TS in Punk Band As Root Of All Bad Hipster Fashion : THE JAM vs. SEX PISTOLS vs. TUBEWAY ARMY vs. ROBERT SMITH's FACE

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Mind you, I like all these bands' musical output...! But how many of you would admit each were the root (willingly or not) of an entire hierarchy of rock fashion atrocities? No(t necessarily the) fault of the root, of course... although you're more than welcome to dig into them as well.

Pick. Stab.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

Well if you're talking about the ROOT, you might as well go into the Mod days of the '60s.

http://www.ideageneration.co.uk/PRESS%20OFFICE/Made_in_UK/NEW%20PORTRAIT%20WEB%20JPGS/press%20images/mods-tie_1.jpg

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

the sex pistols didn't really dress like punks - steve jones wore leather, lydon usually wore a suit, vicious was really the only one who dressed like a 'conventional' punk, and he got his look from richard hell and the ramones.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Plus, if you really want to know who started the punk look, it was Richard Hell.

Malcolm McLaren brang his look to the U.K. and everyone was started wearing it.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jeffrol/richard%20hell%20copy.jpg

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

and richard hell got his look from arthur rimbaud!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

I guess you can count Rimbaud. I wouldn't because Rimbaud didn't were oversized sleevless t-shirts and black jeans.

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

(let this be a warning to what working 16 hour days and talking to 12 job recruiters a day at the same time will do to you.. starting really stupid threads like this one, for instance. my extended apologies.)

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

robert smith's face is far and away the winner (read: loser) of this TS

― noise dude, you're stepping on my mystique (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

oh dear

http://hpbimg.boysdontcry.de/robert%20smith%20lachend.jpg

― noise dude, you're stepping on my mystique (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.crescentmoon.org.uk/rimbaud.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Query: Were all punks ugly?

― PB, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

no.

evidence: poly styrene and lora logic.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting until it's revealed that Buzzo and Robert Smith are the same person.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting until it's revealed that Buzzo and Robert Smith are the same person.
-- donut ferry (do...), July 26th, 2005. (donut)

haha that would be a hot collabo!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Query: Were all punks ugly?

It was a law in 23 states.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Melvins feat. Robert Smith not singing vocals "Carnage Visors"

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Query: Were all punks ugly?

That was the point.

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

just discovered the cure " accuracy"

― fatbob, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Tubeway Army back in the day:

ihttp://www.doginthewild.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/seanburketubewaypatrol/images/big/Sleeves/Tubeway%20Army%20-%20Bombers%20-%20Single%20-%20Back.jpg

― moley, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

evidence: poly styrene and lora logic.

Don't forget Viv Albertine, yowza!

― Cheeseburger-style funbox to GO! Fries come in regular and crepuscular size (Eas, Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

The Jam wasn't a punk band.

― cdwill, Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Stikes me that there are so few pictures of Tubeway Army (compared to pics of solo Numan) that I can't for the life of me remember if they had a sartorial aesthetic at all. They just look like Foreigner roadies to me.

ihttp://www.doginthewild.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/seanburketubewaypatrol/images/big/Sleeves/Tubeway%20Army%20-%20Bombers%20-%20Single%20-%20Back.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

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