As I said, it was on grounds of general inaccessibility, not inauthenticity - the point was to make far more thrilling and relevant music by abandoning the over

As I said, it was on grounds of general inaccessibility, not inauthenticity - the point was to make far more thrilling and relevant music by abandoning the overwraught playing, equipment, and production which had become the norm from the mid 70s. At that point, synthesizers were largely associated with millionaires noodling away in expensive studios and not part of the equation for a bunch of teenagers starting a band. The minute these bands started doing albums and synths started getting mass produced by Japanese firms, they began to pop up in the music from about 1978, just a year after the first crop of UK punk albums.