Originally Posted by The Unfan

To be honest, I still consider pop-punk to be just as punk as it is pop. So the first punk I heard and enjoyed was either Offspring or Green Day, but the elitist dumb ****s around here would argue against that being punk.

So my first "real" punk I actually fell in love with was Napalm Death (grind is punk, serious) which I get in to through an interest in death metal, which snowballed in to other grind bands, Engorged, Impetigo, Anal ****, and stuff. I then kind of went backwards to find their influences and their influences' influences and so on. So actually if not for Napalm Death I would've never found much punk.