The Clash released Sandinista album and I finally got to hear the PIL. First among my friends had to go and do the compulsory military service (14 months of your life irreversibly lost!) and that was very depressive. More or less about the same time I heard Exploited. They were selling brand "punks not dead" and have become kind of an icon, at least where I lived. Mostly, because of the singer's haircut and the massive quantities of labeled gadgets in circulation, I believe. The "musical" style which they were part of, did the same kind of damage to the punk music in 80s, as the gabber style did to the techno music in 90s. It gave a good argument to those who wanted to diminish the importance of the style, its quality and the meaning of the whole movement...

If I have ever become immune to the punk music, it is mostly because of the Exploited and such. I admit I somewhat liked the Offspring and the Green Day when I heard some of their stuff much later, but we are jumping in time here. I guess it's just because I'm incurable...

Back in the 80s, with the boom of the new video technology, video clips have become new established way of advertising for the musical industry. It was a hand washing hand... As more video clips were released, more you wanted to have a video player (or maybe even a video recorder!). And as more people had the video players, it made more sense to make more video clips. The birth of MTV, which I got to see on my TV for the first time in 1986 when it was already well established, was just another of the logical steps in the development of the evermore greedy musical industry...