Definition: Punk (Old School) music in the style of 70s and early 80s punk. The music is guitar driven (as is the new school punk sound of today) The emphasis is upon emotional content, and message (usually anarchy), rather than upon execution, intonation, and precision as in contemporary pop/punk bands of today.

Popular bands in this style include: The RamonesThe Sex Pistols

The Clash The Blink 182

The Origin The punk of the 1960s is very different from what was called punk in the late 1970s (i.e., the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Black Flag, etc.). It was essentially a group of teenagers with rudimentary skill in regards to playing their musical instruments. Many of their' repertoires consisted of mainly cover-versions of late 1950s rhythm and blues artists

Punk's origins cannot be attributed to one specific region, there were specific "scenes" spread throughout the country in which many bands developed what became a signature sound within their region.

Punk did have a unique, distinguishing feature: a refined ability to shock. Anyone observing a group of punks moving through Leicester Square on a Friday night would steer well clear; these guys looked seriously strange (the female punk presented a paradox: a hint of the feminine beneath the hardened exterior). The spiky dyed hair, leathers and safety pins were a radical departure from the glamour rock of the previous decade!

Rock 'n' roll has never been just a music Rock 'n' roll is a a lifestylea culture and possibly an ideology. It is a tradition, in some ways a folklore, in many ways a movement, belief system.

And all that rock 'n' roll is today is owed to a brief window of history: two years, no more than three, when the fabric of American popular culture was torn apart and rewoven, and a new era explosively began.

Looking back from these Classic Rock vantage points, it's easy to visualize the early rock 'n' roll days. By now, they've been relived and recreated in hundreds of movies and television programs. Still, despite the nostalgia crazes, '50s rock 'n' roll hasn't survived as a "popular" music in the way that '60s rock has. By that '50s rock 'n' roll is treated almost universally as "oldie" music It was when Elvis was King, when life was simpler. The fifties are forever frozen in American memory by these kinds of images.

Sixties rockers like Bob Dylan, Stones, The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and others, remained connected to modern rock by an invisible cultural thread throughout the 1980s and never totally disappeared from world’s radios. The original rock 'n' rollers, however, enjoyed no such longevity in the post-Beatles world.

But the energy, vitality, and originality of breakthrough rock 'n' roll is unmatched by almost anything that has come along since, and in its context, the ferocity with which this music burst upon the scene was nothing short of amazing. It was a way of life, a burning passion wanting more and more and proclaiming with religious fervour that it would never die or diminish, but would grow to engulf the world with its message of euphoria and the wonders of life and love and youth.

Rock and roll like all genres has almost as any definitions as it has fans. Rock and Roll generally refers to rock music recorded round the 1950s including mostly southern artists like Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Rock generally is used to refer to any popular rock music recorded since the early 60's.

Progressive rock is a very general and intertwined genre of music which got its start in the late 60s, and continues to this day. The artists try to take the roots of rock and apply them to a more classically influenced structure. The music is often very elaborate and generally requires very exceptional musicians with a great deal of talent. The Dream Theatre

Hard Rock - Hard rock is a form of rock & roll that finds its roots in the early 1960s. Diverse influences can be clearly heard in most of the albums of this style like “Led Zeppelin 4”. Budgie, AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Prong, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are also classic examples of early hard rock. AC/DC

Alternative rock music was a phrase invented in early 80s describing bands which broke from the barrage of pop and hair metal and formed a new direction of more focused and honest rock. It includes many subcategories including but not limited to Grunge, Hard Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, College Rock, Gothic Rock, Power Pop, Hardcore Punk, New Wave Nirvana, (Grunge band)

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