Punk Music

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Billie Joe Armstrong once said, „A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!' So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trendy!”.

Make whatever you want out of this

I still like some of their music like 21 guns, for example, it's a decent song, but it's just too main stream and too 'tame' to be punk.

For me Basket Case is their magnum opus

Now that was Punk! Although, for me, Holiday edges Basket Case as their best song just for the epic lyrics.

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I still like some of their music like 21 guns, for example, it's a decent song, but it's just too main stream and too 'tame' to be punk.

Now that was Punk! Although, for me, Holiday edges Basket Case just for the epic lyrics.

It's more like Alt Rock.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Crass said punk was dead 30 years ago....

[Kieran. 6,317]

One of my all-time favorites.

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[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

For me Basket Case is their magnum opus

Dookie was a great album. After that...well, let's say, it was mixed. I'm not sure it was ever punk though. To me Punk is a specific anti-establishment movement that happened in the mid to late 70's. There are plots of neo-punk bands and bands influenced by punk, but it isn't quite the same thing.

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Australian Punk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvhd--qDDU

[Amblève. 4,995]

IMO Revolutions Per Minute is one of the most underrated Punk albums of the last 15 years. Incredibly brilliant stuff.

Edit: Voices off Camera is a masterpiece.

Edit 2.0: Posting in this thread while having a hip-hop sig might seem kinda weird...

[Kieran. 6,317]

Makes me wanna smash shit every time.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

@Fulham Broadway, I'm not entire sure how old you are, but can you remember when those songs were made? I it would have been incredibly awesome to be a teenager witnessing the rise of punk and everything it meant and stood for!

One of my all-time favorites.

I love minor threat, they're just so...well punk! This is probably my favorite Minor Threat song:

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Dookie was a great album. After that...well, let's say, it was mixed. I'm not sure it was ever punk though. To me Punk is a specific anti-establishment movement that happened in the mid to late 70's. There are plots of neo-punk bands and bands influenced by punk, but it isn't quite the same thing.

By that logic you can also say that even in the 70s only a hand full of bands were truly punk and the rest just "inspired by punk". Punk inspired a lot of bands in the 80s and early 90s that had the punk 'attitude' which is arguably what punk is about, you can say they aren't really punk, but they were definitely punk-related. Now punk is, unfortunately, completely dead.

[Amblève. 4,995]

I love minor threat, they're just so...well punk! This is probably my favorite Minor Threat song:

That was the song that defined a whole movement. All praise to the gods of Minor Threat.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

That was the song that defined a whole movement. All praise to the gods of Minor Threat.

Very true. Straight Edge launched the movement that changed people's perception of Punk completely. Absolute masterpiece.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Very true. Straight Edge launched the movement that changed people's perception of Punk completely. Absolute masterpiece.

Not only that. Straight edge has become an ideological attitude how to live. Even nowadays, and especially nowadays I might have to say, the spirit of being straight edge is become more and more popular.