Punk Rock

Although Rock and Roll’s most promising performers are gone, the rock and roll music still lived in the early sass, constantly adapting and creating different kinds of music, and still, rock and roll lived by its successors like Elvis Presley, a legacy was born and still adored by many rock and roll music enthusiasts. And later, the famous groups like The Beetles and Led Zeppelin emerged from the rock music scene in United Kingdom, but, at the progress of the continuously evolving rock and roll, a new genre was developed, one of the first submerges of rock and roll music and garage music.Punk rock music became a huge success around the world in the late sass (Yule, 201 0), with its fast, trashy, and rebellion-like lyrics; indeed, Punk is a “revolution” and a success to the audience, which was adored by many Punk rock fanatics by the time of its formation, 1969, until the present Punk rock music.

Punk influenced us in many ways, including music, fashion, and the Punk culture, and still, Punk is one of the popular musical genres in world music. The “Punk” word came from the late sixteenth century, commonly known as “prostitute” and was also used by Shakespeare himself in some of his novels.It was eventually to describe a mobster, or a hooligan. Dave Marsh, an American Rock Music punk Rock: Through History 2 Critic was the first to coin the term “Punk Rock” in the May 1971 issue of CREME, a rock oriented magazine (Woods, “Interview with Dave Marsh”). Punk rock originated from “Garage rock” music, making it as the “incarnation of garage rock”, for its aggressive tune and loud visualization the two have in common. Punk got its sources from the late trash culture originally from United Kingdom, which is associated with low educational and artistic value (Cerebrate, 2004).Most Punk songs contain the presence of the other instruments like drums, bass guitar, and of course, the electric guitar.

The drumbeats produce pounding noise and monotonous tempos which is very present in most of the punk songs at its first phase in history. Songs containing non-sense lines, fast drum beats, and most likely, using a 3 Chord Progression signifies a Punk rock song (King, 2007), and also, the “DID” (Do it yours elf) practice, a famous ethic made by the earlier Punk artists as they record and produce their own songs and distributing them by their own, also tied as the first Punk rock record (Trigs, 2006).Distortion pedals or overdrive pedals are being used to provide more heavy and loud tune to make a song powerful. Distortion pedals produce richer sound and more “crunchy” tone. It was popularized by the previous rock genre, notable users of distortion pedal are Jim Hendrix, the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music (BIMBO, 2003), and George Harrison, the lead guitarist of the famous British rock band, The Beetles (Lying, 2001). Punk is really different from rock and roll music, although its origins came from rock and OLL.Indeed, Punk is a garage music that emerged from the underground music scene which is now admired by many artists and bands across the globe, influential in terms of music, fashion and culture.

Punk Rock: Through History 3 By the mid sass, Punk rock was to describe numerous acts of The Patti Smith Group, Bruce Springiness, and The Ramose in New York, while Sex Pistols and The Clash in London. The Ramose, also known as the Tangerine Puppets before their breakthrough success(Elation, 1 997) , invaded the music scene by the year of 1975, doing their first gigs in the famous CB (Country,Blue Grass, and Blues) Music Club which is also the bar that made other Punk rock bands emerge from the underground music scene. According to John Hailstorm, the founding editor of Punk Magazine said in an interview of BBC (British Broadcasting Company), “l felt punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that bands like Billy Joel and Simon and Gargantuan were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music “. (McAllen, 2006) A different story lies down in London; punk music for them is “riot”, anarchy for some manage rebels.Because of the many anti-government movements, Punk also reshaped music into a revolution, making Punk rock music listeners in London as rebels, especially the teenagers. The songs contain hard lyrics which signify a revolt against the government, political songs by Punk bands. Sex Pistol’s first single, “Anarchy in the ELK” was the first song to be connected with anarchy and Punk rock music (Cooper).

Politics in the united Kingdom affected the emotional growth of the young people, so that’s why in the next few years, young people of United Kingdom became punks.Many Punk bands in the United Kingdom compose lyrics such as criticizing the government, the entertainment media (including music), and the Western nation, just like The Calash’s 1977 song “I’m so punk Rock: Through History 4 Bored with the USA”. This really signifies that until the 20th century, still there are some cases that the United Kingdom and the United States still has misunderstanding in terms of culture of the both sides. A few years after the success of the Punk era, many underground cultures emerged from the local music scene in Southern California.As they call it the new wave”, a submerge of rock music that emerged in company with punk music, although Punk became more popular and the early ass to the mid ass. This new genre entered the music scene in the early ass, with its new sound, style, and the electronic sounds made by the synthesizers, The New Wave era killed the anarchism and thrash population of Punk fanatics by the time of its success (Gordon, 2009). The Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978 because of some misunderstandings between the band members.

