poptimists | Your ugly face is going to bland (Reply)

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Most so-called "heavy metal," "punk," "avant garde," and "alternative" music symbolizes outrageousness without doing it. "Outrageousness" merely fulfills a genre requirement instead of deriving from genuine, wild inner outrage. And then there's the problem of white boys and girls trying to keep a beat, which they're getting worse at. Even in the '70s, disco was a lot more vulgar and free than punk was. The tyranny of the commercial dance marketplace was less tyrannical than the tyranny of the punk ideas of "anarchy" and "freedom." The problem with rock today is really in the sound. What is missing is the voluptuousness of music, the basic throb of rock and roll. The stuff on my list does this rock 'n' roll throb better than "rock" does. When I listen for the rock-and-roll raving who-knows-what shit I listen to Spoonie Gee and Teena Marie. As for punk, your ugly face is going to bland. If you accept that punk of the '80s matters, you are betraying punk in its real essence. You are betraying the punk that really did matter.