This Is The Modern World?

Is it really time for punk to be categorized as nostalgia? Surely there’s enough anger still churning among the unsettled masses of America and the U.K. to keep the frenzy on the street. Yet given the ability of U.S. record marketers to have forcibly smoothed punk rock into new wave and the tendency of some Brits to treat rebellious movements as steps towards artistic godhood, it was inevitable for 1977’s excesses to become frozen into 1981’s archives.