What is the foundation of pUnK RoCk??

Answer 1

total rebellion, complete chaos, and all disregard for the status quo. F U to the fullest; noise coming from loud electrical instruments, played horribly, and usually indiscernible lyrics, annihilation of anything that can be called music. F YEAH!

Answer 2

Well, The Ramones started a bit of punk sounding music, but really, the punk movement didn't get off the ground until the 70's.

The Clash was very early punk.

Mid-70's, a British store named, aptly, just SEX, became very popular for it's unusual fetishistic, punk and goth-themed clothing - and no, not bondage pants and fishnet shirts ala Hot Topic (why would anyone wear PANTS for bondage? I wonder...) there was rather the knee-high, ultra-polished boots, spiked dog collars and chains, plaid pants and other unusual regalia, including clothing that were leather-like but had so many cutouts that it really should only be used to be suspended from the ceiling with in some S and M chamber.

This store used early performances by "The Sex Pistols" and other up and coming punk bands, including Siouxsie and the Banshees in its early days, to make performances in local clubs and at the store itself to promote this new look and lifestyle of in your face rebellion, sometimes sexuality, sometimes violence and isolation, mostly pure anger and (at the same time) juvenile delight. Adam Ant (or Adam and the Ants, sometimes) was rather punk for a while before becoming a new-wave artist in the 80's. Other bands that walked a thin rope into punk were Bauhaus (who know are more commonly associated with gothic music) and The Cure (now mostly, if anything, 80's goth-pop-new wave). Bands that remained punk-sounding were The Adverts and the Slits.

Punk Rock started simply with the youth of Britain, but it spread into America. Sid Vicious became an emblamatic front man for the punk generation in the late 70's before his arrest for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend Nancy to death - and then on bail, he died of a heroin overdose. Sid was a bassist for "The Sex Pistols" and he started the punk-meets-biker look that also carries on until today in punk rock.

Punk rock dissolved a little into being faster, louder, more "rock" for a while, like Rancid and other bands of similiar sound. Then it became nothing but an appearance with Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne in the 90's and 2000's... it's really become meaningless and non-represented in music now. Truly none of the bands out right now, not the Killers or Alkaline Trio or all those, are really the punk of old. They dress like modified new wave, like Duran Duran dipped in black paint, and I don't like it, it doens't sound like punk's roots anymore.

Well, I always preferred gothic music, besides.

Oh, and... why would you write it that way? capitalizing and then non-capitalizing isn't punkrock. It started online 5 years ago when every emo in the world got a livejournal (and now, myspace) and pretended that Good Charlotte was punk.

Answer 3

Actually, the roots of punk come from a few strands:

The dark lyrics and avant garde sounds of the Velvet Underground.

The blistering all-out rock of Detroit bands like MC5 and the Stooges.

The garage rock scene summed up on the original Nuggets compilation.

Jonathan Richman's primitivism featured on the first Modern Lovers album - recorded in 1973 - released in 1976.

The space-age retro of the New York Dolls.

The speeded up metallic bubblegum of the Ramones.

In England, the pub rock scene of bands like Dr. Feelgood, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the 101ers (Joe Strummer's first band), etc.

The first punk band to release a record in England was the Damned with their "New Rose" 45.

Hope that helps - and gives you some ideas of new old music to check out.

Answer 4

I think it started in the late '60s in New York with Andy Warhol and Lou Reed's old band, "The Velvet Underground." Pretty sure the whole Studio 54/CBGB's scene was considered the birthplace of punk...

Answer 5

You've got the WORST taste in music and would have the WORST taste in entertainment if you liked talentless reality shows! Listen to good music like ICP!

Answer 6

Early emergence
The first ongoing music scene that was assigned the "punk" label appeared in New York in 1974-1976, centered around bands that played regularly at the clubs Max's Kansas City and CBGB. This had been preceded by a nascent underground rock scene at the Mercer Arts Center, picking up from the demise of the Velvet Underground. The Mercer scene, forming in 1971, featured the New York Dolls and Suicide, but came to an abrupt end in 1973 when the building collapsed.[3] The CBGB and Max's scene included The Ramones, Television, Blondie, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers (fronted by a former New York Doll), Richard Hell and The Voidoids, and the Talking Heads. The "punk" title was applied to these groups by early 1976, when Punk Magazine first appeared, featuring these bands alongside articles on some of the immediate role models for the new groups, such as Lou Reed and Patti Smith (who were the cover subjects of the first and second issues, respectively).

