I can't really claim to be of the original punks cos they really went to town with the mohicans, crazy colour etc, I only used to wear similar clothes to Hot Gossip. I got fed up of the pogoing and moshing at the front of gigs and I used to look up to more to Debbie Harry and Kate Bush as older female icons...for a similar reason I like the melodic elements of the Damned (although they used to have plenty of gobbing etc, poor pets). plus the Damned always seem to have a genuine love of their stage act and their audience...nothing cynical or manipulative there at all. There are so many crucial songs out there that I can't think of a sensible answer to wild-bill's Q apart from 'I want you' by Bob Dylan. Crisis lyrics make me maudlin, not good at this time of the eve!