Acid Casual... Couldn't disagree more with your views on youth culture. Youth culture in the 60s and 70s wasn't manufactured or from the media it was from youth - skinheads had to go to specialist shops for their Fred Perrys, punks made stuff out of bin bags, soulboys had to get peg trousers through mailorder. The chains didn't sell looks off the peg - the media didn't create youth culture, it largely didn't have a clue they just followed them. You believe Malcoms McClarens version of Punk!!!! He's just hanging on coat tails he didn't want the Pistols to be how they ended up.. The casuals the most important!!!!...behave... I was a southern Soulboy in 1978 and we had wedges and labels way back before the scousers and the football mobs...there just weren't many of us and being a working class youth culture based largely on imported funk and the rougher end of disco it didn't get ANY press from the middleclass 'rock' press as it wasn't based on bands and hasn't got the retrospective glory that the northern soul scene now carries. But we had that prototype Casual look (actually based on Bowie circa 1976) 3-4 years before it got on the terraces - I remember at West Ham most lads in 1980 were still Oi/Skinhead and looked at the few of us Soulboys as freaks, 3 years later everyone looked liked soulboys and called themselves casuals and listened to the far shittier/manufactured 1980s soul that was in the charts then. Casuals were just Soulboys younger brothers.... As it happens, I think Acid House was the most influential youth culture - from drugs, licensing laws, etc and also killed off the tribal nature of youth culture that proceeded it. As for modern youth culture being rebellious it just can't be in the same way...I've got mates who were skinheads who are grandads..in 1977, when my mtes and me cut our hair and pierced our ears with safety pins my headmaster had fought in southern Italy..he and most people over 40 were absoulutely petrified of punk