I think it's just teenagers in general; not punk teenagers. Anyone older than them just "doesn't understand," because their opinions and struggles are so vastly different, more powerful, and more important than anyone else's.

I have a fourteen year old sister, and a seventeen year old cousin, who occasionally consult me for advice because their parents are so "lame and old and out of the loop," but they seriously doubt me when I say, "Yeah, totally! I remember feeling like that! Basically, you're going to look back on it and realize it wasn't as big a deal as it feels like right now."

And they're like, "Yeah, but this is MUCH MORE INTENSE than anything you've ever experienced. You have no idea."

Same with my sister and music. She's into Mumford & Sons now, and I was like, "What?! I played them in the car and you yelled at me to turn them off, just last year!" And she was like, "I didn't like that SONG."

Then I was like, "Dude, you're playing, 'The Cave,' which is the exact same song I had on that CD..."

Could someone please define what punk was and what it sounds like today??

I personally am not the biggest fan of old punk music, but I really dig the influence it's had on a lot of modern music, like The Human Abstract and Parkway Drive.

Hate to gravedig like this, but this thread kinda sparked an interest. First, I hate to throw around that whole "I'm not like that" speech that everyone has heard someone my age say a hundred times before, but I really am not like that. Being a teenager who has a particular love for Crust Punk and old Emotive Hardcore, I can say with some certainty that I would have never heard of acts like From Ashes Rise, Wow, Owls!, Oroku or anything like that without old listeners of the genres to give me recs.

As for my response to this thread, I'm a teen who likes punk music but I don't necessarily consider myself a punk. If anything, I'd be called a prep by any punk. But I love the music.

It's been a long time since I was a teenager and these are not the kinds of issues that really impact me, but I will say I appreciate hearing teenagers who understand that you don't have to wear a particular uniform to enjoy any particular type of music.

Things like punk music just give me more pleasure than the things most people my age listen to. It's a shame that there's such good music coming out nowadays and people are so absorbed in the billboard 100 thay they turn their noses up to any other types of music.

I'm 14 and I'd say that so called punk died with the Sex Pistols. Or that punk died the moment people started calling it punk. I don't listen to most of the bands listed here, I just listen to whatever I like, which could be anything from Patsy Cline or Eddie Cochran to T.Rex or The Heartbreakers. No one has the right to judge someone on what music they listen to, or what style they have.. So anybody who's going to jump and accuse someone who has a mohawk or whatever, of listening to **** music really should take into consideration that not everyone falls into stereotypes.

And personally, the best punk bands are always going to be The Damned, The Sex Pistols, The Heartbreakers (And The New York Dolls if you will) and the closest after that would be Guns N' Roses, because AFD is so like Nevermind The Bollocks..

Guns N Roses really? You just discounted a million punk bands by declaring its death in 1979. LOL

... Are you serious? You're discrediting some of the biggest acts of all time for some major dad rock.

Ignorant teenagers are precisely the reason why most of my friends are at least a few years older than me (being 15 myself, most people around my age just suck). I'm still exploring the punk scene, but I'm not going to discredit people's recommendations just because they're older than me; if anything I'll take those more seriously than people in my age range. Just because you grew up in a different timeframe than today's teens doesn't mean you didn't have similar struggles; the only difference now is that people can post/blog about it.

This is so punk rock: "RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!"