Rather than risking diverting Johnny Cash thread:
"Headsup to OZ viewers:
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
National multicultural broadcaster.
www.sbs.com.au
after RockWiz on saturday nights has a varied series on Music, tonight focusing on 'Punk'. It's not just performances but also discussion of ideology and various concurrent issues, newsfootage etc that seems to aim give a balanced understanding.
In this instance that the Punk 'movement', as originating/manufactured in Britain, was largely progressive or left oriented as opposed to superficially visually a neo-nazi phenomena. This corresponds to my memories of that era as an initially repelled, or perhaps skeptic of a disaffected and disorganised 'flash in the pan', but later a 'follower' in the late 1970's. The Sex Pistols raft performance down the river Thames was particularly inspiring."
one cannot go past Joe Strummer and "The Clash" - Know Your Rights
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theclash/biography
"The Clash were the romantics of the London 1977 punk explosion...
They were inspired by Nicaragua's Sandinista revolutionaries, but they weren't above a little art-for-art's-sake -- after all, Sandino himself was a Wordsworth man, and the Clash made dramatic music out of their garageland politics.
...But the record company deemed The Clash too rude for U.S. release and shelved it for two years. The belated, reshuffled American version deleted four great songs but added three not-bad ones, one great one ("White Man in Hammersmith Palais"), and maybe the greatest punk anthem ever, "Complete Control." The 35-minute U.K. version and the 43-minute U.S. version are both now separately available; apparently it's too much goddamn trouble for Sony to put all 19 songs on one 52-minute CD, so you'll have to do it yourself. While you're at it, add "Groovy Times" and "Gates of the West," two amazing songs from the bonus seven-inch that originally came with the U.S. version, for an incomparable 60-minute Clash buzz."
Further the Dead Kennedys with 'songs' such as "Let's Lynch the Landlord " and
"Nazi Punks F%^& Off"
"Punk ain't no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain't hardcore cos you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks-F%^& Off!
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks-^&** Off!
If you've come to fight, get outa here
You ain't no better than the bouncers
We ain't trying to be police
When you ape the cops it ain't anarchy
[Repeat chorus]
Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls
You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go
[Repeat chorus]
You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
Unless you think"