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Blank. · 05-02-2017, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

it basically dooms the genre to be unimaginative garbage like so many bands that take that view of punk

where as for me it means Art Rock with a DIY ethic and anarchic politics, and that's what it meant to the OG's

Punk is god!

**Frownland** · 05-02-2017, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 1blankmind

Punk is god!

You should listen to some real punk

Blank. · 05-02-2017, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

don't you have the bottom of a bottle to reach

Not til I'm done Spreading the love of punk, brother!

Blank. · 05-02-2017, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You should listen to some real punk

This isn't punk! This is pure garbage!

(I was listening to this as I drove home from work yesterday. Probably my favorite thing from their discog.)

**Frownland** · 05-02-2017, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 1blankmind

This isn't punk! This is pure garbage!

Contradictions.

The Batlord · 05-02-2017, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

it basically dooms the genre to be unimaginative garbage like so many bands that take that view of punk

where as for me it means Art Rock with a DIY ethic and anarchic politics, and that's what it meant to the OG's

How many OG CBGB's bands are actually political? I'd say the political aspect of "punk" is as stereotypical and unimaginative as the three-chord ****, and likewise dooms the genre. Punk in the creative sense should be about doing and saying whatever you want with the music, so making it about specific politics is just lame. A punk band should be able to talk about libertarianism, communism, or tits and ass as much as they want to. Or else it's just generic punk fascism.

**Frownland** · 05-02-2017, 03:15 PM

Leave your anarchist organizations with their singular, unified ideology out of punk, elphenor!

Blank. · 05-02-2017, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

How many OG CBGB's bands are actually political? I'd say the political aspect of "punk" is as stereotypical and unimaginative as the three-chord ****, and likewise dooms the genre. Punk in the creative sense should be about doing and saying whatever you want with the music, so making it about specific politics is just lame. A punk band should be able to talk about libertarianism, communism, or tits and ass as much as they want to. Or else it's just generic punk fascism.

I'll stop trolling for a moment and say that I agree with this whole heartedly.

In other news, the phone was ringing and I picked it up and got dial tone. I was so confused.

**Frownland** · 05-02-2017, 03:27 PM

That point would make sense if anarchism was a coherent ideology beyond being anti-state.

Chula Vista · 05-02-2017, 03:30 PM

I was gonna comment about punk in the 70s but then realized it would be akin to me getting slashed with a scalpel a few times, and then getting tossed into a tank of piranhas's.

You guys continue on.

05-02-2017, 03:15 PM	#44097 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Leave your anarchist organizations with their singular, unified ideology out of punk, elphenor! __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-02-2017, 03:27 PM	#44099 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	That point would make sense if anarchism was a coherent ideology beyond being anti-state. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-02-2017, 03:30 PM	#44100 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	I was gonna comment about punk in the 70s but then realized it would be akin to me getting slashed with a scalpel a few times, and then getting tossed into a tank of piranhas's. You guys continue on. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”