Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I think that was always true. I always find it strange when they talked about the year Punk broke, it is like everyone in the world was into it. People talk about the Sex Pistols like they were Elvis of their day for shock value, but just as popular, but they weren't and Television like they were Chuck Berry, where everybody stoled thier riffs, but not everybody did. I doubt if Punk was as popular as for people of that genereation, as people make them out to be, more likely those bands are more popular today then when they were back then. During the 70's it was all divided like it's today, there was Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Prog, Funk, Soul, and Disco. To some Punk was a flash in the pan, coarse, krass, and rude, that never amounted to anything, and didn't displaced any of those genres 70's . But for some it was a new beginning, (objectively speaking Grunge (or Punk) is new branch of music not a new musical tree, that transplants an old musical tree.- sorry for stretching a metaphor)