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  • Dr. Ron Paul 2012. He is such a punk and wants to destroy the status quo!

    End The Fed!

    Dr. Ron Paul 2012

  • "kinda defines when stupid becomes smart" best of the best

  • Being patriotic isn't punk rock.

  • @zombiekidbug Punk rock is having no rules. A punk band can be patriotic if they want.

  • holy shit these are real bands

  • true musical comic book genius

  • i never expected the ending ..hahahah...now that is honestly quality comedy.

  • No matter what music you like, this is fucking talent folks.

  • This video have introduced me to so many awesome proto-punk bands!

  • @lifeisadeadend It didn't start in anyone place, no one starts a genre because a genre is a collection of music. example. there was no funk when little richard showed up but your honestly you're gonna say he created it with his fucking saxaphone give me a break. It takes years to mold a musical form into one detailed group. And you can't say "the who" started a movement that took hundreds of bands to progress. its like saying that run dmc started hip hop I MEAN REALLY!

  • @lifeisadeadend You're more or less falling for the exact same trap he's trying to explain. The Who are important in punk history, but as LookingForTheUpsides points out, nearly every group discussed here predates The Who. This is about the origins of punk. There is British punk, and its good punk, but punk was first developed in NYC.

  • @lifeisadeadend -Did you hear what he said at the start? "Punk rock on the lower east side" He's only focusing on New York.

  • @lifeisadeadend you're forgetting that the first song in this video is from 1950. The who wasn't formed until 1964.

  • this kids a genius

  • @lifeisadeadend shut the fuck up and nobody cares thanks

  • his voice reminds me of John Linnell of TMBG

  • Could someone list the all the Artists he talks about please?

  • For those of you who don't know . . . the song is titled "The History of Punk On the Lower East Side, 1950 - 1975", so really it's a very small niche in the history of punk music. Jeff Lewis is incredible :)

  • @wakingconsciousness 1970, excuse me. my point is that Jeffery Lewis is claiming to talk about the transition from folk to punk, but is expressing this from the folk music side where as i come from the punk side...our different backgrounds cause an impass in a historical context...i don't know...i was drunk 3 months ago, i'm drunk now.

  • You painted a picture of American Proto-punk simply being adopted by England. The UK had a proto-punk scene of it's own of mods, skinheads, ska, and pub rock.

    Great presentation though. I'd like to see this in a graphical format with diagrams, timelines, and pictures of bands and album art.

  • @jbgandhi2 yeh somebody get me a flow chart.

  • i like jeffrey lewis but i dont think hes being particularly fair on english punk by saying it basically just stole everything

  • @KantorekBaumerB14 I guess the point he was really trying to make is that almost anyone thinks that the genre of punk rock wouldn't exist if it were for the Sex Pistols, when the truth is Sex Pistols were merely the most famous of the genre. Nowadays, anyone who is the most famous in the genre (for whatever the reason may be) is accused of setting the trend.

  • you are a fucking gimp SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Fuck i hate you. You're such a fake dickhead.

  • I just had to do the history of Hardcore and Post-hardcore from 1979-1990 and it still takes me 17 minutes to do the presentation. Maybe I should take this route, he's even fit more songs in.

  • @sonicwingnut you should put that on youtube i would love to see it

  • Give Lewis a Musicology Honorary Degree. This is a fantastic tour of history ...and of many parts of my record collection! Amazing job Jeffrey.

    Congrats. This may serve to turn people on to some of the great artists your survey.

  • 56 people are communists.

    This guys kickass.

  • @Anikazam I'm a communist, and I love Jeff :)

  • lol then it went over to england and england stole credit for the whole thing

  • those teeth are pretty punk.

  • Impressive word skills. Would help if he were more interesting as a player or singer.

  • SPEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK SLOOOOOOWLY!!!

  • @boylikehill LISTENFASTER!

