Punk music is so bad and lame

[Charles Xavier]

All punk music sounds the same and it doesn't sound nice. Why can't you guys accept the death of punk music?
Those of you who listen to it don't really like the sound. You think its rebel but its really quiet bad.

[Pirate Utopian]

It doesnt nice?, oh boy!.. I guess I better get back to that nice old Captain & Tenille.

[Red_or_Dead]

All punk music sounds the same and it doesn't sound nice. Why can't you guys accept the death of punk music?
Those of you who listen to it don't really like the sound. You think its rebel but its really quiet bad.


1. Its great.

2. Some of us actualy like it for the music

3. Not all punk is about being a rebel. Ramones, anybody?

4. Yes, it doesnt sound nice, and thats kinda the point.

[Pirate Utopian]

The Clash is diffrent then The Ramones who are diffrent than Crass who are diffrent then the Cockney Rejects who are diffrent than Stiff Little Fingers who are diffrent then the Talking Heads and so on...

The point of punk is make music free of pretentiousness, it started at the days of stadiumrock wich was totally alienated from it's audience, punk just wanted to return to basics of rock & roll wich was that anyone could get in on it and didnt have to be difficult to play.

[Jazzratt]

All punk music sounds the same

bzzzzzt. Wrong. As mentioned by Pirate Utopian a lot of bands in the punk "genre" sound wildly different. Plus, like all music, punk is divided into many many sub-genres; saying pop-punk and crust-punk sound the same is like saying smooth jazz and big band sound the same.


and it doesn't sound nice.

Define "nice". If you mean it doesn't sound soft or uplifting you've missed the point.


Why can't you guys accept the death of punk music?

Because the punk bands around where I live won't let me...


Those of you who listen to it don't really like the sound. You think its rebel but its really quiet bad.

I don't listen to much punk but the punk I do listen to I listen to for the reason I listen to all other music - I like the music and the lyrics.

[Post-Something]

He obviously knows nothing about punk music apart from a few pre-conceived stereotype ideas and hearing some pop punk shit on the radio. Go compare Fugazi to Descendants and then tell me it's all the same.

[Random Precision]

Listen to some Iggy and the Stooges and come back to say that. :)

[More Fire for the People]

Melodic hardcore :tongue_smilie:

[thejambo1]

punk rock is the dogs bollocks!!! and anyone who disagrees can fuck off!!:laugh:

[Honggweilo]

this thread is made of fail

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The original poster doesn't know life.

[Charles Xavier]

The original poster is not stuck in the late 70's early 80s. There hasn't been any original punk made since then.

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The original poster is not stuck in the late 70's early 80s. There hasn't been any original punk made since then.

The original poster made a rather bizarre point claiming that those who listen to punk "don't really like the sound". This doesn't make any sense.

The original poster betrays his lack of knowledge of the genre by stating that "all punk sounds the same". He points his finger at something without realizing that four fingers of his hand are pointing back at him.

The original poster is not really being very original.

[Dystisis]

I think Punk is really uninteresting as well. Although I don't disrespect people who solely listens to Punk, I don't understand why. So my current theory is that they do it for the lyrics, which is fair enough but hardly a great musical experience. Oh well, to each their own (or not).

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Although I don't disrespect people who solely listens to Punk, I don't understand why.

Certainly not solely.


So my current theory is that they do it for the lyrics, which is fair enough but hardly a great musical experience. Shit punk is a shit musical experience, great punk is a great musical experience - simple as that.

It's normal that if you don't like a music style it all sounds the same to you. Techno all sounds the same to me, but I wouldn't claim that's the empiric truth. I just don't like it, that's all.

Here's an experiment, though: listen to the first Saints album and tell me it sounds the same as any album by the Casualties.

[Anarch_Mesa]

Listen to some Iggy and the Stooges and come back to say that.


I Second That

[Red_or_Dead]

The original poster is not stuck in the late 70's early 80s. There hasn't been any original punk made since then.

The original poster claimed that all punk sounds the same. Now the original poster implies that modern punk is somewhat different than the 70s and 80s punk.

Has the original poster changed his mind?

[RHIZOMES]

You think its rebel but its really quiet bad.

It's quiet bad. :lol: When I think of quiet things, I think of punk music.

I think the OP has only listened to one subgenre of punk music or something. There's a lot of listenable punk music and a lot of unlistenable, like a lot of genres. It's like saying all rap sounds the same. It just shows an ignorance of the genre above anything else.

[JimmyJazz]

Lots of my favorite punk and semi-punk is completely apolitical: The Buzzcocks, The Undertones, Nick Lowe, The Jam, The Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman, The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, The Kinks, Creation, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Television, Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Suicidal Tendencies, Social Distortion, The Damned's first album before they got all goth, Rancid. None of those bands make noise--they make really tight, melodic songs that follow in the tradition of American Soul, British Invasion rock, and Jamaican ska/early reggae.

I met a guy this summer who had pretty good taste in music and he told me The Slits are the best punk band ever. Anyone heard them much?

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I met a guy this summer who had pretty good taste in music and he told me The Slits are the best punk band ever. Anyone heard them much?

They played very noisy, very amateurish 3 chord punk with shouty vocals in the beginning. Kind of like an early riot grrrl band. You can hear this early stage on a posthumously released Peel Sessions album. By the time their first proper LP 'Cut' came out, they had already moved on to heavily dub/reggae influenced post punk. Their singer was German trying to sing with a Jamaican accent. :)

I wouldn't go as far as saying best punk band ever, but yeah, they're pretty rad.

[JimmyJazz]

Ha, that sounds pretty cool. I usually like bands that burned bright and short.

[Pirate Utopian]

Typical Girls is a pretty neat song by The Slits.

[Invader Zim]

In my opinion Wire's first three albums were the best thing to happen to punk. But don't get me wrong, I like a lot of punk.

[Led Zeppelin]

There's some pretty good music in punk; Wire, Television, The Strokes, The Clash etc.

[Invader Zim]

There's some pretty good music in punk; Wire, Television, The Strokes, The Clash etc.

You would count the strokes as punk? Fair enough, but I wouldn't say so.

[Led Zeppelin]

Hmm, they have some elements of post-punk.

[infested_sinner]

to the OP, just saying that all punk sounds the same or is talentless or whatever, is just plain old ignorance. Even if to you all it is is bad instrument playing and yelling, you cant deny that it take some form of talent to play fast for certain periods of time, to sing or yell loud enough to be heard and fast enough to go with the tempo of the music, and a lot of songs are well written and the lyrics are actually meaningful, sometimes profound in their own way. It may not fit your taste but punk is definantly not dead

[Incendiarism]

Listen to The World/Inferno Friendship Society and tell me punk music can't be original.

[Rex0230]

punk??? i dunno, i stick with the underground funk :p

[Fedorov]

I like how you like to dismmiss an entire genre because you might not have been enthralled by a couples bands. As any genre there is a load of different sounding stuff and you seem to miss a big part of punk which is a statement against the status quo, something us commies also like.