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Since there are many topics about different styles of music, i searched around for punk. I could only find one "recommend me" thread, so(after a bit of thinking) i decided to create this topic.

 

 

 

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Punk in short(very short. read Wikipedia to find out more):

 

 

 

Punk developed in mid 1970s in UK and USA to contradict the government and to show the people that they don't agree what is happening in their country. Simple 3-chord, fast music with often anti-political(and short) lyrics + punk fashion was a hit and a shock.

 

Punkers helped to change things that were wrong or at least they tried to. Often used word used by them was Anarchy. They demanded a state in the country of no government as they believed that the people themselves can live better without "leaders".

 

After a few years, the prime punk has practically vanished as there was no more need for it - the main purpose of it was(mostly) achieved. But the soul of punk did not die. New sub-genres started to appear, like Oi! and Harcore, which were more agressive.

 

Today we can say that punk is definitely not dead, it has just changed its appearance and sound a bit, but we still like it :)

 

 

 

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In general, punk(rock) is my favourite music genre and i've been listening to it since i was in primary school. One day a friend gave me a tape to listen to, which i did and after a few times i really started to like it. When i met that friend again he told me that the band was The Offspring(Americana). I asked him to record me the tape and he did. He actually gave me another tape with Green Day(Dookie) which i thought was even better :) In later years i found about some other bands, the most of them after i got access to the internet.

 

I never really liked the "old-style" punk, until i really listened to Sex Pistols and found out they are not that bad. Still, the new age punkrock is what i prefer. Hardcore is also something i never really listened to, some of The Exploited and maybe a few songs of unknown artists to me.

 

 

 

The bands i like:Green Day, Blink 182, The Offspring, Yellowcard, Zablujena Generacija, Perkele, Niet, Sum 41, +44, Angels And Airwaves, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Flogging Molly, Billy Idol, The Used, Die Toten Hosen... There are more, but i can't remember any at the moment :)

 

 

 

[hide=Don't say that some of those bands are not punk]Every one of them has at least a bit of punk in their music.

 

 

 

  • Fall Out Boy, Good Charlotte, and such are pop-punk
     
    Angels And Airwaves produce ballads, but they have punk in them :P
     
    My Chemical Romance is almost emo, but i think not completely
     
    The Used - a lot of emo, but some of the songs are great :)
     
    Billy Idol - a legend of pop-punk!
     
    Flogging Molly - irish folk music + punkrock = awesome combination
     
    Yellowcard - i love the violin + in general they have very likable songs
     
    Zablujena Generacija - a Slovenian punkrock band, not bad at all :)
     
    Niet - older slovenian punk band with some legendary songs
     
    Perkele - swedish punkrock band :)
     
    Die Toten Hosen - german punkrock band ;)

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my best punk rock...:

 

band: Blink 182, although Green Day and The Offspring aren't far behind

 

album: Green Day - Dookie

 

song: Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue

 

person: Sid Vicious, the "bassist" of Sex Pistols(died in 1979 from heroin overdose...); he was the icon, the attitude of punk

 

 

 

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Sid Vicious - My Way

 

 

Green Day - Burnout

 

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So, what is your oppinion on punk as music(or subculture), why do you like/don't like it, what are your favourite songs, bands...?

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I'm a punk rocker, have quite some of it too, and always downloading more (that's a lie, I download from time to time) ::'

 

 

 

For me, The Offspring is the best punk rock band around, I can listen to them all day long. Although the last album was a bit less punk, it was still amazing.

 

 

 

Hey [garden tool], let's go! The Ramones are cool too ;)

 

 

 

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- The All American Rejects

 

- Angels & Airwaves

 

- Anti-Flag

 

- At The Drive-In

 

- Bad Religion

 

- Billy Talent

 

- Blink-182

 

- A Day To Remember

 

- Disco Ensemble

 

- Donots

 

- Gob

 

- Good Riddance

 

- Green Day

 

- H2O

 

- Ignite

 

- Lagwagon

 

- Much The Same

 

- New Found Glory

 

- No Use For A Name

 

- NOFX

 

- The Offspring

 

- Only Crime

 

- +44

 

- Rise Against

 

- Senses Fail

 

- Strike Anywhere

 

- Strung Out

 

- Sum 41

 

- Thrice

 

- A Wilhelm Scream

 

- Yellowcard

 

- Zebrahead

 

- The Ramones

 

- Millencolin

 

- Last of the Believers

 

- Aiden

 

- Autopilot off

 

- Foolproof

 

- Templeton Pek

 

 

 

Those are some bands that I have at the moment, or that I am going to get.