  • 56 suckers in tha house

  • i think his dates are a little off...jonathan richman & the modern lovers started in 1950...they were punk...and what about the ramones...and the mohawk was the hairstyle of the bassets in television...or so Mr. Mclaren said, and television played with VU...other punk fashion styles started then too...if one was to be so bold, you could even say punk started from woody guthrie...even though he's listed as folk/country in your local record shop.

  • 3:12 XD

  • this guy is soooooo muc better than david peel

  • i watch this honestly every day, and i never get tired.

  • @LouiseIsGlitteryJunk ME TOOOO

  • I have nine balls! Count them! Nine balls!

  • i loooooooooooove justin bieber :D deal with it

  • Brilliant!!!

  • Genres evolve, punk changed, deal with it.

  • very interesting way to learn about history of music., all taught in rhyme!

  • hat der spackungen, oder was is mit dem los?

  • I agree that UK tried to take all the credit for "punk" but you still have to respect Crass, Zounds, Flux the pink Indians, they had something to say about this fucked world with thatcher-ism happening around that time and what not, really at the end of the day who gives a fuck who started "punk", what matters is that the most influential and amazing bands have come from this movement, -pop punk :D

  • Oh my god, I love this! This guy is a genius!

  • Who`s originally played Oh mother, where is my father?

  • This guy is fucking insane and fucking awesome.

  • his ver of Euphoria - The Holy Modal Rounders is way better.

  • I hate British punk! - put all the negative stereotypes to the music and made of punk a fashion trend! - thumbs up if you agree!

  • @Starvoid7 I enjoy some British first wave ('75-'78), but I have to agree there was an essence lost there after the Pistols. It all started with bands trying to bring FUN and energy back to a rock world ruled by hippies and bloated guitar excess. Then it caught on in the UK, was revamped into something far more serious and politically-charged. That led to "Anarcho-punk", and all was lost.

  • @xreddragonx

    yes. agreed! I like American punk, and it's roots cause it's realistic, raw, and very artsy and diverse.

    British POST PUNK was awesome. the fall, the raincoats, joy division...those bands lifted themselves above that empty and retarded ''exploited'' and shit like that.

    American Hardcore was a Zillion times better then the British.

    Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minutemen, MDC, Minor Threat...

    the Brits got NOTHING on punk! =)

  • @Starvoid7 I'm totally with you on American punk-like you said, raw, artsy, diverse. But I have to say that there was potential in the 77 Brit scene- particularly in bands like The Damned, The Stranglers, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Wire, 999. These bands were not political and self-important like most Britpunk. On the contrary they had a humor and free-spirited creativity more in-line with US punk. If you havent heard them, I hope you give them a chance because they show what Britpunk could have been

  • @Starvoid7 And yes, early US Hardcore kicked ass, especially the Misfits. I mean they were "Hardcore" but still had a early punk-like creativeness and humor. Groundbreaking, as were The Germs. When you think about it there isn't really one groundbreaking or iconic Band from British anarcho/street punk.

    And yea, I could go forever about post-punk, LOVE it.

  • @xreddragonx well dude if you cant think of one British iconic punk band you need to do some research and listen to some other British anarcho punk , like AOA, Conflict, The Mob, Zounds, Dirt, Sub humans, Amebix, Null and Void, Omega tribe, Karma Sutra, The Apostles, Anthrax, Icons of Filth, Oi polloi, Toxic waste....really the list could go on, need to open yours a bit more before making a statement like that :)

  • @ClinicalSlap You're listing many bands, but none I'd consider iconic. I do like Zounds though.

  • @xreddragonx Completely disagree, better than a band being put together by some clever cunt who wanted to make money, the anarcho era pushed things like independent labels and free gigs or paying next to nothing to watch these bands, I really respect anarcho punk for what its done and how its developed, I think anarcho punk stood out a lot within punk music. Gotta love it and respect it

  • @ClinicalSlap Anarcho-punk simply shouldn't have been called punk, since it was a betrayal or severe misunderstanding of earlier punk which messed up it's legacy entirely. This whole perception of childish rebellion, edgy fashion, meatheaded "scene"/concert violence and preachiness that is "punk" came from the anarchist shift.

