Letters to the Editor
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Re: '80s Music (From the Author)
To the reader who referred to the Jam as a "semi-obscure British punk band"..... I, but, er, uh, buh, aaaaaagh.
Not to sound like the 40 year-old fart that I am, but you, along with anybody else who doesn't know the Jam, needs to start by downloading the song "Going Underground" to get a sense of how good rock music used to be.
Not that I was ever that much of a Jam fan, but a handful of their songs are classics.
Incidentally, what directly inspired this two-part aviation glossary was a similar, if almost entirely tongue-in-cheek glossary I composed for a fanzine -- my own, self-published and self-indulgent fanzine (as most are) -- many years ago: I called it "A Glossary of 1980s Punk Rock Buzzwords." It was submitted as part of the last column, actually, but my editor found it a bit too gratuitous and snipped it out. And she was probably right.
But it was also quite funny, I thought, provided the reader has at least *some* inkling about '80s indie scene. If you'd like to see it, shoot me an email.
- Patrick Smith