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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff
All punk post 70's was more punk in every way. Hardcore, post-hardcore, skate punk, whatever. The key to punk is to not take yourself too seriously and have fun producing music. Bands like Ramones and Sex Pistols just didn't think outside of the Maximum Rock n Roll mindset. It's self parody is what it is.
Granted, Clash and Buzzcocks are great.
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Depends on what your definition of "punk" I suppose. I guess I see it in the more art rock sense of the word, where the post-1st-wave London/1st-wave CBGBs bands, were wannabes, carried along on some contrived idea of what a "punk band" should be, rather than what "punk" was.
After the late-seventies, punk and hardcore just became what the post-punk and alternative bands who had any talent started out as, before going on to bigger and better things. Plenty of good hardcore in the eighties, I guess (even though I'm not a big 80s hardcore fan TBH), but in the end it was just a springboard.