12-09-2009, 00:59
CMB1888 Wrote:I'd love to agree with the recent responses but I think there is a pretty accepted punk 'sound' - so it is a musical genre.
The punk ideal of anti-trend and anti-conformist might have started out in tandem with the music but you don't have to sound punk to be punk (or vice-versa), I think.
The fact that there are a lot of bands out there chasing the current trend is hardly a new phenomenon.
(I'd also say that the Sex Pistols were pretty image-conscious)
The word "punk" in relation to music is another umbrella term and I repute as to how some bands are called "punk" or "rock" or whatever genre based on this misconception of what being punk is. I mean one of my closest friends at uni, called Green Day "punk" and they are NOT, by a long shot, especially after succumbing to popular culture and commercialism of the music industry now.
Yes, I'd have to agree with you to say that you dont need to be sound punk to be punk but im waiting for the next sub-genre of punk to revitalise the music industry from this popular, hip-hop, "R&B" shit that i hear on the radio.