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

[Alexander Smith]

> "Hell, only a few weeks ago did I finally get around to checking  

> out Neu!"




LEIGH YOU POSER!!!! GET THE HELL OFF MY BANDWAGON!

Alex in NYC




On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:01 AM, Leigh Newton wrote:


> 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

>

>

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>

>

> 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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