The timeline of punk rock music
- By the 1990s, punk rock had re-emerged in the mainstream, as pop punk bands such as Green Day and the Offspring brought the genre widespread popularity.
- The term "punk" was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. By late 1976, bands such as the New York Dolls, Television, and the Ramones in New York City, the Clash, and the Damned in London were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement
- The first wave of punk rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock.[3] According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, "In its initial form, a lot of [1960s] stuff was innovative and exciting
- An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment (ranging from deliberately offensive T-shirts, leather jackets, spike bands and other studded or spiked jewelry
What is punk rock music ?
- punk rock music is usually described as a political,raw,and crude music style
- some popular punk bands include the ramones,MC5,the 13th floor elevator. just to name a few
- punk rock music during the 60's is most commonly reffered as garage rock or 60's punk
- The style is characterized by the frequent use of basic chord structures played on electric guitars and other instruments, sometimes distorted through a fuzzbox, as well as often unsophisticated, occasionally aggressive, lyrics and delivery.
- By the early 1980s, faster and more aggressive styles such as hardcore punk (e.g. Minor Threat), street punk (e.g. the Exploited), and anarcho-punk (e.g. Crass) had become the predominant mode of punk rock