[kj] OT: "Punk's Not Dead" documentary

[Leigh Newton]

We'd still like you even if you just got into it yesterday, Oliver. That's the attitude associated with punk rock (or any form of anything, for that matter) that bugs me the most. The underlying impression I get from all these recent biographies/docs is that if you weren't there when it initially happened, then you're just a poseur who gets all their shit at Hot Topic and is being ironic. There's nothing better than being an archeologist and uncovering all these gems from the past. Hell, only a few weeks ago did I finally get around to checking out Neu!

Leigh


----- Original Message ----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 9:51:30 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: "Punk's Not Dead" documentary


I think you are right.

I'm not old enough to have participated in the original '77 explosion of 
punk, but am old to at least claimed I was into it before the punk 
cultural 9/11 that was the release of Nirvana's _Neverind_, when 
suddenly everyone had retroactively been into punk all along and loved 
it, really, it suddenly seemed like. Radio station formats changed 
overnight and the same DJs that just weeks earlier had been spinning New 
Kids on the Block and The Escape Club were not switching to alt-rock, 
acting like they'd always been into it, hoping no one would notice.

Now it's more punk to write books about book or make documentaries about 
it than it is to actually make punk rock music, it seems like. There are 
shitloads of new documentaries every month. The implication in a lot of 
it, by older 30-somethings and 40 something who make it, is "Boy did you 
youngsters really miss out! Too bad..."

Fuck Against Me! too.

Kicked out of school in the 80s for wearing Pushead/Misfits & Septic 
Death shirts in Tipper Gore/PMRC Amerikkka,

-Oliver




culturevirus wrote:

> The sad truth is we've become self-congratulatory wankers just like 

> the hippies before us. When teenage rebellion is packaged for your 

> convenience and available at the local mall punk truly is dead. The 

> reality is every generation thinks they invented sex and rebellion, 

> it's only when we get older we realize we're just doing what's 

> natural. If only we had the humility to own up to it.

>

>

> I am culturevirus

>

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------


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