It wasn't Television singer Tom Verlaine who is often credited with creating the punk look, it was their guitarist Richard Hell who left early on and formed Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
Just found your ch (watched the new wave video). These videos feed my youtube nerd persona haha, thank you. I recommend Zulu, MDC, Minutemen, Dils, Crass, Poison Girls, Slits, the Damned, Conflict, Alice Bag, DK, Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine
I went to London in the late seventies or early eighties with my family for vacation and to meet family there. I was around six or seven and I remember seeing this man with huge spikes for hair and they were half red and half blonde. He was wearing army pants and big black boots and he had several piercings with a chain wallet hanging off his belt. He looked so scary to me that I almost cried😂. His girlfriend had a rainbow wig on and a pink tutu with big black boots like her mans. My brother is five years older than me and was starting to listen to metal music so he explained to me why those people were wearing clothes like that and he also bought me a Stooges record which I left in London 😂😢
this is an awesome video, but it kinda bugged me whenever a new section is introduced and has a title referencing a song but a different song was played in the background 😭still loved it tho!
So really this is just a history of US punk with a couple of minutes on the Pistols slotted in. A brief mention of The Clash, no mention of for example the Damned, the Buzzcocks , the Stranglers, Siouxsie & the Banshees, X Ray Spex, Stiff Little Fingers, the Ruts, Sham 69, UK Subs, the Exploited, Crass, Discharge etc - all significant bands in the history of punk.
@@cchoi108 @cchoi108 Banshees were undeniably punk early on, they were formed by some of the original punk scenesters, admittedly by 1980 they had significantly changed their sound. The Stranglers fitted in - an odd fit, but they still fitted. But regardless my point is still that this "history of punk" is really only a history of US punk with a token bit about the Pistols.
@@Morphstock I agree. I was so unsatisfied with this video. Then a different one came in my feed that was completely first rate. You should check that one out. I'm sure you 'll find it. Done done by a UK guy
I graduated from college in 1972. At the time we were listening a lot to Carly Simon and James Taylor, the nitty-gritty dirt band, Elton John, Emmylou Harris and Carole King. It seemed to me that rock ‘n’ roll had lost its way. It was becoming more and more countrified and less and less of a cutting edge. A few years later, around 1978, the groups that were popular in northern California were the Eagles, Maria, Muldaur, Eddie Money, and Olivia Newton-John
I just found your channel and really enjoyed your Misfits video, was excited for this video, and did still end up enjoying it. But the second commentator basically admitting they weren’t very familiar with the music, culture, or history right off the rip, and then proceeding to laugh at those 3 things and make fun of it def brought down the enjoyment level for me a bit. Her opinions and feelings are valid, and she has every right to express them, but from a viewer perspective and Punk music lover it def took away from the overall value of the video. If the video intent was clearly to roast it would be different, but it felt like you put a lot of time and effort for the other person to laugh at you and us. Either that, or I’m a cry baby who took it too serious and personal.
It's an abrdiged version of a podcast where I'm teaching my wife music history. So the premise is for her to not know anything about it. In order to turn it into a viable RU-vid video, I have to cut out a lot which hurts the context and removes a lot of what she brings.
Hi, Staf! I hit my teens in the 80s and grew up with my dad's staggeringly great rock library. Punk was a sizable part of it. I'm not familiar with Death. Which are their best couple of songs to begin with? I'm starting my day with Patti Smith's "Hey Joe," the Pixies' "Motorway to Roswell," the Clash's "Rudie Can't Fail," and Green Day's "Holiday." I'm not looking for angry music today, but rather some upbeat pop punk, if Death provides songs like those. Thanks so much for any recommendations. 🎸
@@FionaKelleghan111 death was a band formed by 2 Black dudes, i think they we're Brothers. If you listen to a track from 1971 ' Politicians in my Eyes' it's not that agressive i'm 56 so when i do listen to punk it's Anarcho of Hardcore. But Death was so inovating they didn't even Know they we're playing Punk. It's hot this Devo-Crass vibe to it. Great docu on them in RU-vid.A band called Death. So as far as Pop Punk goes Greenday and such are a cool way to get a new generation in to it. I hit my Teens in thé 80's as Well spent half in thé States and other half in Europe Belgium. Another great thing.to Explore and Also American ( for those claiming it's An English thing) is thé 60's Garage Punk scene. If you want some tips on that, i can help. But i'm no expert on pop Punk. Greetz.