In the late ass, New Wave bands such as the Depended Mode, The Go-Go’s and artists like Cindy Lapper nominated the top hit charts.Punk submerged and was left behind, only a few were making it in the Top Charts, Many other genres just emerged and made it in the world music scene such as Hardcore punk, developed in Southern California. With its aggressive beats, shouting vocals, it is way heavier than the original Punk itself. Another story lies again in London, wherein Ii! , another submerge of Punk, grows its popularity in 1980. Although Ii! Is a submerge Of punk, there are some differences that separates them, including the lyrics, it contains less-political lyrics (less anarchism). The Ii! Movement was stuck in a controversy just because of the Ii!Compilation album entitled “Strength Thru Ii! ” Its album covers an image of a Punk Rock: Through History 5 Notorious British Movement Activist and also a neo-Nazi, Knick Crane (Petrifies, 2010). After the controversy, Punk music fans began to lose their momentum.

The year 1987, Punk’s new era, where “Popular Music and Punk was revived, and now they call it Pop Punk. As new bands arise and acclaim breakout success, particularly the California band, Green Day. Formed by the lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong alongside with Mike Dirt , their bassist and Bilge’s childhood friend.Green Day was once called “Sweet Children”, before changing it to “Green Day”. They’ve started doing their shows in 1 987 at Rod’s Hickory Pit, where Bilge’s mother was working (Nelson, 2004). In 1 994, Green Day released their major label debut, Dioxide. It was recorded in just three weeks, and Dioxide became a commercial success with its popular singles such as When Come Around, Basket Case, and Long View.

Dioxide won the Grammar Award for the Best Alternative Album, and it sold over 10 million copies in the United States and 15 million copies worldwide, and eventually it as recognized and giving it the title “diamond status”(Rural, 2005) .In 1996, Green Days success declined and but still striving to make it in the top charts as some of their songs that are included in their 1 997 album Nimrod, like Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), debuted number two in the Australia Singles Chart (http://WV. Notes. Com/topic/ List_of_Top_25_singles_for_1 998_in_Australia) Good Riddance won the band an MAT Video Award for Best Alternative Video directed by Mark Koori. Green Day’s success eventually went down in 1999, as other pop Punk Punk Rock: Through History 6 Bands became more popular like Blink-1 82.But in 2003, the band began working on their seventh studio album, American Idiot. And after the years of hiatus, Green Day is back and made it again in the mainstream Punk.

American Idiot is a “rock opera”, a musical telling a story of a young man and the main protagonist of the story “Saint Jimmy/’ also known as the “Jesus of Suburbia”, a man living in a cruel world as Billie Joe told in the lyrics of the song Jesus of Suburbia , “I’m the son of rage and love, the Jesus of Suburbia” (Armstrong, 2004) The renewed success for Green Day gave them the opportunity to regain their status way back the first years of Green Day.The singles released in the album were the American Idiot, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams and their number one hit “anthem”, Wake Me LCP When September Ends. Green Days tremendous success influenced more underground musicians in creating Punk music as The Ramose influenced Green Day by their songs (Leech, 2004). After Green Days renewal success in 2004, many underground musicians signed into major labels and like the band New Found Glory, which is famous for reviving past non-Punk hits like “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer, ND “King of Wishful Thinking” by the British pop band Go West.And many more Punk bands emerged in commercial success, like the Simple Plan, Sum 41, and My Chemical Romance, releasing their third studio album entitled the Black Parade, which introduced the band’s first chart-topping single in ELK, Welcome to the Black Parade. It was ranked number 1 7 on Rolling Stone’s “The Best 100 Songs Of 2006” (http://www. Pinkness.

Org/article/21 291) In 2009, Green Day released their eighth studio album, 21 SST Century Breakdown, their Punk Rock: Through History 7 second “rock opera” about a story a young couple named Christian andGloria. The Rolling Stone Magazine said that the album is “the most personal, emotionally conclusive record Armstrong has ever written” (Fricke, 2009). The first single “Know Your Enemy’, hit the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks reaching number one. Green Day still serves as an inspiration to other Punk bands making their way to success. Many of the mainstream Pop Punk stars still makes it in the commercial industry of music, and still providing the wider audience and the “Punks” music they really desire, just like in the earlier Punk years.Punk Rock: Through History 8 Punk music served as most of the punk musicians’ greatest inspiration in making their songs, promoting their band, and most importantly, spreading the Punk culture and making it known, not only by the music itself, but the people surrounding the genre, including the punk bands and the notable performances and history made by the first Punk artists such as The Ramose.And until now, Punk still lives on, as many Punk-cultured bands around the world still preserve the idea of the “Do-it-yourself” ethic which made value at the early stage of Punk, although it seems to be a negative Hough to some, especially in the government, Punk lead a bright way to many aspiring artists to create music which is different among the others.

Lyrics which made the Punk teenagers express their feelings and to show what they can do fiftieth bound into something that is not right, to express “freedom”.