hammer205
5:16 Sun Jul 28
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The lead singer was related to taggart the actor
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Bungo
4:20 Sun Jul 28
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Nurse Ratched 3:54 Sun Jul 28
I make you right on all fronts.
Can we add my own preferred genre of my youth, 'Heavy Metal' in there too?
I piss myself laughing at some of the stuff I thought was great 40 years ago.
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Woden
4:05 Sun Jul 28
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Oh and Iggy of course.
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Woden
4:04 Sun Jul 28
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The Clash silly Nurse?
Yes some Punk was silly but it led to New Wave therefore Joy Division /New Order etc. So influential fuck yeah.
Anyway the cool people were listening to Roxy, Bowie and Kraftwerk at that time.
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Bungo
4:01 Sun Jul 28
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chim chim cha boo 3:45 Sun Jul 28
Which objective measure do you prefer to use?
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Nurse Ratched
3:54 Sun Jul 28
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Glam rock = silly.
Punk rock = silly
Boys (it's always boys) who take music too seriously = silly.
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Woden
3:53 Sun Jul 28
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Total utter dross.
Thank fuck for punk.
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chim chim cha boo
3:45 Sun Jul 28
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Punk didn't change anything?
You're basing that on the charts at the time too?
Fuck. My. Old. Boots.
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joe royal
2:18 Sun Jul 28
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Feeding of the 5000 was a far better album.
Defence? Shit, it's nothing less than war
And no-one but the government knows what the fuck it's for.
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medwayhammer1
1:22 Sun Jul 28
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Probably one of the better "Glam" bands but thats not saying much...Teenage Rampage and Ballroom Blitz are top tunes though! Saw em at that world famous venue The Brentwood Lesiure Centre, tail end of the 80's? BC was the only original in them though...loads of the Essex punks there and they started with Ballroom Blitz, 5 min intro and then bang into it and all us punks going mental.
Oh and Punk changed more then most people realise....chucks another veggie rasher in frying pan and whacks on Stations of the Crass :-)
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Bungo
9:25 Sat Jul 27
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Far Cough 9:16 Sat Jul 27
May well have been, but again, look at the sales of Genesis and Pink Floyd in the late 70s and early 80s. Their commercially most successful periods ever.
Punk was all good fun, but a brief sideshow for the music industry.
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Far Cough
9:16 Sat Jul 27
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I always thought punk was a response to prog rock?
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Nurse Ratched
9:03 Sat Jul 27
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"It's a shit business"
Les McQueen
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joe royal
9:00 Sat Jul 27
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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
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joe royal
8:58 Sat Jul 27
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I think rumours is still in the charts.
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Bungo
8:29 Sat Jul 27
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Athletico Easthamico 8:16 Sat Jul 27
Yup, punk really shook things up. Below are the best selling albums in the UK from 1977.
Best not look at 1978 as that was dominated by Grease, Saturday Night Fever, ABBA and Boney M, all heavily influenced by The Clash.
Lots of great bands listed in your post. Did they shake up the mainstream? Probably not.
1 Arrival - ABBA
2 20 Golden Greats - The Shadows
3 20 Golden Greats - Diana Ross and the Supremes
4 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
5 A Star Is Born - Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson
6 Hotel California - Eagles
7 The Sound of Bread - Bread
8 The Johnny Mathis Collection - Johnny Mathis
9 Greatest Hits - ABBA
10 Animals - Pink Floyd
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Nurse Ratched
8:20 Sat Jul 27
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You forgot to mention Creme Brulee. And Smokey (they were a good outfit, weren't they?)
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Athletico Easthamico
8:16 Sat Jul 27
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Bungo
OK, when punk went "mainstream" it shook the tree for a couple of years. That helped all the shit disappear and only the best survived.
I remember watching TOTP and it was Glam Rock, hairy arsed wankers banging out boring guitar solos, The Osmond's, David Cassidy and endless novelty acts.
Thank fuck something changed the musical scene.
As for the late 70s?? Great, the emergence of The Specials, Madness, The Jam, The Clash, The Stranglers, Squeeze, The Undertones and many more.
Unless you were still pining for The Sweet, Slade, The Rubettes, Mud, Showadawaddy, Gary Glitter , Alvin Stardust...…..
Bloody hell I preferred the New Romantic groups.
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Lertie Button
7:49 Sat Jul 27
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Brickies with make up, the poofy one was an irritating cunt and Chinn and Chapman (the Stock Aitken Waterman of the early 70s) wrote the songs, basically Westlife with beer guts.
All together now "Wig, wam, bam, going to make you my man".
Fuck me there are some Clueless cunts on here
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Nurse Ratched
7:42 Sat Jul 27
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https://youtu.be/phkpLJXuHZA
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