@@SunWuKongStaf1968 Thank you, you've provided great descriptions with just a few words. Of course (smacking my forehead) I can look for Death on RU-vid. I'm familiar with English rock and punk, though the only "central" European song I know well is "Dragostea din Tei." Nice to hear from you!
No mention of pivotal clubs such as the A7 or Maxs Kansas City?? The Damned were also pumping out records before the Sex Pistols. The misfits first played in a club in Lodi, where they were from.
There's a lot of things you kind of left out.New York dollars definitely needed to be mentioned more than it was also post.Punk was kind of simultaneous with the whole.No way thing too even though they were both on 2 different shores.That was all punk rock back in the day no matter what
New York Dolls were mentioned via Malcolm McLaren. Also, they'd fit into a glam video. You might want to consider using your spacebar so as not to link and highlight. Cheers
As an old man who was around at the time, The Runaways were never considered punk (regardless of how Joan might like to spin things). They were just a standard 70's hard rock band (with a touch of glam), much closer to AC/DC and KISS, nowhere near the Ramones or the Sex Pistols sonically speaking. Great vid though!!!
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have these cartoon figures discuss rock ‘n’ roll. I liked it better when you narrated the velvet underground program, with a voiceover narration.
It seems to me this video was quite early in the growth of this channel. I'm not a fan of quirky animation either, but then again, this is not my creation
@@soundofhistory_ I been listening to a lot of gism that Japanese punk band recently Crass would be a good story All those anarchist bands on crass records I enjoy
I think there’s definitely still gatekeeping online. It’s the “your not a real fan unless you like [whatever band]” or “you can’t be punk if you like Madonna” or whatever. People don’t have to care about it, but it’s still there
@@xp8969 strongly disagree. Screamo was a defamatory blanket term used to describe anything with unclean vocals by know nothings who didn’t know the difference between metalcore, deathcore, post hardcore and to a lesser degree death metal. When people erroneously use the word screamo as a genre classification they’re basically telling you they don’t know anything about metal without telling you they don’t know anything about metal. All that said I’m certainly no gate keeper, call any type of music whatever you wanna call it. It’ll cost me the same amount of sleep which is none. Just know if you’re using the term you’re certainly showing your hand and being judged by some. Some who won’t necessarily even say anything about it. ✌🏼
@@Whytedebil sorry kiddo, I'm talking about before your time, screaming might have been used derisively by know nothings in your generation but back before metalcore was even a thing screamo most certainly was a thing and it was great
@@xp8969 please good sir list a few examples of these bands or songs that were this screamo genre prior to the time I was birthed in 1972. I’ll wait old timer.
It started in the early 90's, some of the east coast hardcore bands were tired of the violence and macho bullshit in the scene, lots of them in interviews (a friend used to have a hardcore zine at the time) said how they wanted to grow as a band, which included more emotional lyrics. They leaned into the new genre name emocore they were given by fellow bands. Though a lot of them were still just referring to themselves as hardcore, in the 2000's bands split off into what we now call emo with its variation in style, and though screamo was used as a derogatory term for those remaining emocore/hardcore bands, they also embraced screamo as their new genre name for a few years ( about 2004 - 2014). The biggest ones I remember at the time were Atreyu and Poison the Well. Somewhere along the line they decided that it was really just another name for metalcore (same breakdowns, same shitty stolen Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath riffs, same screaming vocals because they can't growl properly like the real metal kids, same lame emo lyrics) and I don't know of anyone using screamo as their subgenre anymore. I used to book and promote shows from 2002-2008 and owned a venue from 2007-2008 in Phoenix AZ, so that's how it rolled out on the west coast. May have been different in other parts of the country.
