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In Reply to: RE: Next Best Decade posted by torc on July 08, 2012 at 12:03:15
Some of the other movements were interestiing, but not really a leap forward. When New Wave hit the scene, it rejuvenated Rock.
This is just my opinion, and in no way reflects reality.
It was the 1980's New Wave, Madonna, the rise of MTv...
THAT was the second coming...
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It was mid - 70s punk rock that changed everything, not New Wave bands like Duran Duran, Flock Of Seagulls, and The B-52s. Punk challenged mainstream rock's increasing emphasis on virtuosity and disconnect from the lives of its fans. By the time the Ramones formed, mainstream rock was rapidly becoming all about worshiping 20 minute guitar solos wrapped in stupid lyrics about starships while sitting on butt - numbing folding chairs in a hockey arena. Punk smashed all that by insisting that anybody could make great music, that feel and sincerity counted as much as skill, and that lyrics had to mean something again. Punk was also an argument for the primacy of songs over albums. Even the biggest bands on the planet like Led Zeppelin suddenly looked irrelevant and more than a little silly compared to the Sex Pistols, whose songs were so provocative that the band members were attacked in the streets and whose concerts were prohibited by town councils all over Britain.
One aspect of punk's legacy can be heard every day in the most mainstream music: punk made music fast . In 1976 I couldn't have imagined that a song that was faster than anything on the first Ramones album would one day be the theme song for a Disney (!) cartoon series called "Phineas and Ferb."
It was about all sorts of issues, with not much real music involved.
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What were the Sex Pistols, Clash, Adverts, Ramones, Dead Boys, Damned, Suicide Commandos, Buzzcocks, Undertones? They were all bands. They were all started by kids who were sick of bloated corporate rock and wanted some music that reflected their reality and gave a voice to their feelings.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "not much real music involved." Punk was an explosion of music! For a while it seemed like every other kid who heard the Sex Pistols or Ramones started a band. There were hundreds of albums and thousands of singles released all over the world. There was even a punk band in Red China.
Maybe to some folks it was the next big thing. yeah it was different. i will give it that. But it also was half crap at the same time.
Once it's influence was used in other music, it became more of a legend. As it actually was back then, it was just noisey crap.
Gansta' rap reminds me of punk, and not in a good way. It is just angry noise.
... dismissing entire genres of music as "just noise."
Your parents said the same thing about the music you liked as a kid.
Seriously, the argument that punk was reacting to bloated corporate rock is just anachronistic. Punk needs to stand on its own merits as music, not as a reaction to something or the other or as some youth lifestyle decision.
Punk's celebration of musical incompetence makes that a difficult sell.
I mean the Stooges are interesting for the reality of the emotions. as far as 'music' it is not so great... (though the genuiness makes it listenable.. Where some Punk was just out and out noise and crap for noise and crap sake.
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