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

[(Anonymous)]

You can never overestimate the apocalyptic tone of anything from the 1970s – that we were on the brink of disaster was the belief of folk as varied as the NF, Lord Hailsham and Hughie Green on the right, Oliver Postgate and Margaret Drabble in the liberal centre – while plenty on the far left thought that the system was one last shove from crumbling. Statistically (crime, economic growth, the unemployment that seemed terrible but in retrospect was only bad compared to the near-full employment of the 60s and tiny by 80s standards, and much less unequal than England today), it looks like a country in decent shape. (Reading Popular has produced far too much thinking about this subject...)
mcarratala

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

cosine ^^^