What was great about punk was the DIY ethos. The actual music, for the most part, never did anything for me (my stepfather has what is probably an insanely valuable collection of the first wave of UK punk singles). But the ethos that you could make music yourself, release it yourself, get gigs yourself, define the culture you were a part of yourself ... even if these ideas did not 100% align with the reality of what was happening, they were very powerful.
They fed over into other genres of music, including a variety of dance music styles from reggae to house and on to techno and its many (particularly UK-based) branches. And later, of course, grunge and what followed.
I do love me some prog - I listened to "Seconds Out" every time I drove the 35 minutes each way to Santa Fe for the whole of the pandemic. But punk, for all of its dirtiness and mess, brought some fresh air into the very idea of making music, and I'll always be grateful for that even if I don't love the most direct results.
They fed over into other genres of music, including a variety of dance music styles from reggae to house and on to techno and its many (particularly UK-based) branches. And later, of course, grunge and what followed.
I do love me some prog - I listened to "Seconds Out" every time I drove the 35 minutes each way to Santa Fe for the whole of the pandemic. But punk, for all of its dirtiness and mess, brought some fresh air into the very idea of making music, and I'll always be grateful for that even if I don't love the most direct results.