3. 1979, Part 1
Buzzcocks’ Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) has made a strong comeback into my playlist after a nearly decade-and-a-half absence. It’s fortuitous timing for this series, because after my introduction to the world of punk with nineties pop-punk, the Buzzcocks’ early singles I Don’t Mind and Ever Fallen In Love served as my transition to early-days punk.
2. 1994
There were four big releases in 1994, which, to me, symbolise punk’s journey from the anti-establishment hell-raising of its first couple of decades to a more commercial sound: the intensely relatable grooves of pop-punk. It’s this iteration of punk that brought me – along with millions of other preteens and teenagers – into punk’s fold.
1. Prologue
An ongoing series of stories about an ongoing love affair with punk music and its offshoots, including alternative rock, post-punk, melodic hardcore, pop-punk, post-hardcore.