Was there any good punk rock?

[Grinderman]

 

[zubrycky]

It's all Los Saicos' fault. Damn Peruvians!

 

[Grinderman]

 

[zubrycky]

From Bolivia.

 

[bolophonic]

Here is a great example of something I love about punk music: the “lead bass” approach.

 

[Grinderman]

It's all Los Saicos' fault. Damn Peruvians!

Shut up, DAD!

That's awesome music.

 

[zubrycky]

Shut up, DAD!

That's awesome music.

It was an ironical post. Long live Los Saicos!

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Grinderman]

Man, I ******* hate the Eagles.

 

[zubrycky]

Some friends of mine. Two of the best shows I ever saw.

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Grinderman]

Someone else can argue about what this is or isn't.

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Grinderman]

 

[bolophonic]

Here is another one that epitomizes punk creativity to me. Such a sparse, but brutal arrangement.

 

[Nebula24]

Rewatching Mudhoneys I'm now for 100th time since i love grunge). Feel mark arms final statement fits perfectly with punk.

We do it to amuse ourselves. It still does (so we still do it even if not paid or praised).

To me, no matter how its musically defined, is punk. We do what we want cuz we enjoy it. Who cares if others dont. Also feel that means its garage rock. Would be banging out notes in garage just cuz we wanna. Same vibe to me.

 

[flannel cat]

Rewatching Mudhoneys I'm now for 100th time since i love grunge). Feel mark arms final statement fits perfectly with punk.

We do it to amuse ourselves. It still does (so we still do it even if not paid or praised).

To me, no matter how its musically defined, is punk. We do what we want cuz we enjoy it. Who cares if others dont. Also feel that means its garage rock. Would be banging out notes in garage just cuz we wanna. Same vibe to me.

never heard of this doc,or movie from mudhoney details please..

 

[flannel cat]

 

[Evanforbass]

You really fall for that cliche of ‘punk rock’ ineptness, don’t you? Punk/New Wave/whatever else saved rock from the mediocrity that was going on at the time, at least for some of us. The labels actually ignored it for the most part, because the people running them had too much money tied up in bombastic arena rockers, and didn’t understand the new culture anyway, and were afraid of losing control. It was a grassroots movement, with roots in music dating back to the 60’s, even the 50’s, where the people involved took control themselves, finding the clubs, putting out their own records, setting up their own tours, publishing their own fanzines, and not waiting for corporate tastemakers to tell them what to listen to. That negative criteria you mentioned? That could be used to describe plenty of one hit wonder garage bands of the mid-60’s, or maybe even The Stones. If ‘rock’ has died, it’s from old age. MTV itself killed music in the grand scheme of things.

This is a great response. Punk undoubtedly changed rock music and revitalized it- though yes I too am skeptical about the claim that it lowered the bar to some abysmal degree for labels. The majority of punk in the 80s was not commercial and not released by major labels, but spun a network of independent and diy music making— that’s rock and roll.
The amount of rock bands and genres we consider canon simply would not have existed without the rise of punk. No Nirvana, no Metallica, no Talking Heads, no Green Day, no…