Jop Tournament Round 3.1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Into the last 16!


[Poll #927757]


Reason, recoil, and repent in the comments.

Comments

Re: Hmmm

[koganbot]

Well, among mags and movements there's a natural progression; the initial movement has to create its audience, so the bands and critics are playing less well-trodden notes and putting forth less well-trodden opinions. When critics first started bandying about the word "punk" in the early '70s they were resurrecting a lot of old discarded songs that were generally considered trash. "Be My Baby" and "Leader Of The Pack" may be canonical now, but they'd been long out of print in the U.S. when I first got them in the mid '70s; got the first on a British import, the second on an anthology that my friends Jay and Maureen found in an oldies shop and gave me for my birthday. By the way, the spirit of those original punk critics was very poptimist.