[Music] Punk Rock

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just spent 20 minutes reading the wiki entry. Makes a good read. Of what I know, there are few apocrypha.

Those were the bloody days. 76-78. And then the launch to other things.

This was the disruptive event in music and culture that transformed me from someone who was expected to know his place to someone who (well, some of you know what I can be like).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock

So....was there a punk rock record that blew your tiny mind? This was mine. Unbe****inleavable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk

 

[Tom Bombadil]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You are a sad little man. Now **** off. ****.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

You are a sad little man. Now **** off. ****.

Oh, i though you'd like that one. What about this classis of rebellious youth?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Oh, i though you'd like that one. What about this classis of rebellious youth?

Sober up, c'unt. Eh?

 

[RossyG]

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Sober up, c'unt. Eh?

Not a big Cliff fan eh? Well each to his own. I guarantee you'll love this smash from the punk era.

 

[marlowe]

https://youtu.be/qbmWs6Jf5dc

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

For anyone not already familiar with it, this is a marvellous archive for all things Brighton Punk

https://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/

I've got many things to thank punk for, not least for introducing me to Brighton. Spent so many weekends commuting down to Brighton for gigs from the deadly dull Medway towns, that it didn't take long for the penny to drop that I really didn't have to go back there. And I didn't

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

For anyone not already familiar with it, this is a marvellous archive for all things Brighton Punk

https://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/

Indeed. There were 3 or more gigs a week on in Brighton in the summer of 77, at the Alhambra, Basement or Vault. Great days.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Here's another solid gold smash from 77, a truly great time to be a teenager with music like this

 

[GT49er]

What about this classic of rebellious youth?

No it's not, on so many counts, although to be fair, it was one of his better records. To put the Brotherhood of Man on a punk music thread, though - or any sort of music thread for that matter - is just plain perverse.

On the other hand, this is the proper stuff .............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBE1VmThpAQ

 

[RossyG]

 

[RossyG]

This is worth watching, from November 1976, giving a glimpse of the early punk scene.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

This one got to number one in 1977, and showed even Spanish lovelies were catching the punk rock bug

 

[RossyG]

There’s joking and then there’s trolling.

 

[Jack Straw]

Punk and Reggae went hand in hand during that period with gigs containing acts from each. I went to see Dillinger in the mid 70's at the Top Rank Suite at the bottom of West Street. The warm up act was a Punk group called The Shag Nasties! At the end of their first song, the lead singer wasn't over-impressed by the mellow coolness of the audience. He shouted "If you don't like us, let's have a reaction!" More cool and mellowness followed which continued right through their set. Reggae fans do that. They just bob up and down and sway sometimes, letting the music take over their brains. That doesn't quite work with Punk. Then Dillinger came on. The crowd did somewhat become slightly more animated and the bobbing and swaying got going in earnest. Dillinger kept leading a chant of "Punk kid, Natty Dread, join the hunt and smash the Front!" Over forty years' ago. Feels like only yesterday.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Still have my copy - honest

 

[vegster]

Never got punk, I was 17 ish at the time and it was not my scene, Elton John, Thin lizzy, 10cc and Quo were my choices.

 

[studio150]