07-11-2009, 11:56 PM
I'm not sure I agree with TheLastFortNight that the Sex Pistols and the Ramones were apolitical. In fact, I think more than their music, their very performance art was immediately political. It forced people to ask questions about the state of music and the state of entertainment. And the topics of their music question the societal underpinnings of even the most basic of human activities. This may not be a song about how Reagan was propping up dictators to prevent Communisim, as an example of "big politics" but it was no less politics. It was just political at humanity's most basic level: our daily interaction with others.
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