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The Effigies are considered one of the most important[1] early punk rock groups in Chicago in the 1980s. The band, first formed in 1980, was active for approximately a decade, undergoing multiple personnel changes, with frontman John Kezdy the only constant, before disbanding in 1990 [2]. The band released 5 LPs and several EPs, most on Ruthless Records and distributed by Enigma. They toured outside of Chicago, notably including a live performance at CBGB in 1983 [3], and received some radio airplay, principally on Northwestern University's WNUR and other college stations. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ...
Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
This article is about the year. ...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to qualify as singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...
The outside front facade of CBGB CBGB, also CBGBs or CBs is a club in the Manhattan Bowery district of New York City, New York. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Airplay is a technical term used in the radio industry to state how frequently a song is being played on a radio station. ...
Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. ...
WNUR 89. ...
The Effigies' website states that they were one of the first punk bands in Chicago[4]. This is a complicated claim for a band not formed until 1980, but true in the sense that the Chicago market was very late to discover or appreciate punk to any degree; in the half-decade after the The Ramones and The Sex Pistols first released records, Chicago remained dominated by blues, heavy metal, and even disco; punk bands had few places to play, and punk music fans had few places to hear live bands. Chicago's "progressive" radio station, WXRT, was never very supportive of punk. What most punk fans recall as the first "scene" in Chicago did not occur until the 1980s, when Oz and O'Banion's provided venues for live punk; Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim Derogatis correctly terms the heyday of The Effigies "the second generation of Midwestern punks [5]." The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ...
The Sex Pistols in 1977. ...
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale as well as a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ...
It has been suggested that true metal be merged into this article or section. ...
Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world. ...
New Chicago Sun-Times building located at 350 N. Orleans St. ...
Jim Derogatis (born 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a U.S. music critic. ...
The Effigies are generally considered hardcore or post-hardcore[6] and, to the extent it is distinguishable, Chicago hardcore. Indie rock pundit Steve Albini writes that The Effigies "were a moving force during a crucial and exhilarating time"[7]. Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ...
Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ...
Chicago developed a hardcore punk scene in the early 1980s that was more experimental than its counterparts in Washington, DC, L.A., and New York City. ...
Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Missoula, Montana) is an influential singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. ...
The Effigies re-formed in 2004 and play at punk revival shows[8] as well as at Midwest punk venues such as The Bottom Lounge in Chicago.
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