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to pyromancer: Thanks for moving the topic :D

 

 

 

Oops, i forgot to mention The Ramones, but i don't like them that much anyways :)

 

Sex Pistols are supposed to be stereotypical. They are just awesomely crazy :D

 

 

 

to bouwzie: The newest Offspring album is a bit less punkish but i think it is WAAAY(i realy mean WAAAAAY) better than Splinter. You're Gonna Go Far Kid and Fix You are my favourite from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace album :)

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Of the old stuff I like The Clash. The Ramones and Sex Pistols are good sometimes, mostly I just like a few of their songs. As for newer stuff I like NOFX, Bad Religion, Rancid (kind of reggae punk) and Dropkick Murphys (Irish punk).

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Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy, MCR, Good Charlotte?

 

 

 

 

 

Punk is a pretty fun genre (although it did die out, all that is left is crappy pop punk and pop rock stuff) but these bands you listed are horrible, and not punk.

 

 

 

 

 

NoFX and Bad Religion are probably my two favorite from the genre, NoFX pretty much just for their incredible song The Decline which has to be the best punk song ever. I've never really explored the genre much though.

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to pyromancer: Thanks for moving the topic :D

 

 

 

Oops, i forgot to mention The Ramones, but i don't like them that much anyways :)

 

Sex Pistols are supposed to be stereotypical. They are just awesomely crazy :D

 

 

 

to bouwzie: The newest Offspring album is a bit less punkish but i think it is WAAAY(i realy mean WAAAAAY) better than Splinter. You're Gonna Go Far Kid and Fix You are my favourite from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace album :)

 

 

 

Well, I like every album of The Offspring, but Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is one of the top, if not the top, albums ;)

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to bouwzie: For me it's right after Americana :D

 

 

 

to Nadril: i'm not going to argue with you, think whatever you want, but those bands are still punk. Not the "classical" punk, but more like pop-punk, emo-punk and other sub-genres.

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I'm a huge fan of Green Day. American Idiot moved them into a more pop punk genre than before, in my opinion. You should listen to it if you haven't.

 

Burnout is my favorite song on Dookie, but Chump is a close second.

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Hardcore:

 

Agnostic Front

 

Bad Brains

 

Black Flag

 

Circle Jerks

 

Dead Kennedy's

 

Gang Green

 

Hatebreed

 

Jerry's Kids

 

Minor Threat

 

Minutemen

 

Sick Of It All

 

Slapshot

 

Teen Idles

 

Ten Yard Fight

 

Unearth

 

Youth Of Today

 

 

 

Horror Punk:

 

Misfits

 

MCR

 

 

 

Pop Punk:

 

Blink 182

 

Fall Out Boy

 

Green Day

 

Sum 41

 

Anti- Flag

 

 

 

Punk:

 

Choking Victim

 

Clash

 

Dropkick Murphys

 

Exploited

 

Flogging Molly

 

Gorilla Biscuits

 

Meatloaf (Rocky Horror Picture)

 

Operation Ivy

 

Police

 

Ramones

 

Richard Hell & the Voidoids

 

Sex Pistols

 

Smart Bomb (drummer drums for no trigger) Check Them Out

 

Stooges

 

Vandals

 

 

 

Ska:

 

Left Over Crack

 

Mighty Mighty Bostones

 

Reel Big Fish

 

Specials

 

Suicide Machines

 

 

 

New Wave:

 

Blondie

 

Talking Heads

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depends on what type of punk people are talking about.

 

but I listen to punk-hardcore from the mid nineties, to the early 2000's and it's pretty friggin amazing.

 

and I listen to some more classic punk-hardcore from the mid-late eighties.

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I listen to quite alot of what Bouwzie listens to.

 

 

 

Pretty much alot of bands from Burnout 3 Takedown and maybe a few other games are where I first heard em :P

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Sorry for my late response to this :) I'm a fan of all punk music genres pop to hardcore and everything in between (tho I like some better than others and my tastes often change over the years). I've got about 300 bands on my hard drive, but I won't list them all unless someone really wants to branch out and check out some new stuff. I don't think this conversation would be complete without mentioning a few more bands that are imo legends: Good Riddance, Social Distortion, Descendents, Minor Threat, Misfits, Bad Brains, Black Flag. Some additional of my favs: Strike Anywhere, Bigwig, Thought Riot, Against Me!

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There is some good punk out there (Dead Kennedy's, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, Green Day, Sum 41, Dropkick Murphy's, Rise Against, Misfits, etc), but I'm not that big on punk personally.

