Into the sobs of a child crying alone in a dark room. Soundtrack of angry young men but, by the end of the decade, had turned Terminal stage of introversion ("emo-core"). Trajectory that took them from the initial stance of nihilism andĮxhibitionism to a stage of no-nonsense sociopolitical awareness to a Roughly, these waves of punks followed an existential In fact, punk-rock of the 1980s consisted of a series of tidal waves of When it happened, this "hardcore"įorm of punk-rock became the national idiom for millions of kids, and The USA the way it had conquered Britain. It took a while for "punk-rock" (as in "violent, fast, loud") to conquer Punks listened to Patti Smith, Television and Suicide. Heroin addicts with barbaric haircuts and leather clothes. New beatniks, the new hipsters, the new bohemians, not necessarily the Punk-rock was hardly what the British thought it was. Spread around the world like wild fire and come back to the USA like aġ976 was the year that punk-rock became a mass phenomenon in Britain. Ramones) had started something that would Three New York bands (the New York Dolls, the Dictators and the New York's scum 1977-81 TM, ®, Copyright © 2005 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved. ( These are excerpts from my book "A History of Rock and Dance Music")
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