The Post-Punk Explosion Part 7: All the rest
The original punk rock explosion of the 1970s was two things\u2026first, it was a major reset for rock\u2019n\u2019roll\u2026think of it as a great musical decluttering\u2026\n\nPunk of the 70s wasn\u2019t revolutionary\u2026it was reactionary\u2026the music was stripped back, and everyone went back to the basics\u2026very important\u2026\n\nSecond, there was an attitude shift\u2026one of the central tenets of punk was that if you had the guts to say something, then do it\u2026and if no one wanted to help you, well, then do it on your own\u2026\n\nTaken together, these two principles resulted in what can be described as the big bang for what would later be called \u201calternative music\u201d\u2026punk set off chain reactions of new ideas, new sounds, new attitudes, new fashion, new belief systems, and generally new ways of doing things\u2026\n\nThe gloves were off, rules were broken, concepts were explored, and unintended consequences happened\u2026we now look back on this as the great post-punk explosion of the late 70s and early 80s, an era that created so many of the basic foundations of the music we hear today\u2026\n\nThere was new wave, technopop and all its subsets\u2026industrial music, goth, and a revival of ska\u2026those are the major post-punk genres\u2026but there was more\u2026a lot more\u2026\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices