Sex Pistols 30 years(!) ago

[papercup]

"Anarchy In The UK"

mp4 .mov link: http://spikepriggen.onlinestoragesolutio...UK.mov.m4v

[Seacrest]

I saw a Sex Pistols [or some kind of faux punk] display in Saks' window the other day, which I thought was sad, but the two twenty-something girls behind me thought it was "cool."
When Saks has co-opted the punk ethos, the end is near indeed.

[Silencio]

I'm glad that the younger generations are still into punk and post-punk music; that way I still feel culturally relevant with the kidz and my impending dinosaurhood is deferred for a little while longer...

[outcast]

Much as I hate to say it, punk is dead.


I actually feel sorry for those kids I see now-a-days sporting their little Mohawks and leather jackets. It doesn't mean anything any more-it's just a uniform like any other culturally encoded outfit. If they were truly rebellious they'd have the guts to create a whole new look for shock purposes rather then fall back on a safe and established outfit.

And don't get me started on bands like Green Day that get called "punk." The true punk movement burned itself up just like it had to. It was a wild and reactive force that wasn't created as some sort of everlasting phenomenon that can be picked off a shelf and purchased at a warmly lit Target.

outcast

[Silencio]

Idunno, the same could be said about the "punk" aesthetic as far back as 1978. Weren't the Sex Pistols just a big marketing stunt/neo-Situationist prank, anyway?

[incognegro]

see if this link works:

http://projects.c505.com/projects/ascii_...equeen.mov

(it's God Save The Queen, done in green ASCII with MIDI audio)