This is a personal pov, mind, but I think punk (the music) was ****e, in the main. It was simply loud, proud and played, largely, by the hugely untalented. Anyone could pick up a guitar or some drumsticks, circa 1977, and make aggressive noise. Punk the lifestyle was different - it stood for something and was a symbolic way of life... it made the music make sense.
There are two things that make punk, as a genre of music, stand out in the 21st century. The first is that the lifestyle came before the music (unlike any genre before or since it). The second is that without it, post-punk (take most punk music and add an IQ) would never have existed... and god forbid!
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