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Brett, I dig your site! Your taste in music seems to be
somewhat dated more toward bands from the seventies. Since we're the same about the same
age I know that you have to remember the Punk days of the eighties. You never mention punk other than the Ramones. Do you have any opinions on Punk bands?
(Scott P. age 36, Columbus, Ohio)
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BRETT SAYS...
Thanks for your email, Scott! This is a sticky topic for me - but I never back down from anything.
Have you ever noticed that when people start a new “trend” and that
“trend” quickly fails they then call it “underground” – as if “everything is going along
exactly as we planned!” We’ll that’s exactly what happened with “Punk Rock” and so-called
“Hardcore.” A few dozen gay-bashing, ugly, talentless jocks assholes from Southern California,
Washington, DC and New York City do not make for a “cultural movement.” There were a few
bands, such as: The Germs, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Social Distortion, The Circle Jerks,
The Misfits, Fear, and The Dead Kennedys. These bands had several things in common: 1) they
all were part of a terribly unsuccessful so-called musical movement in the early to mid 1980s.
2) They were all comprised of ugly hate-filled white guys who couldn’t get laid if their lives
depended on it; and 3) they completely fucking sucked! Seriously, they couldn’t play a song to
save their lives. Not one of these bands had a single hit song. Not one of these bands had an
ounce of charisma! And most importantly – and proving my point – not one of these
repressed-homo bands is around today!
However, you can attract just as many flies with shit as you can with honey… That being said there were a few kids in the 1980s who thought it’d be cool to pretend to like these bands and embrace every pile of unimaginative crap they spewed. You know the kids I’m talking about. In fact, according to the latest census report there were three of these kids in every town: The tall and oafish Mexican kid with the “Misfits” shirt and “flock of seagulls” hairdo, and the black sweater tied around his waist; The skinny white guy with the leather jacket and nine-inch Mohawk who is afraid of a everything and looks like he’s seconds away from bawling his eyes out at all times; and last but not least, the chubby Filipino-Mexican girl with the sides of her head shaved and the black nubby nails. She’s usually sporting some hideous dress with black combat boots and cheesy black makeup. Basically these kids are the biggest fucking losers on the planet – so of course they’re going to love “Hardcore” because they’re just so…um... oh, whatever.
My point is simple. The bands sucked, the music sucked, the fans sucked – yet, no one had the balls to admit it! Why? Because none of them were cool enough to make up their own minds. There was no leader in this movement and therefore it went nowhere. As I stated before, if there was any validity to the music it would still be around today. Pussy bands call them fags! Seals and Crofts, Kenny Loggins, hell, even the Captain and Tenille came before these “Hardcore” clowns and they beat the punks down into “forget me land!” Do you think one punk band sold more than 5,000 records ever? Never! 100% documented fact. The sad part is that you still find that one random asshole who looks back all the way to 1985 and remembers the “good ol days.” They talk about the punk bands as if they’re describing something good or even relevant. And to add insult to injury – they’re even lying about their lies. They’ll say: “Man, I remember me and my friends were at the Dead Kennedy’s show and there must have been like 6,000 kids all stage diving and shit – we were so wasted. It was crazy. They fucking played for like 3 hours.” Just try and verify any of the “facts” of one of those stories. The kid telling it is 28 years old, meaning he was 11 years old at the time. The Dead Kennedys never played for more than 200 or 300 people ever during their entire careers. The kid lived in Omaha at the time, etc… You get my point.
Punk rock and its so-called “Hardcore” scene is the only failed cultural movement that cannot admit that is did not succeed. “Break Dancing” was 1,000 times more effective as an art form than anything from those punk bands. The music blew, the bands blew and so did the fucking sheep-like fans that helped perpetuate this pathetic myth. Ask any of these so-called “punk” fans to name some of their heroes and chances are maybe one of them might possibly utter Henry Rollins name. Why do they remember him? Cause he was like the third or fourth singer for the most over-rated band on the planet? No they probably remember him from his very “hardcore” role in the 1998 movie “Jack Frost” starring Michael Keaton! That’s right - Hey all you “hardcore” fans, stop burning the blacks and stomping the Jews long enough to watch your punk idol Henry talk to a freaking snowman. Maybe he’ll stage dive from a snow bank! Anarchy, indeed!
I know Henry. He’s a nice guy. But even he knows the whole thing was a farce. As for the
rumors of Henry being gay. They’re false. He dates women. Although the fact that he writes
poetry, lifts weights and likes to jump into piles of shirtless sweaty men probably doesn’t
help. In short, the whole punk rock and hardcore scene was and is in fact indeed "underground" - as in, dead and buried like a faceless hobo who died on a street corner in a puddle of his own feces.
I hope this helped answer your question. ;=)
Peace out - Brett
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