The Damned Music

Origin: England

Decades: 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

As punk's history enters a new millennium, the impact of the band initially judged "the least likely to" seems to grow ever more each day. The Ramones hold deserved pride of place for kick-starting the whole thing, while the Sex Pistols and to a lesser extent the Clash helped take it to an even more notorious level, role models for many young bands to this day. But arguably just as important and memorable were the Damned, London contemporaries of the Pistols and Clash that made their own mark from the start... Read More

Alice Cooper, Sex Pistols, The Beatles, T. Rex, Love, and Faces

Hüsker Dü, Motörhead, Misfits, Subhumans, Alkaline Trio, Generation X, Saves the Day, The Offspring, Sham 69, and The Weirdos