Foxhound
retired
Starman said:Bands like the Sex Pistols were Nihilistic by intentional design. The Sex Pistols were nothing less than a commercially contrived poster child for the Punk Rock fashion world. They were so high profile because of their directed novel outrageousness.... Some were, like the Sex Pistols, The Damned, etc. were just there to give the movement this snotty cheese cake edge for appearance and depravity.
Those bands are precisely what I think of as being archetypical punk e.g. Stooges, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Damned, Dead Boys, Vibrators, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Teenage Head, Viletones, B-Girls, etc. They epitomized uncompromising dedication to the pure mindless rock which they embodied in their two minute records. Anything more involved/elaborate such as political posturing just diluted the spirit of hardcore punk in my book.
Last edited: