[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[Alexander Smith]

My favorite Lydia Lunch quote concerns her predecessor on the NYC  
scene, Patti Smith, of whom she said "she ain't nothing but a  
barefoot hippie!"

Fuckin' AMEN, Lydia!

She rocked.

Alex in NYC


On Apr 2, 2007, at 6:39 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> Punk rock is a type of rock n' roll. To a lot of people it was the  

> quintessential means of setting rock 'n roll back on its proper,  

> rebellious course, and away from the "mistaken" turn it had taken  

> in the early 70s and later in the form of arena rock, prog rock,  

> stuff like Yes, ELO, Foghat, Journey, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer,  

> Genesis, etc.

>

> But ultimately, what started the ship sailing is, yeah, by  

> definition, more seminal. Lydia Lunch, in 1979 or so, in the midst  

> of New York's no-wave thingy, complained that when she heard punk  

> all she heard was sped up Chuck Berry riffs. Well, yeah! Chuck  

> Berry kicked ass! (She meant it as an insult to distinguish no wave  

> from punk rock.)

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> ade wrote:

>> We go on about punk being revolutionary - nowhere near as world- 

>> changing

>> as Rock'n'Roll was.

>>

>>

>>

>

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