Urgh! A Music War: Alternative Music as Product
This was actually something of a trial to wade through.
Urgh! A Music War isn’t a proper snapshot of underground music dating from the last portion of the seventies and into the eighties. In fact, probably the only performance ‘punks’ would consider punk, would be the Dead Kennedy’s song included here.
Sure, Joan Jett cranks out an anthem, but even at the tender age of twenty, she’d already moved a bit away from whatever the Runaways were and further into a hard rock scene, that the singer admittedly enervated with some excitement. Spiky haired punkers, though, probably weren’t moved too much by her track.