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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I think punk is by nature inherently apocalyptic, in the sense of 'an end to what has gone before' sort of apocalypse, rather than 'whoa, shit, ragnarok.'

I think people using 'punk' as a self-label now are just using it to be snotty. I know "punk" kids and they're all 'whoa whoa whoa I'm so traumatised by this modern world, let's go to Topshop and get eating disorders' and it's really quite distressing. Whether the original punks were like that or not, it's not the way I feel things should be on a, like, emotional level.