Is punk dead?

honru

Ah, I'm just putting this down for the hell of it.

I think that, while the true essence of punk has been lost with many of these modern bands, it's clear to see that the basics of punk have continued to develop on throughout the ages.

Guess I'm inbetween.

DadaKopf

What's punk?

Karl Hungus

Yes. We simply don't get bands like The Exploited anymore. Some of the so-called "Punk" of today... it's almost like calling Linkin Park Death Metal.

ferdi

anyone who thinks punk is dead is a fool, no exceptions.

NotMe

Stupid question. Atari Jaguar.

From dictionary.com


I love this:
Slang. A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man.


So no, punk is not dead.

ferdi

Papa Smut wrote:

From dictionary.com


I love this:
Slang. A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man.


So no, punk is not dead.

ROFL

bombidol

I dont think its Dead, but i think its on its last legs. Its spiderwebbed into so many different genres that its dilluted itself. But it is still there.

Ro: maaan!

I'm with Ferdi on this one.

Doctor J

Gotta say dead. Modern punk is so far away from what punk was originally it's depressing what gets called punk these days.

Having said that, US and UK punk back in the day were different things too.

Mr. CooL ICE

IMO, punk has 2 major elements - the music and the attitude. The attitude is still there, but the music is fairly diluted, but i wouldn't say its dead.

Do you really believe the attitude is still there? I thought that punk had quite a nietzsche -esque attitude about it. You know the whole "I wanna destroy" thing. I just don't see that anymore. Punk (if it isn't dead, which I believe it is) should have died a long time ago. Right round the passing of Sid. Why must we hold on to things that mean so much?
If punk was a family, it would be a sick state of affairs... Akin to keeping someone on a ventilator who is completely braindead.

ether

The 3 chord riff isn't used as much, but we still hear punk in so much music nowadays, it'll never die off completely.

ferdi

punk is an attidude 100%. just because the sound changes dosnt mean its dead, its just...changed!

modern heavy rock/metal sounds different to the way it used to - is metal dead?

i hate this "if its not sid vicious, its not punk" attitude, it does a great dis-service to the genre and music as a whole. why cant music diversify and change with the times?

NotMe

Doctor J wrote:

Gotta say dead. Modern punk is so far away from what punk was originally it's depressing what gets called punk these days.

Just because something is called punk doesn't mean it is. And what do you mean by "modern punk". MTV punk?

Papa Smut wrote:

Do you really believe the attitude is still there? I thought that punk had quite a nietzsche -esque attitude about it. You know the whole "I wanna destroy" thing.

That was only one part of punk. There were punk bands who believed in "I wanna destroy", there were bands who just sang about it, there were punk bands that sang about their everyday lives and there were bands who were just in it for the fun.

I just don't see that anymore. Punk (if it isn't dead, which I believe it is) should have died a long time ago. Right round the passing of Sid.

What has Sid Vicious got to do with punk music?

Why must we hold on to things that mean so much?
If punk was a family, it would be a sick state of affairs... Akin to keeping someone on a ventilator who is completely braindead.

Is impressionism dead? Somebody tell the art lovers. :eek:

Altheus

punk was and is long dead. it's a political belief, it's an attitude, it's a social underclass, it's a conscious decision to drop out and stand up against a corrupt system which has no place for in it.

Punk is not music. Music is a symptom of a punk ideal. Come on the may day march and see how many 'punks' are still around. Punk is DEAD, long live mediocre central ideals and policital correctness, dumbed downed ideas and docility in society.

Altheus

Altheus wrote:

punk was and is long dead. it's a political belief, it's an attitude, it's a social underclass, it's a conscious decision to drop out and stand up against a corrupt system which has no place for in it.

Punk is not music. Music is a symptom of a punk ideal. Come on the may day march and see how many 'punks' are still around. Punk is DEAD, long live mediocre central ideals and policital correctness, dumbed downed ideas and docility in society.

Hear hear

ferdi

narks!!!!!

punk as a political ideal is now more necessary than ever, and not just from the under classes. i dont like the society i live in, do you?

Altheus

Read my post. Familiarize yourself with sarcasm. Then post.

I didn't get the sarcasm....

Do now tho'!!!

veryslowey

what a load of gaybollocks

Altheus

Are their any fundamental differences between gay bollocks dog's bollocks and straight bollocks?

veryslowey

not funadmentally no

I am MAN

veryslowey wrote:

not funadmentally no

I think he deserves to be raped with the banning stick for having such a punk attitude and those punk trousers really do go with the blouse.

NotMe

I am MAN wrote:

I think he deserves to be raped with the banning stick [

by what mod?

I am MAN

If you look at the moderator list you will see there is 1 mod, I dont really care anyway

veryslowey

I am MORON wrote:

I think he deserves to be raped with the banning stick for having such a punk attitude and those punk trousers really do go with the blouse.

who called the policeman

NotMe

I am MAN wrote:

If you look at the moderator list you will see there is 1 mod, I dont really care anyway

He hasn't posted anything in the last 2 months though.

I am MAN

Yes but there is still a moderator listed, which answers your question to what moderator could enforce a banning

veryslowey

oh god what do we do, is anyones parents close by?

Ro: maaan!

NotMe wrote:

He hasn't posted anything in the last 2 months though.

Yea he has.

He could be just around any corner...

NotMe

NotMe wrote:

He hasn't posted anything in the last 2 months though.

*roughly