Originally Posted by elphenor

totally sure we already had this argument

but seeing as CBGB already had the fashion, the title, the sound, people identifying as punks

all prior to the UK acts that broke-out, I just don't see this as true

yeah it turned out to be more popular in the UK

but it's not as if Talking Heads weren't going to sell a bazillion albums regardless

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.