In one of pop's most intriguing cycles, reactionary primitivism gives way to arrogant sophisticates—garage bands blooming into psychedelica, techno offset by IDM, punk mutating into post-punk and no wave. In the latter case, punk's original revolutionary promise came up short not commercially but aesthetically—it wasn't musically extreme enough for some. It bred disappointment and frustration—Johnny Lydon felt he'd been cheated by the Pistols, so he formed PiL. This disappointment also fueled a new crop of malcontents in the same Gotham/Blighty axis where punk was bred. Post-punk and no wave juiced punk's volume and energy but sneered at its stripped-down sound, instead effetely tossing in avant-classical and... More >>>