Punk
This is Peter Inskip coming to you live from triple j, with this week's segment in our Music and Society' series. For the next half hour we'll be looking at the punk music scene starting in the mid-seventies.
Punk was born in the early 70's in New York, and is still evolving.
No other style in the history of rock, has been so uncompromising, or made such a dramatic impression as Punk Rock. The two versions of punk, the original American and its British descendent, were very different.
British punk was aggressive and angry. It demanded immediate change and had no interest in working for the solution. The Sex Pistols typified British Punk with such songs as "Anarchy In The UK," which did not give a thought to anarchy's effect.
American punk seemed lazy by comparison. It was sarcastic where the English version was more violent; the British pushed one step further, thus gaining more recognition.
The first of the punk rock bands to be signed up with a record......
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