10 Iconic Moments in Punk History 

Pretty sure that was at CBGB's, and I think that Patty Smith and The Talking Heads also premiered that same night/weekend

@@oggearhound2242 must have been a hell of a night

It’s pretty cool

This wasn’t there first show at CBGB because Joey fell off stage lol

@Eduardo Guimarães even if it's not the first concert, a ramones concert from 1974 is pretty damn cool to have

YES!!!

So punk.....

What would you think is pretty iconic?

Isn’t punk more of a gen x thing? I always saw the late 60s as the boomers era time.

@@iSkully99 The 90s punk scene was Gen X... He's talking about some of the earliest punk bands from the mid 70s... The end of the Vietnam war was the end of the Boomer era, 1975. He's talking about very few bands like the Ramones and the Stooges. He needs to explain that if that's what he means.

@@iSkully99 The people who were making the music in the 70s would have been born in the late 1950s

@@RevStickleback that was my point yeah. Babyboomer are born between the mid 40s and 50s while most people in the punk scene were born after that.

@@iSkully99 The baby boomer period apparently extends to the mid 60s. I always think of it being earlier than that too, but apparently that's not the case.

It's so wonderfully ironic that he of all people said that...

@Kyle Crosby PiL were shit?

@Kyle Crosby You think Keith Levene and Jah Wobble were bad musicians? Well, that was the whole point of PiL. Not to sound like punk or rock-'n'-roll music in general. To tear it apart and start from scratch.

@Kyle Crosby johnny rotten was very kind to kid in 70s, and he really hate parents that treating their children like an animal, that explain why he wrote bodies

I'm pretty sure the fat pompous ass is still kicking and he's had no loss of commentary since he said that.

Well said!!

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I agree. Grunge really died when Kurt Cobain did. Green Day's first single, Longview, hadn't even been released by then, and in any case, the music wasn't a massive shift away in sound. People who liked Green Day would generally have happily listened to Nirvana.

I agree grunge died out of there own accord, green day were just in the right place at the right time

over here in the UK Green Day was never really a thing

And yet very respectable on both ends

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I loved that. They were showing how much they knew.

I'm disappointed to hear Joe spewing Marxist propaganda. Sad really.

@@mattstrathis4328 that's what punk was in great part about, in a lot of young people's mind in the era of Thatcher. And to them marxism and its application in reality were the attractive unknown and the only alternative they thought was possible to their lives in the system as it were. Very humanly feature - want a thing you never tasted more than the one you have at reach of hand :)

And doing a car insurance advert (for a company that dont insure musicians lmao).

And Johnny Rotten doing averts for butter 😂

GG needs a list all his own tbh

I am not a fan of gg's music, but fuck, no one could top him. He has my respect. Punk died with Allin. Punk wasn't music. It was pushing boundaries.

@@RJBurle agreed. The style of punk music is still around but goddamn if the spirit didn't die with him

@Michael Carter. Facts.

Gg shouldve been a professional wrestler

I loved when she blew up the car. Tom Snyder was a lowkey, cool dude.

Tv's, guitars and cars

Or the plasmatics with motorhead

I LOBE HIM

Yeah the freedom to xpresss anyway you want to..

Yea. Well I wanna wear a swastika tshirt. But I'm not allowed to. Apparently it's Not allowed in punk anymore. "Punks" won't allow it. Because it doesn't fit into their Rules and ideology.....ironic?

