The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
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No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
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The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.
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I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
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Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
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Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.
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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
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