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Okay what the fuck.
Willem:
are you trying to tell me that sid vicious and johnny rotten were fake? and besides, don't you think that they have more in common with say the stooges/iggy and the new york dolls than joy division?
also, punk doesn't have to be about radical topics and even if it has to be the sex pistols still made a song about abortion
Zaarin:
On the topic of the song about abortion, am I the only one who thinks that the animated sequence for "Bodies" (in which the band wreck A&M Records' offices) was one of the few worthwhile parts of The Great Rock and Roll Swindle?
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Willem ---and that while we're NOT debating which country first came up with punk because we agree on that? wow
--- End quote ---
You're offering reasons why a particular country was the first to come up with punk, which amounts to the same thing.
KharBevNor:
Man, I'm pretty tired of all this hipster position on The Sex Pistols. Fact is, most actual punks I know consider them punk, and even more so back when they were actually around. They were considered a big part of the punk scene in England at the time, and have only been retro-actively written out of punk by people with no actual involvement in it. I'm not denying that they were 'manufactured', but they still fucking sounded punk, and they were still just as integral to what happened in '77 as any other band. They were the guys that actually got out there and scared and inspired people. You may piss and moan, but the Sex Pistols did more for the continuing legacy of punk than the vast majority of other punk bands.
Pretty much all I need is the intro to Cock Sparrers live version of 'Where Are They Now?': "Bands like us, bands like Business, bands like the Clash, Bands like the Sex Pistols."
Saying the Sex Pistols weren't punk is like saying Elvis wasn't rock and roll. Even if you could gather a convincing argument, it would make no sense from the viewpoint of the history of music.
Ernest:
Kurt Cobain was one of the greatest songwriters of all time. You can try to make me feel stupid with all your useless indie knowledge, but that fact remains. I can't even listen to Joy Division for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill puppies.
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