Punky Bruster (Devin Townsend) - Metal dilemma

From Cooked on phonics (1996)

Line-up

Devin Townsend (aka Dr. Skinny) - Lead Vocals and Guitar
John Randahl Harder (aka Squid Vicious) - Bass and Vocals
Adrian White (aka Dances With Chickens) - Drums

I grew up on heavy metal!
You can't listen to heavy metal!
All my friends liked heavy metal!
All your friends were morons!
Please don't make me cut my hair!
All the cool kidz cut their hair!
But now there's shitty music everywhere!
You're not supposed to care because it's

Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!

It's hard to tell what music's cool
Whatever sells the biggest rules!
I still find Krokus kinda cool!
Damn your metal roots, boy!
But none of these bands even know how to play!
We'll take it over Yngwie any day!
Okay, good point, but what's it called?!?
It's the latest thing, we'll call it

Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!
Punk rock! Punk rock!

I know that I should like it but my roots get in the way!!!

Let me play it, I won't tell!
You can't listen to heavy metal!
C'mon give me one more metal yell!
Whoahh-oh!!
I don't wanna be a punk rocker!
A heavy metal punk rocker!
I'm gonna try much harder now to get my metal heard heavy metal now!

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[RiderAndKallen]

Devin's parody of Punk Rock is better than a slew of real punk bands.

[SSHGL]

HEAVY METAL NOW!

[NitroCoasters]

These are almost the same chords as American Idiot by Green Day..... Devin Townsend: 1996. Green Day: 2004...

Devin: just OVER 9000!! views

Green Day = 7 million views

.... Yes... this is a sad, SAD world

[TheRealScarr]

@sthofman The Offspring & Green Day haven't been punk in over 13 years.

[TheRealScarr]

@Onslaughttitude More than kind of a prick. He's a full on dildo-licking dick sniffer.

[TheRealScarr]

He's not making fun of Punk here, he's making fun of shitty "punk" bands that are nothing but poseurs cashing in on the scene, which is 90% of the "Punk" bands out there today.

[bugasmike]

fuckin live

[BubuSnow93]

First rule of parody: to make a good parody, you must be able to make well the object of the parody.

Devin can do it :D

[lasoogneypubes]

I know he's making fun of punk, but this song is actually really catchy lol.

[CyanideSovereign]

@Onslaughttitude Oh ok cheers.

[Onslaughttitude]

@CyanideSovereign Yngwie Malmsteen, virtuoso guitarist and also kind of a prick.

[FickJaIchLiebeKiffen]

@istarion14 WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AH OAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH