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  Waxidermy » Punk - Post Punk
Pinhead’s style is a mix of new wave, ska, and punk influenced pop with sarcastic and fun lyrics that make for an interesting listen.
This is a 1978 Canadian punk compilation recorded live over two days at the famous Toronto venue The Horseshoe.
Mark Perry became an essential figure in the early UK punk scene in 1976, when he quit his day job as a bank teller to start the first, and likely most influential, British punk zine, Sniffin’ Glue (named for the Ramone’s “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue,” Perry’s first introduction to punk rock).
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 Encyclopedia: Post punk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock music by stripping the musical structure down to a few basic chords and progressions with an emphasis on speed and attitude.
Unlike the original post punk artists, who were often deliberately difficult and obtuse, bands of the post-punk revival were more accessible and radio friendly, leading some to claim that they were not stylisic torchbearers of the post punk style but were instead simply a variant within the dominant commercial style of rock music.
Post punk Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Post-punk   (4725 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Post punk)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock (Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock) 'explosion'.
But as punk itself came to have a signature sound a few bands began to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance.
Their music, while bearing little in common with other post punk bands, was still an unwavering attempt to take punk music to the next level.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/post_punk.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Post-punk: an examination of the underground music movement
The etymology of the word points to it being after punk, but that is not the meaning because punk music is stilling being made today.
More over, the punks were marked by their attitude, where as most post-punk musicians can be marked by their lack of attitude.
They clearly had a lot of punk influence (their first album Confusion is Sex has a cover of the Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog"), but their obsession with avant-garde art and pop culture distanced them from the punks.
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 Post-punk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976–1978, bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock music by stripping the musical structure down to a few basic chords and progressions with an emphasis on speed and attitude.
Yet as punk itself soon came to have a signature sound a few bands began to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance.
Typically more introverted, complex, arty, and experimental than classic punk rock or the more pop-oriented New Wave music, post-punk laid the groundwork for "alternative rock" by broadening the idea of what punk and underground music could do, incorporating elements of Krautrock, Jamaican dub music, American funk, and studio experimentation into the punk rock genre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Post_punk   (751 words)

  
 Mmccormick88 - Post Punk for Dummies - MOG
I hadn’t posted in a while, so I figured I’d put up this rough guide to classic Post Punk I wrote back in high school for the school newspaper.
The bands mentioned here, united only by their punk roots and resistance of conventions, trail blazed the directions which countless left-of-center bands have taken over the course of the last twenty five years.
Television, a band formed at the dawn of the punk rock scene at New York clubs CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, made their debut with this nine song set.
mog.com /Mmccormick88/blog_post/82322   (1233 words)

  
 Punk By Post - Part 3
Depressingly it all ends up like the music ended up - a mish mash of punk, mod and heavy metal.
Punk was now just another type of music to be catered for.
For the Zigzag its everything for the complete punk wardrobe once more with cartoons this time with a Neanderthal appearance.
www.punk77.co.uk /fashion/punkbypost3.htm   (116 words)

  
 "cutting up face papers go neon spiking"
Punk style had by this stage clearly become defined at the level of street fashion - enough for Malcom McClaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing boutique Seditionaires (established since 1975 under the name SEX) to both feed from it and into it, making it easy (or simplistic) to fix them as a point of originating style.
One must remember that whatever were the complex reasons that caused, determined and affected the punk explosion, the resulting `explosion' was expressed through music : the bands, the concerts, the magazines and fanzines, the fans and their dress, the records, the posters, the record covers.
This went in line with the exclusivity/originality/elitist notions affected by punk subculture that both the English rock press and the major record companies (most of whom had by 1977 scrambled to sign any punk band while the `fad' was hot) were attracted to.
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 EmptyBottle.org: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Wonderchicken
It was, for a while, as if we were all fans of the punk, you see, together out there on the floor, drenched in sweat, pogoing, hurling beer cans, singing along, not really caring which band was up on the stage, just loving the hum and the throb and the tribal feeling of it all.
Of course, I made the point in my essay that punk was, and still is, the domain of spoiled white boys rebelling against their whitebread and mayonnaise upbringings, for the most part.
Punk wasn't like hippie communes full of solidarity for the masses like you describe, it was us guys who were rejected by everyone and in return, rejected everything.
www.emptybottle.org /glass/2004/01/never_mind_the_bollocks_heres_the_wonderchicken.php   (6422 words)

