>>>>>Besides, punk is British,
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>>>>Screw that, those guys were copying the Ramones, The Stooges...
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>>>Punk was created in the U.S., but if it weren't for the Sex Pistols from England, it would have died on the vine.
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>>Too bad they didn't shoot themselves!
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>Hey, don't look at me. Crap is crap. My music comes from folks like Oscar Peterson, Miles, Coltrane, Stacey Kent, Tom Waits, etc. I just don't have the time to put up with someone drooling and ranting spittle into a microphone and pretending it's music.

What you're missing is that even the worst, most inartistic punk rock sprang from passion. It was a reaction to the technically accomplished but soulless music of the time, bands like the Moody Blues and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, as well as to the gathering storm of the Thatcher era.

Besides, they weren't all musical crap. Listened to any Clash lately? That was a great band by anyone's definition.

Oddly enough, John Coltrane is sitting in my CD player from last night. So please don't dismiss me as a crapologist. There is room in the musical universe for lots of styles, and none of them is axiomatically "better" than the others.