Tweet Share Although punk may not be remembered as a particularly didactic kind of music, its great practitioners did teach us a valuable lesson. When you listen to Pere Ubuâs 1976 track âFinal Solutionâ or The Clashâs 1977 song âRemote Control,â you get the idea that dystopias are just another opportunity for someone to write a pop song. In other words, punk â and its more commercially friendly offshoot, post-punk â embraced the concept of societal collapse while sending up the idea as faintly absurd. Whatâs fascinating about Nashville post-punk band Palm Ghostsâ Lifeboat Candidate, out March 19, is how completely the group buys into the notion that anarchy has arrived, courtesy of the McConnell-Trump era.