{"id":6374,"date":"2024-02-28T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:31:34","slug":"exclusive-shindig-qobuz-playlist-10-if-you-dont-like-it-heres-something-for-you-the-road-to-punk-1964-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6374","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Shindig! Qobuz playlist #11: If You Don&#8217;t Like It, Here&#8217;s Something For You: The Road To Punk 1964-1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/\">Qobuz<\/a>. The 11th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, takes a look at the road travelled to punk<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Qobuz-Instagram-proto-punktif-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>Play <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.qobuz.com\/playlist\/19819587\">here<\/a><i> or use the scrollable frame with\u00a0tracklist the bottom of the page. You can sign up for a free trial today. Plans start from \u00a310.83 per month. For more on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/gb-en\/discover\">Qobuz<\/a><i> read our interview with MD Dan Mackta <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5784\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.qobuz.com\/playlist\/20007779?zone=GB-en\" width=\"378\" height=\"390\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>Your browser does not support iframes.<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s been a lot written on proto-punk. Countless musicologists have penned thought pieces on the overriding importance \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 and \u2018You Really Got Me\u2019 had on everything nihilistic that followed in Year Zero. Some have taken it back even further, citing Johnny Burnette\u2019s \u2018The Train Kept A-Rollin\u2019\u2019, the nonchalant Gene Vincent, and mean \u2019n\u2019 moody instrumentalist Link Wray as punk catalysts. The Pretty Things made the Stones look like compliant young men, West Country yobs The Troggs were far too lewd for their own good, and Van Morrison, whilst singing in Them, was caked in snot. Surely, \u2018Gloria\u2019 ranks as one of the proto-punk classics, so brilliantly interpreted by Patti Smith, whose guitarist Lenny Kaye was no slouch when it came to chronicling the roots of punk. He was a flag waver that inspired. So, it is with a score of <em>Nuggets<\/em>-esque type teen-punk from the mid to late \u201960s that we start our <em>Shindig!<\/em> take on the evolution of punk music. New England\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Ramrods were relatively clean cut and preppie on the whole, but \u2018She Lied\u2019 sounds exactly like the starting point for the class of \u201976 in London. Perhaps Ted Carroll sold a few young oiks copies. New Zealand\u2019s The Blue Stars nailed the punk credential to the mast with \u2018Social End Product\u2019, as did Texan\u2019s Nobody\u2019s Children\u2019s \u2018Good Times\u2019, which even at the height of the hippie movement was utterly misanthropic. Also from Texas were the freeform freaks The Red Crayola. The art-punks loved \u2018Hurricane Fighter Plane\u2019 so much that it gained a reissue in 1978, and was clearly a pointer for all intelligent scratchy guitar bands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The garage band era was definitely punk. The otherwise psychedelic The Elastik Band took Captain Beefheart and Zappa to extremes on the utterly offensive, but somehow wonderful, \u2018Spazz\u2019. None of these early pioneers thought of themselves as punk. They just were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the Detroit area acts that started off in teenbeat bands, like Iggy Pop with The Iguanas, morphed into something new for the later \u201960s, with The MC5, The Up, and of course, The Stooges. The bands which many consider as the true starting point of the punk movement. But across Europe seemingly typical long-haired bands were appropriating a proto-punk sound quite by accident, take Sweden\u2019s T-Boones, who under the influence of Jimi Hendrix , turn The Troggs\u2019 horny\u00a0 \u2018I Want You\u2019 into something far more threatening, and London-based Northern Irish band Andwella\u2019s Dream\u2019s \u00a0punkish \u2018Sunday\u2019, which featured \u00a0on the flip of their debut single.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Ladbroke Grove in London was the home of Mick Farren and his Deviants. The area\u2019s freak scene featured a number of bands who looked like heads and enjoyed their environs but were angry and socially aware. Their music made quite an impact. \u2018Slum Lord\u2019 from The Deviants\u2019 second album, 1968\u2019s <em>Disposable<\/em>, definitely pointed towards key punk themes, as did Hawkwind\u2019s \u2018Urban Guerilla\u2019, a single from \u201973. The Pink Fairies\u2019 \u2018Do It\u2019 may be this unwashed scene\u2019s ultimate war cry. \u00a0The Ladbroke freak scene somehow even made its way to Texas. The Stereo Shoestring\u2019s rewrite of The Pretty Things\u2019 \u2018Defecting Grey\u2019, with the Syd-like trippy bits excised, leaving the gnarly fuzz riff and new lyrics, is a heavy hallucinatory