Timeline of Punk Rock - 1979

1979

• Bands formed
  • Agent Orange
  • Bad Religion
  • Big Boys
  • The Business
  • Catholic Discipline
  • Circle Jerks
  • Cockney Rejects
  • The Exploited
  • MDC
  • The Necros
  • The Replacements
  • The Teen Idles
  • Toy Dolls
  • T.S.O.L.
  • Scream
  • Slime
  • Social Distortion
  • The Varukers

• Albums
  • Adam and the Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox
  • The Adverts - Cast of Thousands
  • Black Randy and the Metrosquad - Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie
  • Blondie - Eat to the Beat
  • Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
  • Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
  • Chelsea - Chelsea
  • The Cramps- Songs the Lord Taught Us
  • Cherry Vanilla - Venus D Vinyl
  • The Clash - London Calling
  • Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Storm the Gates of Heaven
  • Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You
  • Crass - Stations of the Crass
  • The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
  • Descendents - Ride the Wild/It's a Hectic World
  • Devo - Duty Now for the Future
  • The Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies
  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces
  • The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
  • Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows (EP)
  • The Germs - (GI)
  • The Members - At The Chelsea Nightclub
  • Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
  • The Lurkers - God's Lonely Men
  • Madness - One Step Beyond...
  • Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
  • The Outcasts - Self Conscious Over You
  • Pork Dukes - Pink Pork
  • Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
  • Ramones - It's Alive (live album)
  • The Ruts - The Crack
  • Sex Pistols - Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols
  • Sham 69 - The Adventures of Hersham Boys
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands
  • The Slits - Cut
  • The Specials - The Specials
  • Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
  • The Stranglers - The raven
  • Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
  • Talking Heads - Fear of Music
  • Teenage Head - Teenage Head
  • UK Subs - Another Kind of Blues
  • The Undertones - The Undertones
  • The Vibrators - V2
  • The Weirdos - Who? What? When? Where? Why? (EP)
  • Wire - 154
  • Wreckless Eric - The Whole Wide World

• Disbandments
  • The Adverts
  • Neo
  • Penetration
  • The Rich Kids
  • X-Ray Spex
  • Patti Smith Group

• Events
  • Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21.
  • Nina Hagen creates a media uproar after appearing on Austrian talk-show Club 2 discussing female orgasm and simulating masturbation.
  • By February or March, singer John Foxx decided to leave Ultravox to begin a solo career. He was replaced by ex-Rich Kids Midge Ure.
  • Ramones star in the movie Rock and Roll High School.