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Saturday, December 8, 2007 12:00 AM

What ever happened to Britpop?

"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds

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  • Saturday, December 8, 2007 08:03 AM

    Hardcore was "black" music too

    Jabolo - ironically, all those mid-80s hardcore bands were ripping off Bad Brains anyway, since BB laid down the entire sonic template for '80s hardcore. Sure, Black Flag paved the way, but their sound was a little too idiosyncratic to be replicated. So for better or worse, all those "white" hardcore bands of yore were STILL ripping off "black" music even if they didn't know it. But of course the real point of hardcore was that none of that shit mattered anyway. Back in the day, youth trumped race, class and every other consideration hands down.

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