HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, I needed a laugh, and thanks to The American Spectator, I have found one. I am perpetually amused by things like Conservativepunk.com, and other attempts to argue that right-wing politics are somehow inherently punk rock. But here, I'll just unpack the most hilarious little bit of that article:
For at least the past 30 years, everything the marketers of hip have brought to your living room, your car stereo, your movie screen has delivered the same political message: liberals are hip, conservatives are square...Never mind that the left insults the right these days by calling them anarchists.
Uh, what? I have never, ever heard that, unless it was solely in reference to some insane plan for deregulation, which is not at all "anarchist" in the traditional sense, seeing as how it's kind of a given that anarchists were and are against capitalism. But you'd actually have to spend a whole five minutes researching the anarchist movement to know that, so...
What would Sid Vicious say?
This is yet more proof to me that people who hold up Vicious as a punk rock icon don't know the first thing about the music or subculture. Anyway, to answer that, I don't know, and since he was an untalented, drug-addled moron who didn't even play the bass parts on the Sex Pistols' album, I don't care. Probably something like "where's the heroin?"
Never mind that the Clash album titled "Sandinista" was the beginning of the end of the band's short but brilliant career, providing ample evidence that huge portions of punk fans were not enamored of left-wing politics (nor an artistically adventuresome triple LP).
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Have you listened to The Clash and London Calling? Like, ever? There's hardly a shortage of left-wing sentiment on those. "White Riot"? "Spanish Bombs"? "Clampdown"? "Guns of Brixton"? "Jail Guitar Doors"? Seriously, you need to shut the fuck up right now.
Oh, and can you right-wing "punk" clowns stop trying to type the Ramones as a conservative band? I know Johnny was all about Reagan but since Joey wrote "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg", I think it kind of evens out.
For at least the past 30 years, everything the marketers of hip have brought to your living room, your car stereo, your movie screen has delivered the same political message: liberals are hip, conservatives are square...Never mind that the left insults the right these days by calling them anarchists.
Uh, what? I have never, ever heard that, unless it was solely in reference to some insane plan for deregulation, which is not at all "anarchist" in the traditional sense, seeing as how it's kind of a given that anarchists were and are against capitalism. But you'd actually have to spend a whole five minutes researching the anarchist movement to know that, so...
What would Sid Vicious say?
This is yet more proof to me that people who hold up Vicious as a punk rock icon don't know the first thing about the music or subculture. Anyway, to answer that, I don't know, and since he was an untalented, drug-addled moron who didn't even play the bass parts on the Sex Pistols' album, I don't care. Probably something like "where's the heroin?"
Never mind that the Clash album titled "Sandinista" was the beginning of the end of the band's short but brilliant career, providing ample evidence that huge portions of punk fans were not enamored of left-wing politics (nor an artistically adventuresome triple LP).
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Have you listened to The Clash and London Calling? Like, ever? There's hardly a shortage of left-wing sentiment on those. "White Riot"? "Spanish Bombs"? "Clampdown"? "Guns of Brixton"? "Jail Guitar Doors"? Seriously, you need to shut the fuck up right now.
Oh, and can you right-wing "punk" clowns stop trying to type the Ramones as a conservative band? I know Johnny was all about Reagan but since Joey wrote "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg", I think it kind of evens out.