Basic information of punk music

Each of them has a strong sense of revolution. In fact, their purpose is to set off a great revolution in every corner of life in the mediocre European continent in the 1970s and 1980s, and add some color to the journey of mankind towards the future. Punk musicians often aim at human indulgence and challenge all established rules. They express simple emotions with simple chords and tell the beauty and ugliness of human nature with vulgar and clear language. They sang about marijuana and God. They advocate promiscuity, and they also call for social attention to those single-parent children; They curse war, but abuse violence in their lives; Their lives are chaotic, but they are full of longing for the future. They are subverting the old waste culture and creating new waste. In a word, just like the "Beat Generation" in literature and the "Dadaism" in art, they represent a possibility and a variety of choices of human development direction, and are a direct reflection of human multiple contradictions.

Then, punk culture moved from stage to life, and they began to show revolutionary determination at all levels except performance: wearing jeans with holes, skeletons and beautiful women painted all over them; The man wore a cool comb, and the woman shaved all her hair, revealing a blue scalp; Make a hole in your nose and hang a ring; Covered with indigo phosphors, it seems that you have to look askance at them to be satisfied. In fact, they do nothing but show their uniqueness, their rebellion and their dissatisfaction with the real society. If you think that the way they dress means they are punk, you are wrong. In punk's words, "I am a punk, so I am a punk. If I dress up as a punk to make people realize that I am a punk, it must not be a real punk. " Now everything in this society seems to be fake, fake brand names; Forge a police fine; Fake blind beggars, and of course fake punk. These fake punks constantly flaunt themselves as punks and fighters. "I only know three chords!" "God knows if the fourth chord didn't practice hard, but in fact they are just more hypocritical laity than laity. There are laymen pretending to be punks and punk pretending to be laymen. The former is to satisfy desires and vanity, while the latter is to satisfy inner and spiritual needs. Punk is revolutionary because it will never yield to anything around it, although most of the time, the opposite is always so powerful.

Punk's intransigence in music is manifested in its opposition to business. Since the business world entered the art world, vulgarity and popularity have flooded the art world. I tried to gild myself with art and put the art label on the container. The entry of commerce has never provided any help for the development of punk, but has killed many talented musicians. When the garbage volcano erupted in the United States, Kurt Cobain climbed to the top of the mountain with an irrelevant stone. In fact, the album that sold the most was not very good. In the face of fans' madness about people and music, he lost his way. After a period of thinking, I finally released the famous punk "In the womb", and the fate of this album is to applaud and not be a box office. In front of the music I love, there won't be so many underground bands like punk. Punks abandoned by the market are still angry. At this time, business and punk reality, Cobain chose to leave this cursed world many times. A punk genius died under the pressure of business. About punk, a rose with thorns, business is at a loss. In addition, punk has gradually become a chicken rib in the market, and the final result is that business is quietly away from punk. There is almost no communication between any music. The appearance of indie music indicates the appearance of a brand-new punk road. Doing it yourself has become the album mode of many punk bands. There is our hope underground, there is a real world underground, and punk has entered the new Millennium underground. Punk has never given in to reality since the day it was born. It is precisely because of social oppression that most Lekeren were born at the bottom of society, and they felt deeply about the darkness, poverty and violence at the bottom since childhood, leaving irreparable wounds in their hearts. They tried to destroy the whole disappointing reality with music, subvert many existing habits, disciplines and rules, break the shackles of old traditions, find the true nature of freedom, and find a group of people to become the creators of punk. There are too many injustices in this world, ugly and rusty rules and regulations, which often make us have to accept them willingly. In the process of acceptance again and again, the light of life is covered by secular clouds, the armor of conscience is corroded by hypocritical filth, and the only hope is crushed by ruthless reality. Day after day, month after month, year after year, after countless mechanical repetitions, we are forced to leave this world. However, punk makes us dare to fight with people and heaven, subvert everything that binds human nature, put aside secularism and gain the freedom of human nature. "Real warriors dare to face the bleak life", and the price they may pay for it is not only reputation, time, even future and life, but also punk's ridicule of contemporary civilization and denial and destruction of all established things. This is not the amazing power of punk to destroy everything. Authority is just a big joke to punk. Punk never needs authority, affirmation of mainstream culture and praise from several celebrities. Friends find a clean space and let themselves really live and die. I'm glad to see that many bands are struggling with it. Some bands can't hear their works for well-known reasons. One day, when their works appear in front of us, it may be the long-awaited voice of our punk.

