Fun punk

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Fun punk (also known as fun punk) is a sub-scene of the punk subculture that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although fun- oriented 77s punk rock groups like The Damned are sometimes regarded as "fun punk" or at least as its forerunner, the term did not appear until 1983 in Musikexpress / Sounds in an article about the British group Toy Dolls .

"Punk Pathetique"

In Great Britain , music journalist Garry Bushell used the term “punk pathetique” in connection with groups that simply Oi! or street punk with Comedyartigem satirical humor and often excessive alcohol consumption combined (which is why some British fanzines sometimes spoke of "Ciderpunk") coined. Other later punk pathetique groups, which musically inherited the bands of the mid 80s, sometimes had a much more political background. B. The Bus Station Loonies who ideologically came from anarcho-punk . Since the 1990s, however, more and more groups like Busted emerged in Great Britain , who copied the American “bubble-gum-pop-punk” from California.

Fun punk in Germany

In Germany, fun punk became its own punk subgenre and its own sub "scene" from the mid-1980s, whose members sometimes perceived fun punk as an internal alternative to the hardcore punk , which was then strongly characterized by political correctness and negative end-time visions , so that at concerts of both genres the audience differed greatly.

Fun-punk was supposed to be "funny party music" and as such often dealt with absurd topics or alcohol or drug excesses, but could also deal with socially critical topics in a cynical and ironic way, which is why some bands can be described as satirical political punk . The first German fun punk pioneers such as Normahl and Marionetz were followed in the mid-1980s by groups such as Die Ärzte , Die Goldenen Zitronen , WIZO and Falling Brieftauben , with which the genre became mainstream for the first time, as many bands managed to get record deals with Major -Labels to get hold of. And the music industry hoped to trigger a second Neue Deutsche Welle .

After many bands like Die Doctors and Falling Brieftauben had split up and both Die Goldenen Zitronen and Die Toten Hosen had emancipated themselves musically and lyrically from fun punk, the hoped-for second NDW did not materialize and a scene-internally commonly known as "Sauf-Punk" "Assi-punk" or "Proll Punk" designated style, with coarser, musical harder with painted texts, the more back to the original street punk had to do roots of the genre came up. Its representatives include groups such as Die Kassierer , Die Lokalmatadore or Eisenpimmel . In addition, there were still more melodic bands that were heavily influenced by US pop-punk, such as WIZO or terror group .

American "fun core" and "bubble gum punk"

From the mid-1980s onwards, the term “fun punk” or “fun core” was also increasingly used by American fanzines, mainly describing bands from the west coast who combined melodic hardcore with bubblegum pop melodies. The founders of this pop-punk style include bands such as The Vandals , Descendents and The Queers . A major influence on this development is attributed to '77 pop-punk bands like the Ramones or The Dickies ; the band Operation Ivy also brought in Ska influences. Especially for the early and mid-1990s, this style is seen as typical of Californian pop-punk, as bands like NOFX , Green Day or No Use for a Name , which musically followed on from their models from the 1980s, rose through rotation Music broadcasters like MTV were able to post unimagined commercial successes. The trend towards "Bubble-Gum-Punk" was able to hold up into the 2000s thanks to groups like Blink-182 and Sum 41 .

Well-known representatives

British “punk pathetique” and fun punk bands

German-speaking bands assigned to fun punk

American bands assigned to fun punk or fun core

Russian bands assigned to fun punk

literature

  • Martin Büsser: If the kids are united. From punk to hardcore and back . 5th, revised. u. exp. Edition 1995, ISBN 3-930559-19-6
  • Punk Rock BRD 1. Weird System (Indigo), November 24th 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Garry Bushell. Retrieved July 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ David Seed: A Companion to Science Fiction . Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4051-1218-5 , Online ISBN 978-0-470-99705-5
  3. ↑ Punk Rock BRD 1, booklet
  4. ↑ a b Taugenix , Fanzine No. 4, Interview with "Die Frohlix"
  5. ↑ a b US punk & hardcore discography, Reviews of operation Ivy, hectic 7 ″, Big Boys lullabies help the brain grow LP, Sloppy Seconds Germany 7 ″ . In: Flex .