Hopefully the following truth doesn't decimate the bank balances of aging punk rockers world-wide, but it should be stated that anyone who expects new material by old faves to be delivered hot and fresh after tomb-like hibernation of twenty years or more is a fucking idiot. Don't buy new records by old bands. Of course it's a cash-in, though not necessarily an intentional one, as I'm sure many bands simply get old and eventually think quite simply, "gee, that was fun back then...I think people on Termbo like us a little...you guys wanna play?" and then of course they resurrect the old flag, the old colors, the old guard, only IT'S OLD. If you people are seriously confused AT ALL, or expecting these bands to rock your ass, you're fucking retarded. There's no way to sugar-coat that.
Okay sure but you show me one band that can write an album like Inflammable Material today and I could take that seriously. Fact is, nothing today can hold a match to those old songs. You spend over a decade or two listening to those songs they become part of your life, something that you feel a bit of ownership of yourself especially growing up alienated and angry as any punk kid does. The fact is there won't be another Stiff Little Fingers or Cocksparrer or, fill in the blank.
'It's not retarded to expect a musician in his forties to still be passionate about songs he/she wrote that you're still passionate about into your thirties. It might be naive but so is the music that we love. The vast majority of bands today, by and large, are fucking awful. You can say well, fill in the blank, is not and could blow any old band away but the truth is, new punk bands are just amalgams of old bands, at best and are, by and large, contrived and pretty routine.
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