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Originally Posted by mobertol
Interesting film -isn't it funny how time and distance make something which was seen as shocking and threatening now seem faintly laughable.
Glad I never donned the safety pins and chains myself - might have ended up like the two "old" punks who feature at the end 
They just about prove that punk is, if not dead, then not "wearing well with age"!
Whereas pop lives on..
Another favourite of mine, the dress over trousers is still fashionable and I love the earrings  |
Everybody gets old. Look at Maggie Thatcher - a shadow of what she was and it happens to everybody. Punk was a reaction and a statement against the system - today Pop music is part of the system. People like Bob Geldof and Paul Morley say that pop music doesn't have a cause any more it's basically just entertainment. Punk was more than entertainment. One thing that changed with punk is that people started singing about things that weren't sung about before, such as basic issues of life, being unemployed, politics, bodily functions and so on - subjects that hadn't been sung about before. Punk had it's own films...
Punk lives on as much as Scritti Politti does. Most of the music in the chart today is not like punk or Scritti Politti! But the attitude of punk can be seen in some people take singer Pink also Amy Winehouse had a punk attitude. So the pop of today is not the pop of yesterday.