[kj] Buzzcocks learn from the Joke?

[Leigh Newton]

Oliver speaks true. Plus, you don't really have to go digging for the good stuff anymore. All the good music is there with the bad, right under your nose. Thank you, internet!
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----- Original Message ----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 12:51:03 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Buzzcocks learn from the Joke?

Every year there's Chaos in Tejas and countless other punk fests that play "real punk" in the USA.

I am against this idea that good music stopped being made after 1993, or 1975 as my mom and her generation seemed to think. That they lost touch isn't my fault. 2 years ago I mentioned that Leatherface headlined at Chaos in Tejas and a lot of people couldn't believe me that they were still around and playing, 'til I posted the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9vzjK5HDA>. When I post actual, contemporary punk bands here, like The Complications, they get called "podunk no-name bands." (*looks solemnly to fluw*) Because all the good music that means anything was made when we were in our teens, and young people today were born too late, and are missing out because back in the day it was so much better.....

Obviously I love bands like Killing Joke or I wouldn't be here, but there is a tendency I've noticed among the 30- or 40-something set to believe that there's nothing good or new under the sun nowadays - and all such critics seem to look to are bands like Aiden and AFI or My Chemical Romance, who do suck - and conclude it was all better back in the nostalgia days, a la  Minor Threat's "Salad Days."

-Oliver


GREG SLAWSON wrote:

> Just got an email from the same small, prestigious, long-standing rock club in Boston, MA, that KJ were booked at, that  THE BUZZCOCKS are playing in April or May or something. Dizzy at the prospect, I checked their website, and NO US dates are listed. Sound familiar? Last time the Buzzcocks played Boston (4 years ago?) they were so loud they nearly blew the roof off. Steve Diggle was awesome. PiL, Joke (December now???), Buzzcocks in the SAME YEAR? 2010--THE YEAR OF THE PUNKS!

> (P.S., I live in the USA, where this stuff only happens every 5 or 10 years (unless you consider OK Go and Greenday punk...).

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