Cowpunk
PUNK PRIMER
Robert Garcia
Colton Hughes
lol damn it
I'll definitely think about including cowpunk bands like The Mekons, but tbqh I might try to squeeze some of those bands into other sections, like psychobilly and post-punk
Chase Lee
The Nuggets comp NEEDS to be in proto-punk. It was assembled by Lenny Kaye 2 years before forming the Patti Smith Group and was heard by everyone in the NYC scene
The UK in general is ignored, you should have a group for pub rock (the "proto-punk of the UK") and the first New Wave movement that punk turned into
>pub rock: Dr. Feelgood, Brinsley Schwartz, The 101ers, Eddie and the Hot Rods
>the New Wave: Elvis Costello, The Jam, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker & the Rumor
Wyatt Phillips
Cowpunk isn't a scene or movement, you would just be grouping any otherwise unrelated band who played music with country influences together.
Jacob Cook
I think they could be placed in a category alongside Psychobilly, considering this primer only has 2 bands in that category, also the Gun Club and X cribbed psychobilly all the time
also you should really put Oblivians in garage punk, considering they were Memphis garage punk's flagship band
Jeremiah Martinez
>No Siouxie and the Banshees
Camden Gonzalez
> Oblivians
shit, you're right
I just posted an update, but I'm going to change that and add
I actually used to have Oblivians on this chart, but I must've removed them to make room for something else, which was a bad idea
Kevin Taylor
Proto-Punk (Stooges, New York Dolls, MC5)
NY Punk/No Wave (Ramones, Dictators, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television, DNA, Rosa Yemen, James Chance, Suicide, Jim Carroll)
UK Punk (Clash, Jam, Sex Pistols, Damned, Adverts, X-Ray Spex, UK Subs, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks)
LA Punk (Germs, X, Fear, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Weirdos, Dils, Dead Kennedys, Gun Club, Dickies, Social Distortion)
Oi! (Sham 69, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects)
Post-Punk (Joy Division, Gang of Four, Pop Group, Chameleons, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, PiL, Wire, Slits, Fall, Mekons)
Anarcho-Punk (Crass, Rudimentary Peni, Flux of Pink Indians, Ex, Conflict, Zounds, Subhumans)
Early Hardcore (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Dicks, Poison Idea, MDC, Misfits, Wipers, Adolescents, DOA)
UK82 (Chaos UK, Exploited, Abrasive Wheels, Adicts, GBH, Anti-Nowhere League)
Deathrock (Christian Death, 45 Grave, TSOL)
Psychobilly (Cramps, Meteors)
Crust Punk (Discharge, Amebix, His Hero is Gone, Fall of Efrafa, Deviated Instinct, Nausea, Martyrdöd)
Straight Edge (Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, 7 Seconds, Have Heart, Bane)
Grindcore (Napalm Death, Carcass, Nasum, Rotten Sound)
Ska Punk (Specials, Operation Ivy, Choking Victim)
Post-Hardcore (Minutemen, Fugazi, Quicksand, Refused, Hüsker Dü, At the Drive-In, Jawbox, Touché Amoré, Drive Like Jehu, NoMeansNo, Slint)
Emocore (Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, Heroin, Moss Icon, Hot Water Music, Dag Nasty)
Crossover Thrash (DRI, Corrosion of Conformity, Cro-Mags, Madball, Suicidal Tendencies)
Pop Punk (Descendents, Jawbreaker, Samiam, NOFX, Screeching Weasel, Thermals, Leatherface)
Queercore/Riot Grrrl (Pansy Division, Limp Wrist, Bikini Kill, Team Dresch)
Garage Punk (New Bomb Turks, Gories, Pussy Galore, Reatards, Oblivians)
Metalcore (Hatebreed, Converge, Earth Crisis)
Skramz (Portraits of Past, Gospel, Orchid, Pg.99, Saetia, Daïtro)
Powerviolence (Despise You, SPAZZ, Charles Bronson)
Folk Punk (Days N Daze, Billy Bragg, Ramshackle Glory, Against Me!)
Juan Sanders
where would The Dead Milkmen fit here since there is no cowpunk category?
Elijah Wilson
>Gun Club and X cribbed psychobilly all the time
What are you getting this from? X didn't crib from anyone, they played with country and Chuck berry influences since day one, their best buddies were the Blasters. Gun Club was a case of Jeffrey Lee Pierce's obsession and deep knowledge of Delta and Texas blues and drawing parallels between it and the druggy punk scene. Psychobilly it fine but it was a bunch of dorky pretenders virtually unknown outside of their scene in London, you are giving them way too much credit.