― arc-de-ciel, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Right.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)
Sorry to be pedantic but actually it was well before The Voidoids that Malcolm approached Richard Hell; it was after Malcolm had made a balls up of managing The NY Dolls and around the time RH left Television and joined The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, there are definitely people who think Sex Pistols invented punk. I remember getting into huge arguments about that when I was in high school, and would invariably get counterarguments from the punk kids that "Ramones aren't punk, they're rock'n'roll" etc. Of course, these were the people who couldn't understand why I liked Nomeansno, and considered NOFX to be the upper echelon of 90s punk.
I was a frustrated young man at times.Now I'm a frustrated old asshole who constantly goes to message boards to write in all caps and never use commas. Anyone else do the mashed potato while typing? It's pretty fun.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)
You is right. I guess I just like writing "Voidoids."
Anyway, the Troggs invented punk.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, I can DEFINITELY see how some people would call the Ramones a non-"punk" band. I just don't happen to agree with them!
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)
ragged-arsed trousers to thread
martin-skidmore-to-point-out-category-error to thread
someone-to-point-out-that-punk-is-an-'attitude'-and-therefore-nothing-to-do-with-what-it-actually-sounds-like-except-in-relation-to-previous-orthodoxy to thread
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)
"Punk is not just about a timbre of guitar! Remember that! HAHAHAHA!"
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)
come on
you know you want it
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― rex jr., Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)
but only their early stuff before they sold out.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)
(a) As it turns out, the Sex Pistols sound markedly different from the majority of their punk contemporaries, enough so that you could actually make a case that they weren't punk. However
(b) Their version of "punk" turned out to be the dominant version of punk, particularly as it came back to the U.S. over the following years. Which means
(c) People think they invented it, in which sense they're sort of right -- the Pistols invented Pistols-style punk, which somehow became the strain of punk the word "punk" wound up belonging to for a while.
It's harder to say why they became the focus of "punk" -- some combination of being very commercially successful, I suppose, and of being culturally iconic to punk. And leaving way more evidence of themselves -- in the form of video, interviews, and news -- than a lot of their contemporaries. But if "punk" as people had conceived of it had been more to do with the sorts of punk played by the Damned or the Adverts or something, this would all be different.
(Possible gaping hole in this theory: "punk" as it's been conceived of in the U.S. since the 80s tends to sound more like Stiff Little Fingers than the Pistols.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― die9o (dhadis), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)
And still there's the sound issue. For most of their contemporaries punk was attitude and process, really, stuff that got applied to a particular form of overcharged rock'n'roll. The Pistols more than most others wiped that rock'n'roll background out a bit (and perhaps dropped in a bit of Sabbath as well), leaving something that can seem more centrally "punk" than most punk (which doesn't actually sound like "punk," see?).
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
The Sex Pistols - RAW POWER.
this kind of answers the original question, as basically the Stooges invented punk. But that answer is rockist. In any sense that matters the Sex Pistols are the first punk band.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― thom west (thom w), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
tell that to Leggs McNeill...
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)
most people were aware of 'punk' with the advent of the pistols and the Sex shop - as a reult Punk has exosted way before the SP but became primarily a marketing tool post 76
― james (james), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/spoof/lord_of_the_blings.jpg
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)
But how do you explain, then, how they, aurally, blow away the competition? Don't listen to Bollocks to do it - it has half a dozen peak tracks and then the other stuff. But stacking up Anarchy/Holidays/Queen/Bodies/Submission/Belsen against virtually anything else similar from the time and those tracks just elbow them out of the way. I've just done it with the Dolls and the Clash, who in many ways were both better bands. Those tracks just knock them over, though.
Some of it was that Lydon was prepared to go further with his vocal attack, sure (esp Bodies and Belsen). But why do these pistols tracks also dominate every single PIL track I've heard?
― phil wise (beachbum), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 11 April 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 12 April 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)
(btw - have read that NMTB's producer came to the task fresh from working with Paul McCartney - probably not something that would have been shouted about at the time - ooh those crafty music types, eh ?)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)
(which, to the extent it revealed the workings of the process, was a good thing on average)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
I disagree. I don't think there is any such thing as an objective standard when it comes to this sort of thing, and I'm perfectly happy if *you* can't answer the question because that isn't the way you hear it. But I'd say some sort of majority of open listeners to the sex pistols can hear the force of those tracks. I'd hazard that's why the album remains a classic (that and the whole history/myth thing of course). So there's a significant listening community that may be able to answer the question.
Having said that, my guess to the answer would lie in either that the music is more original than you think (although I can hear the resemblances you citeth), OR (and) that some other spark ignites the things even if they aren't, in the sense you mean, original. Invention or inspiration - sometimes it is hard to tell them apart.
― phil wise (beachbum), Sunday, 13 April 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 13 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― The OED, Thursday, 19 June 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Francis Watlington, Thursday, 19 June 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 19 June 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)
The Users - "Sick of You" / "I'm In Love With Today"The Rezillos - Can't Stand the RezillosEater - The AlbumSkrewdriver - "You're So Dumb" / "Better Off Crazy"Slaughter and the Dogs - "Cranked Up Really High" / "The Bitch"The Boys - "Sick On You" / "Soda Pressing"The Damned - "Neat Neat Neat" / "Stab Your Back"Johnny Moped - "Incendiary Device" / "Noone"The Pork Dukes - "Telephone Masturbator" / "Bend and Flush"Adverts - "Bored Teenagers" / "Gary Gilmore's Eyes"
― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)
caring who invented it = you don't understand it
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 June 2003 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)
(haha the pork dukes)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 June 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 20 June 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 20 June 2003 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Very good and very funny but not punk.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)
haha do you expect us all to believe that's JUST A COINCIDENCE?
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)
still the dread legacy of victorian crazes stalketh the land muahahaaaaa..
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Also, I know Scottish isn't english, but how is it even debatable that the Rezillos were a punk band? Is there some threshold level of sanctimony required to achieve punkness? Why let the bores ruin it for everyone else? Any definition of punk that would exclude the Sex Pistols (who were obviously "taking the piss" more than anyone else, since they had the largest bathroom) doesn't seem very useful to me.
If these groups aren't punk what are they then? Are the Pork Dukes a folk band?
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)
The people in the bands were not punks, they were making music in the style of punk.
".... how is it even debatable that the Rezillos were a punk band?"
Because they were formed in '76 and their main influences were glam rather than punk. Fwiw I'm not necessarily saying that I would exclude them personally but there are some who would - hell there are some who would exclude The Stranglers or even The Vibrators on far flimsier pretexts!
"If these groups aren't punk what are they then? Are the Pork Dukes a folk band?"
Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias were a bunch of actors / comedians taking off punk (cf: Spinal Tap or Bad News). The Pork Dukes were / are a bunch of session musicians using punk as a pretext to indulge in some rather lame and inane lavatory humour.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 21 June 2003 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)