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I don'y have much with the genre. Kicking against everything or just not giving a [cabbage] about anything, it just doesn't really interest me very much. I saw the Sex Pistols live last year, I walked away after 15 minutes, I don't think I've ever seen something so pathetic in my life.

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Okay, so I may have said some things in anger, which made me realize that is just not the way to go.

 

 

 

But to back up what I had said:

 

 

 

I apologize if I come off as a bit hostile, but I do get a bit angry when people claim that punk is something it is not.

 

 

 

Punk rock isn't just being rebellious idiots, any teenager does that. It's being rebellious idiots while still being able to discuss politics without being an idiot. It's about knowing how to criticize that which you see as wrong in society, while still hiding it under humour and satire. Or it's just being plain out critical of your government. Either way, some kind of fun is involved in the process. Go to a show, get hammered, smoke pot, do drugs, or just enjoy the time. It isn't kicking down amps and trashing hotel rooms, smashing your instruments on stage. Possibly the best example I can use of a true punk rock band is NOFX. They openly criticize religion, government, along with general hate (See "You're Wrong"). Then they go and put out tracks like 'Timmy the Turtle' and "Whoops, I OD'd Again", or maybe even "We're going to Hell for this one". They began off, as their self-description puts it, as sucking. They didn't care though, they just stuck through it and did what they found fun. It is this early part of the band that I consider to be true punk.

 

 

 

However, I consider it very hard to find true punk nowadays. There isn't really much of it in mainstream media. Some of the most noticeable examples I can think of are Rise Against, and just slightly Blink 182. Just a side note though, Blink 182 is not purely punk. Toward the end of their time they grew further ad further away from punk, eventually evolving into +44 and Angels & Airwaves.

 

 

 

Like has happened with Blink 182, and every form of music, punk evolves. This is why it is so hard to firmly put labels on music genres, and maybe one of the reasons why I got angry about what you considered punk. I know many people who have never even heard of bands like the Adolescents, the Dead Kennedys, the Dropkick Murphys and Black Flag. They've only ever heard of Fallout Boy, Blink-182, Sum 41, +41, and many other of the 'mainstream' bands that make up what I consider to be half of the punk genre.

 

 

 

The other half of the punk genre, is quite often based underground, or just beyond the media's attention. This includes band like Strike Anywhere, Authority Zero, Anti-Flag, NOFX, Pennywise, Rancid, and Bad Religion. Then there's also the gray area between punk and third-wave ska, with bands like the Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto (Although nearly any genre can stake a claim on them), Less Than Jake, Sublime, and The Flatliners. These bands will often spend most of their time touring, maybe put out a music video, but comparing them to most of the bands you'll see on MTV, the biggest difference is their longevity. They last years, while most of the artists appearing on MTV or Much on Demand will have a shelf life of a year or two, putting out three or four good songs before fading away.

 

When your band has been a band longer than the Ramones

 

And critics coin you "the punk Rolling Stones"

 

That's when you know this is for life

 

 

 

Okay, so this post has gone from me trying to correct the OP on his belief of what "punk" is and just giving a more specific run down of the genre. I guess I'll settle for that, I'm just glad to find out that more than three people on this forum actually listen to the genre.

 

 

 

[hide=Now for a recommendation list]My Favourites underlined.

 

 

 

NOFX

 

Streetlight Manifesto

 

Catch 22

 

Rise Against

 

The Flatliners

 

Anti-Flag

 

Penny Wise

 

Adolescents

 

Blink-182

 

Sum 41

 

Fallout Boy (*gasp*)

 

The Dropkick Murphys

 

Flogging Molly

 

The Dead Kennedys

 

Black Flag

 

Reel Big Fish

 

Goldfinger

 

Less Than Jake

 

Rancid

 

Bad Religion

 

Strike Anywhere

 

Authority Zero

 

The Gaslight Anthem

 

Hostage Life

 

illScarlett

 

Jimmy Eat World

 

The Misfits

 

The Ramones (And it's Blitzkrieg Bop, not Hey [garden tool], Lets Go)

 

The Clash

 

Mustard Plug

 

Operation Ivy

 

Propagandhi

 

The Rx Bandits

 

Social Code

 

Social Distortion

 

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This list is in now way ordered, other than that I went by memory and then by my iTunes library. This should provide what I'd say is a pretty well-rounded palette of what I consider the punk genre to be. Also, don't just take my word for this, explore the genre yourself, form your own opinion.

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