Post #32511 by ikitnrev on Fri, May 2, 2003 9:02 AM

Gee, I kind of miss the days when Punk music was the most controversial music around.

The Cramps are soon to tour through the southern states, and I haven't heard any peeps of protest yet - and their lyrics and the image that they portray should be way more upsetting to the social conservatives than anything from the mainstream country Dixie Chicks. Lux Interior and Poison Ivy must be pulling their hair out over the sheer injustice of it all.

I don't listen to modern country or modern pop, and I'm not even sure if I would even recognise a Dixie Chicks song if one was played for me. But I remember the hatred that was directed towards the early punk scene from the social conservatives, and the result is that I continue to have a strong tendency to support any other musicians who are also targeted by these people.

Do the Dixie Chicks have any controversial lyrics? or is this whole press-frenzy only over a few ad-libbed lines voiced on stage on some other continent?

22 more days until the Cramps come to D.C.

Vern