... , but mixed it with their own ideas and sounds. Whatever the case, Trent's ideas are some like none other that helped shape what Industrial Rock music has turned into today. Allmusic.com defines Industrial Metal, the genera that Nine Inch Nails can be put into, as such: "While pure industrial takes its primary cues from experimental music and electronic dance, Industrial ... up on alternative radio, and toward the end of the decade, a number of popular alternative metal bands appropriated industrial metal's electronic production touches into their hybrid of aggressive music styles." (all...

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... scene magnanimously supported and embraced the punk rock movement because of the new and original aspects of creativity. In the 1970's, bands such as "Dead Boys," the "Voidoids," and "The Ramones," were right at the core of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society and the so-called "American Dream ... Hilly Crystal, founded the club in 1973. The name CBGB's stands for "Country Blue Grass and Blues,"" but it was punk rock that emanated from bands such as "Suicide," "The Ramones," "The Dictators," "The Patti Smith Group,"...

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... and gain popularity in the 90's mostly hailed from California (Green Day, the Offspring, etc.). Punk coming from the 70's hailed from the East Coast and from Great Britain (the Ramones, the Clash, etc.). The Sex Pistols emerged in the late 70's as one of the first politically charged punk bands, supporting anarchy in most of their tunes. The band embraced ... again, is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy". As a fan of punk music myself, that quote is totally true. Proper punk bands were the bands like Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols. Later bands were just ev...

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... to do things they normally wouldn't indulge in. It was born as a reaction to the bland, corporate rock of the 1970s. Early exponents of punk include Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ramones and Buzzcocks. Punk's recent revival is attributed to the dominance of sound-alike "alternative" bands. Punk started in the 1970's as a thorn in mainstream music's side. The reason punk is ... . There is an argument about where punk music started and why it did. Some people think it was the Sex Pistols in the UK, while others think it was the Ramones in New York. Punks will actually argue for hours over this. ...

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... Black Sabbath was credited with instrumentally and lyrically bringing forth some of the quintessential elements. According to Steve Huey, who reviewed the album on behalf of the online music database AllMusic, "Sabbath's genius was finding the hidden malevolence in the blues, and then bludgeoning the listener over the head with it. Take the legendary album-opening title cut. The standard pentatonic ... ...

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... the song title and clicking download. Another form of downloading came around in the form of torrents, meaning you could download vast amounts of files, essentially downloading an artist's entire discography at the click of the button for free. Once people could get copied CDs for a much cheaper price, they didn't need to pay the full price at the high street ... ...

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... sets the rules for listening: 'Yeezy season approaching, fuck whatever y'all been hearing, fuck what, fuck whatever y'all been wearing.' This is an attempt to distance himself from his discography, current rap music, and anything else that might cause the listener to have preconceived notions of how the album should sound. But this this album is not abstract or some ... ...

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... . In addition, there are interviews with family, friends, relatives, former bandmates and associates of the group. The book not only perfectly tells the story of Nirvana, but also includes a complete discography, and over one hundred rare photographs, posters and original lyric sheets. Arnold, Gina. Route 666: On the Route to Nirvana. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Gina Arnold's book highlights ... ...

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... bands in Chicago and New York City, there was more than just Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong, Roy Eldridge represented that music is like life, with its ups and downs. Discography • After You've Gone, 1936 • All the Things you are, • Comin" Home Baby, 1965 • Just You Just Me, 1959 • Happy Times, 1975 • If I Had ... ...

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... the music. Evident in Great Britain, performed by such bands as the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Punk Rock also quickly became popular in the United States, played by the Ramones and other American groups. The explicit clothes and anarchistic political orientation made it easy to identify hardcore fans of the genre. The eighties marked the beginning of the new age ... ...

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... with me under these waves tonight / Be free for once in your life tonight." Jeff Buckley means everything to me. Eventhough I listen to bands like Falling Sickness, Anti-Flag, the Ramones, and MxPx, Jeff Buckley's Grace knocked all of that out of the water. Sure I love those bands, and will remain a fan of punk rock for as long as I live. Grace ... ...

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... Toasters (a Ska band) on an old Dead Kennedys jacket. He worships Blink 182 (A very mainstream band that claims to be punk, but isn't really), and doesn't even know who The Ramones (One of the original punk bands) are. Prep Posers are harder to distinguish from the real clique, but they exist nonetheless. They may listen to the music of one genre ... ...

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... of the punk rock music has lost its political meaning in the attempt to be commercially viable. Although punk music technically started in the USA with artists such as the Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads, punk caught on with much more force in England. Bands such as the Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned etc. came to the fore and ... ...

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... and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day, the Offspring, etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast and from Great Britain (the Ramones, the Clash, etc.). The Sex Pistols' "Liar- and Blink182's "What's My Age Again?- demonstrates how conditions " social, political, and physical " are reflected in the nature of the music ... ...

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... -rock, invented mosh pits, electrifying chords, and the "punk-rock" image attained by numerous teenagers who related to Punk-rock's anger and daftness. Founders of Punk-rock, such as The Ramones, The Clash and The Damned were just as appalling as Rap, but with a more hardcore sound. Songs like The Dead Kennedy's, "To Drunk to F***" and The Sex Pistols, "Submission" were ... ...

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... it is also a lifestyle and a brotherhood to the majority of punk rockers. Punk-rock originated in the late seventies with a few breakthrough bands such as the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. Although it did not catch on right away with the people of the time, that is what has helped punk-rock to stay the way it is and has for ... ...

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