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Punk Goes Hardcore
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Sucks, punk, Ramones, screamed, Blondie, melodic, short, riot, political, Wave, distorted, CBGB, McLaren, Around, independent, Sex, Bastards, change, Saturday, underground, alcohol
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punk arose from an                        scene in New York
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you had to be at          to know that it was there
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some elements of that, especially the music of the               , translated into a UK scene
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Malcolm                put together the Sex Pistols
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the bands in New York profited from this
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by the end of the 1970s, groups like Talking Heads and                were having pretty good success
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the American industry had recast punk as New         
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taking the danger, the anger out of the music and turned it into an aesthetic protest instead of a                    protest
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punk went underground
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an 80s scene developed which is often called Hard Core Punk
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developed out of the music of the Ramones and        Pistols
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loud, fast, and aggressive music
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with a D.I.Y. aesthetic
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bands starting their own record labels and distributing and distributing those records through small,                        record stores in local and regional areas
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three local punk scenes
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1. Los Angeles
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the discontented youth idea of the 1970s
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hard to understand what they were discontented about
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The Decline of Western Civilization (1980)
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Penelope Spheeris
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documentary of the          scene in Los Angeles
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Fear
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led by Lee Ving
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appeared on                  Night Live
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"New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones"
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during the performance they shout "New York           "
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members of the audience started slam dancing
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they faded to commercial because they were afraid that a          was breaking about
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anti-establishment
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anti-music-business-establishment
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Black Flag
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Greg Ginn
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formed their own label, SST
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released theirs and other's music
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1978: Nervous Breakdown
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                   guitars
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                 vocals
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profane lyrics about youthful alienation
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songs are very           
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entire EP last about 5 minutes
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1981 Damaged
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Minutemen
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1981 The Punch Line
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2. Washington D.C. / New York
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different attitudes than in L.A.
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more intellectual attitude toward political             
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less angry ranting and more of a refined discourse
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some groups anti-drug and anti-              
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Bad Brains
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all African-American band
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1982 Bad Brains
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moved to New York
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Teen Idles
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Ian MacKaye
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Minor Threat
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1981 In My Eyes
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3. Minneanapolis / St. Paul
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more               
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less angry on the surface
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attracted a larger audience
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The Replacements
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Paul Westerberg
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1979 formed
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1983 Hootenanny
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Twin/Tone label
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"Color Me Impressed"
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1985 "                 of Young"
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Hüsker Dü
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SST
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1979
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1984 Zen Arcade
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had videos
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1985 "Makes No Sense At All"
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"Love Is All             "
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became the Mary Tyler Moore theme song

Ideas and Concepts:

1980s punk heart-throb via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "Best rendition of Mary Tyler Moore's theme song Love is All Around, even better than Hüsker Dü's apparent original, with lead singer Joan Jett, memorable to any guy who came to age in the 1980s."
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British Blues-Based Bands and the Roots of Heavy Metal
American Blues Rock and Southern Rock
The Era of Progressive Rock
Jazz Rock in the 70s
Theatrical Rock: KISS, Bowie, and Alice Cooper
American Singer-Songwriters of the 70s
British and Canadian Singer-Songwriters
Country Rock's Influence on 1970s Music
Black Pop in the 1970s
Sly Stone and His Influence on Black Pop, Funk, and Psychedelic Soul
Motown in the 1970s
Philadelphia Sound and Soul Train
Blaxploitation Soundtracks
The Uniqueness of James Brown
Bob Marley and the Rise of Reggae
The Backlash Against Disco
1975-1980: The Rise of the Mega-Αlbum
Continuity Bands in the 1970s
Rock and Roll in the Second Half of the 1970s
U.S. Punk 1967-1975
1974-77: Punk in the UK
American New Wave 1977-80
British New Wave 1977-80
The Hippie Aesthetic: 1966-1980
The Rise of MTV
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Prince and Janet Jackson
Other Groups Who Benefited from MTV
1980s New Traditionalists and New Wave
1980s New Acts, Old Styles and Blue-Eyed Soul
1970s Progressive Rock Adapts to the 80s
1980's Heavy Metal
1980s Heavy Metal and L.A. Hair Bands
1980s Ambitious Heavy Metal
The Beginning of Rap
1980s: Rap Crosses Over to Mainstream
Late 1980s Hard Core Rap
Punk Goes Hardcore
Late 80s Indie Rock Underground
1990s: The Rise of Alternative Rock
1990s Indie Rock and the Question of Selling Out
1990s Metal and Alternative Extensions
Hip-Hop in the 1990s
Classic Rock of the 1990s
1990s Jam Bands and Britpop
Female Singer-Songwriters of the 1990s
The Rise of Teen Idols in the 1990s
1990s Dance Music