What's your favorite punk rock band?

[Free]

The Sex Pistols.

whoops...

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

The Sex Pistols.

whoops...

*Resists going on a long rant*

 

[Clara D.]

*Resists going on a long rant*

I'll just leave this here.

Johnny Rotten says homeless people are destroying his LA neighborhood

Johnny Rotten says homeless people have moved 'en masse' to his exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice Beach.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

Screeching Weasel!



And the classic Dead Milkmen!


And can't leave out REV HORTON HEAT!

Yay to dead milkmen and Rev but saddly screaching weasel was ruinned for me by the snottyest kid I knew In middle/highschool.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

I'll just leave this here.

Johnny Rotten says homeless people are destroying his LA neighborhood

Johnny Rotten says homeless people have moved 'en masse' to his exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice Beach.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Speaking of johnny rotten being a loser have you seen this?

 

[Free]

He's called Johnny Rotten FOR A REASON.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

He's called Johnny Rotten FOR A REASON.

You ever feel like you've been cheated?

 

[Clara D.]

Enough of the drunk old guy...

 

[Free]

You ever feel like you've been cheated?

The amazing thing is, he actually likes Kate Bush. So that's... *me counts*... um, at least one thing we have in common.

 

[Free]

So, more of the new punk.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

The amazing thing is, he actually likes Kate Bush. So that's... *me counts*... um, at least one thing we have in common.

He's a whirlwind of huhwtf?, I'll give him that.

 

[Free]

(updated) Skatepunk.

 

[EmpressOfCommunism]

 

[Tris]

Ok. some of my favorite punk :

 

[Tris]

and part 2:

 

[Tris]

I am genuinly happy that no one said the sex pistols. Fack the pistols I want the Damned!

....

Ok, Sex Pistols might have been some sort of boy band or even a total rip-off, but they were still more punk than allmost all Green Day/Bad Religion clones/wanna-be's that are "called" punk now. (and that would be me even calling Green Day punk... )

.... just my 2 cents

 

[Bea McMahon]

This raises an interesting question.
What makes a band a "punk rock" band? I realize that it is generally applied to bands from the mid-1970s onward. But what are the precise characteristics?

(This probably comes from having been spending time in the jazz world, where bebop was supposed to have been a response to swing, and cool jazz a response to bebop, and hard bop to jazz. Musicians never used those terms - it was all critics and record labels.)

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Depends on who you ask [much the same for most genres of music]. *brushes off quora hat* So, depending on who you ask, punk is more about the attitude and less about specific music styles. So, Siousxie & The Banshees would be punk, but so would Motorhead [and actually, if asked, Siousxie -IS- punk].

However, if you go by sound, most modern metal is Punk, because that's where all the speed and attitude comes from. And after the Beastie Boys, that attitude made it into HipHop too.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

What I've seen regarding people with an opinion of Punk is that their favourite bands are Punk and all the others are phonies. I view Punk as a branch of Alt, made primarily but not exclusively of songs too subversive for common commercial broadcast. Calling the stereotypical thick-Brit singer with noisy guitars 'Punk' is a bit too simple for me... Not to say I can't appreciate it.

Personally, Crass

and Talking Heads

Are my favourite bands I'd be willing to call Punk.

Would be tough to convince me to dislike Green Day or The Clash, though. Sure, they're money grabbers, but they're loud and I like loud. =^-^=

 

[Essence Lumin]

There are so many. For this post I will pick the Ramones. That is because my best friend of 25 years was an extra in Rock and Roll High School starring the Ramones. Also they have such a positive outlook generally. So what song to pick? This one is a fav of mine.