Disclaimer:
This is part of a series of polls I wanted to make. These are bands that are mainly punk, but some do crossover (e.g. fishbone) and because this genre has so many smaller bands running through it, I couldn't possibly add all of them.
I also just wanted to make this so I could get probably some suggestions on BLACK musicians that made/make rock music. It's not a contest, I just want to see which musicians some people like and for this to be a way for people to discover them.
Other Polls:
Classic Rock
Punk
Randomly selected musicians in rock
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021), dir. Celeste Bell & Paul Sng
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will definitely be printing more of these as i work out the kinks with the registration, but here's what i was workin' on here
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Omega Radio for February 25, 2017; #133.
Specials, The “A Message To Rudy”
Smiths, The “Accept Yourself”
Nina Hagen “Smack Jack”
Buzzcocks “Time’s Up”
Jah Wobble “Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life”
Kraftwerk “Europa Endlos”
X-Ray Spex “I Am A Poseur”
Can “Tape Kebab”
Pere Ubu “Blow Daddy-O”
Lydia Lunch “Spooky”
David Bowie “Starman”
Gary Numan “Cars”
Suicide “Diamonds, Fur Coat & Champagne”
Lizzy Mercier Descloux “Fire”
Rosa Yemen “Herpes”
Damned, The “Dozen Girls”
Public Image Ltd. “Rise”
Sid Vicious “Something Else”
Adverts, The “Bored Teenagers”
Raincoats, The “Go Away / No Side To Fall In” (live)
Leonard Cohen “Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On”
Talking Heads “Same As It Ever Was”, “Wild Wild Life”
Cars, The “Shake It Up”
Martin Rev “River Of Tears”
Lou Reed “No Money Down”
Velvet Underground & Nico “Heroin”
Deluxe marquee and standards broadcast.
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Poly Styrene; October 26, 1979.
📸: Hilaria McCarthy
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X-Ray Spex on the cover of Sounds, 22nd, October 1977
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on March 25th 1978, British music magazine Sounds released an issue that highlighted the anti-National Front (England's fascist party that was gaining a scary amount of influence back in the late 70s) stances of several musicians who were popular with teenagers and young adults at the time. this was part of an organized effort to steer young people away from the increasingly popular far right
the infamous cover shows several musicians with a deported stamp over their faces as a reference to the National Front's desire to deport any 'non-English' people back to their 'homelands'. as you can see, most of the rockers on the cover are black or otherwise non-white but JJ Burnel (who's parents are French), Paul Simonon (who's father is Belgian), and Ari Up (who's a German immigrant) are also on the list. it's a clear warning to white readers that the National Front is everyone's problem
'The fundamental difference is that the Left are attacking a system, whereas the National Front are attacking people.'
- Tom Robinson
'It's rubbish to say you can't do anything. Punk proved that. You have the power, so take it [...] You can't stand back apathetically.'
- Johnny Rotten
'If they come with fire, we'll have hotter fire. If they come with water, we'll drown them [...] but the real threat comes from Margret Thatcher and the Tory party.'
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
on April 30th 1978, Rock Against Racism organized a large festival to promote racial solidarity. 100,000 people joined the event and several musicians interviewed for this Sounds issue played concerts
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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021), dir. Celeste Bell & Paul Sng
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X-Ray Spex // Identity
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick?
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists?
Did you do it for fame?
Did you do it in a fit?
Did you do it before
You read about it?
Identity is the crisis can't you see
Identity identity
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