[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Punk rock is a type of rock n' roll. To a lot of people it was the 
quintessential means of setting rock 'n roll back on its proper, 
rebellious course, and away from the "mistaken" turn it had taken in the 
early 70s and later in the form of arena rock, prog rock, stuff like 
Yes, ELO, Foghat, Journey, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Genesis, etc.

But ultimately, what started the ship sailing is, yeah, by definition, 
more seminal. Lydia Lunch, in 1979 or so, in the midst of New York's 
no-wave thingy, complained that when she heard punk all she heard was 
sped up Chuck Berry riffs. Well, yeah! Chuck Berry kicked ass! (She 
meant it as an insult to distinguish no wave from punk rock.)

-Oliver


ade wrote:

> We go on about punk being revolutionary - nowhere near as world-changing

> as Rock'n'Roll was.

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