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Old 08-05-2010, 07:35 AM   #2 (permalink)
Janszoon
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The music press just likes making sh*t up. So I guess it's wrong to accuse post punk of contradicting punk, it just contradicts the image people incorrectly apply to punk.
What I'm saying, though, is I've never heard of an anti-art snob image being attached to punk by anyone except you.

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I know that punk has always had art snobbery attached to it. But the music press usually ignores this because it's easier to package punk as "anti snob and rock n roll" and prog as "snobs who were killing rock n roll". I'm more bitter at the press about that than punks actually.
I've also never heard of prog being considered snobby. Overblown? Yes. Cheesy? Yes. Silly? Yes. But snobby? Not so much.
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