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Go Ahead PUNK, Make My Day... | 63 comments (59 topical, 4 editorial, 0 hidden)

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by Paul Shrug (paulshrug@YourSadCareerAsASpammer.gmail.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2001 at 07:24:03 AM PDT
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As I write this, they're leading the poll. And don't get me wrong, I love them and think Jello's still a vital force in intellectualism and progressive thinking.

But "punkest?" No way. If only because their post-breakup history has devolved into the kind of legal pissing contests that might get Pink Floyd's lawyers off, but nobody else.

We can argue about how many guitars you must smash, how many cuss words you can say on British television, how many nod-offs you've had in interviews, etc. etc. It's hard to say what punk was about (note the past tense) but very easy to say what it was against. But the image of punk rock to me, subjectively speaking, is pretty simple: Iggy Pop doing an entire set with a gaping chest wound, and not knowing about it until someone forced him down for a Band-Aid. It's also the blase "1-2-3-4" of the Ramones. The Kennedys were just too smart. The greatest punk rejects intellectualism. NOT great punk -- the DK's were great punk -- but the greatest punk. It's nihilism. The DK's always held a promise. They had ideas. They probably could build things. They weren't strictly nihilistic.

But that's just me. Plenty of other very well-informed SOS'ers have excellent rebuttals waiting to go.

--Shrug
Now Doing Weddings And Irony
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Go Ahead PUNK, Make My Day... | 63 comments (59 topical, 4 editorial, 0 hidden)

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