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If Talking Heads = Punk, then Britney Spears = Hevay Metal.

FUck Off idiot

As one who spent the late 70s covered in phlegm at Sex Pistols and Clash gigs, I can comfortably tell you to go snuggle in your Grandma's Crotch.

Talking Heads were post-punk art-house. A fine band (the lovely Tina once licked my hand and David Byrne spoke to me (He said "Who the FUck are you?"), but they're as punk as Mister Mister and NKOTB.

I concede that USA did have a handful of punk bands (New York Dolls and latterly, Greenday) but for spitting, vicious, raw punk, you need to be in the UK.

Now STFU, go to that Myspace Link I gave you and be edjamacated.

I'm going to check it out at home, but according to the Music hall of fame you're wrong. To the best of my knowledge they opened for one of the larger more credited punk bands/clubs in New York. (CGBG's) I'm not really big into the Ramones, but the Clash is all fun and games.

Greenday 1st album = punk

Beatles 1968-70 = motown

My point was that Greenday's 3-piece raw energy without clinical post-production makes them more punk than anything else stateside.

It kills me that today's yoof talks about punk and never heard The Damned, The Slits or Stiff Little Fingers.

You sound like an old Aunt saying that The Carpenters were Rock'n'Roll

Good.

Maybe not so much the Clash, but more Naked Rayguns meets Husker Du?

The Ramones and the New York Dolls aside, if you want American Punk, you have to listen groups that came out SoCal in the late Seveneties and early Eighties- Social Distortion, TSOL, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendancies.

And the Heads? Boring, Sidney, Boring!

Edited, Mar 4th 2007 6:05pm by LordSpamalot

I, for one, would be loath to argue pop music against one who looks so much like Eric Clapton and Robin Gibb.

So add to friends and spread the word!

Because there's some talk about Punk on this continent, I'm just going to toss out some more band names: Minor Threat, Black Flag, Descendents, NoFX, Strung Out.

If I wanted to I could list at least half of the lineup on Fat Wreck Chords...but I won't.


I like what I hear from the band you linked Nobby. Added and such. Will introduce friends to it.

Black Flag is old-school...or old-skool if you're younger than 30. Yea, they rock. Henry Rollins is cool.

Henry Rollins is 48, so it is getting there. This thread reminds me though that I have to go beat up my friend to get my copy of Get in the Van back.


As for punk, while I am no expert on the topic I have listened to my fair share of the Clash, Dead Kennedy's, Black Flag, Ramones, Circle Jerks, etc and it is fair to say that Green Days first album and even The Offspring (best selling indie album ever, look it up) are 'punk' the bands later albums are popcorn punk at best and flat out pop rock abortions at their worst.

Edited, Mar 5th 2007 7:27am by bodhisattva

Talking Heads is so punk

The term you're looking for is 'New Wave'.

I think where you get confused is that there was a punk scene which spawned the Talking Heads, though in fact they weren't part of that scene itself. I think they were separated largely because of class differences which made their music affectations quite different. Other bands were similar, like Blondie, which was a New Wave band that began their career at places like CBGB's in NYC, a home to many in the New York Punk scene, but not actually part of that musical genre.

By the by, if you talk about American Vs. English Punk music, I think you are largely talking about music with different origins which largely converged to reject the more corporatized music of early 70s and its excessive Bombast. The American punk scene had bands like the Stooges, MC5, Patti Smith and the Ramones which was largely a scene split off from the English Scene until the early 80s. The origins of American punk was garage rock and surfer music.

The punk movement in the UK developed differently, with different homegrown influences and different aesthetics. Now if you want to argue that it was the Sex Pistols or the Ramones that were the first true punk band, it misses the point of how the music actually developed.