I recall Jello’s Black Oak Arkansas belt buckle.

I think I’ve listened to “Jim Dandy to the Rescue” about 30 times since posting that.

ergo, GOP is a s punk as Johnny

This is the same kneejerk douchebag that, back when he was rolling his political rants on his tennapel.com site, advocated McCain be killed by a terrorist bomb blast because at the time Grampa 7 Houses was voting against Bush’s torture policies.

Fucker is as demented, theocratic and incoherent as they come.

And it’s nice to see a little love thrown out for Apocalypse ’91. I was just listening to that the other day and wondering why it seems to have been forgotten.

The Sex Pistols demo list makes a lot of sense. Four pre-hippie-era tunes and a throwback. This is what The Fool was talking about; punk and conservatism are both throwback movements, ultimately, and they’re both very full of themselves about not much and demand that they be the sole arbiters of everything.

That’s fairly dumb: those songs are all really easy to play, the Chuck Berry one probably learned straight from a book. I also don’t recall roving gangs of punks beating up others; rather they remain quite good at getting beaten up by local arbiters of tradition.

You ain’t no punk, you punk.
You wanna talk about the real junk?
Stick out your can.
I’m the garbageman!

I have some bad news.

I still stand by my original statement, but DAYAM….those are indeed some mighty fine recordings.

The Sex Pistols demo list makes a lot of sense. Four pre-hippie-era tunes and a throwback. This is what The Fool was talking about; punk and conservatism are both throwback movements, ultimately, and they’re both very full of themselves about not much and demand that they be the sole arbiters of everything.

Damage and later, Ego, actually.

For that matter, I don’t remember Jane Hamscher either, except maybe as part of the amorphous cloud of hangers-on from the suburbs that invaded the Fab Mab after the Sex Pistols got spotted by the MSM around mid-1977 or so.

Jane Hamsher hung around the Mab? No kidding. I had no idea she was that old.

As soon as the words “New Wave” were uttered, Punk rolled over and died of embarrassment.

As I recall, in the 70s before the term came to mean slick power-pop with skinny ties, “new wave” basically meant what we now refer to as “post-punk” Anything that wasn’t strictly punk but was part of the overall shift, from Pere Ubu to Mink DeVille and everything in between.. Even Mark E. Smith used the term for what they were doing at the time. Then “new wave” quickly came to mean what we think of it as meaning now, and it was very embarrassing to have to say, “no that’s not what I meant”.

Simba B: When I first learned to write I wrote from right to left in mirror-image. (Thus I had little difficulty reading lawnguylander’s super-secret spy-code.) I can still do it — in cursive, Gregg shorthand, on an Etch-a-Sketch, whatever. I think my second-grade teacher recommended institutionalization, but I always just chalked it up to being left-handed. And perhaps gifted, or whatever, in a completely ridiculous way.

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I also found one that did it upside down and backwards but I thought that as far as The Fool is concerned that was overkill and I’d feel bad if he tried to read it standing on his head and then fell over and hurt himself.

I’m going to reply in code so that The Fool won’t understand. Preemptive FYWP in case this doesn’t work.

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As for great stretchs of records that I prefer to that Beatles trifecta, I concur with RB on everything except Fleetwood Mac and Brian Eno (only have Warm Jets but I know what I’m downloading next) and I add:

Bob Marley and the Wailers, between 1970 and 1980 it’s hard to pick just 3 but, Catch a Fire, African Herbsman and Burnin’.

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet, Apocalypse 91

Outkast, Atliens, Aquemini, Stankonia.

Pixies, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova.

Almost Blue keeps Elvis Costello off my list.

“Johnny B Goode” (Chuck Berry) – 2:36
“Roadrunner” (Jonathan Richman) – 3:47
“Substitute” (Pete Townshend) – 3:10
“Don’t Give Me No Lip, Child” (Don Thomas / Jean Thomas / Barry Richards) – 3:27
“(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 3:06

the people who invented punk must’ve liked SOMETHING before then, no?

I recall Jello’s Black Oak Arkansas belt buckle.

OTOH, why can’t we have both? Oh, I forgot–because punks don’t like it.

But wait–I thought punk was ANTI-EVERYTHING! So they must be against Chuck Berry.

But wait, part II–surely Joe Strummer had Chuck Berry to learn from, too, which makes sense since the Clash’s music, like most punk, is in the end so reactionary (The Fool may be making things a little too simple, and though they do me no harm I’m no particular fan of the Dead, but he’s much more right than wrong). I mean, the people who invented punk must’ve liked SOMETHING before then, no?

Ergo, punk is self-contradictory. Q.E.D. or something.

Oh, BTW, is punk also against people who don’t have power?