DontRunMeOver

Sebster17 has got a point, I'm afraid. Compared to many other genres, its probably fair to say that punk does sound 'too much the same' or rather, the music stylings and the tones of the individual instruments and the selection of instruments used varies very little between different bands within the punk genre. Almost all of the bands comprise of drum-kit, clean bass (occasionally distorted, but usually clean), one or two guitars (distorted for most songs and played with either chugging chord/power-chords or mini-arpeggios or simple solos) and a singer or a couple of singers, singing at the high end of their normal, non-falsetto range. In terms of arrangements this is very samey, compared to most other genres.

There are differences between each band and most of the songs do sound different to an extent, but the differences only tend to exist within the already established confines of the genre. Yes, this is why its called a 'genre' and probably if many changes occured the music would fall into a different genre, but the music still does sound more samey than a lot of other genres.

(I'm not including Ska-punk in this though!)

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jr.

Well said, Don't Run Me Over. You could cut most of that and paste it in the rap forum, as well.

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hiu

Hey you. How about you go and listen to The Cramps then listen to The Pop Group then listen to Black Flag then listen to Suicide. Feel free to hear how wrong you are.

tdoc210

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jibber

well, you could really make the same argument for every gnere out there. thats why music is confined to a certain genre, because they all have similar qualities that make them the same. my thoughts are that you're probably listening to too narrow a selection of punk, because punk itself is quite a diverse genre, i mean all the rediculousl amounts of subgenres should be enough to tell you that.

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tdoc210

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.