punk presentation

today in class we had the presentation on punk which i found very intriguing. I believe that punk is one of the best genre's in american music because of the simplistic instrumentals and politically charged lyrics. but there was one major problem i had with the presentation, she kept talking about the sex pistols as if the scene lived and died with that band and thats just not true.

Granted the music they play is punk, but the members are pretty far from punk, at least for the time. The Sex Pistols were made by EMI just to cash in on the punk movement. this goes against almost everything the early punk movement was about. A record label creating a punk band just to make money is surely not punk.

Now i love the Sex Pistols just as much as the next guy, and Anarchy in the U.K is still an amazing album, but people do not seem to realize that they were not just a band from the underground.