Erstellt am: 5. 11. 2009 - 11:40 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Punk as Folk
Punk is neato, punk is fun, punks are loved by everyone...
Okay, that's not really the way The Vandals meant that song to be sung, but if they were willing to admit they actually recorded it, they might find it somehow fitting.
The times they have a changed, genres have been mixed up and mucked about to the point that you can't try to describe anything without a minor in literary studies and as much lack of self irony as a teen poet.
That's good. Those little boxes sucked anyway.
But music has always been a slippery thing. Ideas building up on ideas, and being transported from musician to musician. Although it might be hard to believe, there are one or two genres where that tradition is still upheld, supported, and painted on flag and woven about.
Folk always has been pretty brazen in it's giving and taking.
So it's probably not surprising that there are loads of songs being covered by folk artists. Or rather, there are lots of folk artists who are reinterpreting common culture into their own dialect.
And it's fun when it happens to punk.
The Coverlaydown has a lovely little collection of folk performers tackling some punk classics. Bad Brains, Clash, Iggy, Wire...
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