“The music , if you can call it that …physically assaults anyone dumb enough to listen to it”
I need some details on this quote. Who said it? When? I know it refers to punk, but under what circumstance?
This webpage uses it but does not attribute it. The proprietor of that site has his email addy on a page he calls Writings by friends.
Wasn’t that said by Robert Plant of Led Zep referring to Stairway to Heaven? I could be wrong.
That would be odd.
I saw that website because I did a google search for it. I heard it in a song by the Casualties (Made in NYC was the song). Its baffling. I think the quote has long been attributed to punk, something which punks are proud of. The Stairway idea I think can be discounted for two reasons:
a.)Stairway is definately melodic, and even the metallic portion at the end was nothing short of normal for the time and
b.)Any punk using a quote attributed to metal, esp. Zep (the archnemesis of punks everywhere) would be a total poseur.
Of course I could be wrong too…
THe offbeats… maybe
Googling for “physically assaults anyone dumb enough” produced three hits:
http://offbeatsaz.tripod.com/theoffbeats/id5.html - credits the Offbeats
http://www.spankmag.com/forums/disp_post.cfm/cc.36674/clt.30/page.html - references the Casualties
http://www.geocities.com/no_future69/summary.html - references nothing