Hellboy the Hand wrote:
Nobby wrote:
Hellboy the Hand wrote:
The only punk I listen to is The Talking Heads, how do they compare?
If Talking Heads = Punk, then Britney Spears = Hevay Metal.
F
Uck Off idiot
Talking Heads is so punk, if you don't know the genre your talking about then perhaps you should be the one off to fu
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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.