What is punk?

Punk is a kind of music, which was born in Britain. It was first known as the "Sex Gunners" band that shone brilliantly in the 1970s, and was known as "the deep-water bomb of the British punk revolution". Followed by: collision, curse, Roxy, blasphemy and so on. Their musical styles may be quite different, but the characteristics of music are exactly the same, that is: rebellion, rebellion, and then rebellion! Rebellion against tradition and system is becoming more and more boring and lifeless. 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. "

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Punk:

Punk was born in the mid-1970s. It is a simple rock music that originated from garage rock and pre-punk rock in the 1960s. Punk band is based on the simple music of theVelvetUnderground, theStooges, NewYorkDolls and other bands, trying to restore the simple essence of rock music through simple triads. Punk music doesn't pay much attention to musical skills, but prefers a clear stand of ideological emancipation and anti-mainstream. This original intention was actively imitated by Britain and the United States under the specific historical background at that time, and eventually formed the punk movement. Although most punk bands are strikingly similar and their works are too monotonous, many famous punk bands have their own distinctive personality characteristics, such as theRamones' bubble gum pop music, the strong chords like the face of theSexPistols, the popular feeling of Buzzcocks, theClash's reggae elements and the Wire's artistic experimental characteristics. Since then, punk has gradually transformed into a post-punk, trendy and hardcore style. In the mid-1980s, the punk movement as a whole fell into a low tide.

Hard core punk:

Hard-core punk was born in the early 1980s, which further pushed punk rock to the extreme-faster, noisier and more rigid performances, shouting singing, dirty recording effects (sometimes including album covers). Hardcore first appeared in the United States, mainly centered in Los Angeles and new york, and then gradually spread, with the emergence of famous hardcore bands, such as BlackFlag, HuskerDu, Descendents, MeatPuppets, DeadKennydys and BadBrains. 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.

Original punk (pre-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 theVelvetUnderground, 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.

New wave:

In the early 1980s, the rapid expansion of punk gradually made it obsolete, and the new wave movement began to enter the historical stage. The diversity of music embodied in the new wave movement meets the needs of some fans who are allergic to punk. The popularity of Power-Pop, Synth-Pop and Pop- reggae based on pop music has contributed to the new wave movement. The great success of the new wave movement should be largely attributed to the birth of MTV in the 1980s. With its help, the new wave movement also has a huge market in the mainstream society and has formed a competitive situation. Around 1982, the new wave movement began to die under the rumbling wheels of heavy metal chariots, but it laid the foundation for the later CollegeRock and the mainstream of alternative rock in the 1990s, and became an important stage in the history of rock and roll.

PostPunk:

After the punk movement began in the late 1970s, some bands just inherited the stubborn spirit of punk and did not become redundant copies of SexPistols. These bands show incredible complexity and experimental characteristics in music, completely abandoning punk's rough trio. Their works are full of artistic and exquisite music materials and challenges, but they are called post-punk because of their anti-mainstream rock, anti-tradition and anti-culture punk spirit. Post-punk bands, represented by JoyDivision and theCure, not only further increase the weight of musical elements and make them more complicated, but also make music melancholy and cold. At the same time, the post-punk band tried to change the structure and creative theme of traditional rock songs, which reflected the complete rebellious spirit. Post-punk ideological trend gradually became the ideological pillar of alternative rock in the future, and continued to extend in different rock styles.

Hey! (alas! ):

Hey! In fact, it is just a branch of hardcore punk, an extreme style that is completely based on pure violence and noise and has no aesthetic feeling. This style of band didn't have any radical political inclination and social responsibility at first, and then it gradually developed into race music flaunting white supremacy. Although not all bands have racist tendencies, it is still recognized as a very dangerous rock music, a white music belonging to the underground world, which was excluded and eventually eliminated by rock music.

Synthetic pop:

Synth-Pop was originally only a major genre of the new wave movement. At that time, many bands (mainly British bands) influenced by RoxyMusic and DavidBowie began to be keen on using synthesizers. At that time, the original intention was only a useful supplement to electroacoustic instruments, with little effect. At first, synthpop was very rough and full of a strange and thin smell, which was finally changed by DuranDuran. DuranDuran skillfully grafted synthesizer pop music and dance music. The improved music became more and more popular and loved, and soon became fashionable and imitated by many bands. DuranDuran became famous and became the first hero of synthpop. From 65438 to 0984, the era of synthpop ended completely, but its influence continued. Synthesizer is regarded as an important way of playing and widely used in many styles.

