Originally Posted by
degenerated
It still isn't over, there's still great punk rock records getting released all the time, the maximum rock n roll site reviews section is bursting with new releases each month.
By '79 the London centric art school version of punk rock had imploded but there were still plenty bands bringing out music that was just as important to the punk scene, amongst many of them the damned were back and released machine gun etiquette, the UK subs were doing some great stuff, in Stoke Discharge were at the forefront of hardcore punk and Crass were taking the DIY ethic to whole new levels.
That said there was also a lot of generic rubbish and all that oi nonsese about too.
There was a spell in the mid to late 80s where the old bands still toured doing their tired sets of the old stuff but very little decent new stuff was coming out but that changed with Bad Religion getting back together and bringing out Suffer in 1988, it reignited the whole thing again.