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Posted: December 27 2006 at 07:27

smithers wrote:

sex pistols were horrible. There's a start :)

The sex pistols weren't that bad...

smithers

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 07:26

sex pistols were horrible. There's a start :)

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 07:21

smithers wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

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punk is the music of rebel schoolkids without a clue

Punk was a very healthy thing. It allowed kids with "less" ability to get up there and create music themselves. It opened up a closed world. And it was exciting.

and it allowed crap bands to become popular :)

Which bands were "crap"?

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 07:17

Snow Dog wrote:

smithers wrote:

punk is the music of rebel schoolkids without a clue

Punk was a very healthy thing. It allowed kids with "less" ability to get up there and create music themselves. It opened up a closed world. And it was exciting.

and it allowed crap bands to become popular :)

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 07:16

smithers wrote:

punk is the music of rebel schoolkids without a clue

Punk was a very healthy thing. It allowed kids with "less" ability to get up there and create music themselves. It opened up a closed world. And it was exciting.

Edited by Snow Dog - December 27 2006 at 07:20

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 06:31

I think its more than that. It was crafted to bring music back down to earth from the soaring heights of prog (amoung other genres). Instead of complex instrumental arrangement music was reduced to three-chord crunches and with simplistic tendencies. It was an engineered killer you could say which, unlike prog was encouraged to grow.

Edited by Australian - December 27 2006 at 06:31

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 06:26

^^ Too true.

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 06:25

punk is the music of rebel schoolkids without a clue

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Posted: December 27 2006 at 06:06

I received a music encyclopaedia for Christmas, so naturally I proceeded straight to the Prog section and read until I came up to this interesting line about punk and prog “…then punk spat in prog rock’s face and attempted to destroy it outright.”

This next line also interested me “While punk gained all the headlines and sidelined the prog rockers in the mid 70’s, it seems you couldn’t keep a prog-rocker down, and many of the progressive rock groups survived to enjoy far longer careers than the punks.”

This made me realise that prog is a very resilient genre and a very, very large portion of prog bands receive little or no recognition, but proceed regardless.

Think about this quote from Frank Zappa “Historically musicians have felt real hurt if the audience expressed displeasure. We didn’t do that. We told the audience to get f**ked.”