Toronto punk rock

The first punk rock bands emerged in Canada during the late 1970s, in the wake of the US band Ramones and the UK bands Sex Pistols and The Clash. The Viletones, The Diodes and The Demics were among the pioneers, together with The Skulls (featuring Joey who would go on to form DOA, and Wimpy (Brian Roy) who would lead The Subhumans) from Vancouver, and Hamilton's Teenage Head, whose records and live shows earned them the nickname "Canada's Ramones". Vibrant local punk scenes sprung up in Toronto and Vancouver and other Canadian cities, however as the movement was increasingly infiltrated and co-opted by "new wave" type bands, by 1980/81 hardcore emerged as a way to separate "true punk" bands from the "poseur punk" bands.

Early Toronto punk bands included The Viletones, The Diodes, Michaele Jordana and The Poles, The Ugly, The Cardboard Brains, The Mods, The Secrets, ARSON and The Scenics, and these were followed by The Demics, Crash Kills Five, Stark Naked and The Fleshtones and L'Étranger, plus Hamilton's Forgotten Rebels and Teenage Head. In Vancouver D.O.A. and The Subhumans led a 1978-79-80 scene that included Pointed Sticks, Braineaters, Young Canadians, The Reactors and The Modernettes. A few years later and many bands across Canada were carrying the punk torch, including Young Lions, Youth Youth Youth, Bunchofuckingoofs, SNFU, Dayglo Abortions, The Nils, Direct Action, APB, Nomeansno and Chronic Submission.

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