This topic spaned 5 pages and everyone has an oppion. I grew up listening to heavy metal, pop, and now punk? I mean really what`s the difference... they all scream some crap and expect everyone to relate to there music. Well if you can`t understand what they are saying; how can you relate? I loved Collective soul and Greenday...NOW THAT`S PUNK! MAN,GET IT?

grr... is my feeling. HEy, man the music industry got bored and said hey lets take are crapey pop bands and smack in to some (punk)and look happened: good charloette, New found suckit, simple fag u name it, the music changes we cant help that but instead of sitting on your ass and saying this is punk this isnt, oh no the music is dead... pick up some NOFX or the ramones and make ur own band useing the style and additude they used. Then all the little rap music will die-unfortaintly never but screw it its not about the music more about the additude man so get with it. so yeah

well there must be something to these banks that make there fans go crazy if they werent so good then they will still be a local band..like good charlotte. it took them a while before people realized them and say wow i like them. so wtf am i talking about...heheh umm i know that not many people like the whole pop punk thing but hey its out there and people love it and are buying those band`s cds. so deal with it..hehe

I`m not in lovve...lord god, that`ll sur[rise a few of my friends, well, tell me please, what else about me do you know?

If you want real punk try listening to the radio at http://www.punkradiocast.com/. I`ve never heard them play anything mainstream, that doesn`t mean they haven`t, but I`ve never seen them do it. Also, http://www.interpunk.com/ sells all the best current punk.

man some day theres going to be a war... like yeah...Punk rock not only being battered my its new stupider generation but also the wiggers that talk all about there bitches and hoes. Thats why im in a band ....so yeah. PUNK OUT.

Does any one know if "punk" has its own style in different places. LIke punks from london from punks in california, or is it the same every where now cause of the pop punk crap.

The music and the artist are two things. The music can be good but the band can be wrong. I like the music of rancid, but I don´t like a lot of things that they do.
I agree, the punk is diferent in London that in California, because people that listen it is diferent. I´m spanish and here, people and the punk is different. Punk´s not dead

Jet packs got the idea, even if there wasn`t an idea, i get his point, why is the smiley face green??? <<<

I swear some of you people are WAY to wrapped up in "omg...gc and avral..they arent punk! all these people think they are bc they listen to them!` well..let them think that. I don`t think you should CARE. I think, if they want to listen to that stuff, let them. Its not that big of a deal. If you are worried about the `punk scene` going to ruining, just to let you guys know, what punk scene? There a few true punks, and those people that really are punk don`t give a sh*t if someone else wants to dress like them but listen to differerent music. Some of you guys think just because you have a clash cd, or you know that Sid Vicious was in the Sex Pistols, or you have an anarchy sign ingraved in your arm, that you are a hard-core punk. Well sorry, but punk isn`t about things, its about an attitude. It is a way of life, it is the perspective you use to makey our desisions, on how you live your life. To tell you the truth, most real punk bands aren`t even all that commonly known. Oh and, just because you can rattle off a few band names doesn`t make you punk. For instance..just because I can list the sex pistols, the clash, the exploited, the misfits, dead kennedys, agent orange, agnostic front, lars frederiksen and the bastards, circle jerks, and nerve agents (jsut to name a few) would that make me punk? There are no guidelines for punk, no one can say `well..if you listen to this, or you diss these people for doing what they love, or you wear dickies, or you wear converse, or you ar an anarchist` that stuff are qualities of punk yes...but they dont MAKE you a punk. What I think is that, a person doesnt become a punk, a person has always been a punk...but didnt know it yet. I grew up on classic rock, and never had a chance to listen to punk bands, but when I did start getting a chance to listen, it clicked. I just knew, this is what I am. There is a song by the Dead Kennedys that kinda xplains what I`m trying to say here. It`s call Nazi Punks F*ck Off

Punk ain`t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain`t hardcore ‘coz you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks--F*ck Off!
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks--F*ck Off!

If you`ve come to fight, get outta here
You ain`t no better than the bouncers
We ain`t trying to be police
When you ape the cops it ain`t anarchy

Nazi punks…

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you`ve got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They`re coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you`ll be the first to go

Nazi punks…

You`ll be the first to go
You`ll be the first to go
You`ll be the first to go
Unless you think...

I hope that I`ve made my point, so before you start dissing people for thinking they are `punk` maybe you should look at yourself and find out of you are truly `punk` or not

punk rock kis not dead. It`s just sugarcoated by all this pop and emo bullshii. if you go underground you can find some real punk rock. you people are just too lazy to look past whats on the radio and tv.

You are very right stephen, people think that if they know some of the more popular punk bands, that they are punk. The good punk bands are mostly all underground, but no one knwos about them.

Holy sh*t Green dAy is coming out with a new cd AMERICANIDIOT im fing fliped out. Now some would say f*** thats not punk well in my mind i call it bridge punk. Let me explain, You got true punk on the far side Ramones,Sexplistols,etc. then u got your "neo" punk bands like NOFX,pennywise,and like Rancid like in some shack in some spot and then u got this Bridge that green day build (others call it the road for pop punk) on this "bridge" u got Green day and Blink 182 ( ok, yes blink isnt really punk but yet it`s not quite stupid pop) and Sum 41 kinda like off that bridge (though in an issue of gutiar one SUM41 admites themselves that there not really punk) and finally on the other side in some quire lookin woods u got dumb charrlette, Simple fag, and New found quires making out Now if that sounds like a bunch of Bull sh*t to u thats totally fine with me.

Why is the smiley face green ?

So any who whats the opinon of the indiviuals about Green Days coming up CD. and ur thoughts on how Punk may change from scene to scene

Man, i sound like a Dumb ass

Stephen and kailghela (truley sorry if i misspell) u guys rock...so yeah, I also have to bring up a out of line statment why the Hell is Nofx coming to my town in year22 there going to be old as hell. so yeah, People start some Punk bands and yeah,

If u think i say yeah to much ...its true.

Man, Nofx is coming to your town. god i still listen to them. buy me a ticket, i`ll go, i`ll enjoy. come on, be a pal!