Punks were just angry hippies

[savoloysam]

Change my mind

 

[danny la rouge]

Change my mind

Don’t want to: you’re right.

 

[savoloysam]

Well you're no fun

 

[danski]

Punks are nice people trying to be bad.
Hippies are bad people trying to be nice.

 

[danny la rouge]

Well you're no fun

Oh, OK, you’re so wrong: punks all had short hair but hippies all had long hair.



Alt text: above: the long haired Ramones. Below: a short haired, beaded hippie dances in the foreground. A woman with a diaphanous dress dances in the background.

 

[stavros]

Yeah, really similar:

 

[Silas Loom]

Oh, OK, you’re so wrong: punks all had short hair but hippies all had long hair.

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Alt text: above: the long haired Ramones. Below: a short haired, beaded hippie dances in the foreground. A woman with a diaphanous dress dances in the background.

I’m not sure whether it’s a shawl or a repurposed tablecloth, but it’s definitely not a dress.

 

[Gromit]

Punks and Hippehs were both young people thinking that being into something would get them laid.

 

[Dystopiary]

Oh, OK, you’re so wrong: punks all had short hair but hippies all had long hair.

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Alt text: above: the long haired Ramones. Below: a short haired, beaded hippie dances in the foreground. A woman with a diaphanous dress dances in the background.

I’m not sure whether it’s a shawl or a repurposed tablecloth, but it’s definitely not a dress.

It's a lovely dress.

 

[petee]

nope, hippies imagined themselves having a philosophy, punks were just trying to have a night out.
also, just my corner of the world, hippies were perfectly middle class and knew they could go back home, punks not so much.

 

[Humberto]

Both counterculture?

 

[Humberto]

Reckon the hippies would do the punks. With love.

 

[Humberto]

Then the Teddy Boys turn up and do them over.

 

[Orang Utan]

similar unfamiliarity with personal hygiene

 

[hash tag]

I would have thought a hippy would not get angry. Surely it was all about peace and love. Man. And anti war.

 

[Indeliblelink]

I'm reporting you all.

Hippies’ culture ‘can make them victims of non-crime hate incidents’

At least nine forces record NCHIs against ‘alternative subcultures’, which are not among five protected characteristics in hate crime law

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[WouldBe]

I'm reporting you all.

Hippies’ culture ‘can make them victims of non-crime hate incidents’

At least nine forces record NCHIs against ‘alternative subcultures’, which are not among five protected characteristics in hate crime law

www.telegraph.co.uk

Bloody hippy.

 

[PTK]

So, I am of an age for whom the Summer of Love was before we were teenagers, and when we were teenagers we looked back and up to the events of about five years before. Our flares were enormous. We thought we were hippies, but we wore shoes and did not wear beads. Progressive rock was riding high, requiring tonnes of equipment and huge venues, and we bought concept albums. Then, in our early late teens/early twenties, a new music came on the scene. The songs were fast and brief, and we began buying singles. We did not call ourselves punks, but punk is what we listened to. Some of us kept our long hair for a while. Mine went when I decided to get it cut in order to testify in a court case.

 

[Serge Forward]

Punks and hippies, back in the day...

 

[Humberto]

That Mancland?

 

[Humberto]

So, I am of an age for whom the Summer of Love was before we were teenagers, and when we were teenagers we looked back and up to the events of about five years before. Our flares were enormous. We thought we were hippies, but we wore shoes and did not wear beads. Progressive rock was riding high, requiring tonnes of equipment and huge venues, and we bought concept albums. Then, in our early late teens/early twenties, a new music came on the scene. The songs were fast and brief, and we began buying singles. We did not call ourselves punks, but punk is what we listened to. Some of us kept our long hair for a while. Mine went when I decided to get it cut in order to testify in a court case.

How were the Mods regarded? I like bands like the Who, Kinks, Small Faces but it seems a smaller deal culturally from the present.

 

[Serge Forward]

That Mancland?

Yep. Collyhurst.

 

[Monte]

 

[krtek a houby]

Love the music from all the eras, would happily grow my hair, wear a safety pin or diaphanous dress or whatever. As long as the music came first and foremost.

 

[Serge Forward]

Following on from post #19, here's the same place. I spotted three old mates in the photo. One, at least, is long gone.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Punks don't have to be angry.
Hippies are quite capable of being angry.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Poster created by a hippy

 

[editor]

I've just learnt that Charlie Harper - who is still touring with the UK Subs - was born during WW2!

 

[PTK]

I've just learnt that Charlie Harper - who is still touring with the UK Subs - was born during WW2!

I looked that up. He was born in 1944. John Lydon was born in 1957. That really is a different generation, musically speaking.

 

[hash tag]

I've just watched a bit of Woodstock. One or two of the locals said the people turning up were really nice people. It didn't look like any of them were capable of being angry. ( Would loved to have been there ).