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| Sandi Thom – I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Okay graphia I didn't mean to say that punk is all about racism and hate, far from it, there's good punk from the Clash to Green Day. But I actually grew up during these times she's singing about as the son of an anti-racist pioneer (who wasn't anything like a hippy or a punk) before it was "cool", and it was very far from all peace and love and sweetness and light and I find it really irksome to have someone who wasn't even born then saying how great she thinks it must have been, because it was a traumatic time for many people. And I wonder how much ideologies mattered to the vast majority of people, who can change like the tide with the latest fashion or mass movement. |
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| Sandi Thom – I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Just about the most ludicrous lyrics I have ever heard! Where I came from (near London) people who had flowers in their hair and talked about peace and love were called hippies, that was 1967. Punk rock was about 10 years later when I was a teenager; they were supposed to be rude and offensive, some of the early punks used swastikas mostly to shock people but some were followers of neo-nazi movements definitely not peace and love. Anyway there was much more poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and a lot of unpleasantness of all kinds and the idea that there was some sort of golden age in the past ......... the only good bit of this song is not everyone had to have a car and if you did it was just to get from A to B not a status symbol. |
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