Most Controversial Bands/Artists/Musical Genres?

I believe it. Weren't The Ramones the first though? I honestly don't know much about The Sex Pistol besides being a major influence to punk music. Should I pick up a record?


If by that you mean he ate his wild **** then yes.
 
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Remeraber that face!!!
 
Well of course he was.

He didn't have to act in that way , he chose to despite the negative reaction he'd get from some people. Which in my book in what controversy is.
 
Did you watch it?
I thought it was one of the worst interviews I've ever seen.
The guy is a messed up Satanist criminal,
and I still liked him a hell of a lot more than those douchebag interviewers, who went ito the mountains with no jackets and nike freakin high tops.
 
The Ramones started the movement in the US (also in 1976-7), but their lyrics weren't nearly as punk in essence.

As for picking up a record, there's only one record to pick up, Never Mind the Bollocks; any recording attempts they made afterwarRAB were awful. This is because they kicked out the original bassist Glen Mattlock (AKA the best songwriter in the group) because he had too nice of an image. They replaced him with Sid Vicious, whose antics tore apart the band and they broke up when he OD'd on heroine.
 
Actually I just finished watching it and I don't think he's THAT messed up. I think the people around him bugged him a lot and he just took it one step too far. I think on stage he is messed up and sometimes he has way to extreme thoughts... but listening to the interview he was actually an interesting person, not a good one per say, but interesting and surprisingly intelligent for a black metal lead singer. Oh, and his art was good.
Not my kind of music though...

Oh, and yes the reporters were pansies.
 
I was just thinking about Billy Childish....
His music isn't really controversial
but his Stuckism was pretty damn controversial in the art world, controversial and ****.
 
f*ck yeah i had to remind myself what their manifesto was but f*ck yes. Whta i have found of their stuff i really like aswell, it's all part of Billy's Victorian chic isn't it really, and according to wiki they were founded as an alternative to Saatchi who I inherently distrust (even though I havent been to his gallery)
 
Didn't they start off as a just a regular punk band and then slowly metamorphosed into the white power shit as new merabers joined or something?
 
For me, The Shaggs is a big one. For those who don't know about them, their dad pretty much shut them up with instruments and told them to play . They had no musical training whatsoever and its really interesting to hear how that effected their music. There's no beat really or melody. Their music sounRAB really juvenile, like when a toddler bangs on the piano. But Frank Zappa declared them to be "better than the Beatles". It's awful, unskilled, almost painful to listen to. But, there's something so pure about their music. Especially "My Pal Foot Foot" (Written about Dot's stuffed animal).
 
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