#607 1977 – The Year Punk Broke (Pt. 2) & She-Devils

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🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In part two of our series 1977: The Year Punk Broke, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot look at the punk movement stateside with music writer Ira Robbins. They discuss how The Ramones, Talking Heads, and the rest of the CBGB scene inspired generations of artists. Plus, an interview and live performance from Montreal electronic duo She-Devils.

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0:00.0	One, three, four. From W beezz Chicago and PRX this is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deregadis.
0:22.4	And I'm Greg De Regattis.
0:22.6	And I'm Greg Kot.
0:23.6	Before punk exploded in London,
0:25.3	it ruled New York's lower east side
0:27.3	with its raunchy sounds.
0:28.8	The idea that a rock song could be perfectly obnoxious while being enormously fun was kind of a new idea
0:36.3	that the dictators pioneered and I think the Ramones carried forward you know much more
0:40.6	efficiently.
0:41.6	Today we conclude our series on 1977,
0:44.8	the year punk broke, with a look at punk state side
0:48.2	talking to music writer Ira Robbins.
0:50.5	And later in the show, we chat with the indie rock duo She Devils.
0:54.0	That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
0:57.0	This is Sound Opinions and later on in the show we are going to talk to one of our discoveries from the
1:06.8	South by Southwest Music Conference, She Devils, but first we've got punk in 1977. That is the immortal Creighton Hop by the boundlessly influential New York punk band
1:37.6	The Ramones.
1:38.6	Greg, I'm smiling.
1:39.6	It makes me smile every time I hear it even after all these years you're grinning too.
1:45.0	Last week we kicked off our examination of 1977 the year punk broke.
1:50.0	We were revisiting these episodes with a look at punk in the UK and how the sound of the music and the attitude in the music world changed.
1:59.0	You can find that episode at sound opinions.org.
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