Anyone else find it painfully ironic that punk has so many 'rules' as fa!
Question: It seems like sometimes we shoot our wounded. On the flipside though, I do know some poseurs who crank 'hands down' by dashboard and think they're hardcore, but they think that Rancid and the Sex Pistols sound icky. So maybe it's a good thing....
What do you think?
Answers: It seems like sometimes we shoot our wounded. On the flipside though, I do know some poseurs who crank 'hands down' by dashboard and think they're hardcore, but they think that Rancid and the Sex Pistols sound icky. So maybe it's a good thing....
What do you think?
Punk has a lot of 'rules'.
And if you are following any of them - YOU AREN'T A F**KING PUNK!!!
So many "punks" anymore are posers. They want to appear to be "cool". If you are worried about following rules you aren't punk.
punk music has become a joke in the past punk was the anti of everything music that couldnt be put in any "real" category..now its become a few hard guitar strings or a lil screaming its punk..artists wear some converse and some black its punk..real true punk music just as in decades past arent really mainstream..BTW if people think the sex pistols are icky or not punk are idiots..they take what record stores and companies cant market and sell as pop call it punk and shove down our throats
Generally my views on punk are very traditional. I think anyone can play, regardless of their level of talent. If you like them, great! The minute someone asks for credentials, they have lost touch with the true nature of the music.
River nailed it in my opinion. He has a great response that is in line with what I'm trying to say.
In the beginning, punk wasn't bound by such facist standards of conformity. It wasn't even punk. Bands like the Ramones, Sex Pistols, the Jam, the Damned, the Clash, etc. weren't consciously making punk music. They were making stripped down, back-to-basics rock-n-roll after far too many years of mystical prog epics, rock operas, and bloated falsetto arena rock nonsense. They were making two minute pop singles. They sounded "punk" because they were recorded cheaply. Yes, some of these songs were very antisocial, but rock-n-roll has always been about youth rebellion. Punk was the next logical step.
The generation that followed f***ed up the whole "punk" concept by becoming anti-poseur purists (accidental conformists themselves).
What, you mean as in trendiness in the scene? well, there'll always be people making and listening to music for the right reasons. I don't really care about what trendy kids say. Good music is good music.
its all labels, labels suck!
but you are who you are, myabe you can act or look punk, but you might not be...its all confusing and labels are just for posers, so thats what i think