Article's a bit redundant isn't it, leave this childish bickering about integrity and purity to the metal scenes. The so-called spirit of punk interests me, that Don Letts documentary came to the conclusion that punk is a byword for originality and usurping the status quo, and that this is alive and well, albeit not in what we recognize as punk musically... i don't know why people insist on hanging on to these buzz words, it's like they are scared of the unknown. I still think Public Image Ltd's first two albums are greatest 'punk' statements, infact that whole first wave of classic post-punk LPs. The whole label just smacks of the leeching scenester, just as the hippies and psychedelic sheep that Frank Zappa mocked, this is why any musician with sense hates being pigeonholed by the music press
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