Real punk

[Deprived]

does anyone here listen to true punk im not talking about "Rancid" and other bad bands like that for example anything on profane existance records charged records or punkcore records stuff like that ill list some i listen to

Conflict
The adicts
career soldiers
defiance
deprived
suicidal supermarket trolleys
icons of filth
discharge
english dogs
the varukers
cock sparrer
crass
GBH
subhumans etc...

well you get the idea (or have no clue what im talking about) if you do I'd just like to know if theres any one out there thats into the same stuff as me im always up for a descution about music me and my friend got this band going kinda, i play guitar and would also like to know if anyone else plays guitar bass drums blah blah blah NOW POST !!!!11one

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[Hobbes]

Some of those sound familiar but I really don't know. I'm sure most of the stuff I listen to itsn't 'true' punk but I like and thats all that maters to me. To be perfectly honest I'll probably check out some of the bands you listed and I'll probably like some of it. At the moment I'm really into Bullet for my Valentine but I don't think that would be classified as "punk"

[wallride]

Being amazingly awesome, obviously, Hobbes.. :)

There is no "true" punk. Everything was an evolution of something, and is different in the eye of every person. There is no true metal, punk, hardcore, emo, WHATEVER the labels are.. everything is influenced by something.

What "true" punk to you, may be complete "poser punk" to someone else. What "HARD ROCK!" is to some people, may be "wimpy power ballad rock" to someone else.

[Hobbes]

At least someone else thinks I'm amazingly awesome. :D
I completly agree with you, Abby! Its a metter of opinion of presentation. Would it seem as punk minus the mohawks, liberty spikes, tattoos and piercings? I think that would make it a but less punk but the music has nothing to do with the apperence but wouldn't it be funny to see, like, Elvis belt out some Metallica? LOL Its not his image so its hard to picture....But everything does evelove from something else and I think it would be amazing to study all the changes we've made in music.
This wasn't too 'beechy' was it?

[ejw829]

When I see "real punk" I think back to the bands of the 80's. None of which I could name now, save The Sex Pistols :laugh:

Man, I'm old...

-e-

[Deprived]

and i consider it true for many reasons
1 the bands i posted have cause revolutions doing what they did
2 all of them have some thin to say about the world and its woes such as war, animal tasting, government and oppresion of any kind etc.
3 most of them have had shows not just one like so many bands out there for these band have dedicated there whole life on helping people so many of us forget about take for instance Conflict had a gathing of 5000 not just once and ALL of the money went to different organisations for world famin in south africa to stop animal testing and ALOT of other places to help out the problems government wasnt doing at the time and still dosnt do much about today
4 these bands (and theres alot of them out there) are about freedom of speach no matter if you of a different race ,gay , tansexual, handicaped or anything you can think of these bands seen past the groupies and all the "glamour" that being in a band can bring to one's self
5 and they dont over exploit them selfs and be like HEY look what we did and then you have bands up on MTV who think there anything of "hardcore" and "acting" punk when its nothing about that dont get me wrong i listen to other bands alot of other people listen to like pink floyd and cold play etc
just because some one has tatoos or percing dosnt make them any type of a person punk isnt about that at all when it comes down to it you really have nothing else to call it but what it is true punk you may disagree with me but if you do study up on it and then you will see where im coming from every body has opinions

[Megan.]

When I think of true "punk" I don't think of bands like fall out boy, hawthorn heights, or my chemcial romance.

From dating someone for a year and a half, that was into punk, and had a lot of "punk" friends, although he didn't dress like that- I hung out with plenty of people with devil locks, mohawks, spikes, studs, tattoo's, purpe/pink/blue/green hair, a ton of peircings, etc etc. I learned,t hat by hanging out with them- there is a HUGE difference between the "todays" Punk, which is really more emo/pop than before.

Some bands I remember, that he loved- The Misfits, The Causlities(prob. spelled them wrong), The Queers, Operation Ivy, The Adicts, and there were a ton more. It's been awhile since i've been with him, and had to hear his music..so i'm starting to forget some of what he listened to. I will tell you, it was nothing like "todays" punk music.

So- is there a difference to what people consider Punk music today? And what they considered punk music earlier? YES. I have friends who listen to "todays punk", and know people who are hard core old time punk music listeners.

[Hobbes]

I kow todays punk is completly different from yesterdays punk. I like the image and the music no matter when it came out. I don't see any of the bands Megan listed as 100% punk, but I still listen to them and like them....IDK.... i like what I like and don't give it a label....I tend to vary a little bit....

[Deprived]

thats awsome i hate lables too with a passion but what else am i saposed to do like country is country blues is blues raps rap i vary a bit too i totaly agree that its changed tho

[Riven]

I like ska, kind of punk, but not punk. And hey, I like Rancid...

I like a lot of the bands that mostly did/do covers for ska like Less than Jake. I think that every area has different bands that they think are big. Ska and Punk aren't really "main stream" so you don't hear them on the air a lot, so it tends to be all local stuff. Here we had this awesome band called Ivory Star, they were really a great band. Their sound was a mix between 80's and ska, and they always put on a great show.... Sorry I was drifting away into concert memories. Anyway they retired, I was really upset. I have their CD's and listen to them frequently. Their last concert was about 4 years ago. Sorry I'm babbling.