Rip It Up and Start Again

== Criticism ==

== Criticism ==

Author and musician Alex Ogg, criticized Reynolds book, suggesting that post-punk pertained to a set of artistic sensibilities and approaches rather than any unifying style, and disputed the accuracy of the term's chronological prefix "post", as various groups commonly labelled "post-punk" predate the punk rock movement.<ref name="TheQuietus2">{{cite web |last1=Ogg |first1=Alex |date=October 2009 |title=Beyond Rip It Up: Towards A New Definition of Post Punk? |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/02854-looking-beyond-simon-reynolds-rip-it-up-towards-a-new-definition-of-post-punk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009030002/https://thequietus.com/articles/02854-looking-beyond-simon-reynolds-rip-it-up-towards-a-new-definition-of-post-punk |archive-date=9 October 2023 |access-date=20 February 2016 |website=The Quietus}}</ref>

[[Simon Reynolds]]' 2005 book ''[[Rip It Up and Start Again]]'' is widely referenced as post-punk doctrine, although he has stated that the book only covers aspects of post-punk that he had a personal inclination toward.<ref name="TheQuietus3">{{cite web |last1=Ogg |first1=Alex |date=October 2009 |title=Beyond Rip It Up: Towards A New Definition of Post Punk? |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/02854-looking-beyond-simon-reynolds-rip-it-up-towards-a-new-definition-of-post-punk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009030002/https://thequietus.com/articles/02854-looking-beyond-simon-reynolds-rip-it-up-towards-a-new-definition-of-post-punk |archive-date=9 October 2023 |access-date=20 February 2016 |website=The Quietus}}</ref> Wilkinson characterised Reynolds' readings as "apparent revisionism and 'rebranding{{'"}}.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2016|p=8}} Author/musician Alex Ogg criticised: "The problem is not with what Reynolds left out of ''Rip It Up'' ..., but, paradoxically, that too much was left in".<ref name="TheQuietus3" />{{refn|Ogg expressed concern regarding the attribution of "post-punk" to groups who came before the [[Sex Pistols]],<ref name="TheQuietus"/> themselves credited as the principal catalysts of punk.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Armstrong, Billie Joe|date=15 April 2004| title=The Sex Pistols| magazine=Rolling Stone| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7235474/58_the_sex_pistols|access-date=17 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619012115/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7235474/58_the_sex_pistols |archive-date=19 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also noted several underheralded post-punk influences, including [[Discharge (band)|Discharge]], [[XTC]], [[UB40]], the [[cow-punk]] scene, tape trading circles and the "unfashionable" portions of [[gothic rock|goth]].<ref name="TheQuietus"/>|group=nb}} Ogg suggested that post-punk pertains to a set of artistic sensibilities and approaches rather than any unifying style, and disputed the accuracy of the term's chronological prefix "post", as various groups commonly labelled "post-punk" predate the punk rock movement.<ref name="TheQuietus3" />

==Editions==

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