Re: (TV) Face it--Punk was Rubbish

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 12:14 PM -0700 7/27/02, Jay wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0,3604,723332,00.html

Oh, yes--this again.  I recall the discussion on alt.guitar about 
this shortly after it came out.  You know, the assumption that punk 
was a solely English phenomenon, and that it all lacked imagination 
and had no musicality.   Note the studious omission of TV, Wire, and, 
well, what's the point of going on with a refutation of this?

Has anyone else noticed what seems to be a troll-explosion in the 
mainstream media?  Maybe it just seems more present to me than it 
used to, but there was a recent local column in a paper I don't read 
(but the link's been mailed around) about how all bicycles are a 
hazard to life, liberty, and happiness and should stay off every 
road; there's an MSNBC column arguing that Lance Armstrong isn't an 
athlete as all he does is sit on a bicycle all day pumping his legs 
up and down (overlooking that little matter of the Alps, for 
instance); there's this article in the Guardian; there's the 
100-albums thing.  Obviously, it's all about offending enough people 
that they email the link around, getting others to read it and to 
drive up the hits so the offender can compete for the declining 
advertiser revenue.  Kind of annoying, and a base trick.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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