Quote:
Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Oh please don't say we're going back to finding any nihilistic band before 1976 and going 'HEY LOOK...THEY INVENTED PUNK'
Yawn.
|
These retrospective claims always make me chuckle to myself every time I read one.
Had the Sex Pistols never been formed by McLaren would these bands have been described as
punk?
The answer is a definite, no!
Other than being as a "nihilistic band" what would The Ramones have been remembered as?
How would The New York Dolls have been remembered? A Glam Rock band with a bad attitude?
As I remember, Iggy Pop was always Iggy Pop.
The Velvet Underground, as unique as they were, were always just, The Velvet Underground. As unusual as they were.
At the time non of these bands that are being hailed as
the original punk band were even considered punk.
Back in the day, they were about as punk as Green Day!
Not until, as it seems to me, they were wheeled out decades later during some kind of punk renaissance.
At least that's the way I see it...and remember it.
No doubt there'll be some punk expert along anytime soon, telling me I don't know what the hell I'm talking about and giving me a list of bands from pre 76 that nobody had even heard of at the time...