Peter Pan can suck it.

I like being an adult.


I get to buy singles like this one by  Grow Up.

 Grow Up (1979)

UK DIY style. Just barely competent enough. Way too many words.  It's got a trombone without being ska. A clarinet too.  A clarinet, that's punk as fuck. There are six songs squeezed together on one seven inch slab of vinyl.

What's not to love?

Green Telescopes (1986)

For a long time into the 80's hellscape there existed bands who sought to recreate as accurately as possible the sound of the original 60's teenage garage bands pumping out the real punk rock.

One of those bands was the Green Telescope (who would later change their name to the Thanes of Cawdor) who threw this lively bit of garagadelia to the hungry masses in the middle of the decade that shall not be glorified because even those of us living through it wanted to be living in another time period.

Side one is an original in as much as something aping another time period can be considered an original. A farfisa flavored rocker that hits all the proper points such that it might otherwise fool a neophyte listener into believing it actually was recorded twenty years previous to its actual release date. It's got a beat and you can dance to it.

The other side is a cover of one of the classics of the Garage Punk genre "Thoughts of a Madman" by one of the several hundred bands calling themselves the Nomads.

You can decide for yourself if they best the original or not.