Extremely thorough. The only thing you left out was Ian MacKaye and the "straight edge" scene. I always thought he was cool. I was a huge Police fan, but mostly because they were singing about spiritual things. As you can imagine, having known me for a year now, the darkness and alienation of Punk never had any appeal to a guy like me. But I read about it and informed myself about it. It certainly added some vigorous, alert-and-aware energy to a decade of mellow music and disco -- and some of us at least welcomed that.
Extremely thorough. The only thing you left out was Ian MacKaye and the "straight edge" scene. I always thought he was cool. I was a huge Police fan, but mostly because they were singing about spiritual things. As you can imagine, having known me for a year now, the darkness and alienation of Punk never had any appeal to a guy like me. But I read about it and informed myself about it. It certainly added some vigorous, alert-and-aware energy to a decade of mellow music and disco -- and some of us at least welcomed that.