The development of punk seems to have reached a dead end. The music of many bands can be said to be dirty, chaotic, poor, fuzzy and indistinguishable instrumental music, just like a pot of inedible pig food. There are also a few loafers who buy different kinds of clothes from fashion shops, covered in messy metal parts and full of dirty words to see who is not pleasing to the eye. They suddenly picked up their guitars and solemnly shouted "We are punk". In fact, many of us also agree with this criterion. Such a "punk revival" can only bring about the extinction of punk. Punk needs to be rebellious, but not frivolous. If it's just to show their avant-garde and flaunt their own otherness, punk asks these people to get out. The in-depth analysis of punk shows the deepest essence of punk soul, which is a clean and bleeding conscience. Let punk return to long-lost sincerity and conscience! The original punk is also called the former punk! Pre-punk took place in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At that time, some bands began to try to create rough rock music under the concept of minimalism. At that time, this kind of band, represented by underground velvet, unconsciously played an aggressive role of "rebuilding rock music, restoring its simple essence and overthrowing beautified rock music" Obviously, everything they do is just a subconscious reaction. Although their music did not bring out the shadow of punk in the future, at least they began to pay attention to the deepest essence of punk culture, but it was not rebellious enough. Punk finally discovered and continued the vague and simple spirit of pre-punk, and integrated the complete rebellious spirit into the rough music of pre-punk, creating a strong voice of the times that challenged society and denied beautifying rock, which was accepted by countless young people and was able to create a punk dynasty.

Primitive punk is a loose alliance of artists who are out of tune with the mainstream rock circle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ranging from Vel-vet underground bands, sound experiments and folk rock pretending to be elegant, to wild New York dolls who are keen on sexual content, and patty smith, a music poet. Primitive punk covers a large number of different voices and styles, but they are all linked by a common bond, that is, an exciting and arty attempt to subvert, ignore or even rewrite the existing norms of rock music. In this process, the spirit of these artists-sometimes not always music-planted seeds for the punk revolution in the late 1970s.

At present, many people always confuse primitive punk with Anglo-American punk that appeared in the middle and late 1970s, and think that they are a kind of music, which is simply called punk. This view is somewhat inappropriate. Although they do have many similarities in music, there is a deep connection between them. Besides, this connection can only make them belong to the same system. Doesn't mean they become a style. The two are related, but the difference is not small. And as mentioned above, the connection between primitive punk and punk is first a spiritual temperament, and then a musical form. From the spiritual temperament, comparing the original punk music works with the later punk music works, we can clearly see that the former is more inclined to the cynical technician temperament, even the poet temperament; The latter shows a rhetorical spirit full of collision, destructiveness, destructiveness and rebellious consciousness, and sometimes even shows arrogance and arrogance (especially sex pistols). Musically, the former is more experimental, avant-garde and improvisational. The latter is to return to the origin of early rock music and destroy it at the same time. The music structure is much simpler and more direct. Of course, the importance of punk lies in the fact that music has never been so simple and direct, which is also the great impact and shock it has brought to the traditional rock concept. Therefore, there is no small difference between the two in their cultural value orientation and musical aesthetic orientation. Hard-core punk (also translated as core punk) is the toughest extreme in punk rock.

Hard-core punk was born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which further led punk rock to extremes-faster, noisier and more rigid performances, shouting singing and dirty recording effects (sometimes including album covers). This kind of music is extremely fast, the melody is simple, the recording quality is not high, the singer simply shouts, the sentence is simple to repeat, and the work looks (or sounds) like it was recorded in someone's basement. Most of these bands sound very similar to each other, but some of them left different voices, just keeping their ideas.

