Fun:Why Punk had to happen

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Help fill in this list with your favorite songs and albums from 1975-1977 that no doubt inspired the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. You'd "beat on the brat" too if you had to listen to this muck.

  • obtaining electric guitars before learning how to play acoustic ones
  • Because the older kids had already co-opted Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk, and Ted Nugent.
  • Just about anything on the U.S. Top 40 chart. "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille takes the cake. "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes comes close.
  • Jake Holmes' icky commercials and muzak
  • ABBA, "ABBA"
  • ABBA, "Arrival"
  • Bad Company, Run With The Pack
  • Barry Manilow, This One's for You
  • Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
  • Boston, "Boston"
  • Chicago, Chicago VIII
  • Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band
  • Debbie Boone, "You Light up My Life"
  • Donna Summers, "Once Upon a Time"
  • Eagles, Hotel California
  • Elton John, Blue Moves
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Works
  • Foreigner, Foreigner
  • Gloria Gaynor, "Love Tracks"
  • Bert Jansch, A Rare Conundrum
  • Joan Baez, Blowin' Away
  • Johnnie Taylor, "Eargasm"
  • KC and the Sunshine Band, "KC and the Sunshine Band"
  • Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Pink Floyd, Animals
  • Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
  • Rick Wakeman, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • Spirit, Future Games, Son of Spirit, Farther Along, Spirit of 76, pretty much everything after Feedback
  • Yes, Going for the One
  • Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
  • The Eagles, Hotel California
  • Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive!
  • Shaun Cassidy, "Shaun Cassidy" (contains a butchered version of Motown classic "Da Doo Ron Ron.")
  • Styx, Wait, People Liked Us At One Point?
  • Starland Vocal Band, Afternoon Delight
  • Peter Hammill, Nadir's Big Chance[1]
  • Bands named after US cities or States.
  • Symphonic rock, such as Moody Blues, King Crimson, Renaissance, and The Nice
  • Anything by America, ELO, Wings, or Jefferson Starshit[2]
  • Nektar, Remember the Future
  • "Convoy". "The White Knight". "Me and Old CB". "Hey Shirley, This Is Squirrely". "Teddy Bear". "Breaker Breaker". "CB Savage". "The Bull and the Beaver". "Let's Truck Together".[3]

Prog rock, pop, and heavy metal albums that sold well between 1977-81—during the so-called "punk revolution"[edit]

  • ABBA, "The Album"
  • ABBA, "Voulez-Vous"
  • ABBA, "Super Trouper"
  • Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow Live
  • Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever
  • Billy Joel, 52nd Street
  • Billy Thorpe, Children of the Sun
  • Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
  • Black Sabbath, Mob Rules
  • Blue Oyster Cult, Cultasaurus Erectus
  • Boston, Don't Look Back
  • ELO Out of the Blue
  • ELO Discovery
  • Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
  • Foreigner, 4
  • Stevie Nicks, Belladonna
  • FM, Black Noise
  • Genesis, Duke
  • Kansas, Point of Know Return
  • Kansas, Monolith
  • Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door
  • Phil Collins, About Face
  • Peter Gabriel (the one where he's clawing his own photo)
  • Peter Gabriel (the one where his face is melting)
  • Peter Gabriel (the one that the record company named "Security")
  • Kate Bush, The Dreaming
  • Max Webster, Live Magnetic Air
  • Pink Floyd, The Wall
  • Rush, Farewell to Kings
  • Rush, Hemispheres
  • Rush, Permanent Waves
  • Rush, Moving Pictures
  • Yes, Drama
  • Genesis, "A Trick of the Tail"
  • Genesis, "Wind and the Wuthering"

See also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ While punk was seen as a backlash against progressive rock, Johnny Rotten was known to be a big fan of Hammill, see here
  2. ↑ If you think you like Jefferson Starship, listen to one of their albums, then listen to anything from 1960s Jefferson Airplane or one of the early 1970s Kantner/Slick or Hot Tuna outings. The difference should be obvious.
  3. ↑ If you still know every one of these songs by heart, you are severely in need of being sent to a reeducation camp. Nothing like us, of course.
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