Alt Rock Revivals Part 1: Punk

Ongoing History of New Music

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Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We begin this episode with Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, verses 1-3…ish: “to everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted…a time to rock, a time to dance, a time to head bang, and time to chill”... Okay, I don’t think that last part is in any edition of the standard bible…I might have made it up… Here’s what I’m trying to say…the universe moves in cycles…things are born, build up, peak, and fade away…but they don’t necessarily die…they just go into some kind of stasis, a type of hibernation before something triggers a rebirth…and if the conditions are right, the whole process repeats again… This happens with music a lot…certain genres, certain scenes, have periodic revivals… Lemme give you an example…in the late 50s, all the cool kids were into folk music…stuff that was a generation old suddenly became the thing all the hipsters were listening to…the Kingston trio…Peter, Paul, and Mary… This translated into a big boom for modern folk music that eventually manifested in Bob Dylan and everyone who followed him… Around the same time in the UK, the big thing was known as “trad jazz”…English hipsters who were unimpressed with this new rock’n’roll thing, decided that traditional jazz that was originally big 60 years previous was where it was at… Again, there was a revival with new artists like acker bilk, Kenny Ball, and Monty Sunshine…suddenly, New Orleans Dixieland was in vogue…things lasted until about 1965 before it all died away… In 1973, 50s rock’n’roll made a comeback... “American Graffiti,” “Happy Days,” Elton John singing “Crocodile Rock”—stuff like that… Alternative rock has been around long enough so that it has seen its own internal revivals…sounds from alt-rock history that have been rediscovered and advanced by a new generation of fans… Even the punk rock of the middle 70s was a revival of sorts…at its heart, that punk was a back-to-basics form of rock’n’roll but done with speed and a sneer…and that’s where we’ll start…this is alt-rock revivals, part one: punk… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	We begin this episode with a reading from Ecclesiastes, chapter 3 versus 1 to 3-ish.
0:48.1	To everything, there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heavens.
0:53.3	A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to every purpose under the heavens. A time to be born and a time to die.
0:56.4	A time to plant.
0:57.6	And a time to pluck up that witch is planted.
1:00.6	A time to rock.
1:01.9	A time to dance.
1:03.2	A time to head bang.
1:04.6	And a time to chill.
1:07.0	Okay.
1:07.5	I don't think that last part is in any addition of the standard Bible.
1:12.2	I might have made that up.
1:13.7	But here's what I'm trying to say.
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