  
 Post punk - The Boston Globe
He wore the outrageous clothes and hairstyles the punk s affected, including a button that read ``In order to create, you must destroy." The book is full of names from the original 1980s punk scene: the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Dead Boys, Bad Brains, Mikey Dread, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Slits, and many others.
But for him, punk symbolized a smashing of the structure of poverty, violence, depression, and fatalism that dogged his family.
``If punk was not normal," he said, ``in the world I was coming from, normal meant doing coke and hating fl people." In the punk world, ``there was no such thing as peer pressure.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/10/14/post_punk   (918 words)

  
 Palms Out Sounds
I couldn't have put this together without inspiration from the girl Elizabeth- she put it well: as you hear these tracks you'll either decide Daft Punk isn't as genius as you thought they were or that they're twice as amazing.
I'm sure Daft Punk cleared these samples but it is cheap that they don't recognise these samples (or thank the various artists).
Daft Punk is by far the most influential pop group of the 90s.
palmsout.blogspot.com /2007/02/sample-wednesday-27-daft-punk.html   (2577 words)

  
 10 bestpPost-punk's bands - Associated Content   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the close of the 1970s, when early punk acts like the Sex Pistols were disbanding and the first cries of "punk is dead," began to exude from the underground, bands who embraced the punk aesthetic but not its stringent minimalism, began to step outside of its all too confining constructs.
This new genre harnessed the angst-fueled energy of punk, but diversified it with new rhythmic approaches and more complex guitar work, and thus post-punk was born.Often described as "angular" or "jagged" post-punk was a new artsy approach to the fiery punk movement.
From MTV2 to the underground basement circuit, bands are running the energy of punk head on into experimentation that is diverse in both melodic and heavy ways.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/11459/10_bands_that_are_leading_postpunks.html   (470 words)

  
 The UWM Post - Punk rock on steroids
Punk rock received a frantic reevaluation in late 1979 from a group of four young African-Americans (H.R., Darryl, Earl Hudson and Dr. Know) hailing from the Washington, D.C., known as The Bad Brains.
They managed to Americanize the punk rock music emanating from the United Kingdom at the time and to single-handedly break down all racial barriers within that music genre.
The UWM Post is written and published by the students of UWM.
www.uwmpost.com /article/50/17/845-Punk-rock-on-steroids   (420 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: post-punk
Catch-all term mainly for bands during the late 70s and early 80s who were punk yet "not punk enough." Trends amongst these bands included artsiness as in odd musical timing and signitures, off-beat hooks and.
While often refuted some say Wire was the first post punk band but so many of these bands formed during 76/77 (yet only found a distinct sound later in their careers?) that one can hardly know for sure.
Punk said that it didn't matter how well you can play your instrument as long as you have ideas and have a go.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=post-punk   (655 words)

  
 A History of Punk
Punk may have cosmic and sometimes conscious artistic ties to past radical movements, but most of its significance lies within the barriers of language and expression that were broken down.
Punk gives the message that no one has to be a genius to do it him/herself.
Punk chicks might also wear this costume, or they might vary it with hot pants, side-slit skirts, tight angora sweaters and spike-heeled sandals; their boyfriends favored heavy "shit-kicker" boots.
www.fastnbulbous.com /punk.htm   (6642 words)

  
 k-punk: Nihil Rebound: Joy Division
In fact, though, the retreat from punk modernism into postmodernism, from avant-Pop to New Pop, had been almost immediate, Mark claimed.
Postpunk’s break from lumpen punk r and r consisted in large part in an ostentatiously flagged return-reclaiming of Black Pop: funk and dub especially.
Give their earliest songs a casual listen and you could easily mistake their tone for the curled lip spiky punk outrage, but, already, it is as if Curtis is not railing against injustice or corruption so much as marshalling them as evidence for a thesis that was, even then, firmly established in his mind.
k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/004725.html   (3973 words)

  
 Shot In The Dark: Post Punk
Smith numbered among her good friends Robert Mapplethorpe, and the parallel is blindingly obvious; her music, like his photography, is art that's intended to shock, to render discomfort, to make the art consumer uneasy.
I'm OK with "Horses", I guess, as background music, but her "Gone Again" is a heartbreaking paean to her lost love, Fred Sonic Smith.
While I've always liked Smith and disagreed with her politics, her performance at the end of one of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit enthralled me. All the performers were on stage and she started improvising lyrics during "Helpless" -- it was magical.
www.shotinthedark.info /archives/002981.html   (749 words)

  
 THE TITS ROCK!! PROFOUNDLY PROLIFIC PAN PACIFIC PERFIDIOUS POST POP PUNK PROTAGONISTS JAPANESE AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN PUNK ...
The Tits are a Pan Pacific (Japanese, American and Australian) punk rock group comprising Jared F Swanson III (vocals), Sako Tikanawa (bass), Yoshi Inamoto (guitar) and Jimmy Po (drums).
Their style is experimental yet directly drawn from classic and hardcore punk and is self described as "Puppy" although it could also be classified as dance punk, hardcore and even garage punk.
It is believed that the "puppy" term originated as a simple combination of the words Punk and Yuppy, itself a sarcastic overture to the alleged affluent background of the bands members.
www.thetitsrock.com /band.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Punk - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music
Over the course of its three-decade history, punk has consistently taken rock and roll's inherent rebelliousness and politicism and made those qualities violent and explicit.
As you might expect of such a huge social phenomenon, punk has been endlessly co-opted by mainstream culture.
Sleater-Kinney's celebrated trio of rock and roll cult heroes/goddesses conducts cathartic punk exorcisms (gender hierarchy, political inequality, consumerism) and baptisms (female empowerment, humanity, humor) with unflagging exuberance and passion.
www.epitonic.com /genres/punk.html   (530 words)

  
 Punk News
Do you remember the day's when punk was punk, when...
Do you remember the day's when punk was punk, when bands were proud of their lack of technical ability and relied purely on the spirit of the thing to carry them through.
Punk rockers Anti-Flag have announced dates for a month-long tour beginning in March, with support at all shows by The Casualties, The Unseen, Smoke or Fire and The AKAs.
www.topix.net /music/punk   (910 words)

  
 The Entroporium: My so-called post-punk life, Part 8   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Posted by: Michael J. West at July 19, 2005 09:11 AM I still have two editions of the TP Record Guide.
Posted by: angryrobot at July 19, 2005 03:26 PM I have all the old Damage Magazine issues.
Posted by: Peter at August 19, 2005 11:42 PM Post a comment
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 Post-Punk Downloads - Download Post-Punk Music - Download Post-Punk MP3s
The Raincoats were one of the most experimental bands that immediately followed the initial burst of punk rock in the late '70s.
Formed in Cambridge, England in 1976 on the heels of the punk revolution, the Soft Boys eschewed the three-chord nihilism of punk and opted for a crude version of...
Formed in Cambridge, England in 1976 on the heels of the punk revolution, the Soft Boys eschewed the three-chord nihilism of punk and opted for a crude version of psychedelic/folk-rock that was well on its way out of fashion, but oddly, just on the cusp of a resurgence.
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 Music.com ||| Post-Punk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After the punk revolution of 1977, a number of bands formed.
They were all inspired by the independent spirit of punk, as well as its raw sound.
The result was Post-Punk, a group of bands tied together by their counterculture spirit and defiance of accepted rock conventions.
www.music.com /style/post-punk/1   (194 words)

  
 Post-punk - FoxyTunes
Post-punk was a musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock "explosion" of the mid 1970s.
During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1974–1978, bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock music by stripping the musical structure down to a few basic chords and progressions with an emphasis on speed and attitude.
Yet as punk itself soon came to have a signature sound a few bands began to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance.
www.foxytunes.com /tag/postpunk   (164 words)

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