Poll: Is Punk Rock Still Alive?

[ThatsBitch3n]

I am way into Punk Rock, but no one seems to be listening to actual punk anymore. When I mention Punk, people drop names like Green Day, but when i say Richard Hell, the Heart Breakers, the Dead Kennedys, the Dictators,the New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges and the like i get blank stares. Anyone still listen to the REAL punk?

 

[Pandalisk]

no it is not,but I Wish it were dead well most anyway

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Me and a couple of my friends do. When I say punk I mean Ramones, Misfits, Sex Pistols, Exploited, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys. That what you mean?

Others think Punk Rock is a song by Bowling for Soup...

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

This is exactly what i mean! I am in a band, and i want to cover No Feelings, but no one knows who the sex pistols are!!!!

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

no it is not,but I Wish it were dead well most anyway

Why?

 

[ButtonedDownParadox]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs considered punk rock?

They're pretty popular.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

This is exactly what i mean! I am in a band, and i want to cover No Feelings, but no one knows who the sex pistols are!!!!

Then your bandmates are clearly not human. Maybe try Anarchy in the UK, that was on Guitar Hero.

 

[The Young One]

When I hear the term 'Punk' I think of the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedy's, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, that sort of thing.
The whole mohawks, leather jackets and total anarchy, to me that makes Punk

 

[Madshaw]

im not 2 interested in its surival realy, to me its just like other metal but with less skill

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

The thing is, i tried that AND Pretty Vacant! But still 3 fat nos. Pretty Vacant even has a nice riff for guitar! They all get hung up on Rottens lyrics.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I am very into Punk Rock! The Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols for earlier stuff. Love Iggy Pop and The Stooges. The Pixies, The Dead Kennedys and NOFX (for some okay modern punk). More modern punk (which is pretty good) is The Mr.T Experience. Not so big a fan of New York Dolls though.

 

[messy]

well to me punk rock has to challenge the establishment in someone, sort of a social commentarty The King Blues, are the proabaly the best modern punk i can think of. Other then that it is somewhat lacking in todays age of manufactured pop.

 

[weirdbros]

yeah the offspring

 

[Arntor]

Music genres only die if all of the musicians from the certain genre suddenly drop dead, all of their mp3 files corrupted, albums melt in your hands, and any memory of that genre is erased from everyone's mind. So, no, punk is not dead. It just isn't as well-known to the general public anymore or the ideals that it represented have been compromised.

 

[internutt]

Punk rock has been dead for a while, there haven't been that many bands recently, Green Day became emo with the American Idiot album.

The current trend these days is Emo and Indie pop rock.

 

[Fightgarr]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs considered punk rock?

They're pretty popular.

They are not. They are dance rock.

I used to be a street punk. Here is why I think punk is dead. Punks still exist, however the implications of being a punk to them is "how punk you are". In order to be a punk you need to wear the "punk" uniform. Punks are exceedingly pretentious and elitist which goes completely against the equality that punk was meant to enforce. Punk culture has become a cess pool of arrogance and discrimination. Almost every punk on the scene now is a suburban middle class white kid with too much money and arrogance complex. If you need proof here's an anecdote:

I don't dress like a punk anymore (I used to, to a ludicrous degree). I was visiting my parents for the christmas holidays and happened to be taking the subway home. I met two punks I knew form the scene. They looked me up and down with these grimaces of "this guy doesn't know anything about punk. What a fucking capitalist pig". Then they noticed that on my pants I had a patch for Defiance (one of the Street Punk pioneers of early 90s punk). At this point they nod and smile at me because apparently I'm part of their elitist club now. That is not what punk rock is about you fucking douchebags.

All that said there are still some really good bands still recording:
Subhumans (UK) are still together and rocking so hard, GBH are still together and doing the same, The Krum Bums are one of my favorite bands and are an incredible band if you haven't heard of them, A Global Threat broke up in '07 but I sill love 'em, Career Soldiers are really good, really hard, really fast shit. There's good stuff out there, you just have to look hard.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

The Pixies, The Dead Kennedys and NOFX (for some okay modern punk). More modern punk (which is pretty good) is The Mr.T Experience. Not so big a fan of New York Dolls though.

I'm searching those bands. I'm loving what I hear.

 

[Fightgarr]

Punk rock has been dead for a while, there haven't been that many bands recently, Green Day became emo with the American Idiot album.

The current trend these days is Emo and Indie pop rock.

Green Day = Always was pop punk.

 

[Cheesebob]

Yes I do...mainly the Clash, Sex Pistols and The Jam.

If anyone, and I do mean anyone, says that Green Day are punk.

Well I will have to come over and kick you in the balls; They arn't punk, they are Nu-punk (in other words Punk lite) and thus, are shit

 

[Zombie_Fish]

People just think of the pop-punk sound that's about now (Things like BFS, McFly etc.- people that just sing about relationship breakups and girls) and it's a shame, because it means that punk has lost its original meaning, a way of sticking your middle finger up to society and pointing out the flaws in the country. Still can't believe people don't know who Sex Pistols and The Clash are.