[kj] Post Punk

[Jpwhkj at aol.com]

I don't think the "norms" really kicked in till the early eighties or so, but yes, by then the Stranglers were not just out on an evolutionary limb, but had built a tree-house and moved their stuff in.

Anyway, great band... remind me to tell you about stage-diving at a Stranglers gig in Vienna.

Jamie


Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> writes:

>Well, so do I, and if I was pressed to describe the Stranglers to someone who'd never heard of them, one of the first words to come out of my mouth would invariably be "punk," but in terms of the Taliban-like orthodoxy of Punk Rock, they certainly deviated from the norms, did they not?
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>On Friday, March 25, 2005, at 01:25 PM, Jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:
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>> I take your point Alex, but if you'd told JJ that they weren't punk back in 77 he'd have beaten you up, along with Paul Simonon of the Clash!
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>> However, one of the great things about punk then was that it was such an eclectic mix - and so encompassed such varied talents as the Stranglers, the Pistols, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, the Damned... so personally, I reckon that the Stranglers *were* punk.
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>> Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> writes:
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>>> That's because the Stranglers -- who I love more than several members of my immediate family -- were a beast all their own. They were lumped in with the Punks, but really had precious little in common beyond that.