food for the PUNKbrains...

[JOPER JOHN]

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY (do it yourself) ethic, with many bands self-producing their recordings and distributing them through informal channels.

By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world. Punk quickly, though briefly, became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive clothing styles and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies.

By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rock movement. By the turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, with bands such as Green Day and The Offspring bringing the genre widespread popularity.

[JOPER JOHN]

post kita digdi k mga infos and trivia regarding PUNK,bko lang internationally,nationaly kundi ,bicolandially

para aram ta and madagdagan ta knowledge ta kung sisay kita!!

katuwaan lang ba...

and seryoso...

hahaha!

[celsa]

The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as The Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials -- four chords; a simple, catchy melody; and irresistibly inane lyrics -- and speeding up the tempo considerably, the Ramones created something that was rooted in early '60s, pre-Beatles rock & roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. Since their breakthrough was theoretical as well as musical, they comfortably became the leaders of the emerging New York punk rock scene. While their peers such as Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell all were more intellectual and self-consciously artistic than the Ramones, they nevertheless appealed to the same mentality because of the way they turned rock conventions inside out and celebrated kitschy pop culture with stylized stupidity. The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades. And the Ramones themselves were major figures for the next two decades, playing essentially the same music without changing their style much at all. Although some punk diehards -- including several of their peers -- would have claimed the band's long career wound up undercutting the ideals the band originally stood for, the Ramones always celebrated not just the punk aesthetic, but the music itself.

[brite]

ramones were not the 1st punk rock band...i believe...they were just one of the early punx to be known...hehe
may mga debate baga ngani jan sa kung ano talaga ang inot na punk band...kung sain talaga hali sang genre punk...
and siguro hanggang ngonyan dae pa man napapatunayan...hehe ( correct me if sarala ang pinag sasabi ko..)

[brite]

THE STRAND...

Like any musical genre, it's hard to pinpoint the time and place where PUNK actually began
Some say the underlying roots of punk was the frustration and anger from being treated as sheep, while others say punk stemmed from the "politics of boredom." It was both.

Malcolm McLaren has an indelible role in the history of punk rock, either beloved or hated for his managerial skills.
He managed the Dolls of New York(changed later to New York Dolls), owned the shop Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die--New York.Malcom tried to revive the lagging career of The New York Dolls, but unfortunately failed.He was the one who gave the band's identity as born again communists.

After his attempt with the New York Dolls, McLaren relocated to England,and handled a band that was arguably his greatest success, The Sex Pistols formerly known as The Strand. McLaren and the Pistols adopted an anarchistic view of the world that made them instantaneous celebrities. With spiked hair, tattered clothes, and safety pins as jewelry, they frequented talk shows and publicly badmouthed fellow artists, bands, and musicians. They spoke harshly of the British class system and the subjugation of the working class. They made news for concert violence and fighting with fans. The Sex Pistols were also as notorious for their brashness as they were for their inability to play their instruments.

Their shock value not only brought them fame, but made them the single most recognizable punk band. Therefore, many believed that punk rock began with the Pistols, while others believed it made punk into a novelty and signified the beginning of the end.

But I'm not insisting na sinda talaga ang pinaka inot na punk band ah...hehe
many believed they were, just like many believed Ramones and others...

[JOPER JOHN]

alright!

can anyone knows kung sisay naman ang nagpasimuno kang punk scene s pilipinas??