Maybe some Greatest Hits of the 20th Century
158 videos • 8,844 views • by tom d Some of this is PUNK ROCK. some is post punk. The Stooges first album is punk. Fully formed from the band member's experiences in the rock scene in Michigan in the late 1960s. Their second album, Fun House, is a bit different and might not be what most would call 'punk', but the attitude is still there.The New York Dolls are gone thanks to whoever owns their back catalog. they were punk, no qualifiers needed. the late Johnny Thunders, descansa en la paz, is here though, or his music is anyway. Fast forward to 1973 and the albums Raw Power and New York Dolls were released. so were Goat's Head Soup and Houses of the Holy. i was a 13 year-old punk and i knew that these 4 albums couldn't be placed in the same category by any stretch of the imagination. I like them all, but i was a punk and the New York Dolls was a record that was accessible to me. Raw Power was not. I never saw it until many years later. The music of Iggy and the Stooges wasn't easy to come by where i grew up, but i read about him in the rock press. now, when i listen to rock music, it is usually Iggy Pop, aka Mr. James 'Jim' Osterberg. Power is a dangerous thing, but Raw Power is just great. Kill City sounds pretty dangerous, too, but i think it is one of the best albums made in the '70s. no it's not exactly punk but post punk for sure. and the list is made more interesting i think with the addition of post punk bands U2, REM, and Television, the group of course._ But this music would be incomplete without the Velvet Underground. Some of their songs like punk rock, but they certainly weren't punks. A student from Juliard and two literature majors from a university in New York? no, and most of their music doesn't even sound like punk. Nice attitude, but not punks, if someone wants to use that useless term proto-punk, i guess it could fit on some of their music, but not the band members. They were part of the NYC art scene in the 60s. Not a punk rock affair. So, here's some punk rock from the 1970s that i like because it reminds me that I Wanna Be Sedated. OK, so some of it isn't punk. Sorry, but no Sex Pistols here. Malcolm McLaren marketing scams need not apply. The Hunters have moved in with Sister Chain & Brother John in their playlist. They are close relatives in blood, if not style, and i can't remember the playlists i have, so creating new ones just makes it too confusing for my damaged brain.