Nurse Duckett

I have a theory on what the problem might be, I could be wrong but lets give it a go.

My opinion on when punk started seems to be similar to Unknown Soldier and Urban Hatemongers opinion on this subject, and I think I'm right in saying we're all Limeys. The people who don't seem to agree with us appear to be American, I could be wrong, I don't know who anyone is in here. I have noticed over the last couple of decades that America seems to be obsessed with genres, you often see/hear Americans ask what genre are they, and that's a comment you very very rarely hear in Britain, unless you're talking to someone particularly young, under 18. I don't think us Limeys are anywhere near as genre obsessed as the Americans are. Every band or artist seems to have to be put into a specific genre in America, I'm pretty sure its a marketing thing, but with that in mind its kind of understandable that the media powers that be over there would be more than happy to class bands as punk just because it makes them easier to market. Someone told me years ago that Green Day were a punk band, I still haven't stopped laughing, but Green day are classed as a punk band in America.

For a Brit to understand the American view point on this subject the Brit would have to think in genres. The American understanding the Brit would have to forget all about genres.

I'm probably wrong, I usually am.