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...gentle youngadult introversion--in general--beats teen self-flagellation. At least in this kind of pop music, "this kind" being the kind with subtle interlocking guitars, witty lyrics and multiple melodies, the kind that descends from Beatles and Byrds and Cole Porter and learned from, but never imitated, punk...
...while ditching the Lewis Carroll ideology: perhaps in reaction to the Riot Grrrl thing, Heavenly has written songs about female self-reliance, gender-based intimidation and, yes, date rape. "P.U.N.K. Girl" is about a supercool but rather repressed "girl" (no age given) who, Amelia Fletcher wishes, would act as "punk" as she makes Fletcher feel: "P is for the painful way/You make me feel some days/U is for you turn me on..." "Atta Girl" gives a disco-flavored backbeat to congratulations for a girl who has just told off an unwanted male admirer: "I'm not yours," she says...
Post-'50s chic, however, tends to fall under the "recycled," not the "vintage," label. Youth countercultures during the last ten years have created a new market for used clothing, and stores that provide the crucial accoutrements for their wardrobes have flourished. The 1970's revival, the punk style of the eighties, and the recent Seattle 'grunge' look have combined to move used clothing out of small, intimate boutiques and into opera- tions of a warehouse scale...
...good/ because I don't play the things that I should." The "some people" Graffin referred to may have been Meatloaf fans whose votes had the year before propelled an actor and a sycophant into the White House. More likely, however, "some people" was a reference to the punk rock community. Enamored of the mile-a-minute thrash of Jodie Foster's Army and Husker Dus's Land Speed Record, many early '80s punk rockers were hostile to Bad Religion simply because the band dared to cut melodious punk songs. And while the melody lines of early Bad Religion tunes...
...Magnet" 9. Gaunt "No Hope" 10. Fat Day "Knute Rockne" 11. New Bomb Turks "This Place Sucks" 12. Element of Crimes "Delinquent Squint" 13. Universal Order of Armageddon "Flux" 14. Monster Truck 5 "Ain't Never Been" 15. The Lune "Giving Up" 16. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Conflict "These Colours" 19. Victims "Television Addict" 20. Thinking Fellers "Undertaker...