Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk

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• TR

  @TrashTheory · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  So what did you think? Did I miss anything this time around? Comment down below!<br><br>PROTOPUNK SPOTIFY PLAYLIST is available free via my patreon: <a href="http://patreon.com/trashtheory">patreon.com/trashtheory </a><br>Also Official Trash Theory playlist - Spotify: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yxp32pjf">tinyurl.com/yxp32pjf</a> &nbsp;Deezer: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y2mdp8h2">tinyurl.com/y2mdp8h2</a>

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• AD

  @ade1963 · 4 years ago

  even now, at 59 years old, I get a chill down my back and goosebumps when I hear the opening bars of Anarchy in the UK

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• DA

  @Dave_Sisson · 4 years ago

  On Joy Division&apos;s Still album, they have a live cover of Velvet Underground&apos;s Sister Ray and at the end Ian Curtis jokes &quot;You should hear our version of Louie Louie&quot;. I suspect Joy Division never played Louie Louie, but it does indicate how important and influential that track still was as late as 1980.

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• 96

  @96special · 2 years ago

  Really love when a YouTuber goes back to their catalog and updates old videos with the new quality. No substitute for years of practice.

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• PA

  @pangloss9 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a person who lived through the 70’s, this is the best historical compilation of all the influences which came together to create punk, which I’ve ever seen. Fantastically well done!

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• SW

  @sweeneyrules1 · 3 years ago

  Bob Dylan going electric might of been the most “punk” move of the 60s.

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• KA

  @kazutinoco8348 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Thanks for including one band from my country, Los Saicos. Unfortunately, they didn&apos;t receive the fame and recognition they deserved, but they are at least known abroad.

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• EG

  @eguerza619 · 4 years ago

  I think this video needs its own sequel &quot;After 1976&quot; showing what punk became and how it ramified. There is no genre like punk music, and I think your ending really encapsulated that. Above all, punk was and still is a life attitude. The fact that nowadays we have so many subgenera. &nbsp;From the Irish style punk mixing traditional Celtic songs and instruments to the west coast, communitarian surfer attitude of certain hardcore bands like Pennywise, and the ska/skinhed culture of British youngsters finely portrayed in Shane Meadows&apos; This is England. Man, you really gotta make one of your video essays about the aftermath of early punk music.

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• JE

  @jessop- · 4 years ago

  Glad you mentioned the cramps, I think their importance gets overlooked. Their attitude was 100% punk.

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• NA

  @NASkeywest · 2 years ago

  “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.”<br>Is my vote for coldest line in history!

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• SI

  @sirfizz6518 · 4 years ago

  The UK has such a staggering legacy of great musical innovation, it&apos;s great when there&apos;s no need to perpetuate some frivolous old rivalry. If one is from the UK or USA (like me) we&apos;re just lucky to be born into the legacy of two nations that have together almost exclusively defined pop culture for over 100 years.<br><br>Here&apos;s to many more years of great music from wherever in the world artists have the urge to start something.

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• MR

  @MrVisde · 4 years ago

  Love the chronology here. This is what appealed to me so much about Punk: how connected it is to early rock n roll, r&amp;b, and garage rock.

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