Hard-core punk originated in the United States, which is mainly a phenomenon in the United States, and mainly concentrated in Los Angeles and new york. However, there are also some small-scale sporadic distributions throughout the United States, and famous hardcore bands such as BlackFlag, HuskerDu, Descendents, MeatPuppets, DeadKennydys and BadBrains have emerged one after another.

Hardcore has a wide influence in the whole field, and few styles can match it

The development of hard core even influenced the whole metal circle in the 1980s and inspired the whole golden age. At that time, almost every style was filled with the shadow of hard core. Although many people who like technology don't want to admit it, torrent metal itself is a combination of hard core and traditional metal. Inspired by the venom, the veteran of torrent metal, the early band EXODUS of torrent metal, and even a bunch of early bands such as THANATOS, the veteran of dead metal in the Netherlands, and Nunslaughter, an old American school, all admitted in interviews that they were influenced by the hard core.

Even some torrent metal bands simply strengthened the hard core elements in their arrangement, creating a very important cross-border style in torrent metal.

The representative bands are D.R.I, ATTITUDE, ADJUSTMENT, EXCEL, Siege and Early C.O.C 。

Witches Hammer, an underground hardcore band in Canada, once admitted that in the early 1980s, you could see a cockscomb dressed as a killer in Ross Bay, Canada, and some hardcores often gathered in the torrent metal exhibition. Because it has the same crazy repetition. In live music, the boundaries are blurred. The separation of metal and hard core did not begin until 1986.

Core punk continued to appear in the 1990s, but did not integrate into the mainstream circle. However, some bands influenced by core punk aesthetics, including a group of newcomers represented by Nirvana, became the main rock stars in the 1990s, while those early core punk musicians such as Bob Maulde, henry rollins, Mike Watt, Ian McKay and J. Muskis of dinosaur Jr became idols of alternative music, and many concepts and characteristics of core punk were absorbed by many other contemporary styles (such as heavy metal and electronic music). In addition, the core punk has a faster, noisier, melody-free, violent and white supremacy branch -OI.

Hard-core punk has had a profound impact on many rock styles in the future, but it has not been mainstreamed, and this situation has continued to this day.

Representative bands: Convergence, Hatebreed, Disgusting All, Black Flag, Dead Kennedy ... 1977 After the punk revolution, a large number of new bands were formed. They were all inspired by the independent spirit and simple voice of punk rock. In order to avoid the sound of duplicate pistols, many of these bands have entered a more experimental music field, absorbing the influence from punk rock, such as Roxy Music, David Bowie and T.Rex. As a result, a band combination has emerged, which is linked by the anti-cultural spirit and the banner that challenges the accepted rock tradition. Many bands like Joy Division or The Cure create a dark and cold music atmosphere. They use two main musical instruments, electronic synthesizers and guitars. Other bands chose a more relaxed route in music. Although their lyrics and sounds seem to be out of touch, they subvert the traditional pop rock song structure. Post-punk finally developed into non-mainstream music in the 1980s.

Representative bands: Gang of Four, Siouxsie &；; Banshee, Teacher of Joy and Cure Punk Rock have not been popular for a long time (about 1977- 1980), but some people regard it as the third revolution in the history of rock music, emphasizing the rebellious spirit. Anyway, punk rock performance is really extreme. Perhaps it is to escape criticism from others and make yourself less annoying. After punk, a new name of rock music appeared immediately? New wave. The concept of the new wave is vague. It can be regarded as a kind of rock music derived from punk, but the purpose is to be different from those punk bands and to be more professional in materials and performance. So in the late 1970s, many punk bands in Britain, including Clash, became Nouvelle Vague. Elvis Costello (born in 1955), a representative of the British new wave, combined various styles with rock music, eliminated the extreme elements in punk, and made the music sound less noisy. At the same time, he also made great contributions to the professionalization (musicalization) of English rock music in punk period. The concept of new wave is widely used in the United States. As long as it is not obviously punk or avant-garde, it is called new wave. One of the most important bands is Talking Heads, which leads other bands from punk to a new wave. The voice avatar was created by david byrne (born in 1952), the team leader of 1975. They avoid fancy clothes and eccentric behaviors on the stage, and absorb materials from modern serious music to produce more complicated styles. Lyrics often emphasize the contradiction between individuals and society. The album Keep the Light (1980) adopts the rock style of Jian Yuepai's creative principles. In the instrumental accompaniment, the African compound rhythm is used, and the continuous sound pattern runs through, which sounds like a huge machine producing music steadily and continuously. Reggae and other black music can sometimes be felt in their works.

