At Its Best New Wave/punk Represents A

. . . Rock And Roll, As I See It, Is The Ultimate Populist Art Form, Democracy In Action, Because It's True: Anybody Can Do It.

It's Much Easier To Wear A Chairman Mao Button And Shake Your Fists In The Air And All That, Then To Actually Read The Communist Manifesto And Things Like That And Actually Become Involved In Politics.

At Its Best New Wave/punk Represents A Fundamental And Age-old Utopian Dream: That If You Give People The License To Be As Outrageous As They Want In Absolutely Any Fashion They Can Dream Up, They'll Be Creative About It, And Do Something Good Besides.

Music, You Know, True Music Not Just Rock 'n' Roll, Chooses You.

Personally I Feel That Real Rock 'n' Roll May Be On The Way Out, Just Like Adolescence As A Relatively Innocent Transitional Period Is On The Way Out. What We Have Instead Is A Small Island Of New Free Music Surrounded By Some Good Reworkings Of Past Idioms And A Vast Sargasso Sea Of Absolute Garbage.