  • @xreddragonx Original punk wasn't like that, and not only do people forget, they sometimes question if it was even punk (bands like the Ramones). Of course that whole anti-music diversity attitude in the later punks also didn't help there. (The same guys who later had no problem mixing Metal into the genre of all things).

  • @xreddragonx That's a fair argument, It shouldn't have been called punk but I don't think it was a misunderstanding of earlier punk for the simple reason that it was a completely different diverse sound, and bands like Crass wanted to divide them selves from the "punk" genre. I will admittedly say that it didn't work out for them in a great way lol

  • @xreddragonx But I still think Anarcho-punk is the best thing to happen to "punk" because instead of talking about drugs, booze, and songs about being bored, Anarcho punk took on a different medium with tracks like The Mob - Witch Hunt

  • @xreddragonx , which made you stop and think wtf is going on with this fucked world, just think it gave people a knew incite and gave people who thought the same thing with as I mention again the miners strike and brought many people together and that's why I respect "anarcho punk"

    :) Sorry had to post this 3 times because it wouldn't let me post it all me :)

  • @Starvoid7 Yeah but The Sex Pistols!!!!

  • @adamlinks The Sex pistols were not much more than a fashion boy band managed and produced (not musically produced but like a product being produced) by Malcolm. If you are going to mention any brittish punk band, why not buzzcocks? or the fall?

  • @eggpuck Because of the music. They knew how to play! + it was just like... psychedelic mosquitoes. 1977 & 1966 linked together. Sex Pistols were really the psychedelic and punk gigs joined together. Buzzcocks and the Falls couldn't do that so clearly. I remember it whell.

  • @adamlinks In what way wasnt The Stooges part of the psychedelic rock wave and fused it with "punk gigs" similar, but a lot more genuine, than anything ever staged by malcom? And it wasnt even the greedy bastards first time either, he fucked around with the dolls as well who were ten times what the sex pistols ever was. Sid and the fucking cult around that guy...

  • @eggpuck I met Malcom one evening at Castelbajac's birthday and we had a little chat about what would be the future of the rock scene..."A mixture in between Mexican guitars and Drum 'n bass" he said... Ha! That never happened and then he died. For me the punk scene started in London in 1870 when the "filles de joie" used to wear flashy coloured wigs and used to be called "PUNKS". ...

  • @eggpuck ... then in the early 60's some great bands played in Las Vegas sex shops (sound and stage equipped ) and were surrounded by many old photos of these London's girls. So they played Punk music, mostly garage rock'n roll. (Sky Saxon told me that one night and I believed him!)

  • @adamlinks That sounds believable. Do love the brittish sound but not what common people believe is the english sound. How was saxon otherwise?

  • @Starvoid7

    Yeah that comment really captures the essence of Punk, "agree with me and thumbs up!"

  • @MONTBLANCFC You fucking evil thumb whore. Shut the fuck up with your idiocy. Fuck I hate your type.

  • @ArmoredFelix

    Well done on completely missing the point there mate, if you were paying attention you might have noticed that i was mocking the 'thumb whoring' in the post i was replying to. In future you might want to actually read the comments before hammering out insults on your keyboard and making yourself look like a pleb.

  • @MONTBLANCFC Mocking it by imitation eh? Clever.

  • Dude, this was awesome.

  • brilliant stuff..

  • i dont mean this in a bad way i love his music, but is he like autistic?

  • TOO FAST!

  • UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHER FUCKER LOL lets get a fuckin JERFREY LEWIS TATTOO ON OUR TITTIES.. <3

  • Awesome, but please, tune your guitar!

  • @rincefidleir naw fuck that tune shit lol i still think untuned gtars is like nasty punk rock haha idk thats just me ;)

  • yawn...