As long as it is in line with his contractual agreements. Sorry but Billie Joe Armstrong isn't "punk". He might've done the Black Flag thing as he claims but by the time everyone had heard of Green Day, they were basically Diet Coke and had a major label contract shoved up their asses with fashion teams dressing them up, people doing their photoshoots, whatever promotions they might've been involved in (contractual obligations are the opposite of punk). All genres have this, especially ones which started out as alternative and that's just how the music industry works but any quote he ever said was just basically the corporate sponsored version of punk which was sanitised just enough to sell hit records but still "edgy" enough to appeal to teenagers who fell for the eye-liner and the spiky hair. It is corny as hell to anyone who "missed" it and discovered punk in different ways and even went back to bands like The Velvet Underground, The Stooges - even The Sonics who barely anyone remembers. Green Day are to punk what Nickelback is to grunge. The sugar free version. Mechanically separated and reconstituted chicken parts instead of actual chicken meat. Always read the label. There is nothing wrong with liking them, especially if they get people to explore the origins of music genres and all that and how music evolves but "pop" sucks the soul out of anything original because it all becomes superficial, castrated, has its heart ripped out and the product you get back is shallow but nice and shiny. It happened with the Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks (arguably one of the first genuinely "pop punk" bands) and others and people have said that The Ramones were one of the first pop punk bands, yet they forget that they hardly sold any records when they were first around but inspired countless bands. Its like the saying about The Velvet Underground, something like: 'Only a thousand people bought the record but every one of them went on to start a band' and they are still influential now. The Ramones basically apply in the same way, they inspired the aesthetic of Green Day but they were street hoodlums who got ahold of some cheap equipment, guitars and played in grotty NYC bars, some of which became super trendy like CBGB (I think it was called) where some legendary bands ended up playing. But they had to struggle for years a bit like the cool punk bands of the 80s like Black Flag, Bad Brains etc. and a whole point of the "punk ethos" which came before "punk" and will always exist in music and art was that a group of people could get a guitar or two, a bass, a drum kit, a space to jam in (and a singer if they needed one) and they could do it themselves. To be Green Day by the time the majority of people had heard of them, you'd have to bend over and spread 'em for Universal or whoever. Always read the label.

One of my most favorite bands ever. Since 88

And did you check Siouxsie Sioux on the Sex Pistols interview..?

Them and Magazine and Simple Minds debut albums all 78🤘

Punks not dead, it just smells that way.. -Green Jellÿ

@@myke113 OOh I like them

Is there a RU-vid link to the Nirvana show?

Agreed. Sid Vicious is not the first person that comes to mind when someone says "iconic punk rocker."

@@colina1330 Sid was a fkn poser. Used to love him until I found out he murdered a cat. Also, he hasn't even done anything punk.

@@natasapetkovic5211 there's also really nothing punk about Jonn Lydon these days, either.

@@colina1330 Oh yeah. For example in Poland iconic thing is band Dezerter fooled governament and militia (now police) by making a single "Ask a Militiaman ". Governament thought its nice propagand song about how big of a role model militia is when actually they made idiots out of them. There was nearly nothing to do to stop it as the song was even transmitted by several radio stations

@@colina1330 u can say what u want about syd not bein bein punk and i would probaly agree, but Johnny Rotten is punk. You cant tell me anything else

from the 70´s ?

Rad.

If only there were TV shows in the UK still willing to show little-known bands like them. Nirvana and Oasis also both got the UK TV debuts on the show, when they were also barely known. It has to be said the show (The Word) was mainly terrible, but up and coming bands often got on TV then. Now, if you aren't an established mainstream artist, TV doesn't want to know.

Green day was NEVER punk they just sucked

They weren’t grunge i think more pop punk. I don’t think it should even be considered a part of punk though. Granted their first few albums were decent but their latest stuff is literal shit

I remember this phase passing through the music scene in my city back home. I think it was more a fad than an actual justified/healthy way to live. Bands would form on the basis of being straight edge/vegan, all draw black crosses on the backs of their hands and take pictures together. I never understood it, and I'm pretty sure the phase didn't last long either..

Im straight edge but giving someone shit for drinking tea is ridiculous

Mc Cartney?

Top ten left handed drummers

Top ten left-handed singers

@@joeyvindictive3552 I'm trying to think of something witty to beat your comment, but I gotta hand it to you that was pretty funny, I don't want to ruin it hahah

You would like X Ray Spex

Don't you need teeth to play sax, and musical skill?

@@natasapetkovic5211 RIP Poly Styrene

More New Wave / Post Punk but both The Boomtown Rats & The Psychedelic Furs had 🎷 players.

X Ray specs

Goth history would be cool too!

@@SH-dz1yc lol so weird that everything how we grew up is in " documentaries " fucking weird

@@SH-dz1yc wow why is that princess joues styled like my generation what is this era

Eddie Vedder climbing 100 feet would be one of them

@@jofall91 i just finished watching that video 😃

I was wondering how that happened, because I can't a see a studio head saying, "You know what would be a good idea...?"

