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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Punk Rock....good riddance not RIP !!! |
| Date | Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:59:55 -0400 |
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AT Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:00:50 Dave Best wrote:
>Of all of the musical trends to have evolved in the last fifty
>years, punk rock must have been by far the worst of them.
>Punk rock put music into the dark ages.Morons everywhere thought
>that they could sing and create bands.It had the effect of dumbing
>down music.Legitimate artists were slagged of in the press by
>ignorant bastards like Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.
Yeah, that's right....there was no stupid music before the Pistols came
along....
>Punk rock was all about the frustration of working class people who
>had no jobs and no money.This didn't make it a legitimate form of
>musical expression.
Go back and check your Beatles and Who history....same working class people
with no jobs and no money. But *their* music is somehow MORE legit as a
musical expression?
>Before punk rock ,there was no yob culture.
They were called Teddy Boys in the '50's...and Hippies in the '60's....and
Potheads in the '70s. The yobs just mellowed out.
>With the punk explosion, crime went up because people were copying the
>anarchistic views of a few >assholes like Rotten and Joe Strummer.
Again, c'est what? Who's propoganda were YOU reading back then? Hooliganism,
riots and violence existed long before Punk Rock came along. John Lennon
spent a good part of his youth beating on and getting beat up by
thugs.....how the hell do you think Stu Sutcliffe died? He took a boot to
the head from a street fight.
>I am so glad that in the nineties and since the new millennium, real talent
>has come back into music
Yeah, me too....because Punk rock killed every iota of talent between 1974
and 1999....that's a hell of a strangehold that 3-year scene from 1974-1977
had on the entire history of music. Phew, good thing the Pistols didn't have
any talent....or the music world would have NEVER recovered!!!
>and those disposable heroes have all but disappeared. I see the Sex Pistols
>are planning another >tour.Not only is Johnny Rotten an ignorant,despicable
>excuse for a human being but he is a
>hypocrite as well.He always used to criticise commercial artists now
>he is another prostitute to cash ! What a braindead idiot !
He never ONCE said that commercial artists were bad because they were
rich....he just thought they sucked because they were CORPORATE schills.
Sounds like some revisionist, almost-history talking there.
You should really check your facts before you blow off on a tangent about
what amounts to a blip in the history of music. Wanna know why music sucked
from 1980 to 1999? Read some history books.....punk rock was the least of
music's problems. That's, of course, if you actually believe such nonsense.
There's no more good or bad music in our era than any era....it's just how
you perceive it. As Audities has pointed out, sometimes you have to look
beyond your own self-centred narrowmindness to discover what a great band
the Beach Boys actually are [yes, that's an admission here!] :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
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