What is punk?
 

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Should a punk work in a bank?

Punk is when you're mommy is like "Go take a shower right now!"
and you're just like "Hale naw! ANRACHY!"

the original idea of punk was to do it yourself and independantly minded people creating energetic music they liked in reaction to what they saw as boring or staid music. as long as you had the passion and energy to do it then it didnt matter if it sounded good or bad. this could be applied to loads of different genres of music and not just three chord scronk. unfortunatly it got hijacked by a fashion sensability and media frenzy so it became about looking like sid viscious or something. fuck that.

That's pretty punk, dude. ;)

One word.Word!

yes i added that bit at the end to shock. cunts.

"A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man."

I want to be a punk.

a joey, in british prisons.

Gosh,you're soooo punk!!!

arnt i though? today i spat on the street and felt guilty. how punk is that? i did almost swallow a fly. no one tell me to swallow a spider ok.

al gore.

punk is whereing lots of black and skull n crossbones and listening to bands liek mcr and rancid. u also are punk if you sk8board and wear anarchy clothes

fall out boy and panic! at the disco.

I just realized how ugly the Ramones were.

least punk band in the history of humanity.

genesis had peter gabriel and steve hacket, they were punker than the ramones.

Listen to Power of Lard and replace Lard with Punk.

the Ramones started it all.

street kids, thugs, hustlers, male prostitues, junkies, washouts, dead end kids, decided to start a band and rock like chuck berry. PUNK

Most people who used to hang around at Warhol's Factory could be credited with inventing Punk in that case.Punk and double Punk at that!

Let the punk thing die, Porky. Stop living in the past and get back to the electronica thread.

Ok.

electronica is so 90s

yeah it is .Spookie i'll see you in that 90s thread then.

exactly

did you guys know that punk and New Wave were once the same thing?

New Wave followed Punk. It was punk with all that was interesting and exciting about it removed.

I am personally finding punk reallt interesting now.

A misspelling of 'pink'. Rhymes with funk, spunk, junk, trunk, clunk, crunk, dunk, stunk..

bunk trunk skunk!

Punk is like Anarchism - A lot of people claim to be a part of it, but aren't and most people who are a part of it don't believe that they are.
It's not the Ramones.
It's not the Sex Pistols.
That's for damn sure.

"I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass" -- William Burroughs.

fuck the ramones!!

all they did was rip off the stooges but with catchy chorus so they could profit from the sound and the buzzword.

the ramones started nothing, in fact, the ramones started the kind of music blink 182, sum 41, green day, fall out boy, etc, play.

Hah!

It's true. A punk was previously a term for a kid who got fucked up the ass in prison until Legs McNeil got the bright idea to name his magazine Punk and the media went wild.

hey cmon don't attack the ramones- they were one of the bands who didn't want that "punk" label in the first place. 1980's ramones =NOT TOO GREAT- but they were truly apart of the "punk scene"--tho I do agree with you on The Sex Pistols- who rooted from what Malcom McClaren took from Richard Hell over to england where "PUNK" became very open to the media and more then just downtown scene(what happened in the US) and this --- Jheii >>>> "Punk is like Anarchism - A lot of people claim to be a part of it, but aren't and most people who are a part of it don't believe that they are."

The term "punk" comes from the fanzine/magazine started by Legs Mcneil++John Holstrom--- which would of been called "teenage news" but Legs thought that name thought up by John was a bad idea- so it became Punk. Their first mag featured Lou Reed+ The Ramones(because they WERE apart of what is known as "punk")

alot of the punk scene didn't even want this but got it because it was a simple label to put on anyone who played that kind of downtown music at Max's or CBGB's-- really how many of these threads have occured tho?? I'm sure by now alot of people have been educated on the subject matter or know it, the best sources are those who were involved with the scene, know+have experienced it--- if you don't know alot about the scene you should definitely look deeper into it, thru media devoted to the truth and less of the nostalgia stuff-- Some examples-
DVD+++ Punk: Attitude(great documentary/ also features Thurston Moore and Sonic Footage*must drop since this is a Sonic Youth board :-P)
Please Kill Me(book featuring quotes that came from many involved in the pre punk and "punk" scene - such as Iggy+the stooges/Velvet Underground/Ny Dolls to Patti Smith/Richard Hell(neon boys/television/heartbreakers/voidoids)/Richard Lloyd(television) to the ramones ...etc
THE INTERNET
and if you don't get it- you'll probably never get it.

EDIT : BY THE WAY GREAT WILLIAM BURROUGHS QUOTE AND A FEW PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT IT-- (SOME IN PUNK: ATTITUDE)

you have got a lot to learn, sonny boy.

Me???? -- that isn't all I know -- it's just a basic run thru mostly commenting on what Jheii said at the beginning- with a few people from the early scene listed under the legs mcneil book. There is alot more that went on before and after the storm of the "punk" wave which wasn't too big at all in the united states until like 1991-- with Nirvana and all and by then it wasn't the same.