nightmare. Conservative Texas got punk. In Canada, the delightfully named It\u2019s Meat issued \u2018Feel It\u2019. Acid munching Californian freaks Blue Cheer went fuzz-punk on \u2018Come And Get It\u2019. \u00a0Sky Saxon with a new version of The Seeds went to the \u2018Bad Part Of Town\u2019. And don\u2019t forget Alice Cooper. Choppers, fights, leather\u2026 Altamont violence. The music reflected the changing times from peace and love into something darker. And however terrible that tumultuous time was, the nasty music oozed a proto-punk dirtiness fuelled by cheap beer and bad narcotics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, back in the UK, Shropshire had beastly hairy behemoths Stack Waddy signed by John Peel on his Dandelion label. Their terrifying version of the Pretties\u2019 \u2018Rosalyn\u2019, like Northants lads Wicked Lady\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m A Freak\u2019, epitomised what we now call \u201cFreakrock\u201d, a term which the sadly deceased <em>Shindig! <\/em>writer Rex Thompson termed in 2002. Hard, heavy and glam were the norm in the early \u201970s, but certain bands or songs, just went that bit further. Hello\u2019s \u2018Hello Hooray\u2019 was bovver boy all the way. Third World War\u2019s \u2018Working Class Man\u2019 may have been the first entrant into street-punk, while French headbangers Rotomagus\u2019 \u2018Fightin\u2019 Cock\u2019, out did Mot\u00f6rhead, all the way back in 1971, in the punk-metal stakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0We probably know how much The Damned loved The Pink Fairies and Johnny Rotten Can, but let\u2019s not overlook the utter importance of Mott The Hoople\u2019s 1971 punker \u2018Death May Be Your Santa Clause\u2019. Ian Hunter\u2019s vocals definitely caught Lydon\u2019s ear. The Hammersmith Gorillas were playing to future punks and were watched closely. Their take on \u2018You Really Got Me\u2019 is dumb, moronic and was clearly chipping away at the complex musical facade of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The arrival of The New York Dolls was beyond important, acts like Streak, Rosie, The Hollywood Brats, and many more drunk heartily from their cup, and Malcolm McLaren was scheming something big. But it wasn\u2019t all sensation-seeking and making a statement. Rock \u2019n\u2019 roll was massive in the \u201970s, and indeed McLaren initially sold drapes to working class Teddy boys. US act The Flamin\u2019 Groovies, who would later move to the UK, cut the <em>Grease <\/em>EP in 1973. The roots of this were vintage rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, but the outlook was closer to punk. As was The Count Bishops\u2019 \u2018Teenage Letter\u2019, sang by Brooklyn transplant Mike Spenser, and the highly influential Doctor Feelgood\u2019s \u2018Roxette\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we end up with the early punk of Death\u2019s \u2018Freakin\u2019 Out\u2019, Canada\u2019s Simply Saucer\u2019s on target \u2018Nazi Apocalypse\u2019, The Electric Eels\u2019 \u2018Agitated\u2019, comes the uncategorisable Zolar-X and their punk\/glam \u2018Space Age Love\u2019, the basement rock of George Brigman, punk\/metal of Pinnacle, and NYC\u2019s wrestling street-punk\u2019s The Dictators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0All of this music was made over a nine-year period, which is incredible. Whether it\u2019s The Ramones\u2019 \u2018Blitzkrieg Bop\u2019 or The Damned\u2019s \u2018New Rose\u2019 you consider the first record of the punk-rock era, an awful lot of music that ticked the same boxes had been made for a number of years, and the class of \u201976 were very aware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 Jon \u2018Mojo\u2019 Mills \/<em>Shindig!<\/em>\u00a0magazine in partnership with Qobuz<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6374&#038;t=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20If%20You%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Like%20It%2C%20Here%E2%80%99s%20Something%20For%20You%3A%20The%20Road%20To%20Punk%201964-1975&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6374&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F02%2FFeatured-Image-2.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20If%20You%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Like%20It%2C%20Here%E2%80%99s%20Something%20For%20You%3A%20The%20Road%20To%20Punk%201964-1975\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6374&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2311%3A%20If%20You%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Like%20It%2C%20Here%E2%80%99s%20Something%20For%20You%3A%20The%20Road%20To%20Punk%201964-1975&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6374\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0Qobuz. The 11th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, takes a look at the road travelled to punk &nbsp; Play here or use the scrollable frame with\u00a0tracklist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1172],"tags":[1136],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qobuz","tag-proto-punk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}