The death of punk....

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Carantoc
Carantoc
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21 Mar 2011 8:20am
Forget the death of television, it never really lived anyway.

But is punk now officially dead ?

Iggy Pop doing life insurance ads
Henry Rollins presenting 'Full Metal Mayhem'
(and whilst not strictly punk) Alice Cooper telling the world he loves talent shows

Ben 555
Ben 555
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NSW, 456 posts
21 Mar 2011 11:40am
Agree Carantoc though Its had many deaths...this may just be the buggering of the corpse

For me it was the day that Husker Du signed to Warners - the subsequent album (Candy apple grey) was mixed / produced like it was meant to be played in an elevator

Gorgo
Gorgo
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21 Mar 2011 11:55am
Punk was dead before it began. Theoretically Punk was a backlash against multi-millionaire musicians singing about the pain of being a poor boy, and over-hyped virtuoso musicians twiddling away with their big haircuts.

That's all fine, but who wants to pay to hear somebody who can't play? And what do you do when those guys who can't play end up being multi-millionaires.

Similarly, when real musicians start playing punk their innate creativity and skill kicks in and they turn it into something that is real and not really punk anymore eg. Clash, Cure, etc
Mister Dugong
Mister Dugong
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21 Mar 2011 7:04pm
Obviously none of you went to soundwave.... Perhaps too old huh???
Get with the times .... Punk is forever you ****ing ****wit ****ers
Carantoc
Carantoc
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21 Mar 2011 7:25pm
Even punk knew punk was dead. And that was ages ago.

As the temperature drops on the drunks out in Clapham
I turn on my box and it's like punk never happened
The community's charged up and the West End's alight
And it's Noel Bloody Edmunds on a Saturday night
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
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WA, 23651 posts
21 Mar 2011 7:34pm
Punk is not dead

NoFX lives

sausage
sausage
QLD
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21 Mar 2011 9:40pm
"Punks not dead......................she's just gone to beah heah heah eah eah ed"

Darren Hanlon circa 2008?
paddymac
paddymac
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21 Mar 2011 9:28pm
Dead? Not while you can still listen to

Mark _australia
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21 Mar 2011 9:57pm
Gestalt
Gestalt
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22 Mar 2011 1:59am
i'm catching dead kennedys in 2 weeks and then propagandhi in may

Hamsta
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22 Mar 2011 1:39am


Mister Dugong
Mister Dugong
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22 Mar 2011 7:05am
Gestalt said...

i'm catching dead kennedys in 2 weeks and then propagandhi in may




I thought jello Biafra was dead???
Gestalt
Gestalt
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22 Mar 2011 9:54am
nope, been touring constantly with his spoken word and also put out 2 albums with the melvins and did some tours.

jello and the melvins is awesome stuff in my opinion.





Carantoc
Carantoc
WA
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22 Mar 2011 8:08am
Carantoc said...

Forget the death of television, it never really lived anyway.

But is punk now officially dead ?

Iggy Pop doing life insurance ads
Henry Rollins presenting 'Full Metal Mayhem'
(and whilst not strictly punk) Alice Cooper telling the world he loves talent shows




I stand corrected.

Punks not dead - but Iggy Pop and Rollins have sold out.

Long live Punk.
Gestalt
Gestalt
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22 Mar 2011 10:33am
you could be right ^

but i still hold hope. long live albini!

CMC
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22 Mar 2011 1:36pm
Toots
Toots
WA
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WA, 271 posts
22 Mar 2011 12:52pm
Punk Died when Crass said it did

Hamsta
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505 posts
25 Mar 2011 4:56am


Gestalt
Gestalt
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25 Mar 2011 10:38am
nice one hamsta, this is becoming the jello love thread.

jello and doa


jello and no means no


Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine


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