The Punk Education Thread

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by Timo)))

One of my favourite genres around, love the intensity of it all.
Favourite bands in the punk genre are Husker Du, Minutemen, Big Black, nomeansno and Man Sized Action.
Shame it's relatively dead today although I hear there's a pretty active community in eastern europe.

On the contrary the scene is still pretty huge. Maybe not so much traditional punk, but pop punk (actual pop punk), post-hardcore (actual post-hardcore), skate punk, post-punk, and ska punk are still huge genres. Garage Punk is the most popular form of the moment.

[FranPZ]

Hey guys. Pop punk: do you think that it can be really considered a part of Punk, or not?

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by FranPZ

Hey guys. Pop punk: do you think that it can be really considered a part of Punk, or not?

It most certainly is.








If that isn't punk I don't know what is.

Even more commercial stuff is still definitely at least a part of punk. Of course, there's certainly a line. New Found Glory/All Time Low/etc. is pretty ****in borderline.





And then...





Yeah maybe not.

[Mondo Bungle]

4/7 letters that make up the genre title are P-U-N-K

[Blank.]

Originally Posted by FranPZ

Hey guys. Pop punk: do you think that it can be really considered a part of Punk, or not?

Pop punk is just punk rock with more pop musical elements added in.

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by 1blankmind

Pop punk is just punk rock with more pop musical elements added in.

Or vice versa.

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by elphenor

punk never excluded being simple and hooky to begin with

Descendants are a melodic hardcore band

Please. Don't be the next Jguy.

[Mondo Bungle]

Are the Ramones not a pop punk band

[Tristan_Geoff]

Originally Posted by elphenor

you might as well consider Ramones a pop punk band

half of first wave punk bands played pop songs

because punk bands are amateur rock bands with amateur production and **** equipment

you take those things away and what you get are just rock/pop bands with spikey hair cuts ie Green Day

Pop songs+punk=pop punk.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/al...mones/ramones/

Sex Pistols and The Clash's music sounded much different than your Ramones, your Buzzcocks, and your Rezillos. Take that what you will but from the very start of punk there were three main directions bands where taking and those were the pop direction of Ramones, the arty direction of Wire, and the visceral direction of Sex Pistols. There's some breathing room but for the most part all the bands followed this generally.

[Blank.]

Punk is the bands that rejected the mainstream and commercial sounds of the time by playing stripped down, fast paced, and socially conscious music.

Pop punk is similar but they embrace the sounds of pop music.