The Cd which liza brought from London… great 1! (:
not that im Punk or smth, but i sometimes listen to it, especially the tracks from this Cd .
here’s the “who invented punk?” text from the Cd cover..
it’s quite interesting , so if ure not 2 lazy, read it…
who invented punk? well, let’s say it was a transatlantic community effort. from New York, Richard Hell brought the ripped R-shirt and the New York Dolls brought the sleazy romance. From London, Sex Pistols brought the tabloid shock effect, The Cash brought the politics and broadened the musical template.
but those were really just finishing touches to a dirty , ever-growing, rolling snowball of a musical genre which had been spiritually alive for at least a decade before anyone gave it a name. in the second half of the Sixties , the American garage-band boom, catalogued in yhe mid-Seventies by the original Nuggets album, borrowed the noisy, anti-social , scornful elements of the Kinks and The Who and inadvertently created a textbook fot the bands that would follow . The Sonics in Seattle, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators in Texas, The Seeds in LA and San Jose’s Chocolate Watchband all chipped it and are all featured here, each illustrating the aspect of the surly social rebellion at the heart of everything that can poperly be called punk.
between the late-sixties and the middle-seventies , punk, still without a name, picked up much of its traction in the American mid-west. In Michigan, Igy Pop graduated from scattered garage scene and gave punk its first loser icon. From the very same town, the MC5 gave punk its first political voice. In Cleverland , Ohio, David thomas, later of post-punk survivors Pere Ubu , put another spoke in the wheel with lost proto-punks Rocket From The Tombs.
If punk had held anything sacred, those bands would have been its sacred texts , but there wasn’t a strict template, and this was no cosy club. The veriety of music covered by punk from 1977 onwards, when it was finally christened, wasas broad as any scene that ever was, and the scenesters of New York and London, ultumetely the thwin capitals of punk, weren’t exactly penpals.
In New Yors, Patti Smith might have been classed as a ounk, but Johny Rotten derided Horses as “horseshit” and her band as “Hippies”. He might have approveed rather more of brutal, electronic art-rockers Suicide, and then again, he might not. New York’s Television and London’s Only Ones had much in common-lyrical, musically ornate bands with no fear of being clever-but when they toured together, the two camps hardly spoke.and the tension wasn’t only between bands: The Ramones didn’t even talk among themselves. For 22 years, On the same bus.
By definition, an outsider scene collects together the individuals who don’t fit anywhere else. Jonathan Richman was a former Velvet Underground acolyte and, as history shows, a genuine one-off; Wayne Country was a pre-op transsexual with an attitude; Johnny Thunders was a very literally die-hard punkwho had ingested-among other things-sixties girl-groups and Gene Vincent rock & roll
Ian Dury and the Blockheads knew their history, too, having drilled in the pub-rocks scene, but they were as unique a band as the world has seen. the more orthodox UK punks -Sham 69 , The UK subs, The Damned-where do-it-yourself bands who owed hardly anything to anyone. The Dead Kennedys. meanwhile, were the California branch of the same dysfunctionall mess. if they weere somewhat more politically committed than many punk bands, you wouldn’t necessarily know it from Too Drunk To Fuck.
this compilation shows the breadth and dislocation of the punk movement, and it demonstrates a unity as well- the intensity and vigour of young, alienated people who don’t relate to the world too well.
2007 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Queen’s silver jubilee year, when punk terrorised the nation. But punks is more than 30 years old , and it didn’t come from London, or even New Yors- it came from all over the place, entirely bu accident.
Pat Gilbert (2007)
phew, wasnt easy typing (or what is writing-on-the keyboard called xD) this texst you know… the fingers are achin’..
oh, and here’s the track listing:
| 1. Identity |
| 2. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Ian Dury |
| 3. Another Girl, Another Planet – The Only Ones |
| 4. Born to Lose [Lost '77 Mix] – Johnny Thunders |
| 5. Too Drunk to F*cK – Dead Kennedys |
| 6. Judy Is a Punk – The Ramones |
| 7. Tight Pants – Iggy Pop |
| 8. Kick out the Jams [Live] – MC5 |
| 9. Roadrunner (Once) – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers |
| 10. I Don’t Wanna – Sham 69 |
See all 14 tracks on this disc |
| 1. I’m Not Like Everybody Else – The Chocolate Watchband |
| 2. Louie Louie |
| 3. Excuse, Excuse – The Seeds |
| 4. Kill for Peace – The Fugs |
| 5. Through My Eyes – The Creation |
| 6. Slip Inside This House – 13th Floor Elevators |
| 7. Looking for a Kiss [Rehearsal '72] – New York Dolls |
| 8. Agitated – The Electric Eels |
| 9. Piss Factory – Patti Smith |
| 10. Speedqueen |
and the Amazon link.. http://www.amazon.com/Punk-F-Art-Lets-Danse/dp/B000N39HKS
(hm.. they should pay me for advertisin : | )