#5

can you put bands?

#7

lol, is this the second time this exact thread has been posted? Is @alexalea trying to cheat through a review for the NME or something?

#8

its all rock music who cares

#10

Here’s another one of their revival threads

#12

Meet me back here in a year for this thread’s revival

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#13

Post punk revival (influenced by bands from the late 70s/early 80s):

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#14

Garage rock revival (influenced by bands from the mid-late 60s):

#15

It could be confusing because the press, NME especially, often seemed to talk about both as if they were the same thing. Wikipedia entries for each do the same too.

But there’s the big difference - post is punk influenced by late 70s/early 80s bands, angular sounding guitar, a bit of funk creeping into the rhythms perhaps, Joy Division, seemed to be a popular choice of infuence; garage rock is influenced mostly by 60s rhythm’n’blues bands, some pre-punk like the Stooges and MC5, and some 50s rock.

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#16

But, if you ask me truthfully, I think that “garage rock revival” is a misnomer. Because it never went away, it never stopped. Since the first bands were doing it in the 1960s, there’s never been a time without garage bands.

There was the Droogs in 1972, to name one. Bands like DMZ and the Fleshtones were doing it in the mid-70s, in 1980 there was the Fuzztones, in the mid-80s the Milkshakes and the Mourning After in the UK, to name two. In the US the Chesterfield Kings, in Sweden the Stomach Mouths and the Nomads. The 5678s started in Japan in the mid-80s. There were the Gruesomes in Canada. By the 90s there was the Gories, the Mighty Caesars (who became the Headcoats), the Mummies and hundreds more. So many countries had numerous bands, on top of the ones named a bove. It was never “revived”. It just got a bit more popular at certain times.

#17

Garage rock:

Post-punk:

COMPLETELY different.

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#18

And yet I do like, and have seen live, both bands numerous times. :slight_smile:

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#19

They’re exactly the same thing aren’t they?

Like The Strokes and Gang Of Four

#20

Er… No.

#21

Post punk.

Garage rock.

#22

the original genres are typically pretty different, albeit with one fairly influenced by the other, but i’d say there’s definitely a bit of crossover in the so-called ‘revival’ scenes of both.

#23

OK then, if you’re gonna get technical about it Green Day and The White Stripes

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#24

Post punk is more Less Than Jake, Garage rock is more Reel Big Fish, or at least y’know those are the impressions that I have received.

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#25

There’s crossover because journalists and others lump all of these guitar bands together. Over 90% of the bands that NME called “garage rock” simply were not at all garage rock.

The White Stripes weren’t garage rock. They were blues rock.

And there was no revival of garage rock. It hadn’t stopped. There were and always were hundreds of bands playing that style of music. And while NME was hyping some alleged garage rock revolution, most of those bands remained firmly unknown and underground.

Just because NME says a band is garage rock doesn’t mean they are. In fact, they’re probably not. Real garage rock has always flown under the radar. And during the bogus garage rock revolution nothing much changed.

#26

i don’t think

but i respect you opinion

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#27

Well, you can think what you like but I know what I am talking about here. I was putting on gigs by such bands before 2001 and carried on doing so long afterwards. I worked with the White Stripes themselves, as well as tons of other bands during that period. So I do absolutely know the subject inside out. Take my word for it. What I say above is 100 per cent accurate.