Ian McKaye was in this video twice, he was part of the group that came up from D.C. to see Fear at SNL and helped cause all the mayhem.

Elvis Costello got banned from SNL? I want to hear that story.

No one EVER was happy after seeing GG

@@bartanderson2525 not true. He had a cult following like no other except in religious terrorist organizations. Certainly in rock n roll. I do know people who were scarred from seeing him live. But I don't think they knew what they were in for.

...Kirk Cobain?

@@WadeMitchell813 >cobain >punk xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

@@PanekPL >meme arrows >on youtube xDDDD

@@iJoSter110495 yeah, and?

Sid did not kill him self, His mother killed him with a massive over dose, Its been well documented over the years

He's kinda been awake the whole time tho

thats jello fuckin biafra of the dead kennedys hes been awake since he was born

Jello Biafia. Dead Kennedys. They are required listening

@@baileycownley1868 cheers mate

That was obviously done to get likes from the masses

Agreed

Just no.

Yeah that end piece had me rolling. Good stuff!

I think he could probably fill up his own dedicated video

I think GG is dead. That's where he is. lol

He was a a Joker!

He's buried in saint rose cemetery in Littleton, New Hampshire.

How old are you? Cos i am 40 and i am guilty in using all this media, thus building this world...

Damn you do raise some valid points however perhaps true punk is being so secure in who you are you don't worry how others chop you up. Plus at least new generations are getting a glimpse of history and might choose to delve futher, whereas they might not have earlier. definitely agree that Capitalism has commodified subcultures and the culture, but I suppose we must learn to continue to survive somehow, giving our situations. Life will always evolve and change, nothing will ever be able to stay wholly stagnant.

@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT pop punk is infectious but so questionable

@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT I didn't see it I don't think 😭

Iggy did heroin not coke

Wait til you find out about GG Allin, he is the true king of punk rock and always will be

Exactly, I was so stoked to see them! Same with The Stooges!

lol because dumb gaming is and styled like how others grew up lol

They spend more time on their makeup and hair than the girls at my school but digging up a grave and getting arrested for it is badass

Ed Savant, I thought of them too, Hybrid Moments is 2 and a half mins of Genius! Static age t.v. Casualty etc. Cool as F**k band. 🎵🎸

Nah, he looks like a monk comparef to Satan Panonski

Thats no joke they are the real deal

Hell yeah, without the Ramones the british Punk movement would never had happened people tend to forget that

Same thing with Goths, Sisters of mercy hated it so much even though they were goth icons. I don't think there were any goth bands who were actually ok with the label!

@@SH-dz1yc same with siouxsie sioux she always says she did glam.

Annie Nightingale was the presenter.

Who’s Milo again? Is he another one of those guys who’s into the aliens and ufos shit?

@@FlyingV555 Milo Aukerman is the vocalist of The Descendants. They essentially were the first Pop Punk band. In early Blink 182 songs, Tom intentionally sounded more like Milo.

@@Vinnay94 ah ok. Besides the name I don’t really know much about them other than Tom saying he was influenced by them.

There's only one Milo.

Comparing Tom Delonge to Joe Strummer is sacrilegious. I really hope you're joking.

Time stamp?

@Patrick McElroy I think pop-punk was more the kind of stuff put out by Blink 182 etc. Loads of people love to chime in that Green Day's music (even the mid 90s stuff) wasn't punk, but few can actually articulate why. After all, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols and Black Flag were all punk bands despite not sounding all that similar

Why do you call yourself Punk when you look like an 80's Cosplay Prep ?

​@@aotctd damn😂 You ain't wrong, though.

SAME UGH WHAT SONG

@@KittyVonDoll gawd why are all your dumb avatars styled like our cultures

@Iqbal Hidayat insomniac was straight up punk though, and anyway pop punk is a subgenre of punk rock

@Iqbal Hidayat The two albums before Dookie were pretty crap. Dookie was just punk with decent production.

Lol punk died decades ago

@@yommmrr I mean there’s people still keeping the scene alive so it’s not dead

@Black Metal Wolf not really

Yet it's completely dead.

@Black Metal Wolf wow I opened my eyes thank you for telling me because now I can clearly see that it’s not dead