Impact Of Punk Subculture Of The 1970s

There are certain times of crisis that occur in every country and in every society and when the United Kingdom was struck by an economic crisis during the 1970s, it resulted in a dramatic change in thinking and way of life of a large group of youths, living during that time. In order to understand this issue thoroughly, we need to look on the most important aspects that triggered these changes in society of the United Kingdom in 1970s, most importantly, we need to revise the economic situation of that time, which was one of the most significant triggering mechanisms that changed the way people, mainly youth, approached living. The emergence of the punk subculture is a very interesting phenomenon and thought-provoking time period, which gave birth to a unique ideology, way of life, style of clothing and most importantly many punk bands, which were either …show more content…
Originally the Guildford Stranglers, formed in 1974, started out playing in pubs and basically anywhere, where they could. They became fairly well known through this, but the milestone of their success happened in 1976, when they got the opportunity to be an opening act for the Ramones, the legendary punk rock band from America, which was one the bands that started the initial punk rock wave along with the Pistols and Velvet Underground. The Stranglers started out with the typical aggressive vocals and lyrics, inspired by the early punk mentality, angry attitude and alienation from society. They maintained this spirit through most of their musical career, but they managed to put in many more musical aspects into their music, like psychedelia and in later phase even pop songs aimed for radio’s music charts. The Stranglers managed to record an amazing 17 albums, but like most of the punk rock bands of 1970s, they enjoyed the most of their fame during their early years of