Given that UK punk got zero airplay in my desolate slab of midwestern suburbia, I was a few years late to discovering what the fuss was all about. A few of the biggest names penetrated first, so I was already pretty well embedded in the
Pistols and the
Clash and
Buzzcocks before hearing the
Damned. By that point, they didn't sound terribly innovative, and the critical consensus tended to place them well below many of their better-known peers, so I didn't pay them a lot of mind. (Though I'm a big...
Published on September 01, 2025 06:49