Timeline of Punk Rock - 1980

1980

  • Bands formed
    • The Adolescents
    • The Fix
    • GISM
    • L-Seven
    • The Meatmen
    • Minutemen
    • 7 Seconds
    • Terveet Kädet
    • Minor Threat
    • Subhumans
    • Youth Brigade
  • Albums
    • Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (EP)
    • Anti-Pasti - Four Sore Points (EP)
    • The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
    • Black Flag - Jealous Again (EP)
    • Blondie - Autoamerican
    • Circle Jerks - Group Sex
    • The Clash - Sandinista! (triple album)
    • The Damned - The Black Album
    • Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables(breakthrough)
    • Discharge - Realities of War (EP)
    • Discharge - Fight Back (EP)
    • Discharge - Decontrol (EP)
    • Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!
    • Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Taking Liberties
    • Jayne County - Rock & Roll Resurrection-Live!
    • Joy Division - Closer
    • Minutemen - Paranoid Time
    • Nina Hagen Band - Unbehagen
    • The Nipple Erectors - Only the End of the Beginning
    • Nervous Gender - Live at Target
    • The Nuns - The Nuns
    • Peter and the Test Tube Babies - Pissed and Proud
    • Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched
    • Pork Dukes - - Pig Out of Hell
    • The Ramones - End of the Century
    • Snatch - Snatch (EP)
    • Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
    • Talking Heads - Remain in Light
    • The Teen Idles - Minor Disturbance (EP)
    • Teenage Head - Teenage Head
    • Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet
    • The Undertones - Hypnotised
    • Vice Squad - Last Rockers (EP)
    • The Weirdos - Action Design (EP)
    • X - Los Angeles
  • Disbandments
    • Joy Division
    • The Teen Idles
    • The Germs
  • Events
    • Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis commits suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of 23. The rest of the band go on to become New Order
    • The Ruts lead singer Malcom Owen dies of a heroin overdose on July 14, 1980 at the age of 26.
    • The Germs lead singer Darby Crash commits suicide on December 7, 1980 at the age of 22.
    • KROQ-FM establishes the Top 106.7 Countdowns. The Clash and Dead Kennedys both reached on it on the same year.
    • Documentary film-maker Penelope Spheeris captures the Los Angeles punk scene in the cult hit The Decline of Western Civilization. The documentary features interviews performances by Southern California punk bands Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, The Germs, and X.
    • The semi-documentary Rude Boy is released. The film stars Ray Gange as a roadie for The Clash and splices in live performances by the band.

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