Short of quoting from that much-maligned Billy Joel song 
(y'know the one)on this issue, I couldn't agree more with 
CC...

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:02:47 EDT
>From: CCDatsMe@aol.com  
>Subject: Re: Punk Rock....good riddance not RIP !!!  
>To: audities@smoe.org
>
>In a message dated 7/13/03 12:29:28 AM Eastern Daylight 
Time, 
>segarini@sympatico.ca writes:
>
>
>> Give me Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Dust In The Wind and the 
like over Anarchy
>> In The UK and Should I stay Or Should I Go anytime...
>> 
>> 
>
>Ewww--perhaps we should just agree to disagree at this 
point..ah, but what 
>the heck.  It may be simply a generational divide, but punk 
was like a 
>revelation to me in the '70s, a vital music that rocked with 
the passion and energy of 
>the '60s music I already loved (Beatles, Kinks, DC5, 
Raiders, Monkees, et 
>al.).  The Ramones (still my favorite, second only to The 
Beatles in my pop 
>cosmology), The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Jam, 
Generation X, Eddie & the Hot 
>Rods--they all made records that thrilled my soul, and my 
affection for them 
>remains unchanged.
>       For me, punk, new wave and power pop all merged 
with '60s rock 'n' 
>roll as a compelling mass of rockin' pop music.  Hell, I 
viewed Segarini's "Gotta 
>Have Pop" as part of that--sorry to learn that the song's 
author didn't 
>agree...!
>CC!  
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