Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Garage rock is a style of pop music, a raw and energetic variety of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s most notably in the United States and Canada, but also elsewhere. At the time it had no specific name and was not recognized as a separate genre, but critical recognition in the early-1970s, and particularly the release of the 1972 compilation album, Nuggets, did much to define and memorialise the style. The term derives from the perception that many groups were young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, though many were professional.The style, a precursor to psychedelic rock, is characterized by sometimes aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery, often using guitars distorted through a fuzzbox. Surf rock and subsequently the Beatles and the beat groups of the British Invasion motivated thousands to form bands in the USA and elsewhere from 1963 through early 1968. Hundreds produced regional hits, and a handful had national chart hits. After 1968 more sophisticated forms of rock music emerged, and such records largely disappeared from the national charts.In the early-1970s, some critics began to refer to the style as "punk rock," the first form of music to bear this description; and it is sometimes called "garage punk," "protopunk" or "'60s punk" to distinguish it from the punk rock of the mid and late-1970s."@en }
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- Garage_rock abstract "Garage rock is a style of pop music, a raw and energetic variety of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s most notably in the United States and Canada, but also elsewhere. At the time it had no specific name and was not recognized as a separate genre, but critical recognition in the early-1970s, and particularly the release of the 1972 compilation album, Nuggets, did much to define and memorialise the style. The term derives from the perception that many groups were young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, though many were professional.The style, a precursor to psychedelic rock, is characterized by sometimes aggressive and unsophisticated lyrics and delivery, often using guitars distorted through a fuzzbox. Surf rock and subsequently the Beatles and the beat groups of the British Invasion motivated thousands to form bands in the USA and elsewhere from 1963 through early 1968. Hundreds produced regional hits, and a handful had national chart hits. After 1968 more sophisticated forms of rock music emerged, and such records largely disappeared from the national charts.In the early-1970s, some critics began to refer to the style as "punk rock," the first form of music to bear this description; and it is sometimes called "garage punk," "protopunk" or "'60s punk" to distinguish it from the punk rock of the mid and late-1970s.".