Explain American punk in detail.
The real golden age of American Punk was in the hardcore era in the early 198s. From the musical point of view, hardcore was just more extreme punk rock, more messy, noisy and rigid. But the band of this era expanded punk music into an all-out movement for the first time. Their influence is also far-reaching than that of CBGB era. Its aesthetic way was also carried forward by later torrent metal, speed metal, death metal, grindcore, junk music, alternative metal, punk revival movement and even the whole alternative rock music circle, and finally contributed to the mainstream of junk music and punk revival in the 199s.
Black
Flag was undoubtedly the best representative at that time. They not only maintained the consistent momentum of punk, but also combined jazz, heavy metal, noise rock and other styles to create a fuller musical atmosphere, becoming the first hard-core punk band with far-reaching influence in American punk history. They not only defined their own hardcore aesthetics, but also found a perfect combination between punk and heavy metal, which laid a solid foundation for torrent metal and punk metal in the future. Black
Flag's complex musical elements, bohemian experimental colors and poetic lyrics became famous in the 198s, and became the most philosopher-like hardcore band in underground music at that time.
In 1981, Black
Flag was very dissatisfied with Unicorn's act of banning the album Damage on the grounds that the content was too dangerous and vulgar, and in a rage, it set up its own SST company to release this hardcore classic. As a result, the band was taken to court by Kirin Company while the album was marveled as "Dawn of the Underground World", and was caught in a protracted lawsuit. The band was even forbidden to use the name and logo of the band at this stage. However, this incident had no influence on Black
Flag. They toured wildly for two years, and even secretly released a rough and selected double album "Everything Go
Black" at the peak. God knows, in 1983, Kirin Company declared bankruptcy, and the lawsuit was finally dropped. Perhaps trying to make up for the past time, the band has become incredibly prolific since 1984. By 1985, * * * completed My
War, Family Man, Slip It In, Live '84, Loose Nut and The Process
. During this period, Black
Flag not only achieved unprecedented success in music, but more importantly, their SST company promoted hard-core rock. The unprecedented success of SST led Greg
Ginn, a band veteran, to suddenly decide to dissolve Black
Flag in 1986, so as to devote more energy to the company affairs. Of course, his decision has his reasons. All revolutions need leaders, and SST is the best candidate for the leader of hard-core revolution. In the most glorious period, SST owned a number of heavyweight hardcore bands-Black
Flag, Husker Du, Meat Puppets (Meat Puppets), Descendents (hereditary), Minutemen (militia) and Bad
Brains (bad brain). FIREHOSE, Buffalo
Tom, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Screaming
Trees ... The importance of these bands is self-evident, and their influence has continued to this day, pointing out the direction for non-mainstream and independent rock in the future. During this period, the bands showed unprecedented creativity and artistic appeal: the elegance of Husker
Du, the super speed of Bad Brains, the noise experiment of Sonic Youth, the jazz style of Minutemen, and the country flavor of Meat
Puppets ... No regrets. I'm not sad. Although this glorious era finally ended around the 199s with the dissolution of SST's star bands or their joining in major record companies, they have endowed this era with the truest voice and the most dangerous passion.