At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.
-New Musical Express, 1977
The key phrase in the above would seem to be "At its best." By this definition, punk was only at its best at the beginning, before creativity had given way to creed.
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