Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth: the 11 greatest punk rock bands of all time

Read more about <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/chris-frantz-and-tina-weymouth-the-11-greatest-punk-rock-bands-of-all-time-567469">Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth: the 11 greatest punk rock bands of all time</a> at MusicRadar.com <hr><p><a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/chris-frantz-and-tina-weymouth-the-11-greatest-punk-rock-bands-of-all-time-567469"><img src="http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/features/chris-frantz-tina-weymouth-punk-bands/chris-and-tina-punk-albums-cropped-opener-460-100-200-70.jpg" width="200" alt=""></a></p><p><strong>On the crunchy and infectious title track of their recent EP, Downtown Rockers, Tom Tom Club's Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth give it up for their lower Manhattan '70s contemporaries, name-dropping such seminal artists as Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television and Blondie, among others. "There were so many great people playing CBGBs when we were just starting out as Talking Heads," Frantz says. "We weren't able to fit everybody into the song. That's pretty difficult in the space of three minutes." </strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">As was the case with Talking Heads, the terms punk, art-rock, garage rock and new wave were liberally and interchangeably applied to many of the acts Frantz and Weymouth rubbed shoulders with. "The New York press kind of did the same thing as the London press," Weymouth says. "They wanted to compress everything into one style, one name. But it wasn't like that at all. There was a huge variety of bands, and the audiences were happy to have that variety."</p> Read more about <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/chris-frantz-and-tina-weymouth-the-11-greatest-punk-rock-bands-of-all-time-567469">Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth: the 11 greatest punk rock bands of all time</a> at MusicRadar.com<img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/673/f/8601/s/25f94a08/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&title=Chris+Frantz+and+Tina+Weymouth%3A+the+11+greatest+punk+rock+bands+of+all+time&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fdrums%2Fchris-frantz-and-tina-weymouth-the-11-greatest-punk-rock-bands-of-all-time-567469" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Chris+Frantz+and+Tina+Weymouth%3A+the+11+greatest+punk+rock+bands+of+all+time&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fdrums%2Fchris-frantz-and-tina-weymouth-the-11-greatest-punk-rock-bands-of-all-time-567469" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151230890183/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/25f94a08/kg/342/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151230890183/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/25f94a08/kg/342/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151230890183/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/25f94a08/kg/342/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/musicradar/all/news/~4/CVSMdp-TxE8" height="1" width="1"/>







Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth: the 11 greatest punk rock bands of all time