[kj] Buzzcocks learn from the Joke?

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Every year there's Chaos in Tejas and countless other punk fests that 
play "real punk" in the USA.

I am against this idea that good music stopped being made after 1993, or 
1975 as my mom and her generation seemed to think. That they lost touch 
isn't my fault. 2 years ago I mentioned that Leatherface headlined at 
Chaos in Tejas and a lot of people couldn't believe me that they were 
still around and playing, 'til I posted the video 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9vzjK5HDA>. When I post actual, 
contemporary punk bands here, like The Complications, they get called 
"podunk no-name bands." (*looks solemnly to fluw*) Because all the good 
music that means anything was made when we were in our teens, and young 
people today were born too late, and are missing out because back in the 
day it was so much better.....

Obviously I love bands like Killing Joke or I wouldn't be here, but 
there is a tendency I've noticed among the 30- or 40-something set to 
believe that there's nothing good or new under the sun nowadays - and 
all such critics seem to look to are bands like Aiden and AFI or My 
Chemical Romance, who do suck - and conclude it was all better back in 
the nostalgia days, a la  Minor Threat's "Salad Days."

-Oliver


GREG SLAWSON wrote:

> Just got an email from the same small, prestigious, long-standing rock 

> club in Boston, MA, that KJ were booked at, that  THE BUZZCOCKS are 

> playing in April or May or something. Dizzy at the prospect, I checked 

> their website, and NO US dates are listed. Sound familiar? Last time 

> the Buzzcocks played Boston (4 years ago?) they were so loud they 

> nearly blew the roof off. Steve Diggle was awesome. PiL, Joke 

> (December now???), Buzzcocks in the SAME YEAR? 2010--THE YEAR OF THE 

> PUNKS!

> (P.S., I live in the USA, where this stuff only happens every 5 or 10 

> years (unless you consider OK Go and Greenday punk...).

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