Hit Parade: This Aint No Party?! Edition Part 1
b'HEY! HO! LET\\u2019S GO!! Is this chant: (a) a movement of disaffected hipsters, (b) walkup music for a baseball player, or (c) a really catchy bop? How about all of the above?\\n\\nThe legendary New York nightclub CBGB was the birthplace of punk. But it was also the future of pop: the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Blondie. To varying degrees, these acts either became hitmakers, tried to reshape their music for the charts, or influenced generations of future multiplatinum stars.\\n\\nHonestly? Their music was pretty infectious from the jump, even if it was too advanced for the \\u201970s hit parade. The music we called punk contained multitudes: the improvisatory jazz-rock of Television. The demented anthems of the Ramones. The quirky funk of Talking Heads. The stylistic eclecticism of Blondie\\u2014who scored four No.\\xa01 hits in four different genres.\\n\\nJoin Chris Molanphy on a journey back to New York\\u2019s dirty days to try to answer: When did CBGB punk morph into chart pop?\\n\\nPodcast production by Kevin Bendis.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'