[kj] [KJ] OT: Just check out the tribal drums &chiming guitar...

[Alexander Smith]

No. Straight edge started with bands like SOA, Teen Idles, Minor  
Threat, The Faith, Void etc. all from Washington D.C.'s Dischord  
label, espousing a lifestyle of no drinking, no drugging and no  
sexytime. Emo was birthed a few years later, largely credited to  
another Dischord band, Rites of Spring (featuring Guy P., later of  
Fugazi), so dubbed given the *strenuously earnest* nature of the  
band's songs.

Positive Punk, I believe, was a Britishism coined to differentiate  
between skinhead/oi bands who were purportedly violent and the post- 
punk outfits (like Southern Death Cult) who weren't.

They're all pretty meaningless tags.

Alex in NYC


On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Peter Moltesen wrote:


> Isn’t Straight Edge what Emo used to be known as before it was Emo ?

>

> Peter

>

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net 

> ] On Behalf Of Alexander Smith

> Sent: 04 June 2009 20:17

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] [KJ] OT: Just check out the tribal drums &chiming  

> guitar...

>

>

> The short-lived "Positive Punk" phenom and Straight Edge are two  

> different things, btw.

>

> Alex in NYC

>

>

> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Karen Weil wrote:

>

>

> Oh, yeah  ... *sigh* I remember that cliche.

>

> k.w.

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