Steve Temple

If you were include all the sub-genres that punk spawned, then you'd have to include white funk (Gang of Four), Goth (Bauhaus), dub (Pil), electronica (The Normal) etc. and you'd have a huge list. Infact, you'd have the list that Uncut came up with a few years ago: The best singles of the post-punk age, which went right up to Eminem. Radio 1 should have defined this list better

Got something against the Rough Riders? Or maybe' date=' like Narc, you disapprove of condensed, 3-minute pop-songs, because you believe music should have [i']meaning . Away and listen to that Volta bollocks

I choose to ignore Keilan's underlining of this subject, and answer the above question. Rock n' roll is about glamour, and your favourite bands should inspire you to dress in a more flamboyant style, rather than degrade yourself in their cheaply-made, garishly-designed, and often pointless merchandise. p.s. if you want to show your appreciation for a band, badges have my official sanction

That's just the way it should be. I'm 19 now, and if I haven't had a hit single by the time I'm 21, I'm giving up, rather than slogging away until I'm no longer relevant, and too old to pose in leather trousers anyway

The MC5 are rubbish, note I didn't put them in my 60s/70s Detroit/New York list yesterday, because they are rubbish. I was rocking to a bit of No Fun yesterday, tho 1, Slow Fade - Teenage Fanclub 2, For A Smile - Cosmic Rough Riders 3, Play Dead - Astrid 4, Days Run Away - House of Love 5, Never Understand - The Jesus and Mary Chain Alas, I don't own a floral blouse, but if I did, by Christ I'd be wearing it today

Infact, having looked at the list, I'm not voting at all, because it's stupid. I was going to joke about some yankified kid saying "wot no NOFX?", but it's just that kind of shit they've got in the list. Had it been a solely 1975-77 list, I would have gone for Boredom by the Buzzcocks

That's a humdinger, considering punk was pop's Second Golden Age. I'll see what's on the list

Narc does this: But only if he can't do this: But I'd say wearing a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt to a Teenage Fanclub gig is perhaps a greater crime. Wearing band t-shirts is uncool FULL STOP

A lesson well learned by anyone who's seen "The Grifters". You don't get that kind of practical information from yer Star Wars p.s God save the Glen

Stigmata Martyr is on In The Flat Field, but I'm here to tell you that it is just about the worst track on the album. It's the kind of pompous, cliched satanic nonsense that invented the whole "goth" thing. If you like it, you may not like the rest of the album, which is in a raw, post-punk vein. But, then again, you like Interpol, so......

People, people, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUTCHERS! Do not buy your steaks from a multinational company that rear their cows Argentina,buy from your butcher that rears them in a field near Mintlaw

Quality stuff from the much-underrated Sound Affects. Your taste really does veer from the sublime to the ridiculous, tho Today I have been mostly wearing tight "pants", a leather jacket and sunglasses (indoors), hence: Beginning To See The Light - The Velvet Underground I Got A Right - Iggy and the Stooges Born to Lose - Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers Sixteen Blue - The Replacements Streets of your town - The Go-betweens

Cool your jets, Betamax, I know I'm agreeing with you, I'm just putting the argument in a succint way. And I'm joking about the equipment thing

Interpol mission statement: to provide "a degree of mental stimulation while shaking your ass". I think that's the best anyone can hope for

Hmm, i just looked at the track-listing on Amazon, and there is a lot of shite on there like the Jon Spencer Blue Explosion and Monster Magnet. I don't know what Pere Ubu are doing in that company

Yeah, Steve Jones played Les Paul thru Marshall (or something), but I'm sure Captain Sensible would approve of the opportunities for random and unintentional distortion that the 10-watt Stagg provides.

Now I wouldn't expect such an error in judgement from someone who buys Rough Trade compilations. Speaking of, I was thinking of buying another one (I only have the "Best of 25 years"). Can you recommend one, por favor?

I'm a cert for that one too, though that billing does it's best to put me off

Be Gone - British Sea Power Vermillion - Mercury Rev A Church Not Made With Hands - The Waterboys Power Out - Arcade Fire Born On A Train - The Magnetic Fields (again) Today's theme: Romantic melodrama in a rural or period setting

I don't know why, but for some reason I prefer "She wears denim wherever she goes, says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo, oh yeah" And the fact that no-one was in a position to correct me over my Orange Juice submiision shows just how neglected they are .The first line of "Consolation Prize" is in fact: "A thousand violins will play for you, while you set and roll your deep blue eyes, A thousand to win, a thousand you lose, but I'll be your consolation prize"