Punks were just angry hippies

[krtek a houby]

It was almost 50 years ago, who fucking cares?

Blokes

 

[Kaka Tim]

It was almost 50 years ago, who fucking cares?

oh im sorry - please excuse us for talking about something that you arent interested in.

 

[Humberto]

It was almost 50 years ago, who fucking cares?

Because a lot of it still sounds amazing in various ways (thrilling, exciting, life-affirming) to me and I'm sure many others. That's a valuable thing and is interesting in context.

And a lot of it was subversive of its time, it also resonates there. And it's interesting to look at different times and scenes.

Above all its something to yak about.

 

[PTK]

It was forty-eight years ago today
That the bands they began to play
They stayed for a little while
Then they went of style

 

[PTK]

Hippies were lazy Beatniks.

 

[Humberto]

Post war jazz groups injected the idea of cool. And Hank Williams had teenagers screaming at him in the late 40s.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Hippies were lazy Beatniks.

beat-niks being famous for their work ethic of course

 

[PTK]

And here is a punk group - The Damned - performing (badly) an anthem of the Hippy era.

 

[PTK]

And here is The Ramones performing a political protest song that they wrote, about the visit of President Reagan to a cemetery containing the graves of Waffen SS troops, in Bitburg. I have only just discovered this.

 

[MrSki]

And here is a punk group - The Damned - performing (badly) an anthem of the Hippy era.

I wonder if that inspired this?

 

[Humberto]

 

[hitmouse]

Thinking about it, is "ravers were just e'd up punks" an equally valid proposition?

 

[pogofish]

IME, some were also right posers, who turned virtually overnight.

Then some of them evolved into hippies, goths, rockers, ravers, catholic priests etc.