I originally had "supposedly" in that sentence but I thought someone would get pissed over that so I took it out.
I know I can't completely put the entire punk community into one category, and that last post shouldn't be taken too seriously. You can't deny that you had punks who were just following a trend, those kids who were into The Sex Pistols, Ramones and what not and probably didn't really follow the stuff that influenced punk. And then you had the hipster kids who were listening to VU, Can, Modern Lovers, Patti Smith and such. I think post punk grew because of those kinds of people. When talking about "punk snobs" I'm talking about those who were really into it just for the image and fashion.
But yeah, the original US and UK punk movements were always bitching about the upper class and being working class and bla bla. Prog rock was a big target for punks and I always thought that was super hypocritical because why where bitching about how rock n roll shoud just being rock n roll and how arty bands were "pompous" and yet they praised stuff like VU and of course post punk which ended up being all the things punks knocked on prog for, except being virtuosos at their instruments. I hate how punks think skill is such a godawful shameful thing.
Last edited by boo boo; 08-05-2010 at 06:49 AM.
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