Punk is *** (country, jazz, metal, genre, beatles)

FireInCairo · 11-05-2008, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Yellow Black

Haha, yeah...the Clash is way cooler.
By the way, Did some newer band cover Rock the Casbah because I heard a different version a couple times and it is in my opinion very different from the original.

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I found it, Green Day covered it. Wow, they are about as punk as Motley Crue, haha

Something for kate did a pretty good version...
oh wait, no one outside of australia knows who they are...because we suck

Astronomer · 11-05-2008, 08:32 PM

I like Something for Kate. But I'm one of those sucky Australians.

Anyway. I'm not a punk fan and think most of it is three asterisks and not a very skillful genre of music... but this is because as far as I'm concerned punk first started as a rebellion by the working class, taking a stand against high art and high culture. When punk first evolved it was about the fact that anyone could pick up a guitar and play three chords and rock out and rebel and take a stand... well that's what I think anyway.

Anteater · 11-05-2008, 10:19 PM

Lulz lateralus, and that's why I find post-punk so ironic. Punk itself aided in a big way to the big art rock/prog. rock stomp-out in the mid to late 70's, yet quite a few of the post-punk bands that emerged early on incorporated progressive tendencies to a point. Talk about a facepalm moment.

Cardiacs =punk/prog= oxymoron

(and yet it worked!!!)

Astronomer · 11-05-2008, 10:50 PM

Well contradictions and paradoxes always work best.

FireInCairo · 11-06-2008, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Lulz lateralus, and that's why I find post-punk so ironic. Punk itself aided in a big way to the big art rock/prog. rock stomp-out in the mid to late 70's, yet quite a few of the post-punk bands that emerged early on incorporated progressive tendencies to a point. Talk about a facepalm moment.

Cardiacs =punk/prog= oxymoron

(and yet it worked!!!)

its not really a contradiction
if punk = rebellion
rebellion from punk is the most punk thing you can do!

Brad Stengel · 11-06-2008, 09:34 AM

People who don't like punk tend to veiw it more as a political statement than a musical one.

All it was doing was going back to roots rock n' roll, so if anyone's going to go ahead and call it talentless, you can say the same for all the 50's rock and roll and 60's british invasion stuff.

But of course none of that EVER gets called talentless for being simple music.

dac · 11-07-2008, 01:42 AM

I'm not big on punk, and it's probably for the same reason I'm not much into metal. I'm just not that angry of a person so it's really hard to connect with the music sometimes, so I totally understand why people don't like it.

Xtra · 11-07-2008, 02:48 AM

Not all punk is angry, and it branches out into many forms.

Piss Me Off · 11-07-2008, 06:40 AM

I'm not an angry person at all but i love it. The reason people might initially not like it is because it's a style based on trying to be different to everything else to the extent of nearly (and sometimes being) confrontational. Your average Joe doesn't like that sort of thing, just like men wearing make-up was such a big deal in glam and why people got upset the longer the Beatles and Stones' hair got in the 60's.

FaSho · 11-07-2008, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by dac

I'm not big on punk, and it's probably for the same reason I'm not much into metal. I'm just not that angry of a person so it's really hard to connect with the music sometimes, so I totally understand why people don't like it.

I like you dac so I'm really not meaning to be offensive, but that is so ****ing closeminded, and anyone not completley ignorant to punk as a genre would know that "angry punk" is just a bad stereotype.

11-05-2008, 08:32 PM	#92 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	I like Something for Kate. But I'm one of those sucky Australians. Anyway. I'm not a punk fan and think most of it is three asterisks and not a very skillful genre of music... but this is because as far as I'm concerned punk first started as a rebellion by the working class, taking a stand against high art and high culture. When punk first evolved it was about the fact that anyone could pick up a guitar and play three chords and rock out and rebel and take a stand... well that's what I think anyway. __________________

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Brad Stengel This Space for Rent Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 815	People who don't like punk tend to veiw it more as a political statement than a musical one. All it was doing was going back to roots rock n' roll, so if anyone's going to go ahead and call it talentless, you can say the same for all the 50's rock and roll and 60's british invasion stuff. But of course none of that EVER gets called talentless for being simple music. __________________ These is the musics I own: http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/BradStengel/oo

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dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	I'm not big on punk, and it's probably for the same reason I'm not much into metal. I'm just not that angry of a person so it's really hard to connect with the music sometimes, so I totally understand why people don't like it. __________________

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,512	I'm not an angry person at all but i love it. The reason people might initially not like it is because it's a style based on trying to be different to everything else to the extent of nearly (and sometimes being) confrontational. Your average Joe doesn't like that sort of thing, just like men wearing make-up was such a big deal in glam and why people got upset the longer the Beatles and Stones' hair got in the 60's. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

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Xtra Groupie Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4	Not all punk is angry, and it branches out into many forms.