PowerPop:

The original source of power popularity can be traced back to the early 1970s, and theRaspberries, BigStar and Badfinger are the original definitions of this style. This kind of powerful pop music, which combines theWho, BeachBoys, beach boys and other bands, together with punk, formed the main force of the new wave movement in the late 1970s, and was finally classified as a post-punk style. Power pop's works are usually about three minutes long, focusing on the explosive power of melody and music, which is somewhat similar to punk, but pays more attention to technology and fashion, is not keen on rebellion, and is more commercial. In the late 1970s, some punk bands transformed into power pop, and in the 1980s, power pop began to be more integrated into various rock styles. At the same time, pure power pop began to decline.

NoWave:

No wave is the first major style of post-punk movement, which only appeared in new york at that time. Music is experimental music with atonality and harsh noise. This style of band pays more attention to artistry than music itself. Too boring and lack of commercial potential made this style never really popular, and it was not until the rise of noise rock represented by SonicYouth in the middle and late 1980s that this style was put back on the rock stage.

PunkRevival:

In the early 1990s, American punk ushered in the second spring. GreenDay and PunkPop of theOffspring began to bring punk into 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. PunkPop is considered as an important part of post-junk music.

The source of punk

The word "punk" was put forward by 1975 in a performance at St. Martin's Art School. 10 months later1September 20th, 976, sex pistols and conflicts, subway sects, Siousie and banshee, cursed, Chris speeding and vibrators, Buzzcocks. The concert was recognized by the general public as a declaration of punk rock going global, and the London punk orchestra, which stood out from the club and recorded the first punk rock record, was one of the best.

Punk is a form of rebellion, just like other rock styles. It rebelled against all other forms of music in the 1970s, similar to the anti-art trend of the Fugues in the 1960s. It is the root of grandstanding, and it adheres to the principle that the whole idea is more important than music, and it is also any component of performance.

Punk is anarchism, against society and all established order. It is also destructive, pessimistic, gloomy and frustrating. Musically, punk is a response to the dullness of rock music, especially to American rock music, especially to all the products of the 1970s (disco, art rock, jazz rock). Punks hope to bring rock music back to the style of the 1950s and sing lyrics that accurately express reality.

Jon Savage, a British critic, wrote that history is created by people who say "no". At 1976, there is no louder voice than the "no" of punk rock music. Because of dissatisfaction with the primitive anti-musicality without foresight, punk dared to directly confront the hegemonism of the dominant rock at that time: generally, pop singers in their thirties were satisfied with redeveloping and using some cliches with stagnant style, and firmly controlled the working style of the live change program called AOR (album-oriented rock) in the middle and late 1970s, which sounded like it was uniformly produced by the marketing department of the record company.

From the beginning, punk angrily stood on the opposite side of this phenomenon. Besides, like all kinds of rock and roll and its subcategories, punk is hardly a brand-new sport. Its pioneers include: the noisy underground velvet, the Who representing the anger of the working class with great volume, the Stooge and MC5 roaring with high-energy guitars, and androgynous New York dolls (including Bowie and the early Roxy music band). Of course, with the development of punk music (note: it is known that the earliest use of "punk rock" as a category definition vocabulary can be traced back to Creem magazine in the early 1970s, as well as critics Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs, punk has evolved into many sub-categories and produced a series of various influences. Including reggae music, bubble gum music in the mid-1960s, early psychedelic rock, art rock and free jazz. From a purely historical point of view, punk's time period is 1975- 1978. However, it took a long time for it to appear like a supernova to decline, and some greedy big record companies turned it into a cleaner one. Punk music almost single-handedly revitalized the network of independent record companies and helped create a legal underground magazine network and a new way of music criticism. More importantly, it instills in the next generation of young people the idea that you may also become a part of a great rock figure, which has contributed to the development of many successful regional alternative rock settlements in the United States and Britain (such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, Asuncion; And Manchester, England). It is hard to imagine that bands such as Replacements, Nirvana and even R.E.M would exist without the contributions of bands such as Sex Pistol, Clash, Ramones and buzzcocks.

Now, the definition of the word "punk" seems unclear. Moreover, to be honest, the story of punk and its ubiquitous influence have not been mentioned until now. However, like rap and heavy metal nowadays (these two kinds of music share a punk attitude), punk seems to be self-expressing happiness: complete, clear and never censored. If you listen to a series of records listed below, you will soon hear that even today, punk music never seems to be too far away from the aesthetic point of view of pop music, and its creators did not expect it to have such a wide influence.

