For all its "revolutionary" hype--overthrowing the ancien regime, and all that--punk struck me as a fundamentally conservative (if not reactionary) impulse, an act of musical historicism self-consciously intended to restore--ten years after the fact--"real" rock 'n roll as they knew it, namely mid-60s garage rock. (Not for nothing was Lenny Kaye's Nuggets comp the foundational text of "punk"). In short, punk's remit was to carry on the Rock Tradition, not to overthrow it.....
LOL. Where, in God's name, did you go to school?! Were the Brady bunch students there, too?
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