  • ha i love his godz cover..

  • Oh god I'm in love with you.

  • u sound like a comercial

  • Genius.

  • Not even close but a good try.

  • Fantastic, so now I find out pUnK is not British and to think, I still have not got over the 4th of July (must you keep rubbing it in every year?) ;-) Any chance our Royal Family are really yours too? Please feel free to take them, they come with lots of tourists and tourists are money ;-) Jeffrey Lewis is a very talented man and I really enjoyed this video. Thank You

  • iiiim wating for my man

  • @efsq

    That's how the demo on the 'Peel Slowly And See' VU box goes.

  • Where The Monks At?! The Anti-Beatles Need to be sung here

    Or for that Matter HASIL ADKINS, The original Madman, the true father Of Punk Music.

  • Most kids today think the sex pistols invented punk. Douche bags!

  • @LordRassy I thought it was the Ramones. Now I believe its The Fugs, you should hear the Original "New Amphetamine Shriek"

  • @LordRassy Even Glen Matlock sais he was influenced by Blank Generation

  • Jesus Christ, I love this man :)

  • Oh god. Jeff, will you marry me?

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  • @noglet76 no way jeff is a really nice cool guy. i've met him twice and he's really friendly and polite he's signed comics for me and given me the time of day to talk to me many times through emails

  • @andylipsmusic Yeah sorry, don't know what got into me.

  • i've always hoped to show this to everyone!!!! thanks!!!

  • He forgot about the MC5, the Rationals, Last heard, band's like that. But I guess the Stooges comment at least reconizes them, stylisticly. Other than that, great. Well, except it wasn't the end... Haha.

  • if I crossed my legs like that when I sat my grandpa would call me a faggot.

  • @SuperTrollNoU well what a lovely nanny you have

  • love the guitar

  • @TristeroRises thanks

    here's a spotify playlist of those ^^

    spotify:user:crowjake:playlist­:2jLEEt1JUhn6KlTlKTAYb3

    it didn't have the velvet's doing waiting4myman nor new amphet shriek by the fugs... but the rest be there. x x

  • Love this dude! :)

  • wow.

  • amazing!

  • :) this blew my mind

  • what?

  • and you should take some amphetamines too...

    haha this guys a genius

  • dude, we should hang out, bring your records =)

  • this is brilliant, i wish this recording was on an album, but sadly it is not on any of his releases.

  • This is such an awesome video. I love Jeffrey Lewis.

  • Funny shit.

  • Those who want to hate on this guy oughtta look in the mirror. What have you done that's any better? His name will be better known as time goes on...if you want your music to matter get to writing.

  • jeff lewis is trying to create something simple and great and raw and meaningful, his crass covers are great though the original, of course, are better. blah blah blah he doesn't do drugs he has songs about how he doesn't. research.

  • He does acid :D

  • @SnoBlackMelbkour actually, he doesn't "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane" really was the last time he did acid, and two years after that song was released, he came out with the album "It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through" which has a song "No LSD Tonight" which is about how everyone thinks he does acid when he actually doesnt all because of "The Last Time I Did Acid."

  • and i know people are going to talk shit back to me, so okay

  • @81bigmark YEAH what A IDIOT!!! I shouldn't talk, though. I do lots and lots of drugs! They made me so stupid that I don't even know to use an infront of a word that starts with a vowel. Oh wait, that's you, you little prick. Why don't you go listen to your Justin Bieber CDs and leave the music to the cool kids.

  • Atleast I'm humping someone.

  • this guy is awesome.

  • Even though protopunk and punk rock creators were American by birth, it really doesn't matter. Punk had a purpose and the discourse shouldn't be convoluted with something as pointless as US vs UK. That's old school early 1900s American isolationist bull shit. Think of Punk Rock as it's own state fighting a war on two fronts, rather than claiming ownership of something that cannot nor should be "owned,"

  • @ my previous comment. Don't look on the UK Punk Rock scene with disdain is what I mean. It's all a part of the same thing. Punk should just be left with its dignity in the annals of history. If a real revival of the last push of Punk Rock as the DIY movement in the 1980s occurred it would be shut down so fast by police that it would not be long before you would only be able to have an online community that will inevitably be saturated with pop-culture poison or just die... again!

