Portal:Punk rock
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Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music movement which began around 1974–1975. Roots reach back to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash.
Pop punk is a fusion genre combining the catchy attributes of some of the original punk rock groups with trends in contemporary pop music. Pop punk music is usually more melodic and cleaner-sounding than the original punk rock music of the late 1970s. It developed in several cities throughout the world in the 1980s and early 1990s, although it was largely California-based bands that achieved widespread popularity in the mid 1990s. The sound broke into the mainstream with the popularity of Green Day and The Offspring's respective albums, Dookie and Smash. Other pop punk bands who have achieved mainstream success include blink-182, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Sum 41, New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! at the Disco.
The Clash were an English rock group that existed from 1976 to 1986. One of the most successful and iconic bands from the original wave of punk rock in the late 1970s, they went on to incorporate punk with reggae, rockabilly, dance and eventually many other music styles into their repertoire. They were legendary for their uncommonly intense stage performances.
From their earliest days as a band, The Clash stood apart from their peers with their musicianship, as well as their lyrics; the passionate, left wing political idealism in the lyrics of frontmen Joe Strummer and Mick Jones contrasted with the anarchic nihilism of the Sex Pistols and the basic simplicity of The Ramones. Although they were a major success in the UK from the release of their first album in 1977, they did not become popular in the U.S. until 1980.
Their third album, the late 1979 release London Calling is considered by many critics one of the greatest albums in the entire history of rock music; it was then released in the U.S. in January, 1980 and a decade later Rolling Stone magazine declared it the best album of the 1980s.
The group's second single, released by Virgin on 27 May 1977 was "God Save the Queen", a stinging attack on the ideals and institutions of Britain, delivered in Johnny's trademark sneer. The song is summarized in the line "There is no future ... in England's dreaming," which became a de facto position statement for British punk. The song was widely perceived as a personal attack on Her Majesty, and seemed to be personally offensive to most of his countrymen. Rotten however stated that the song was not specifically aimed at the Queen's person at all ("God save the queen/We mean it man!"), but was written to attack the 'old order' of British Society. Coming at a time when deference to royalty was still a predominant trait in both the establishment and the country as a whole, it caused tremendous public outcry, and the record was quickly banned from airplay by the BBC, whose Radio 1 dominated music broadcasting at the time. As Rotten later remarked, "We had declared war on the entire country—without meaning to!"
- The Warped Tour started June 15 and will go until August 13. Bands playing are AFI, The Academy Is, Anti Flag, Catch-22, Hellogoodbye, Motion City Soundtrack, NOFX, Underoath, Zox, and more.
Subgenres
Fusion Genres
- Anti-folk
- Chicano punk
- Death Rock
- Folk punk
- Funkcore
- Jazz punk
- Deathcountry
- Psychobilly
- Queercore
- Ska Punk
- Two Tone
Derivative Forms
- "A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'" Billie Joe Armstrong
- "Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fuuckin' thing!" Mike Dirnt
- "We're like, Fisher-Price: My First Punk Band." blink-182
Popular Punk Slogans
- "Punk's not dead!"
- "Fight war, not wars!"
- "Do it yourself"
- "There's no authority but yourself"
- "Sid's not dead!"
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