[lbo-talk] pre-school rock

[B.]

Well, it's worth pointing out that the video I linked
to, of the band Doug mentioned, New York's Cro-Mags --
is about 20 years old. I suppose there were some folks
in the late 70s still complaining Chuck Berry's 1950s
"Johnny B. Goode" was "too rough/aggressive"/etc. or
something from 20 years previous, too --  but those
folks were rightly seen as being sort of, um, well ...

In the twenty or so years since that Cro-Mags vid,
hardcore and music in general have progressed quite a
bit. Not all of it is great; as always, probably the
majority of it really sucks. But the Cro-Mags are a
classic, foundational band of the genre, sort of the
Ramones of the metal/punk crossover of the late 80s.
They've had, for better or worse, a global influence
that's hard to overestimate.

-B.

--

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

"What turned me off was the displays of aggressive
machismo - to which I admit I have a highly adverse
reaction (can't really stand it.) I suspect you would
react similarly if the band displayed, say, the nazi
or kkk symbols."