Punk and new wave music was a big shock when it started to emerge in 1976 with its raw, basic, powerful sound.
Wikipedia defines punk rock as
“Punk rock (or simply punk) is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands typically use short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels.”
Wikipedia defines New Wave as
“New wave music is an umbrella term for several late-1970s to mid-1980s pop/rock musical styles with ties to 1970s punk rock. The wide range of bands categorized under this term has been a source of much confusion and controversy. The new wave sound of the late 1970s moved away from the smooth blues and rock & roll sounds to create music with a twitchy, agitated feel, choppy rhythm guitars and fast tempos. Initially—as with the later post-punk—new wave was broadly analogous to punk rock before branching as a distinctly identified genre, incorporating electronic/experimental music, mod, disco and pop. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including New Romantic and gothic rock.”
Before punk and new wave came proto-punk and pub rock in the UK which laid some of the ground work for the “revolution” and after the initial burst of energy, the movement developed into what we know as indie rock and alternative rock.
Punk Rock & New wave Live Albums Recorded In The 1970s
Live albums recorded under the general punk and new wave banner include:
The Adverts Live at the Roxy 1978
Bauhaus Live in the Studio 1979
The Beat BBC Sessions 1979 1980
Blondie The Old Waldorf San Francisco 1977
Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980
Blondie Picture This Live 1978 1980
Blondie At The BBC 1979
Buzzcocks Live at the Roxy Club April 77
Buzzcocks Entertaining Friends 1979
Buzzcocks Lest We Forget 1979 1980
Chelsea The BBC Punk Sessions
Chelsea Live And Loud aka Live At The Music Machine 1978
The Clash Live From Here To Eternity
The Comsat Angels Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones the BBC Sessions 1979 to 1984
Elvis Costello Live At The Nashville Rooms 1977
Elvis Costello Live At The El Mocambo 1978
Elvis Costello Live At The Hollywood High 1978
Ian Dury On The Stiff’s Live Stiffs 1977
Ian Dury Live At Rockpalast 1978
Eddie & The Hot Rods Live EPs
Eddie And The Hot Rods Live In Concert 1978
The Fall Totale’s Turns 1979
The Fall Words Of Expectation The BBC Sessions 1978 to 1996
The Fall The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
Gang Of Four The Peel Sessions Album 1979 1981
Generation X Radio 1 Sessions 1977 to 1979
Generation X BBC Live In Concert – One Hundred Punks 1978 1981
The Jam At The BBC 1977 to 1982
The Jam Dig The New Breed
The Jam Live Jam
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live 1977 to 1982
The Jam Live At The Brighton Centre December 1979 (sold with Setting Sons Super Deluxe)
Joy Division The Peel Sessions 1979
Joy Division Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Killing Joke The Peel Sessions 79-81
Magazine BBC In Concert 22nd November 1978
Magazine Play 1980 1978
Gary Numan Tubeway Army Double Peel Sessions
Gary Numan The Complete John Peel Sessions
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings 1977 to 1980
The Only Ones The Big Sleep 1979
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Peel Sessions 1979-1983
Pere Ubu Live at the Longhorn April 1 1978
The Police Live In Boston 1979
Radio Stars Something for the Weekend 1977 1978
The Ramones It’s Alive 1977
The Ramones Live January 7 1978 At The Palladium NYC
The Ramones You Don’t Come Close 1978
The Rezillos Live At The Glasgow Apollo 1978
The Ruts Get Out Of It Live 1979
The Saints Live At The Hope & Anchor 1977
The Selecter & The Specials BBC Radio 1 in Concert 1979
The Selecter BBC Sessions / Live At The Paris Theatre 79
Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK Live at the 76 Club 1976
The Sex Pistols Live at Screen on the Green ’76
The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Live 1977
Sex Pistols Live at Winterland 1978
Sham 69 BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Sham 69 At The BBC
Siouxsie & The Banshees Voices On The Air – The Peel Sessions 1977 to 1981
Siouxsie & The Banshees At The BBC 1977 to 2001
The Slits The Peel Sessions 1977 1978
The Slits The John Peel Sessions
The Slits Live At The Gibus Club 1978
The Specials Live at the Moonlight Club 1979
The Specials BBC In Concert 15th December 1979
The Specials BBC Sessions 1979 to 1983
Squeeze The Complete BBC Sessions 1977 to 1994
Stiff Little Fingers The Peel Sessions
The Stranglers BBC In Concert 23rd April 1977
The Stranglers Live at the Hope and Anchor 1977
Stranglers Live X-Cert 1976 to 1978
Talking Heads The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads 1977 to 1981
Talking Heads Real Live Wires 1978
Talking Heads The Boarding House San Francisco 1978 (TAJ)
Talking Heads Performance 1979
Talking Heads The Boston Tea Party 1979
The Teardrop Explodes Peel Sessions Plus 1979 to 1982
Television The Blow Up 1978
Television Live At The Old Waldorf 1978
The Tubes What Do You Want From Live 1977
UK Subs Peel Sessions 1978 – 79
The Undertones Listening In Radio Sessions 1978-1982
Various Artists Live At The Roxy 1977
The Vibrators BBC Punk Sessions 1977 1978
The Vibrators & The Boys BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
Wire The Peel Sessions Album
Wire Live At The Roxy London April 1st & 2nd 1977
Wreckless Eric Almost A Jubilee 25 Years At The BBC 1977 to 2002
X-Ray Spex Live At The Roxy 1977
There are some terrific live albums in this list as the punk and new wave artists are captured live in their prime.
