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Punk
Punk rock
is the poster child of the anti-establishment in rock
beginning in the mid 1970s in Great Britain with The Clash,
The Damned, Generation X, The Slits, and The Sex Pistols and
eventually coming to the United States in the later 1970s
and developing in the early 1980s with bands such as The
Minutemen, Bad Brains, The Germs, The Circle Jerks, Black
Flag, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, and Social Distortion.
Punk song structure is simple, mainly verse-chorus done in
4/4 time signature. Punk music is aggressive and
confrontational, with lyrical delivery and performances done
at a blazing speed. Punk music would draw influences from
the garage rock of the mid 1960s, psychedelia, rockabilly,
glam rock, blues-based rock, reggae, and funk. The music was
response to the glitz and glamour rock (to them which was a
representation of theatrics and mainstream appeal becoming
bigger than the music itself) that dominated the mainstream
music scene in the 1970s.
Although beginning in Britain, punk came to the United
States, first taking shape in New York before spreading
westward and exploding on the music scene in Los Angeles.
From there, punk rock soon spawned numerous other subgenres,
including hardcore punk, pop punk, and skate punk, and it
would go on to become a major influence on the alternative
rock movement that began in the mid to late 1980s. Bands
such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction,
Fishbone, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana all have foundations based
in punk rock. As for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, punk
influences gave the band’s speed and energy that they are
well known for.
Today punk rock is still now a subject of debate of whether
or not it is actually still a legitimate genre or it is a
byproduct of bands being commercialized as rebels (hence
punk and rebel being synonyms) which has drawn numerous
complaints from many older punk fans and musicians.
Nonetheless, punk is still a dominant and influential force
in music today.
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