The thing I find funniest though is that ‘punk’ and ‘punks’ in this day and age is more anachronistic than Teds back in the day.

Lol. That is very true 🙂

TOTALLY unaware of At The Drive-In

Uhh, cos they’re an emo band? and the mars volta, like a lot of neo-prog, is all a bit predictable (admittedly not having reached the heights/lows of note perfect but very, very dull Porcupine Tree)

Yeah but there was an awful lot of shit punk and bandwagon jumpers (Boomtown frigging rats, the jam, etc) and even people like the clash had become a boring bunch of hypocritical rock stars by the time lodnon calling dragged its bloated arse onto vinyl 😛

I’m finding The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe ceaselessly funny at the moment after that I’ve got Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales and Pop Apocalypses by Howard Hampton lined up.

Floyd did stuff with sound, in the sixties, before almost anyone else.

Yeah, but then Syd left and it was all downhill after that – the sterile solos and anaemic sax were almost already there already. 😛

Now, The Misunderstood – the great lost underground band who blew everyone’s minds but disappeared with nary a trace… ah, now you’re talking. I think I’m going to have to dig out ‘Before the Dream faded’… and then the Rubble colections before slipping on Neu!, Can, Hawkwind, Amon Duul II and so on 🙂 Cheers for the thread but the missus, the kids and the neighbours may not be so thankful with the Third Ear Band seeping through the walls and floorboards at 3am lol!

Not that fussed by much prog rock (tho’ king crimson were pretty impressive and ELP were total lunatics – keith emerson stabbing his organ, uh, keyboards, on stage etc) but a big fan of kraut rock and space rock.

Well, andrew_f_mk2 looked annoying after about, um, 2 hours so now I’m straightforwardly andrew. (Thanks Tom)