15 Influential Punk Bands

15 Influential Punk Bands

Author: HotPopRock

15 Influential Punk Bands

by Nicole Lero

Source: HotPopRock

While this list is in no way inclusive of all influential punk bands — you would need to list hundreds — this list is a good representation of many punk bands that have helped to shape a scene over the years — as well as sibling scenes such as goth, emo, and hardcore.

01. The Ramones – This NYC band really helped to start it all in the mid-1970s and influenced countless others to follow in their shoes in their decades-spanning career.

02. The Clash – While this band is more mellow than a lot of the more influential punk bands of the 70s and 80s, their subversive messages were also able to reach a wider audience than many, which is incredibly punk.

03. The Sex Pistols – Sure, they were more style than substance, and many people believe they were manufactured to create a trend… but what is more influential than that?

04. Bad Brains – This early DC hardcore band influenced many bands over the course of their career. Although they had strong reggae influences, they were one of the definitive hardcore bands of the 1980s.

05. Rites of Spring – Also hailing from DC, this band is one of the most influential bands in the emo genre, and is often credited with starting the movement.

06. 7 Seconds – One of the first straight edge bands, the played a poppier style of music than many of their counterparts in the scene, but were instrumental in starting it off.

07. Minor Threat – This band truly brought straight edge to the punk masses, with a single album of songs about not drinking, smoking, or doing drugs.

08. The Stooges – Mixing garage rock and punk, this band put together different elements to create a unique sound that many have emulated over the years. Further, Iggy Pop’s stage presence was so intense, it changed the way people thought of punk rock performers forever.

09. The Damned – Dressed like vampires and playing spooky music that walked the line between punk and what is now known as goth, this is a band that was a true trailblazer in terms of re-defining, and creating, a genre.

10. Misfits – This New Jersey band, which focused (and still does) on primarially horror themes is essentially the first horror-punk band.

11. The New York Dolls – While their singer is best known as Buster Poindexter, back in the day, David Johansen and his crew, including the legendary Johnny Thunders, pushed boundaries and opened minds with both their appearance and music.

12. Fugazi – When Minor Threat ended, the band’s singer Ian MacKaye tried different projects, and one of them was Fugazi. This band is also instrumental in what has become known as modern-day emo.

13. The Rezillos – This Scottish band with both male and female vocals made punk rock fun, with silly songs and wacky, offbeat rhythms. They influenced many bands, including the B-52’s.

14. NOFX – Not the world’s most serious band, NOFX proved that you can play fast, snotty punk rock with a sense of humor, but more importantly, actual talent.

15. Blondie – While many women would love to claim the title of “the queen of punk rock,” there is no doubt that Blondie’s lead singer Debbie Harry holds it, and it still looks wonderful on her, even today.

Here’s hoping this list helped to explain some of the roots and influences of modern punk rock music.

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Henry Rollins, born Henry Lawrence Garfield on February 13, 1961, first came to public attention as the new frontman for hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1981. His first recording with the band was the seminal ‘Damaged’, an album that continues to influence hardcore bands to this day. Unlike most of their peers, Black Flag were always trying to push the envelope of their music, incorporating influences from jazz, metal and contemporary classical music but an unforgivable faux pas for the punk rock elite. Thus, as the music evolved and slowed down, Black Flag started to turn away a considerable contingent of their original fan base, but later releases, such as 1984’s ‘My War’ would go on to influence groundbreaking bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana.

After the break-up of Black Flag in 1986, Rollins went on to front his own Rollins Band, slowly becoming an alternative music icon as he was pushed further into the spotlight. The Rollins Band was eventually signed to DreamWorks and their 1994 release ‘Weight’ spawned two international hits, “Liar” and “Disconnect”, both of which received considerable airplay on MTV. The band continued to record and tour until it dissolved in 2001, leaving Henry to concentrate more on his spoken-word career and writing.

As a spoken-word artist Rollins regales audiences with his experiences travelling around the world, socio-political musings and anecdotes from his time in bands in a lucid style reminiscent of Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks. It is far removed from normal stand-up comedy about relationships, shoes and lampshades, and an average Henry Rollins spoken-word performance lasts about two and a half to three hours. While Henry was doing spoken-word performances – even while in Black Flag – his best material has been in the last 10 years and has given him a loyal fanbase around the world.

As a writer, Henry is best known for his tour diaries, the Black Coffee Blues trilogy and ‘Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag’. Written in locations as diverse as hotels in London to the jungles of Africa, it provides insight into the world of the touring musician and the highs and lows that come with commercial success and failure. An abridged audiobook reading of ‘Get in the Van’ was awarded a Grammy in 1995.

Henry continues to tour for about 9 months of every year, and was last in Britain this summer, which included four sold-out performances during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is due to return to these shores early next year, doing 8 dates across the UK and Ireland in January and February, proving that even after over a quarter of a century on stage, punk rock’s renaissance man isn’t slowing down just yet.

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