At the same time, a less celebrated, but nonetheless highly influential, scene had appeared in Ohio, including The Electric Eels, Devo, and Rocket from the Tombs (who in 1975 split into Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys).

During this same period, bands that would later be recognized as "punk" were formed independently in other locations, such as The Saints in Brisbane, Australia, The Modern Lovers in Boston, and The Stranglers and the Sex Pistols in London. These early bands also operated within small "scenes", often facilitated by enthusiastic impresarios who either operated venues, such as clubs, or organised temporary venues. In other cases, the bands or their managers improvised their own venues, such as a house inhabited by The Saints in an inner suburb of Brisbane. The venues provided a showcase and meeting place for the emerging musicians (the 100 Club in London, CBGB in New York, and The Masque in Hollywood are among the best known early punk clubs).

While the London bands may have played a relatively minor role in determining the early punk sound, the London punk scene would come to define and epitomize the rebellious punk culture. After a brief stint managing the New York Dolls at the end of their career in the US, Englishman Malcolm McLaren returned to London in May 1975. He started a clothing store called SEX that was instrumental in creating the radical punk clothing style. He also began managing The Swankers, who would soon become the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols soon created a strong cult following in London, centered on a clique known as the Bromley Contingent (named after the suburb where many of them had grown up), who followed them around the country.


Cover of The Clash album London Calling (1979).An oft-cited moment in punk rock's history is a July 4, 1976 concert by the Ramones (with The Stranglers) at the Roundhouse in London. Many of the future leaders of the UK punk rock scene were inspired by this show, and almost immediately afterward, the UK punk scene found its feet. By the end of 1976, many fans of the Sex Pistols had formed their own bands, including The Clash, Joy Division, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Adverts, Generation X, The Slits, and X-Ray Spex. Other UK bands to emerge in this milieu included The Damned (the first to release a single, the classic "New Rose"), The Jam, The Vibrators, Buzzcocks, and the appropriately named London.

In December of 1976, the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, and Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers united for the Anarchy Tour, a series of gigs throughout the UK. Many of the gigs were cancelled by venue owners, after tabloid newspapers and other media seized on sensational stories regarding the antics of both the bands and their fans. The notoriety of punk rock in the UK was advanced by an infamous televised incident that was widely publicised in the tabloid press: on Thames Today, a London TV show, guitarist Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy, swearing at him on live television in violation of then-accepted standards of propriety.

One of the first books about punk rock — The Boy Looked at Johnny by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons (December 1977) — declared the punk movement to be already over: the subtitle was The Obituary of Rock and Roll. The title echoed a lyric from the title track of Patti Smith's 1975 album Horses.

During 1977, a second wave of bands emerged, influenced by those mentioned above. Some, such as The Misfits (from New Jersey), The Exploited (from Scotland), GBH (from England) Black Flag (from Los Angeles), Stiff Little Fingers (from Northern Ireland), and Crass (from Essex) would go on to lead the move away from the original sound of punk rock, later spawning the Hardcore subgenre.

In the UK, punk interacted with the Jamaican reggae and ska subcultures. This reggae influence is evident in much of the music of The Clash and The Slits, for example. By the end of the 1970s, punk had spawned the 2 Tone ska revival movement, including bands such as The Beat (The English Beat in U.S.), The Specials, Madness, and The Selecter.

Gradually, punk became more varied and less minimalist, with bands such as The Clash incorporating other underground musical influences like ska and rockabilly and even jazz into their music, but the message of the music remained the same; it was subversive, counter-cultural, rebellious, politically incorrect and often anarchist. Punk rock dealt with topics like problems facing society, oppression of the lower classes, the threat of a nuclear war, and such. Often it was personal but no less critical: many songs concerned the individual's personal problems, such as being unemployed, or having particular emotional and/or mental issues (e.g. depression). Punk rock was a message to society that all was not well and all were not equal.

Answer 7

Either the Damned in Austrailia,
The Sex Pistols in UK,
or the Ramones in New York..... I think....

Answer 8

shakin stevens