music ok. lyrics start weak, then are ok, but never easily intelligible. if punk is about, to emphasize the poetry of the lyrics, minimizing the music, then post-punk ought to go beyond punk, beyond mere emphatic minimization: to torture the lyrics to their superlative poetry, cruxiate music to it's silent ascension. just as post-modernism is a superlative involution and extension of modernism (though, as well as punk, have nothing to do with their respective namesakes, but misnomial convention oughtn't control our knowledge)