[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

Stephen Robinson heiferboy at robinsonworld.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Apr 2 13:28:14 EDT 2007


When I were a lad, it was the 60s was where it all happened, and you lot all
missed the boat, then it'll become Punk, Rave, whateva, it's just tracking
the ages of people who commision youth programs,


>

> Also, another note on this topic that we're in the 'throwback era' of

> music: This YouTube video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yJpaI3v4U

> -- has Ian MacKaye (Fugazi/Minor Threat/Dischord Records) essentially

> saying he has never watched the _American Hardcore_ movie, has never

> read the book, doesn't read any of the retrospectives of the '76 -

> '87-ish era of punk/post-punk/hardcore, doesn't want to but may some

> day, they all seem to be written by mainly white males in their 30s and

> 40s and are sort of indirectly giving the message to young kids: "Wow,

> you guys really missed the boat -- sorry!" (Paraphrase.)


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