PUNK ROCK: A HISTORY
by 
Jackwc 
Class is in session kids. History is in the making.
- Chart updated: 03/25/2014 08:05
- (Created: 02/10/2013 11:49).
- Chart size: 5 albums.
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You’re a kid growing up in the 60’s. Chances are your parents wear white-washed bell-bottomed jeans and spout pseudo-mystical garbage about Zen Buddhism that you just don’t understand. Fuck, who are we kidding, they don’t understand it either. It seems like everything on the radio is either self-indulgent virtuoso wank or hippy-dippy perma-happy shallow bullshit. You’re sick of all this crap. You want something raw and real, you want something to channel your grueling teenage angst. Then 1969 rolls around and suddenly:
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1969
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1,709
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Holy fuck. What WAS that? Kick Out The Jams drops and it hits you like a fucking semi and shatters every preconception you ever had about music. And all your bones. You, my friend, have just listened to the first bonafide punk record. That same year, also out of Detroit, comes the energetic Iggy Pop and the Stooges, and out in New York the Velvet Underground is revolutionizing music by redefining just what music can be with their ethereal symphonies of noise. The seeds of a revolution are being sown.
[First added to this chart: 07/03/2013]
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1969
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4,508
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The next great battles of the revolution are going to be fought on the East Coast, in the neighbourhood of Bowery, Manhattan. CBGBs, a Country, BlueGrass, and Blues bar, is playing pretty much everything but and sitting right at the heart of this action. In early '74 you check out the action when the newly formed Television plays a string of gigs. Look around the joint one April night and you'll see an awed Patti Smith and her friend Lenny Kaye in the audience.
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1977
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19,344
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Lenny is a guitarist and total music dork who had been playing shows at frat houses for years, and he tries to convince Patti to start a band with him - he'll play guitar, and she's recite her poetry. Eventually she caves, and without knowing it becomes one of the premiere heroes of the genre and queen of the Bowery Scene. Take a listen to the almost folk-y twang this record's got, that DIY Dylan-esque attitude. These are characteristics that will influence a lot of punk to come.
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1975
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7,648
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Every counter culture movement has its share of opportunists, and here on the Bowery Scene we find one by the name of Malcolm McLaren, a fashion designer who has been working closely with the New York Dolls to redefine the look of a generation. When he returns to London, Malcolm fuses the attitude of the New York Bowery scene with intensely provocative imagery to create the clothing boutique "SEX", knowing that he can bank on practically shock value alone to fuel the store's marketing. To further promote the store he throws together a rag-tag group of kids he dubs the "SEX Pistols", and under their weight London begins to shake in ways that Malcolm could only ever dream of.
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1977
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PUNK ROCK: A HISTORY composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 40% | |
| 1970s | 3 | 60% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| MC5 | 1 | 20% | |
| The Stooges | 1 | 20% | |
| Television | 1 | 20% | |
| Patti Smith | 1 | 20% | |
| Sex Pistols | 1 | 20% |
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