Not unlike Greg Ginn’s (Black Flag) style, their guitars are used for percussion and rhythm as much as for melody on this, Fugazi’s breathtaking mission statement.īuy from Amazon 49) Generation X – Generation X (1978) MacKaye and Picciotto share the role of frontman equally.

Canty’s astonishing drumming makes him sound like he has at least three arms ( Brendan #1) the tightest rhythm section outside Black Sabbath completed by Joe Lally’s galloping bass.

With their debut album Repeater, the band displayed exemplary musicianship. Made up of ex-Rites Of Spring men Guy Picciotto and Brendan Canty, plus Joe Lally and Ian MacKaye, Fugazi are a band who’ve never quite been surpassed in the post-hardcore scene. Perhaps most remarkable of all these bands was Fugazi. With the emergence of Dischord Records acts like Rites Of Spring and ex-Minor Threat man Ian MacKaye’s Embrace project, the sounds of late 80s DC held a massive influence over the evolution of punk in the years that followed. But spurred on by this stagnant musicianship, the underground DC scene on the East Coast underwent what came to be known as ‘revolution summer’ in 1985. West Coast stalwarts Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys and the Descendents had all split up, violence was increasingly common – if not a given – at gigs, and creativity was at an all-time low. Obviously everyone thinks that their music taste is amazing at that age, but really, what a time to be a music fan.” “I’m one of those people who was lucky enough to have been born at exactly the right time, because I turned 18 in 1977 as the first wave of these incredible records were being released. “It’s one of those clichés, but punk rock absolutely changed my life,” The Undertones’ bassist Michael Bradley told us. Its lead protagonists were fearsome, wild-eyed, intimidating and exhilarating all at once, and laid out a blueprint which would become a touchstone not just for punk’s legacy, but that of modern alternative music as we know it.

When it hit the shores of the UK in a sneering ball of rage and spit, that energy was distilled into a white hot and purposefully anarchistic expression of the disillusion and discontent that came from life in the forgotten corners of Thatcher’s Britain. From its ramshackle beginnings on the USA’s East Coast, where bands as diverse as the Velvet Underground, and the hamburger-and-wrestling-obsessed Dictators were fused by nothing more than their shared, snarling attitude, punk developed a few key characteristics: a propensity for both fearless experimentation and rampant nihilism.

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