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Re: OT(minutemen)



At 3:10 AM -0600 3/4/03, Eric Williamson wrote:
>punk. hmm ...
>
>if we get to call them a punk band, i get to call the Nice a punk band.

At 2:44 AM -0800 3/4/03, Paul Weissman wrote:
>i consider them punk... just one extreme edge.  i mean, the clash, a punk
>band?  oh, definitely, except for half of their songs.  the police?  
>errr...
>people put things in strange categories.

In the late '70s we use "new wave" as a catchall term and "punk" to 
refer more narrowly to the really raw, rude, and abrasive stuff. But 
the terminology lines got blurred pretty quickly.

I suppose a lot depends on whether you use "punk" to refer to the 
music or the attitude. If a brash, iconoclastic, do-it-yourself 
attitude is punk, then a lot of artists might be punk artists even if 
the music doesn't sound it.


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