Punk rock is the most primitive rock music-it consists of a simple melody and three chords. What has changed is that punk rock will perform old rock faster and more passionately. Because some bands have a one-sided understanding of punk music style-including garage rock bands and underground velvet, The Stooges and New York dolls in the 1960s-it was not until the mid-1970s that punk music genre was formally formed. Many new bands in the west no longer emphasize the super music form that is different from mainstream hardcore rock, but point to the essence of music. New york's first punk band was The Ramones; In London, it is represented by sex pistols. Although their musical performances are different-The Ramones is light and casual, in contrast, Sex Pistols emphasizes the expression of repeated paragraphs-these unique attempts have completely changed the styles of American music and British music. Punk music has always been low-key in the United States, and finally the concepts of hardcore rock and indie rock were born in the 1980s. In Britain, punk rock has become the darling of the public. Sexpistols is regarded as a serious subversion of the government and monarchy. More importantly, more and more bands have joined punk rock. Some bands almost copied the original style of pistols, while others created their own new elements, such as Sharp Rock by buzzcocks, Reggae Rock like clash's hymn, and artistic experiments by wire and joy division. Soon, punk split into post-punk (more artistic and experimental than before), new wave (more popular in the East) and hardcore rock (a more intense, faster and more radical punk music in form). Throughout the 1980s, both Britain and the United States associated the definition of punk with hard rock. In the early 1990s, a group of punk revivalists-represented by green day and rancid-emerged from the American underground music industry. These new forces brought punk music back to its original style and tried to add heavy metal elements to the music.

The representative bands are: the Clash

Cursed man

autumn

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monks and priests

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Ramones

sex pistols

Siouxsie & banshee

television

Real punk music is a kind of rebellious rock music that is not planned and packaged by the recording industry, expressed by young people from the working class who are dissatisfied with society and protest against reality, and created by destroying, denying and destroying all values. The word "punk" itself is very annoying. Punk often refers to people who live aimlessly, dirt, waste, rubbish, stale and all things that are mediocre and worthless-even prostitutes. Punk rock is naturally disliked. Musically, punk rock is chaotic, disorderly, rough and primitive. Designed to deny rock music. It denies and resists all rock and roll. In the eyes of punk rock musicians, the recording industry is a big scam.

The proliferation of commercial music in the 1970s (the most obvious example is the rise of disco music) made teenagers tired of pop music. The music they want to listen to can't be heard, and the music they don't want to listen to can be seen everywhere; On the other hand, unemployment and economic crisis were the most intractable problems in Britain in the middle and late 1970s, which caused a large number of teenagers to have doubts about the ruling class and dissatisfaction with rock music. Suspicion of capitalism makes it possible for them to vent their dissatisfaction to some extent. In a sense, it is natural that rock music in the 1960s was anti-commercial, anti-capitalist, radical or simply served the entertainment industry. It opposes old traditions and old values and creates a new value concept and lifestyle. However, the punk movement in the 1970s was destroyed but not built.

With punk rock becoming a variety in the catalogue of record companies, punk rock has also become the object of hype of record companies. In fact, rock music is like this. A kind of music is the most authentic and original when it is not controlled by business. Once it becomes a commercial lubricant, it becomes a nondescript commodity. Even punk rock with horns and thorns on its head. In just two or three years, the edges and corners of punk rock have been worn away, and punk rock is just a seasoning in rock music. Punk rock has changed from the original anti-business and anti-pop image to a fashionable pop music. On the one hand, record producers use the radical, rebellious and disgusting side of punk rock to attract young listeners, on the other hand, they "transform" punk rock through commercial means. "Sex Pistol" and "Clash" were the two most representative punk bands at that time. Faced with commercial manipulation, they each chose their own destiny.

The "sex pistol" was dissolved at the peak of punk development. The "collision" lasted until the second half of the 1980s, but they were no longer punk. The word "punk rock" may be continued by some rock musicians, but the punk spirit has disappeared.

What is punk? (Note: Punk here is by no means a general term. )

Punk is not only a form of music, but also a kind of culture, so it is better to regard it as a revolution to the current living conditions. Rock music has experienced a period of prosperity of existence and nothingness. In that era of living by Platonic ideals and drugs, people lived too depressed and Mu Na. With a large number of top bands playing high and low music, the younger generation finds that there is no music suitable for them, and their anger and emptiness are increasing day by day. In 1970s, punk music spread all over the British Isles and America. You can hear the cries of cynicism almost everywhere. It was not until the late 1970s that punk craze passed. In 1980s, heavy metal replaced punk as the dominant music in this period. And punk is still accumulating strength underground, waiting for a complete outbreak. In the 1990s, the garbage volcano finally broke out in the United States, and several bands became idols of the public overnight. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. A gunshot in Kint Cobain's apartment ended the life of a generation of great garbage men and the glory of a garbage age. At this time, the "punk revival" movement also rose in England on the other side of the ocean, and a group of new generation bands carved up the declining punk market.

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 Grucci volcano erupted in the United States, Gint Cobain climbed to the top with a sentence "Never mind". 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 burning with anger. At this time, 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 human freedom. "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!

Punks will never stop fighting as long as there is injustice, darkness and ugliness in the world. When all the fake, evil and ugly rubbish is buried, punk will be as far away from the world as a lonely master. If punk dies, the premise is that punk must first destroy the darkness. Punk is angry and sober. It wants to shake people's conscience and sleeping thoughts, induce people to spurn vulgar business culture and re-examine ethics and humanity. Maybe this is the responsibility of punk.

After The Beatles attacked the United States in the late 1960s, a kind of rock music called garage music appeared in the United States, which can be regarded as the embryonic form of punk rock. Among them, the famous bands are MC5, clown, knight's shadow and underground velvet. Most of these bands are unruly and domineering, but they rarely succeed in business. Take MC5 as an example. John Sinclair, the leader of this team, was a member of the American White Panther Party at that time. In the famous Bai Bao Party's Position, Mao Zedong's Speech at Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art was quoted out of context. Sinclair once declared categorically: "On earth, we must create a paradise for people. Everyone there is equal and happy, and we will never stop until we reach this goal. "However, MC5' s rock music is just a flash in the pan. They only have one album on the charts. Far from their original intention of encouraging the world revolution, MC5 soon became a band with an early simple and generous temperament.

In 1970s, a music club named CBGB appeared in new york, and many early punk bands were members of it, such as Ramones, Talking Heads, Television, the Voidoids, Blondie, the Dictators and so on. This club made punk music begin to have an impact on the outside world. If these bands had just stayed in bars at that time, they would still be great today; But if so, punk is nothing to the world.

Television is the first band of CBGB, which is composed of four members: guitarist and lead singer TomVerlaine, guitarist RichardLloyd, drummer BillyFicca and bassist RichardHell. From 65438 to 0974, the master of electronic music Briano made an audition tape for TV, but the band was very dissatisfied, so it was not recorded as an album. 1975, they released their first single "Little Johnny Jewel", and soon the band joined CBGB. From 65438 to 0977, television came to Britain with the help of malcolm mclaren. Television was the first punk band, which played an important role in the future of sex pistols, conflict bands and those formed in Liverpool, England. Such as Echo and Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes have great influence.

The first punk album recognized and accepted by the music industry was "Horse" released by patty smith in 1975. When Smith sang "It's not my fault that someone killed Jesus" in the first song of "Horse", the door of rock music opened. The future of punk is really broad. On the stage of the concert, Smith is like a goddess of prophecy.

Although punk absorbed the essence from African music such as soul songs and reggie, it was the first song sung by white youths living in the suburbs, and it was the most white rock music. Punk is more sensitive to history than any other music in the past, and it is destined to conquer the whole world instead of staying underground.

The appearance of British punk means that the era of punk shock has finally arrived. British rock and roll in the 1970s embarked on the road of grandstanding. DoobieBrother's songs bore young Englishmen. Pink Floyd and Quinn, who are tall and widowed, make them want to find the feeling of the 1960s. The second half of the 1970s was a period of despair in Britain. 1977, the unemployment rate of young men aged 0/8 in Britain reached 28.6%, the unemployment rate of young women reached 29.6%, and the inflation rate was as high as 10%. The wave of strikes swept across the country, and desperate children of workers and descendants of immigrants were caught in a civil war-like struggle with the police because of their most difficult situation. In this case, punk, a horned monster, was finally born in Britain and made its first roar to the world.

Speaking of English punk, we can't help but mention malcolm mclaren, who is known as the "father of English punk". 1974, a shop named "Shake It Up" was established in Cheshire, London, and the owner was malcolm mclaren. In the same year, NewYork Dolls, a former American punk band, came to Britain, but it didn't have a big impact on me. McLaren fell in love with them at first sight, recommended themselves as their agents and flew to new york with them. After the death of New York Doll 1975, McClaren returned to London, renamed the store "Sex", and joined hands with the famous avant-garde fashion designer vivienne westwood to ask her to design various punk costumes. Business was booming at that time. So he just picked a few "punk" partners and formed the world-famous Sex Pistols. The lead singer he chose was john lydon. The reason is that young people love to stroll around the store, often scream like mentally retarded children and like to make trouble. The other three members of the Sex Pistol are Glenn matlock, Paul Cook and steve jones.

165438+ 197516 October, outside St. Martin's Art School in London, England, a group of young people gathered in strange clothes, which have long been out of date.