“Punk mostly wasn't very good at all, because it was fashion and performance art and social criticism and musically quite conservative and dull in addition to being amateurish”
That is just an objectively wrong worldview—that Punk was just fashion and a mostly dull, amateur genre.
And I agree with everything you say about Prog.
Go listen to Pink Flag by Wire. It basically is Prog, but stripped all the way down to pure elegance and irony, imbued with the attitude of the earliest rock and roll. Still fresh today.
So many great bands and classic albums. Were the beatles and elvis proto-punk, or were the clash and ramones early rock and roll?
The kinks you really got me, the stooges search and destroy. You’re right Led Zeppelin is silly next to that.
But dull and amateurish, no way. That’s the mindset of someone with a narrow palette.
Good thing Punk is the ultimate palette cleanser. The smartest genre of music we’ve created yet.
does what you’re making matter to people or not? It’s like that no matter what you’re doing. Y’all can sit around here and discuss, “what is a software architect” all you want.
I think “code” is already at the right layer of abstraction. “Code” already solves this problem and has the curve the author’s looking for. “No-code” is a simple case of the wrong abstraction.