punk attitude

punk attitude

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[Yoshiling]

I think the true punk attitude lies in independence.

So, it always strikes me as hypocritical when I see people here on Youtube saying how listening to a certain band makes you punk, or dressing a certain way makes you punk. Since when was conformity punk?

[ThatTastyJuiceBox]

@The3rdBaboon He's just outspoken man..look how succesful he is. Being a sellout is being succesful now?

[S2Cents]

@FreakBoi2008 There are definitely a lot of posers in any scene. Never mind them - we agree on that. And that doesn't mean there can't be definitive styles of expression- musically, clothes, speech, attitudes, etc. And these things can be ignored by a person who nonetheless embodies the spirit or consciousness intended to be expressed.

Your question: What's antithetical to punk? Nobody would say the Grateful Dead are punk but they had a lot in common w/ VU. Green Day's career?

[FreakBoi2008]

@FreakBoi2008 As such, the clichéd viewpoint regarding guitar solos, long hair, denim, glam imagery etc. being somehow not punk is simply based on a lack of knowledge or understanding of the culture, itself. I've known people who I would totally consider to be punks that made no attempt to follow the stereotype. The groups that look the most like the clichéd punks don't speak for the whole movement, they just look like they probably do.

[FreakBoi2008]

@S2Cents It really depends on your definition of punk to begin with. I tend to work on the theory that, because so many groups consider themselves to be punk, the definition must lie in punk's origins rather than what is generally considered punk. Taking into account the origins of punk, I ask you: What is antithetical to punk? Between the Sex Pistols, The New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Damned and the Velvet Underground, all of whom are considered punk, punk covers so many looks and sounds.

[S2Cents]

@FreakBoi2008 Heh. Granted. Never mind high school and let's say people into punk music typically of teenage and early to mid 20s. Or maybe I could come up w/ various styles of dress and music genres that are antithetical to punk that a truly independently minded weirdo is into and ask if he is punk?

[FreakBoi2008]

@S2Cents You know the problem there, right?  Independence and high school are mutually exclusive.

[nicklaurich]

does anyone know what sonic youth song that is? it's badass!

[S2Cents]

"I think true punk attitude lies in independence."

I tried thinking that during high school years. But really nobody among the punk fans would agree so I thought well really it DOES have to do with specific cultural modes of expression (not just an attitude)

[side1981]

what is the name of this documentary?

[sooper2dooper3]

sex pistols vs. PIL....c'mon.....who gives a fuck?

[chuckhodi]

Hell yeah! Sonic Youth!