Punk: A Logical Extension of Prog? |
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tamijo
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 12:04 | ||||
To answer the OP, there was a lot of diffrent music, not just Prog and Punk, and the turn into a simple and raw rock, was not unexpreted, and not new either. The new thing was that the press was pissing its pans over it this time.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Svetonio
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:54 | ||||
In my country it was a big youth movement, and I saw the same thing in such a big centres as Paris and New York as well - even more than in London (maybe because the Punk origins were imported from USA to UK actually).
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tamijo
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:41 | ||||
This is the kind of debate that is very hard, because there is no objective defination to what is punk, proto punk, post punk ect. And there can be many different answers that could be subjectively correct. Based on where you live, what sources you had access to, and how you define your criteria.The Punk "movement" was not big is my homeland, but it was not only "punks" that did listen to the music.
Few liked the Pistols, but there was a lot of people that liked The Clash, basicly because the music was better, and where I come is was quite normal that you like both Peter Gabriel, The Clash, Floyd Kate B, ect. No one was interested in defining genre, we just liked music, lots of diffrent music. I loved the early Pere Ubu albums back them, but i couldent care less if it was punk or prog.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:28 | ||||
Hmm. I suspect that Hammill was using the 'juvenile delinquent' meaning of the term, regarding Rikki Nadir as a street punk making music. Rael in Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was a street punk, as were the rival gangs in West Side Story.
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 11:19 | ||||
Well, it certainly wasn't The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Dammed, The Ramones or Television.
I'm not sure if "real punk" ever fully existed, the DIY Punk ethos by its very anti-consumerism was destined to appeal to a very limited audience. Even later hardcore punk bands like Crass (formed in 1977, so I reserve the right to call them "later") were at the Performance-Art end of the DIY Punk spectrum. |
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The Truth
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:52 | ||||
I find it interesting to consider that the first British album to call itself "punk" (Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance) was also very much a progressive rock album. I also think a lot of proto-punk, a-la The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed ventures into avant territory which while not necessarily progressive rock, there was some overlap.
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:43 | ||||
^Post punk, eh? Ok, that makes sense. But who were the real Punks then? And what became of them?
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:39 | ||||
Agreed. I have said it wasn't. I think the confusion comes from the notion that Punk has a wider connotation than simply the music that emerged in 1976 and all but disappeared in the space of a few short months. By the time most of those early Punk bands came to record their début albums they too had moved on. What the general public saw as Punk Rock was in reality post-punk new wave.
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:22 | ||||
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:18 | ||||
Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. In another thread I suggested that the apparent trend of music to skip a generation was a generalisation. We are not all born into discrete demographics or generations that can be nicely compartmentalised and pigeon-holed, just as the music scene didn't instantly change from 70s music to 80s music at the stroke of midnight on 31st December 1979. I do not profess anything, nor do I accuse the music journalists of cherry-picking, backlashes were common at the time, it was practically a national sport and had been for as long as I can remember, the phrase "sell out" had been levelled at artists since the 60s. While I never said that bands pander to journalists to become more popular, snubbing a journalist was never a good career move unless your continued success and popularity was assured, and even then it could be unwise.
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:11 | ||||
Growth yes, origins no.
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:59 | ||||
Is this not relevant to the OP's question?
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:56 | ||||
Why do you defend the natural inclination of any subsequent demographic to reject the values of the previous regime as evidenced by music journalism? Not all of us are 'suckered in' by someone who is paid to pronounce that popularity = death of credibility. If you were a regular reader of both NME and Sounds circa early 70's to late 80's (that's 20 years stubborn refusal to bow to peer group pressure, way to go boyo) is this somewhow indicative that cherry picking to conclude that music you profess to loathe is popular therefore it sucks?. How exactly do bands pander to journalists to become more popular? Are immoral acts inveigled in this scenario? |
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:52 | ||||
Yes, but I have not spoken of Punk's origins, that to me is immaterial. This topic is related to what came after since Punk per se was not a logical extension of Prog in they way that post-punk new-wave was. Even what little Punk remained became detached from its disaffected and rebellious blue-collar beginnings.
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:46 | ||||
^ I wish I could say I had the same experience! I actually had friends that jumped from Prog straight onto the punk bandwagon, without blinking an eye. The first inkling that I had of how superficial some people can be in regard to trends in art.
Btw, these phonies are no longer my friends.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:41 | ||||
The entire "punk vs. prog" rivalry is something that I in real life have never ever heard anyone under the age of 40 remark on or even show any familiarity with. The few people I discuss music with on a regular basis with in real life actually come from the crust/grind/hardcore punk milieu here in Denmark, and because of stuff like Botch or Dillinger Escape Plan most of those types are also into more technically involved and ambitious music. That's even before you consider that in Denmark and Sweden the people involved in the death metal and grindcore (a particularly extreme punk subgenre) undergrounds are at the grassroots level mostly the same individuals, so they're neither turned off by fantastic subject matter.
For an example, check out this band I'm friends with in real life, the hilariously named Piss Vortex who are very strongly inspired by technical prog metal in the Gorguts and Voivod vein only with their innovations adapted to a grind/hardcore context instead. Edited by Toaster Mantis - March 06 2015 at 09:55 |
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:34 | ||||
^This is another tricky part of the puzzle, the way the music media jumped on the punk band wagon without thinking for a single second. But it's secondary for the reason for punk's origins, is it not?
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Dean
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:29 | ||||
I'm just a little puzzled by the mildly vitriolic flavour of the words you chose "...the routinely Olympian level standards of crass revisionist drivel that Dean normally churns out..." would perhaps raise an eyebrow from me in response if spoken to me in a pub after a few brews, but on an impersonal internet forum an "erm" will suffice. As to putting the cart before the horse I would ask you where you gained your knowledge of the music scene at the time if it were not solely from the music press? As a regular reader of both the NME and Sounds from the early 70s through to the late 80s (less so the Melody Maker and Rolling Stone), I was suckered in by the opinions that the journalists would seem fit to write in those publications, until I realised how quick they were to turn on any band or artist who had the temerity to be "popular"... the time-honoured backlash that they heaped upon the Prog artists of the 70s was soon levelled at the 80s new-wave artists who failed to pander to them. If it it is revisionist to hold up these music journalists for scrutiny, and to take them to account for the less-than-impartial attitude they had to various bands and genres of music then so be it. Edited by Dean - March 06 2015 at 09:29 |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:25 | ||||
Any articulated view has merit c/f a lazy hippy c.u.n.t.'s complacent pejorative graphic. Yes, the UK Punk phenomenon (notwithstanding its McLaren engineered caesarian birth was a political phenomenon c/f the bohemian/aesthetic ethos of the US version as evidenced by Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Television et al) |
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SteveG
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Posted: March 06 2015 at 09:18 | ||||
The Punk explosion seemed to form for different reasons on either side oft the Atlantic. In NYC, the punk craze seemed to be a NYC reaction to the past Greenwich Village folk scene and the ensuing disco craze. I think that the punk scene in the U. K. was fueled more by economic and social issues that existed in U. K. at that time, and was more of a socio-cultural reactionary statement, than just a change in music trends, as was the case in the U.S. Do you feel my view has any merit?
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