  • That was really good, I swear, I should show this to some of the idiots who have no idea what punk is and don't care enough to read, and listen to the music. "Here's PUNK in 8 minutes.

  • Wowzajesuspants!

  • Phew! Jonathan Richman on Speed....

  • what holy model rounder song does he play

  • ha i love the ending! ..".and the whole thing moved over to England and they stole the credit for punk and that's how it goes the end. "

  • yea!!

  • love this thanks man for making it.

  • frogs in a box

  • whatever he's on... I dont want it.

  • how does he memorize all of this even with the slight rhyming scheme?

  • @Pausize  It's not hard at all really, it's only 8 minutes, you just follow a trail, one thing leads to another. You can relate each thing to the last thing. It's easy to memorize something like this. I think he has some Jew in him too. So there is that.

  • i didn't know he was born in 75. he's 34 years old. looks like 21.

  • to detoth67

    he mentions at the beginning that is singing only about its development on the lower east side. seems like a a narrow view, but he is true to his word.

  • Jeffrey Lewis is awesome! I love his story of the Fall too.

  • Cut and paste those into the Youtube search

  • @detoth67 no

  • I think a lot of what became punk really originated from Screamin Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley and Link Wray. To a lesser extent some of the wilder rock-abilly guys like Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane.

    Maybe Jerry Lee Lewis was the 1st punk.

    This was a great video, but it wasn't even close to a history of punk

  • Haha, then in 76 punk fans moved to England and England stole all the credit for making punk. The end.

  • @TehGuitarMan That's okay, it was all stolen from the poor blues artists before that came before them, and so on.

  • @TehGuitarMan english punk bands may have `borrowed ` from the US bands but they certainly acknowledged the influence and added a huge amount of their originality.

  • @TehGuitarMan

    It's easy to take credit for a genre with hindsight! The same claim (different roots) could be made for any other contemporary musical genre. Nobody is denying the roots of what we know as Punk Rock - emphasis on the word Rock - but there has to be a definitive point in the time-line where people can say that was the start. The start was undeniably Mclaren and the Pistols. Punk Rock the genre did not exist anywhere before. 

  • Yeah sure, go into any record shop on the 'Lower East Side' between '1950 and 1975' and ask for the Punk Rock section and he'll look at you stupid. What you have here is the roots and the seeds of the genre. It was Mclaren who took the samples, developed the concept and delivered the world Punk Rock. Undeniable.

  • DUDE GET TO THE MUSIC

  • I just downloaded the anthology of american folk and the holy rounders cause of this video. I'll get some david peel. I was already faamiliar with the rest.

  • Amazing!Educational and fun!

  • pretty fucking accurate i'd say

  • Oh no, it's the teeth police!!!!

  • i have an ex with teeth like that and for some reason i found them to be absolutely adorable (except for the nicotine and coffee stains). sometimes i miss his gap toothed smile. probably strange, but true!

  • As an old guy who was around and in NYC for just about all of this, I give you tons of kudos, Man.

  • When That Great Ship Went Down - W. & V. Smith Euphoria - The Holy Modal Rounders Waiting for the Man - Lou Reed New Amphetamine Shriek - The Fugs Nothing - The Fugs White Cat Heat - The Godz Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground Mother Where is My Father - David Peel 1969 - The Stooges Lower East Side - David Peel I Want to Kill You - David Peel Psychotic Reaction - Count Five Gloria - Patti Smith Personality Crisis - New York Dolls Blank Generation - Richard Hell
  • (those are, as you probably guessed, the songs mentioned, in order)

  • awesome!

  • @TristeroRises thanks been trying to find half of these for ages