It’s an attitude as much as a genre of music, and punk doesn’t always sound like The Ramones or The Clash. It’s also become lighter and more accessible. It’s changed into something more complex and intellectual. But it’s also changed a lot in the 40-plus years since it rose to prominence. It’s played fast and loud, it’s anti-authority and anti-status-quo, and it doesn’t give a shit what you think. Punk, for the most part, is fairly easy to define. And 2017 marks 40 years since punk’s most iconic and influential year, 1977. It’s been around at least 40 years, however, that much we can be sure of. Maybe it existed with the first blown-out riff by an early garage rock band. ![]() There’s endless debate over what the first punk recording is: The Ramones’ self-titled debut? The Damned’s debut single, “New Rose”? Or perhaps something even older, by The Stooges or MC5. Punk rock has a tendency to lie about its age.
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