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

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

can i go out on a limb and say that punk was the last (post war) rebellious youth movement and that everything after that has built on that established platform - no longer needing to say 'fuck you i won't do what you tell me (to do)' (except by the silly people who felt the unnecessary need to actually say that) but just going on to say 'and this is the new thing X that we're doing'. it's really odd to see how "shocked" grownups act in the 50/60/70s due to the antics of the kids. and i don't think that since then 80s/90s we've had anything like it. and are not likely to.

but it was NOT about authenticity.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

punk is on the edge of my musical memory. but i am on more solid ground with post-punk/new wave (i was 8 in 77). the primary emotion i get from punk at that time is a visceral energy.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

the only music i can rly remember from 1977 is mull of kintyre (i was THREE AND A HALF, what do you expect!!!!), which we used to sing "mull of kin-tiger"

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(obv i'm discounting, perhaps unfairly, parental outrage at acid house - fear of a new drug - and illegal orbital raves, which was the (non) ASBO issue of the day.)