What is all the fuss about the Sex Pistols?

[Swampy]

Clint is back! Praise the lord!

Did you get a new computer? Can I make a fat joke?

[Fakepunkers]

Im not so sure that having people from this message board make fun of me exactly amounts to eating poo. But I see where you were going with it. But it was obv you missed badly with the joke and its not anywhere close to as funny as you thought. Oh well. Welcome back Clint!!! PUNK ROCK MOTHER F$%@(*^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Whet Bull]

Clint, although I did not miss you while you were gone I think you are an alright person like fakepunkers even if you do or do not eat poo.

[Swampy]

But they did subscribe to Option, Spin, and a bunch of literary magazines like Zyzzyva that made an impression on me when I was really young.  Their copy of the Raw Magazine collection Read Yourself Raw burned itself into my eyeballs at a very young age.  Also: biographies of Prince, Bowie, and U2.

I cherish these memories of the pre-Internet age.  

Is Option the one that had flexis? Yeah, I had a few issues.  I dunno if I still have the flexis. I think I had a Killing Joke one.  Maybe a Cop Shoot Cop even! Argh! Not very good of a magazine, though...

Spin was my alternative source in Chilton, WI circa 1990-91!!!  Byron Coley had a column called UNDERGROUND and that honestly lead me into some strange realms.  Swell Maps, Electric Eels, Pagans, Nurse With Wound, Half Japanese, etc...  Kinda funny, when I moved to a slightly-larger WI burg (De Pere... a sort of suburb of Green Bay), noone in my fucking school or whatnot ever heard of any of that shit, but I was happy to buy it off the racks when I saw it ("Grey Area" re-issues on Mute got me Swell Maps real quick, took down the Electric Eels with the "God Says Fuck You" CD on Homestead, got Nurse With Wound on a trip to Milwaukee, Pagans stuff came a bit later on that Crypt CD stuff and it took me a bit longer to get around to Half-Jap...).

So, what's this all this fuss about the Sex Pistols?  A gateway drug.  And I still like visiting the gateway.  Sex Pistols were an awesome rock'n'roll band.  Better than Slaughter and the Dogs! Prolly better than the Dead Boys.  The Dead Boys best songs were watered down versions of Rocket From the Tombs stuff anyway, and Pere Ubu put more balls into the songs they took.  Don't fucking even try to argue that, punker!

[Fakepunkers]

A great quote that i just read at break my face .com:

A member of the audience at our second show told a reporter, "These guys would be nothing if it wasn't for the cops." How right she was; we sounded like the Pistols with Sid on every instrument. But then our mission wasn't musical; our mission was to stir the shit, cure boredom and strip the gears of musical privilege in Austin, represented by the folk, blues and cosmic cowboy oligarchies.

[hillside_wrangler]

A great quote that i just read at break my face .com:

A member of the audience at our second show told a reporter, "These guys would be nothing if it wasn't for the cops." How right she was; we sounded like the Pistols with Sid on every instrument. But then our mission wasn't musical; our mission was to stir the shit, cure boredom and strip the gears of musical privilege in Austin, represented by the folk, blues and cosmic cowboy oligarchies.

Ha. Tom Huckabee is funny as fuck. Those are great liners.

[Fakepunkers]

huh?

[Swampy]

Fakepunkers... You can't be "punk" unless you give bradx a blowjob.  Agreed. I thought so.  Spread wide for that INDIAN DICK.

[Fakepunkers]

Im actually trying to "learn" about punk more than anything. I began this thread by saying that my knowledge of punk is limited and that I was looking for opinions of others. So I do not claim to be a know-it-all when it comes to punk. I recently became interested in it and wondered why the sex pistols were so beloved. So why the hostile negative response from eveyone? According to Tom Huckabee most of you are assholes and not punks.

[Fakepunkers]

why so hostile? I dont get it?

[Swampy]

Im actually trying to "learn" about punk more than anything. I began this thread by saying that my knowledge of punk is limited and that I was looking for opinions of others. So I do not claim to be a know-it-all when it comes to punk. I recently became interested in it and wondered why the sex pistols were so beloved. So why the hostile negative response from eveyone? According to Tom Huckabee most of you are assholes and not punks.

I though it was punk to be an asshole.  Guess I was wrong.  Thanks for setting me straight. I will now stop beating this dead horse, cause I don't wanna be no asshole, I wanna be a punk (because Tom Sizemore or Tom Hukabee said so).  BILLY IDOL FOREVER!

[Swampy]

why so hostile? I dont get it?

1. Punk
2. Dumb

[Ass Invader]

Library punk!

LIBRARY PUNK RULES!

The only things I remember getting out of the Weatherford Public Library were Neil Young (Harvest AND After the Gold Rush!) and some Judas Priest, both on cassette because that's all they had.  Nowadays I get all kinds of stuff from the library on CD - a lot of standard rock and jazz stuff that I like but can't get excited enough about to drop any money on.  They also have a lot of cool box sets (Nuggets, Zombies, History of Instrumental Rock, Stones singles collection, etc.) that I would never be able to afford.  What's especially cool is that they have a program where I can order anything from any library in the State of Texas, so I now have access to a shitload of stuff!

[Fakepunkers]

huh?

[Swampy]

I miss Clint again.

Hey, Fakepunkers! I saw NOFX in like 199something... They were crap.  How does that make you feel, sweet-tits?