“I don’t know what the hell went wrong with our country,” he says. “There’s a culture of thuggishness that I can’t help but blame on punk rock music.
“I know it’s fashionable to think it was a great advance, but it also inspired two generations of young people to think that being rude, aggressive and violent is cool – and it’s very much not cool. I felt less and less safe in the UK. You could no longer walk around the local town – I won’t say which it was – while all the pubs had been taken over by chains and turned into places with loud music and no chairs, designed for people to get plastered in and to start fighting. That’s not the country I grew up in. The Britain I love is disappearing.”
I wonder if he has a point about punk?
I hate the reminiscing of punk.
The media (mainly the BBC and the NME) tries its hardest to convince us the country was locked in some state of ultra boredom, and that punk NEEDED to happen.
They talk about it as if it CHANGED BRITAIN FOREVER. I wasn't there, but the people I've spoken to who were say its a load of shit. Hardly anyone even gave a shit.
If I had a pound for every montage I've seen, with images of riots and fighting, put to the sound of 'God Save The Queen'...
A lot of people say
it was crap. My Dad said it was basically utter wank and that by the time the Sex Pistols released their album, no one would be caught dead dancing to them in a club or listening to them.
thats probably because nevermind the bollocks is rubbish
my dad says the same thing and he brought me up on stuff like hawkwind and crass who really had been weird scary freaks in their day
It sounds like he's confusing
people who are douchebags with music.
“I don’t know what the hell went wrong with our country,” he says. “There’s a culture of thuggishness that I can’t help but blame on douchebags.
No offence Douchebag
y'know who i blame
teddy boys
Totally
they were proto-douchebags.
It was post punk that was the real innovator
and even then that was about the music not the social climate.
Post punk has dated horribly though.
Spot on
you never hear people ripping Gang Of Four off these days!
Not really
he's just targeting something easy, rather than the drastic social, political and economic changes that happened in the 80s. it's much easier to point at a poster boy of hate then accept it's a complex issue.
Yeah a lot of it sounds quite shit now.
But quite a lot of it is timeless. Swell Maps could be a band that formed the other day.