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

Yes, the Dead Kennedies... (none / 0) (#3)
by femmefierce (towncrier@drunkytown.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2001 at 01:03:27 AM PDT
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.....even though it's spelled Kennedys. I'd also like to thank Dead Air for remembering how punk Sonic Youth was and still is. They are often overlooked, especially their earlier work, which is fucking amazing!

For Their Sake and not Mine... (none / 0) (#5)
by Dead Air (deadair3@lycos.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2001 at 01:26:25 AM PDT
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...I've gone back and corrected the spelling. Thanks.

But, now where's your top 6 album list?

Oddly, I do things other places.
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DK's (none / 0) (#10)
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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Sonic Youth (none / 0) (#11)
by Paul Shrug (paulshrug@YourSadCareerAsASpammer.gmail.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2001 at 07:32:40 AM PDT
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Always struck me as punk too. If Television was, so are SY.

--Shrug
Now Doing Weddings And Irony
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Cool thing (none / 0) (#24)
by Crazydee (crazydee666@sinfulbutworthyineveryway.com) on Thu Sep 27th, 2001 at 09:26:24 PM PDT
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and the whole Sonic Youth GOO album just does it for me. And Iggy is ......oh,yeah. The Ramones......they are so there that I took a couple of my granddaughters to see them because they are a perfect example. How about kd Lange's cow punk phase? So what! Fuck you!

Now, how much will you pay? But wait, there's more...

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