Punk rock

[Sarah]

A guy walks up to me and asks Whats Punk?.

[Tanya Shivari]

Not a style, but a way of life, the music

[Sonia]

A kick ass genre of music corrupted by shitty bands like good charlotte.

[Donald Trump]

A genre of music that died around 1996, contrary to what any blue haired fifteen yr old will tell you.

Punk Rock originally had a three chord sound. Everyone knew that the music was not important as the message. Sid Vicious was never known as the best player of the 70s or of any era, but everyone knew who the Sex Pistols were.

True punk rock bands include (but are not limited to): Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Ramones, Youth Brigade, Bad Brains, DK (pre-1987), Descendents, Minor Threat, Fugazi, 7 Seconds, Bad Religion, Sub Society, and Teen Idols.

Examples of punk rock, only by record label classification: Good Charlotte, Blink 182, Simple Plan, Avril Lavigne, No Doubt (yes, I once had someone tell me they are punk. Yes, you may laugh too), 311, and The All American Rejects.

[Couch Potatoe]

Punk rock never died, yet its often spoiled by nazi boneheads such as gg allin (gotta say hes one hardcore motherfucker though) who claim to be punk but really dont know shit cause punk started off fighting for peace NOT hate. To be punk all you have to do is...nothing. You dont take orders from the man. Punks have many different beliefs and are very open minded...thats why nazis dont count. Punks dont judge before they listen. Contrary to popular beliefs, punks CARE. Punks arent the lazy, careless sods society leads you to believe they are. Punks take action...may it be for animal liberation, anti-war, anti-racism, anti-capitalism, or all of them together.

[Britney]

Music which, contrary to popular belief, does not need to be loud, nor fast to fit under the said moniker. Rooted in the avant-garde of The Velvet Underground, who despite drawing influences from free jazz and swing-- elements that would later be thrown out of the mix when punk came to full rise-- laid the blueprint for the aesthetic of what is now considered the punk mentality; defying rock conventions and creating music that was messy, unpolished, and primitive. VUs experimentalism carried into their live performances, in which they would commonly improvise songs (an art predocessors, and fellow New Yorkers Television would incorperate into live shows), as well as create feedback and distortion noises.
After VU, The Stooges, a Michigan-based proto-punk band, formed and followed the same philosophy. Led by the infamous Iggy Pop, The Stooges may have rocked far harder than VU, but nontheless had VUs flare for being controversial; not only did they follow in VUs footsteps by writing lyrics that blatantly reference drugs and sex, but putting on bizarre live shows, in which Pop would perform shirtless and cut himself, as well as cover his body in peanut butter. While VU managed to gain slight acclaim with their ties to artist Andy Warhol, at the time of their existence, The Stooges enjoyed virtually no success, and barely sold any records at all.
Shortly after The Stooges, The New York Dolls formed, not only adding to the blueprint for what would shortly thereafter become punk rock, but doing the same for glam rock; dressing in drag, drawing influence from the likes of David Bowie, and playing Stones-inspired songs that would eventually influence the likes of Motley Crue and Poison. However, like VU and The Stooges before them, they never broke through to the mainstream audience, and disbanded in the early seventies.
Now the year was 1974; bands like The Ramones, Talking Heads, and Television began to form. The Ramones, whose music was influenced by bubble gum and girl pop as much as it was by the likes of the Rolling Stones, played fast, catchy, simplistic three-chord rock songs, and became the first punk band to play regularly at CBGBs. Talking Heads, whose music was more diverse and pop-sounding, soon followed suit, as did Television, whose music was more complex and jazzy, as well as having featured revolutionary, dueling guitars. Richard Hell

[PussyCat]

Punk is whatever you want, but isnt what I say it is. If I told you what punk was it wouldnt be right and if you told me youd be wrong. The music is only an expression of whats in the world and heart that created it.

[Mark Zuckerberg]

Well, the first guy said the Biafra quote, Punk aint no religious cult, punk is thinking for yourself...and so therefore, if you like GC Sum or Blink or MXPX or something...be yourself...think for yourself and stop trying to be punk and be you.

[Becky]

quite simply, punk rock is a restoration of the original rebellious youth attitude and simple fundamentals of expession in [rocknroll] music that was first expressed in the 50s by the [giant]s like [Chuck Berry], [Elvis Presley], [Jerry Lee Lewis] (especially in his personal life), and others, as opposed to the clean cut image of some of the [pop star]s that were dominant at the time. In the mid-60s there was the [Velvet Underground] who influenced punk by their lyrical themes and feedback and more. Then came what are now considered to be the [protopunk] bands, who took the practice of [pushing the envelope] that [British] bands like the [Rolling Stones], the [Who] and the [Kinks] initiated to even greater lengths in terms of sound, image and rebellious attitude (the [Stooges], the [MC5], and many other bands). The term punk rock possibly was first used by rock critic Dave Marsh in a [rockmag] in the early 70s to describe the sound of [? and the Mysterians]. An independent movement in rock developed as a reaction because the music had become [corporate], pompous, bloated, pretentious, [artsy-fartsy], and along with Top 40 pop, just plain [cruddy] and stupid. Bands started playing their songs short, to the point, loud, and fast, often a three-chord arrangement in accordance with the idiom [KISS] (Keep It Simple, Stupid). The name punk rock was applied to this independent movement in rock, the movement was and still a rebellion against the prevailing fads and trends. It has greatly influenced popular music in the 80s decade and beyond, spawning nascent movements like [speed metal], [new wave], [postpunk], [grunge] and more in terms of style, sound, image, attitude and much more. Punk rock is anti-corporate, anti-establishment, anti-system and anti-conformity. Current bands like [Blink 182] and [Good Charlotte] are NOT punk rock because they dont really have the original rebellious rocknroll spirit, gist or attitude of individuality. Music has gotten so corporate now that we very badly need another rock revolution like punk and we need it fast, before rocks just part of the past. Cuz lately it just sounds the same to me... (all due respect to the Ramones).