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May 1994
In the early 90s, I was Revisions: August 1998
somewhat bemused by the March 2004
fact that the people who
currently considered
themselves "punk" had
a conception of what that
meant that differed This was back when I was
from mine. hanging out at KZSU a lot
(KZSU, Stanford 90.1 FM).
I only barely got a
sense of what they
meant by it, but it
seemed incredibly
narrow and so far
away from the
original conception
of "punk" that I
formed back in the
late 70s that it Patti Smith no longer
amounted to a plays a role (if you
re-writing of were to ask me, I'd May 2003: But
history. say she was *the* that idea
breakthrough downplays the
proto-punk). influence of
Anyway, I "Television" on
decided to Talking Heads is no Patti Smith,
resist jargon longer considered a back in the
like "classic punk band. early days when
punk", and Richard Hell
instead label A band like Bad Religion was still in
these new gets dismissed as being the band.
comers "pop punk" because they
"neo-punks". dare to sing in harmony. FIRST_PUNKS
Care to join
me?
It often seemed that
the problem was that
Punk had been co-opted But that's not really
by Marxists... it, otherwise the PC
"Bad Religion" would
Irony #666: have been above
"Maximum Rock n' Roll" criticism.
would not exist without
Warner Brother's "Sire
Records" imprint. The neo-punks are
obsessed with some
of the superficial
trappings of what
punk was about;
*Everything* has
There was a show on to be low-fi,
KZSU called: "It's a unskilled thrash
fine line between punk noise.
and stupid". Maybe
that pointed at a So I guess "London
problem? Calling" and
"Sandinistas" must
Punk had become an have been sell-out
excuse for being albums, right?
stupid, but it
didn't used to be.
In the late Just not punk enough.
seventies punk was
In the 90s, one of the few Get thee to a garage.
punk had intelligent things
become the around.
new metal,
albiet often
with a left PLEASE_KILL_ME
handed spin.
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