ☠ Precursors of Goth ☠ Closer (1980)

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USA’s 1st Wave

☠ Blondie ☠ Model, gone punk/disco queen ☠ Parallel Lines (1978)

☠ The Talking Heads ☠ Uber-artsy, intellectual pop ☠ Remain In Light (1980)

☠ DEVO ☠ Math-rock, synthesizer pioneers ☠ Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are

DEVO! (1978)

So Many More…

Magazine The Slits Suicide

The Au Pairs X-Ray Spex

Siouxsee & the Banshees Black Flag Bad Brains

The Happy Mondays The Cars

The Knack …it never ends…