The 70s New York proto-punk scene (Velvet Underground, Television, Ramones, NY Dolls, Blondie)

[Buddy Bradley]

Watched a really interesting (but super-long, 3.5hrs!) documentary on Amazon Prime over the last couple of evenings:



Punk Revolution NYC is all about the Andy Warhol-inspired DIY proto-punk scene in New York between the late 60s and late 70s; from the Velvet Underground and Television to Blondie and Talking Heads, via the Ramones and NY Dolls. So now my Spotify playlist is full of classics like Marquee Moon, Patti Smith's Horses, and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.

I never realised the track Marquee Moon was so damn long!

 

[ohmyliver]

if you like that, then you should get Please Kill Me, which is one of my favourite music books. Please Kill Me

 

[Spandex]

if you like that, then you should get Please Kill Me, which is one of my favourite music books. Please Kill Me

That's a great book, though it must be 20 years since I read it. Covers much the same stuff as Punk Revolution NYC. My main take away from it was what a massive dickhead Jim Morrison was.

 

[ohmyliver]

There's so much that's great about that book, from the just being a collection of primary source quotes, to things like Angie Bowie complaining about how dumb Bowie and Pop were when they got together.

My main take away from it was 'how the f*ck is Iggy Pop still alive'

 

[marty21]

if you like that, then you should get Please Kill Me, which is one of my favourite music books. Please Kill Me

Excellent book

 

[oryx]

Watched a really interesting (but super-long, 3.5hrs!) documentary on Amazon Prime over the last couple of evenings:



Punk Revolution NYC is all about the Andy Warhol-inspired DIY proto-punk scene in New York between the late 60s and late 70s; from the Velvet Underground and Television to Blondie and Talking Heads, via the Ramones and NY Dolls. So now my Spotify playlist is full of classics like Marquee Moon, Patti Smith's Horses, and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.

I never realised the track Marquee Moon was so damn long!

Sounds great.

Once Upon A Time In New York: The Birth of Hip-hop, Disco and Punk is the best music documentary I've ever seen if you are into that era. Was on BBC 4, doesn't appear to be widely available now but may resurface as a repeat or be trackable down elsewhere.

 

[ohmyliver]

if we're on a birth of Hip Hop thing then The Hip Hop Family Tree series of books are amazing. '70s Superhero comic style, and yet clearly written by a Hip Hop history nerd. Series :: Hip Hop Family Tree There's an archive on Boing Boing where they started

 

[polly]

That's a great book, though it must be 20 years since I read it. Covers much the same stuff as Punk Revolution NYC. My main take away from it was what a massive dickhead Jim Morrison was.

Ha, same, and Patti Smith

 

[petee]

Ramone at home

 

[Steel Icarus]

Tf is that
I mean I figured him for alien but not necessarily one with tentacles

 

[Griff]

Death: Politicians In My Eyes

Listening to this and some of the riffs, I wonder if Joy Division heard their rare album back in the day and got a bit of inspiration.

Proto-punk rather than just NY btw.