On behalf of the band: Talking Head, Elvis Costello, Brandy, Duran Duran, B-52, Cure, Eurythmics, Car, Bauhaus. This is a concept closely related to the third wave Ská revival, because most of the latter bands are based on Ská punk. As the name suggests, it is a mixture of ska music and punk rock from Jamaica.

The most obvious performance feature of skank-punk is that the guitar tone is not distorted (or slightly distorted), the rhythm is laid on the weak beat, and the bass moves towards the harmonious melody. Coupled with the lively rhythm, the music feels very jumping. During the performance, many audiences spontaneously danced their own nameless dance, and they were happy with themselves! After that, the ska style dance appeared.

Scarlet music is a local popular music form in Jamaica (belonging to Reggae Group), which was produced in 1950s and was very popular in the early 1960s. It is the direct ancestor of the later popular reggae. It was influenced by New Orleans rhythm and blues, jazz, Afro-Cuban black music, early rock music and many other music forms. This is a light piece of music, which is characterized by guitar playing and syncopation rhythm.

Punk revival: In the early 1990s, American punk ushered in the second spring. Punk popularity began with Green Day and its descendants, which made punk enter the mainstream rock. Perhaps inspired by the hard-core transformation speed metal in the late 1980s, the music of punk revival band not only kept simple music lines and fast speed, but also became more and more heavy. On the other hand, the pleasing image, smoother sound effects and exquisite arrangement of power pop make the audience feel the power of punk and beautiful music at the same time, which is the magic weapon of punk revival. Punk pop is considered as an important part of post-junk music. Speaking of its origin, I have to say something that happened in 1983. A young man named Lach came to this legendary folk city with a dream, eager to find a chance to perform. However, the boss listened to his performance and said that your music was too punk. The following year, Luck opened a club called Fortress in Dongcheng District of new york. As the opening coincided with the new york Folk Art Festival, this guy who was born with strong opposition called the opening of the fortress the new york Anti-Folk Art Festival. A year later, the police closed the fortress, so it became a highly mobile anti-folk performance venue. 1993, anti-folk songs have gained international recognition and become a stepping stone for many artists. Baker, Regina Spektor and Moldy Peaches are all representatives of anti-ballads. The New York Times once wrote in a report that all of them (that is, the artists mentioned above) have a common feature, that is, they create with a subversive and fearless attitude.

Around 2000, the concept of anti-ballad was introduced to Britain, and it quickly spread in the underground music circles of London, Manchester and Brighton. Until August 2006, anti-ballad was considered as one of the most popular subcultures in London by Overtime magazine that month.

From the source of music, anti-folk songs mainly come from folk songs and punk. It inherits the accompaniment of folk songs and soothing acoustic guitars, and also absorbs the radicality, rhythm and boldness of punk. It is no longer limited to the melancholy and lamentation of folk songs on life, the world or politics, but more focused on self and the relationship between self and the world like punk. On the contrary, it abandoned the simplicity, fearlessness and sweating of punk, but adopted the calmness of folk songs and looked on coldly at the whole world. As far as lyrics creation is concerned, anti-folk songs can be roughly divided into two categories. One is close to fashion and the other is close to independence. The former is Regina Spektor, and the latter is Jinya Dawson. Lyrics mostly express the tone of songs with simple things. While leaving more imagination space for listeners, they will not consume their brain cells like listening to bright eyes. Moreover, most importantly, we can often hear more pure and clean warmth in these simple humming lyrics.

