I'm a couple of days late, but I'm using Song of the Day slot to honour the first band to arguably bring punk music to the mainstream.
The Sex Pistols released their only studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, on Oct. 27, 1977.
The trio was all about image. There's a DIY aspect to punk music, and a lot of it is created with incredibly simple three-chord structures, but these guys took that to a new level. Infamous bass player Sid Vicious could barely even play his instrument.
The Sex Pistols were known more throughout the British and subsequently American audiences not really for their music, but for what they represented - young people with no respect for authority. But they weren't on the fringes anymore, they were on prime time television, cursing at respected presenters.
While most would point to God Save the Queen or Anarchy in the U.K. as the go-to Sex Pistols tracks, I'm picking Pretty Vacant. It essentially sums up the sentiment (real or projected) of this particular segment of the punk movement.
Hear Pretty Vacant on YouTube: http://youtu.be/VcauCclfytI.