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The All Time Best Punk Rock & New Wave Live Albums
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Entertaining Friends: Live At the Hammersmith Odeon March 1979 is a live album by the Buzzcocks. It was finally released in 1992.
By this stage, the Buzzcocks had released two studio albums – Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites – and most importantly, released their best known singles.
The Specials Live at the Moonlight Club is a live album by The Specials.
It was recorded in London in May 1979 and was originally released in 1992. The concert was recorded about six months before their debut album The Specials was released in November 1979 and shortly after their first single, Gangsters started to be played on UK radio. Strangely that song is missing from this album which is a shame.
2 Tone took the old ska rhythms that predate reggae and added a punk attitude. I wonder how much it was influenced by The Clash and their experiments with reggae including Police & Thieves (1977) and (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (1978).
Like punk in late 1976 and 1977, this was another exciting development in music.
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Live at the Roxy Club April ’77 is a live album by The Buzzcocks.
It was recorded at this legendary club which saw much of the development of punk rock in Covent Garden, London on April 2, 1977. The club closed in April 1978.
While this is a very early live recording from the Buzzcocks, Howard Devoto had already left to form Magazine, leaving Pete Shelley as the front man.
Live At The Roxy is a live album by Wire.
It was recorded over two nights at the Roxy Club in London on April 1 and 2, 1977. It also has a recording of a concert at CBGB in New York on July 18th 1978.
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The Sex Pistols Live at Screen on the Green ’76 is a live recording of the legendary group a year before they had released their first studio album, Never Mind The Bollocks.
It’s available as disk 3 in the box set The Sex Pistols together with some other rarities and live songs.
Disc: 1 – never Mind The Bollocks plus the B sides and some rarities.
1. Holidays In The Sun
2. Bodies
3. No Feelings
4. Liar
5. God Save The Queen
6. Problems
7. Seventeen
8. Anarchy In The UK
9. Submission
10. Pretty Vacant
11. New York
12. EMI (Unlimited Edition)
13. I Wanna Be Me
14. No Feeling (Bonus B-side)
15. Did You No Wrong
16. No Fun (Unedited)
17. Satellite
18. Problems
19. Pretty Vacant
20. No Feelings
Disc: 2 – demos, rarities and outtakes
1. Pretty Vacant
2. Submission
3. Anarchy In The UK
4. Substitute
5. (Don’t Give Me) No Lip
6. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
7. Johnny B Goode
8. Road Runner
9. Watcha Gonna Do About It?
10. Through My Eyes
11. Anarchy In The UK
12. No Feelings (Instrumental)
13. No Future
14. Liar
15. Problems
16. New York
17. God Save The Queen
18. Satellite
19. EMI
20. Seventeen
21. No Feelings
22. Submission (Version #1)
Disc: 3 – Live at Screen on the Green ’76 Plus Extras
1. Anarchy In The UK
2. I Wanna Be Me
3. Seventeen
4. New York
5. (Don’t Give Me) No Lip
6. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
7. Satellite
8. Submission
9. Liar
10. No Feelings
11. Substitute
12. Pretty Vacant
13. Problems
14. Did You No Wrong
15. No Fun
16. Understanding
17. Flowers Of Romance #1
18. Flowers… #2
19. Belsen Was A Gas
Tracks 1–15 were recorded on 29 August 1976 at the Screen on the Green Cinema, Islington, London.
Track 16 was recorded on 3 April 1976 at the Nashville Rooms, London
Track 17 was recorded on 29 June 1976 at 100 Club, London
Track 18 was recorded on 14 August 1976 at Barbarellas, Birmingham, UK
Track 19 was recorded on 10 January 1978 at the Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, Texas
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Something for the Weekend is a compilation of live recordings by punky power pop band Radio Stars.
It was recorded at various venues from their 1977/78 tours.
Are they punk? No but they appeared as punk and new wave was exploding and they had a similar self-made quality. Both Andy Ellison (John’s Children with Marc Bolan) and Martin Gordon (Sparks) had form including both being members of Jet.
This has some excellent, very catchy tunes on it although you do risk finding yourself singing “I Want To Take So.me Dirty Pictures Of You” at inappropriate moments. I bought the single back when it came out and looked Nervous Wreck and No Russians In Russia as well. I was surprised the band didn’t go on to bigger success.
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Live At The Glasgow Apollo, December 23, 1978 is a live concert recording by the Scottish new wave band The Rezillos.
It was released on Can’t Stand The Rezillos… The Almost Complete Rezillos.
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Peel Sessions Plus is a collection of live in the studio recordings of The Teardrop Explodes made by the BBC between 1979 and 1982.
There are sixteen tracks in total and their sources are:
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What Do You Want From Live is a live album by The Tubes.
It was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in November 1977.
The Tubes, with lead singer Fee Waybill, were an outrageous live act that was the basis for their popularity. Their recording success was limited to their albums creeping into the top 50 on the album charts in the UK and USA.
Siouxsie & The Banshees At The BBC is a three CD and one DVD set of live recordings, in concert and in the studio, made by the BBC between 1977 and 2001.
The BBC has started to pull together ll of its recording and filming of important musical acts and is creating these compelling box-sets.
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