In an interview with The New York Times, Lah said that in the beginning, we used folk punk to rock (when we started, our attitude towards folk songs was just like punk to rock). When I read this sentence, I thought of listening to the new brick of Sonic Youth "Eternity" last year. I once read this sentence: "Folk songs and punk are extremely dissatisfied with the status quo, and they all escape in different ways: folk songs are nostalgic, and they maintain their minimum desire for survival by retreating to a naive, innocent and clean state; Punk destruction, by denying hatred, destroys everything, and nirvana after destruction. "

It can be said that folk songs and punk are the two most radical music in the history of music. The former keeps everything in his heart, while the latter shows it without reservation. In the history of music, there are many musicians who have transformed from punk to folk songs and from folk songs to punk, such as Feist and Tony Dekker. As a mixed product of folk songs and punk, anti-folk songs let us see the wonderful reactant of neutralization. Perhaps without the profound introversion of folk songs and the fearless publicity of punk, the existence of anti-folk songs is indeed indispensable in this world. Feist

Feaster's real name is Leslie Feist. She was born in Calgary, a quiet town in Canada, on 1976. She loved music since she was a child, and later gave herself such a stage name, named Feist. At first, in high school, she and several friends who also like rock music formed a punk band-Placebo. Interestingly, it has the same name as the punk band that is very popular in Britain now. Later, Feist led her band to win a series of local rock competitions, and they later became the opening band of The Ramones. It was at this time that Feist chose music as her lifelong career and she began to live a hard and hopeless life. In the next five years, Feist began to perform all over Canada, and it was at this time that she made many famous musicians. However, just as Feist was preparing for further development, her voice could not be heard because of the inexplicable illness of music. Faced with this blow, Feist almost gave up his music career. Later, she looked for a doctor everywhere, and finally found a doctor in Toronto, which cured her, so she decided to leave her hometown of Calgary and move to Toronto to start a new life. In the small dormitory Feist rented in Toronto, she began to record herself with an old four-track machine, and at this time, her music had changed a lot. A guitar, simple singing, this is Feist's new attempt as a folk singer.

Later, Feist joined the local theocracy band and began to be gradually known by more people. She and the band are North American tour guests of Canadian veteran rock band Trajectory Hip. 1999, she recorded her first album-monarch (put down your jewel head), a fresh folk song, which seemed to be reborn. In 2000, she helped Peaches to make the album Lessons from Peaches. Two years later, she joined a theocratic band, Broken Social Scene, which is a post-rock style and made a blockbuster with the album "You Forget It's in People". In 2004, Feist produced a fresh album in folk style, including her covers of local folk singers Sexsmith and Bee Gees. Mushaboom in Let It Die album was selected by Lacoste's perfume advertisement.

Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor, although he toured with The Strokes some time ago, became an instant hit on the charts. In addition, he was also famous in the "anti-folk" circles in new york in the past few years, but the name is obviously quite strange to many people. Shi spontaneously released three albums, but rarely entered people's sight. However, with the increasing support of the Internet for artists' self-promotion, regine spector is gradually known to some people.

Rgina Sektor's concert reminds you of a girl with a strange and delicate temperament. In fact, in most of her music, the piano with cool and strange changes is the only accompaniment instrument, which reminds us of another female singer, Tori Amos, who is now a mother but has a strange piano temperament. However, if we only give Regina Spektor the title of "a singer with a peculiar style", the diversified musical colors in her music will be greatly reduced invisibly.

Adam Green

"He is a freak falling from the sky" is what julian casablancas, the lead singer of "Stroke", said. "He" refers to Adam Green, another independent musician in new york, one of the former lead singers and guitarists of Mo Tao, the most important anti-folk leader at present, if this kind of music really has a certain scale. I can't help gossiping about the strange things this man has done: dressing up as Robin Hood during the tour, singing songs describing the online porn industry, and talking about the smell of the urine of band members during the interview … Well, I don't want to affect your appetite; Therefore, this man's music is selfish. Like all solo musicians, his lyrics are more focused on expressing personal views and criticizing current events more recklessly (this seems to be one of the characteristics of American musicians). Recently, jessica simpson was teased in the songs of his new album.