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

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

(Slightly late... oh, and I'm only recently 30.) When I was 14 I bought a Sex Pistols badge and wore it proudly to school despite the fact that I'd never actually heard anything by them (and when I did, I didn't really like it... also, I was much mocked for being a wussy kid with a Sex Pistols badge) - it seemed very important as an idea of rebellion when I hadn't really realised that rebellion was an option. Then I started listening to the Damned and was puzzled that they didn't really seem to fulfil the ideals that I'd read about, which I found elsewhere in Riot Grrl-tinged indie (eg DIY, rejecting conventional society, being actually quite surprising to listen to...) I think getting into punk at an impressionable age made me stop liking pop for a while, but got me into actually caring about music.