[lbo-talk] AllHipHop.com interviews Bad Brains about being seminal black punk band in mostly-white scene

[wrobert at uci.edu]

While I suspect that punk wouldn't have survived if it was limited to the
Pistols, there is a fairly substantial left wing link through both manager
McLaren and artist Jamie Reid, both of whom had English Situationist
connections.  I think that McLaren in particular is a fascinating figure,
revealing the hidden paranoic, authoritarian face of situationism in its
most hack-like face.... robert wood


> BTW when did punk become left-wing? The Sex Pistols
> certainly weren't -- "you're just a little faggot,
> sealed with a kiss" and all that. Also, Bodies has got
> to be the best anti-abortion song ever written.
> "Strapped on the table in the factory... illegitimate
> place to be... she was the one who killed her baby...
> die little baby screaming... it's not an animal, it's
> an abortion... I'm not a bunch of mucous, I'm not a
> bunch of protein... I'm not an animal... I'm not a
> body, I'm not an animal" or something like that.
>
> Come to think of it, "Holiday in the Sun" isn't
> exactly lefty either.