Big Four of Punk?

El_K · September 2022

Who would be your Big Four of Punk

Sex Pistols
Ramones
The Clash
Dead Kennedys

But for a tour, maybe get the Damned in place of the Ramones

What say you?

YellowSnow · September 2022

Talking Heads
Ramones
The Clash
The Jam

YellowSnow · September 2022

Want me to edit the thread title?

1to392831weretaken · September 2022

Vaginas
Pigs because that's where bacon comes from
Breast cancer awareness alt unis
The South Park pink eye episode.

Fishpo31 · September 2022

Iggy
The Ramones
The Clash
X

El_K · September 2022

YellowSnow said:
Want me to edit the thread title?

Sure. Just trying to contribute where I can.

DerekJohnson · September 2022

El_K said:

YellowSnow said:
Want me to edit the thread title?
Sure. Just trying to contribute where I can.

You had misspelled "punk" and typed "pink", and Yella was just asking if you would like him to change it to "punk". I edited it at around 1am

@El_K

Joey · September 2022

Ramones
Sex Pistols
Black Flag
The Misfits

YellowSnow · September 2022

DerekJohnson said:

El_K said:

YellowSnow said:
Want me to edit the thread title?
Sure. Just trying to contribute where I can.

You had misspelled "punk" and typed "pink", and Yella was just asking if you would like him to change it to "punk". I edited it at around 1am

@El_K

I try to use try to use the great power invested in me sparingly.

DerekJohnson · September 2022

YellowSnow said:

DerekJohnson said:

El_K said:

YellowSnow said:
Want me to edit the thread title?
Sure. Just trying to contribute where I can.

You had misspelled "punk" and typed "pink", and Yella was just asking if you would like him to change it to "punk". I edited it at around 1am

@El_K
I try to use try to use the great power invested in me sparingly.

Normally I wouldn't touch it either except I was 100% positive @El_K had made a typo

chuck · September 2022

YellowSnow said:
Talking Heads
Ramones
The Clash
The Jam

I dont know that I've ever seen the Talking Heads categorized as punk. Im not sure ive ever seen them assigned to a genre actually. I like it though.

YellowSnow · September 2022

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:
Talking Heads
Ramones
The Clash
The Jam
I dont know that I've ever seen the Talking Heads categorized as punk. Im not sure ive ever seen them assigned to a genre actually. I like it though.

American punk had its roots in '60s garage rock and in the raw minimalism of the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers; several bands -- the Stooges, the MC5, the New York Dolls -- played what was essentially punk rock before there was a term or classification for it. But for all intents and purposes, American punk truly begins with the Ramones, around 1975-76. A thriving, often artsy punk scene sprang up around the Ramones in New York City, and similar movements took shape in Los Angeles, where the music was more aggressive and closer to what would become hardcore punk; Cleveland, which tended to be weirder and more experimental, partly due to the lack of media attention; and Boston, which was often closer to garagey power-pop than true punk. New York remained the focal point of American punk, however, featuring most of the style's best-known and/or most influential artists: Television, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Cleveland transplants the Dead Boys, etc. By the early '80s, American punk had either faded away or morphed into new forms: hardcore punk, new wave, and early alternative rock. American punk didn't supply the immediate pop-music revolution that British punk did, but it continued to nourish American underground rock for decades, and a California-centered revival of the form -- heavily reliant on the Ramones -- became extremely popular during the '90s.

https://www.allmusic.com/style/american-punk-ma0000011885

chuck · September 2022

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:
Talking Heads
Ramones
The Clash
The Jam
I dont know that I've ever seen the Talking Heads categorized as punk. Im not sure ive ever seen them assigned to a genre actually. I like it though.
American punk had its roots in '60s garage rock and in the raw minimalism of the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers; several bands -- the Stooges, the MC5, the New York Dolls -- played what was essentially punk rock before there was a term or classification for it. But for all intents and purposes, American punk truly begins with the Ramones, around 1975-76. A thriving, often artsy punk scene sprang up around the Ramones in New York City, and similar movements took shape in Los Angeles, where the music was more aggressive and closer to what would become hardcore punk; Cleveland, which tended to be weirder and more experimental, partly due to the lack of media attention; and Boston, which was often closer to garagey power-pop than true punk. New York remained the focal point of American punk, however, featuring most of the style's best-known and/or most influential artists: Television, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Cleveland transplants the Dead Boys, etc. By the early '80s, American punk had either faded away or morphed into new forms: hardcore punk, new wave, and early alternative rock. American punk didn't supply the immediate pop-music revolution that British punk did, but it continued to nourish American underground rock for decades, and a California-centered revival of the form -- heavily reliant on the Ramones -- became extremely popular during the '90s.

https://www.allmusic.com/style/american-punk-ma0000011885

Makes sense then. The early 80s where American punk morphed into new wave is my era. I hated it at the time, and the "wave-os" were the ones listening to Talking Heads at my school. I didn't like them at the time either, but grew out of that.

YellowSnow · September 2022

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:
Talking Heads
Ramones
The Clash
The Jam
I dont know that I've ever seen the Talking Heads categorized as punk. Im not sure ive ever seen them assigned to a genre actually. I like it though.

They were definitely concerned a “punk” band early on along with the other CB GB groups in NYC. The 1st wave of American punk was pretty eclectic.

Obviously, by the 3rd album or so The Talking Heads had moved on to other things.

1to392831weretaken · September 2022

Nothing's changed with my list.

LebamDawg · September 2022

Talking heads
Blondie
The tubes
Sex Pistols

Blondie and Talking Heads are the only ones I liked, I looked and the The Tubes are still touring

Fishpo31 · September 2022

LebamDawg said:
Talking heads
Blondie
The tubes
Sex Pistols

Blondie and Talking Heads are the only ones I liked, I looked and the The Tubes are still touring

Chin for the Tubes, saw them in the early 80’s, on my list of favorite shows I’ve seen…

Bad_MotherDucker · September 2022

Social Distortion
Bad Religion
Offspring
Suicidal Tendencies

booker14 · September 2022

Ramones the kings then whoever. I like the Tubes but never really thought of them as punk. I'm curious, do you call The Knack punk?

PurpleThrobber · September 2022

Blondie.

Because, brb jo still matters.

LebamDawg · September 2022

@PurpleThrobber I am in shock - that pic is tame

Pitchfork51 · September 2022

Punk is easily the shittiest genre.

I really hate gen x

Pitchfork51 · September 2022

Dammit I love talking heads. That ain't punk

YellowSnow · September 2022

Pitchfork51 said:
Dammit I love talking heads. That ain't punk

Let the Gen X'ers make the determinations here.

coronabruin · September 2022

Blink 182
Sum 41
Green Day
Limp Bizkit

Swaye · September 2022

The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
Social Distortion

BeerThirty · September 2022

Ramones
Bad Religion
Social Distortion
Pennywise

PurpleThrobber · September 2022

YellowSnow said:

Pitchfork51 said:
Dammit I love talking heads. That ain't punk
Let the Gen X'ers make the determinations here.

Johnny Rotten - Sex Pistols - b. 1956 (Boomer)
Joey Ramone - The Ramones - b 1951 (Boomer)
Joe Strummer - The Clash - b 1952 (Boomer)
Paul Weller - The Jam - b 1958 (Boomer)

I guess if you want to take the advice of kids who were in grade school during the Punk era (1974 to 1984), that's fine.

But @RaceBannon and his Boomers were punk.

And the tweeners like @PurpleThrobber (b 1963) were the prime consumers of the genre and its successor New Wave.