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[QUOTE=HackerWong]Let's say there was these kids. These kids were poor, misunderstood, confused and frustrated. The reasons? No money. They were broke and the hippie bands were reaping large rewards based on these songs about love, and other meaningless content. Now, these kids decided they wanted nothing more than to mock the industry they hated by making music so horrible and angry, none would dare exploit it or make it "mainstream". The very idea of the hippies liking what they were doing made them sick.. So sick they would revolt any of the like coming anywhere near what they were doing. With that said, Punk music was "unofficially" born. Guys like Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, Lou Reed being the ringleader. This sonic noise, and those lyrics.. What are they crazy? How dare they sing about such things? Who would like this muisc? Well, the public got their answer. This "street music" as it was labeled before the brits came along was getting some serious play. Kids withering in the the economic fallout of New York City were enjoying this. New York City was in shambles in the 70's. Which is where this was all born, by the way...
They were poor too, they were confused, and they all hated hippies. So this is what they started. Then, overseas caught wind of the music pretty quick. Clubs like CBGBS, Max's Kansas City, Electric Circus, Filmore East and The Mercer Arts Center were filling up all throughout the early to late 70s with these street bands. The D@mned was the first british band to be called "punks' cuz they looked like disheveled lunatics hell bent on killing people more than making music. Howvever, much like the brits popularized and commercialized the blues, rock and roll, and anything else, so the exploitation of punk began. The Sex Pistols and X were the first of the bunch, followed by Sioxsie and the Banshees, made commercial "singles" and released them to the radio and so it began. Kids starting dying their hair, getting mohawks, buying safety pins and painting their clothes, ripping shirts and re-attacthing them together with those safety pins. This was a sad time for punk music as a whole. Meanwhile, back in the USA, the 80's brought a new seed of bands, some who followed the Brits, like the Descendants, Agent Orange and Gang Green decided they liked the catchy pop sounds, while bands like Husker Du and the Minutemen took it a whole new direction, cuz they were anti everything. This was the sentiment that followed well into the mid 80's.
In the early 80's, some bands decided to use punk music as a tool to go against the grain so to speak, and a new breed of bands were born. Scenes started popping up everywhere. In Minneapolis you had The Minutemen and Husker Du, In California you had Bad Religion, the Dead Kennedys, Fear, Circle Jerks. Bands like this became standard, and suddenly punk was a music taken to like a cause. Hardcore was being born with bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, and a slew of others. Suddenly instead of being anti-mainstream, it became anti-everything, and punk songs were now being used as a platform for change. This is where I must stop and ask for comments. Now that punks have decided to write somgs about social issues, political reform, social acceptance and change, which group commonly hated by punks who they now most closely resemble? Hippies. Maybe cuz every one of punk's founding fathers was a junkie, the new school decided to create this bullcrap imagery like Straight-Edge, and all the other silly labels that follow.[/QUOTE]
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