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Ep. 31: Punk's Creative Destruction

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Kinks and the Ho in Their Aggression and Their Despondency

The beats are, in many ways, the first punks or proto you know, they are people who are outsiders to society. And even as prosperity is kind of breaking out all over in post war america, they are like, 'the society is fake and phony' But i think the kinks and the ho in their aggression and their anger, in their despondency. That's kind of an essential grammar, the dna of punk. A song my generation is really a punk anthem. Hatty smith makes it a punk anthem at her great album, horses.

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