Street punk

The earliest street punk songs emerged in the late 1970s by bands including Sham 69, the U.K. Subs and Cockney Rejects.

By 1982, bands such as Discharge, GBH and the Exploited had pushed this sound to become faster and more abrasive, while also embracing the influence of heavy metal music.

Still most middle and upper class kids cringe at frank discussions of violence as evidenced in a typical Blitz song.

[5] Writer Ian Glasper credited the Cockney Rejects 1980 single "Bad Man" as setting a "new standards for what was to become known as street punk" due to its "melodic lead guitar, belligerent vocal delivery and gang backup chants".

[10] Glasper wrote: "For many, The Exploited were the quintessential second wave punk band with their senses-searing high-speed outbursts against the system, and wild-eyed frontman Walter 'Wattie' Buchan's archetypal orange mohican.

They tended to focus on the possibilities of a nuclear holocaust, and other apocalyptic themes, partially due to the military tension of the Cold War atmosphere.

[12] D-beat (also known as Discore[13] or käng (boot), in Sweden[14]) was developed in the early 1980s by imitators of the band Discharge, for whom the genre is named.

The Analogs, a group from Szczecin formed in 1995, gradually became one of the most active punk bands in Poland;[21] with roots in the antifascist Oi!

scene,[22][23] The Analogs are widely considered to be precursors of street punk in the country and are credited with popularising the genre there.

[21][24][25] Their influence has spread to other countries in the region, as Mister X (started in 2003) – leaders of the street punk scene in Belarus[26] – have often cited The Analogs as one of their main inspirations.