Perhaps the key consideration for me which posits punk as a more worthy and interesting movement than the New Rock Revolution (aside from the fact that I wasn’t even born when punk was kicking off!- and also aside from the fact that the NRR is a fabricated movement created by NME as opposed to an actual unity of people gathering in a shop down The King’s Road and talking up anarchy), even beyond the idea of punk-as-reaction, is the fact that the NRR is so bloody backwards-looking, retrogressive, and idiotic.

You only have to look at Jack White’s fascistic imperative to only record using old equipment or Julian Casablancas’ lyrical concerns (shagging and drinking and shagging and taking drugs) to realise that the situationism and shock of the new that punk heralded/fed off is a creative energy almost completely lacking in the NRR. Can you imagine Casablancas leaving The Strokes and following it up with something as radical as PiL? Or Jack White producing a Sandinista!?

Punk’s obsession with dub reggae versus Jack White’s fear of bass. The slow commodification of punk as consumer article and fashion accessory into mainstream acceptance versus the birth of The Strokes directly onto NYC catwalks (do not pass Go, do not collect �200).

We need also to ascertain exactly who’s involved in this revolution too. Are Hot Hot Heat part of it? The Darkness? Kings Of Leon? Out Hud? !!!? Were The Dismemberment Plan progenitors somehow, their fusion of pop and hardcore and dance and hiphop pointing towards what’s happening now?

Actually, putting my irreverent head on for a second, I’m caught up thinking something more morbid and perhaps more culturally/emotionally significant. Who’s going to be The New Rock Revolution’s Sid Vicious? Because I can’t imagine a single one of these boring fuckers ever doing anything quite so interesting as dying young.