Punk

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a question for people who didn't experience punk firsthand (sorry o wise eldersaurs!)

How did the ideas/legacy/presence of punk affect your listening to and thinking about music?

(I didn't say it was a small question)

And do you still feel it as a presence within pop music and culture? Does it affect current music? Does it affect how you approach the music that came before it?

I'm interested in 'my' generation of listeners (30somethings) but also especially in 20somethings and younger - and in British people especially.

Comments

AN OLD PERSON RIOTS

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the idea of "old people's music" as intrinsically rubbish is something of a punk meme obv, taken up from 60s rock and turned against it

lex what is yr opinion of joy division? (i am tryin to write abt em RIGHT NOW)

(haha "unhygenic")

Re: AN OLD PERSON RIOTS

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

punk = era when i wz more or less lex's age and definitely lexishly year-zero in attitude!

anyway BACK TO THE YOUNG-o-DONS

Re: AN OLD PERSON RIOTS

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only heard the famous song! I like it but need not hear it ever again, and definitely prefer the Nouvelle Vague version. I was quite shocked to discover recently that they were the same people as New Order.