punkers punx not dead, right?

who hear likes PUNK music?
if so write to me, i'm interested in the punx that r still out there.
i hope punk has not died.
if it has am i the only 1 left???
so if ur out there i would like to hear 4rm u!!!
OI!OI!OI!

lets see wat u got.

Yeah, as far as I am aware its been dead for a while. Anyone trying to jump the bandwagon is at least a decade to late if not more? (Isn't Punk from the 80s originally? Wouldn't you have to have been alive and part of it all to be considered Punk?) Anything now is just conforming to a genre to be "cool" which imo is completely against what Punk was about.

First off, no one claiming to be an "authentic" punk would use the term "punkers". That's retarded.

Nor would they slather on an "OI!OI!OI!" at the end of their sentence. Unless you're an actual diehard fan of Street Punk or Oi (impossible), you're a borderline bonehead or you actually are retarded and have no actual understanding of the term (most likely the case).

Also, judging from your music section you haven't the foggiest what punk actually is. So as far as you're concerned, yes, punk is dead.

Could you please explain to me what "Punk" really is. What do they usually sing about? What is the speed of the tempo? Do they scream, rap, sing, or talk-sing?
Did the music we listen to today evolve from this?

Thanks a bunch Prelude, that really helps :3.

my top five punk bands:

1. Dead Kennedys
2. Black Flag
3. Meat Puppets
4. Suicide
5. Ramones

That's more like it. Although I wouldn't consider The Meat Puppets punk...

My rough top 5:

1. Discharge
2. The Cramps
3. The Dead Boys
4. Conflict
5. Dirt

Bah! I did a whole response as to why all the bands that have been mentioned in here pretty much started in the 70s/80s and cant possibly be true Punk anymore because they are blatantly selling out if they are still around, or they disbanded years before people like Melodi were even old enough to know what Punk is. The annoying this is I accidentally deleted it, so you will have to take my word for it that there was evidence backing it up (mainly dates of bands forming and disbanding etc)

Nobody can suddenly now listen to a few bands from 30 years ago and call themselves Punk! You might like "punk music" there are some very cool Punk bands in the world! But you are not a Punk and if you went back in time and met real ones and said "Hey I am a Punk!" they would probably kill you.

Alice in Wonderland/Melodi, its not "Punk H8ing" its "wannabe hating" nobody likes people who want to come running in and say "I'm this specific non conformist genre of person!!!" heck even Emo's got pissed off when kids like you decided you were emo too! Form your own genre if you want to be different, or just forget genres all together and get on with your sorry life!

You missed my point mdklanica, its great they listen to these bands, I said in my post that there are some very good punk bands in the world, but these children are 100% definitely NOT "punk" AT ALL and NEVER will be!! It is not at all possible purely because punk is just a gutted corpse of a genre now. Any band starting out today playing "Punk" music, is doing it purely as an emulation of punk bands they enjoy listening to from decades gone by. Punk bands originally played Punk music because they were part of something. If I started a group now called the RB6Ks and had some completely unique defining qualities which set my group apart from the rest of the world, and we had a message we wanted to impart on everyone, once it all came to an end anyone else calling themselves an RB6K decades later would be a wannabe copycat and thats how it is with these teens pretending to be something they weren't even alive to experience!

If these kids really wanted to be cool they would create a new movement about something worthwhile.

I don't think punx is dead. I meanif youthink about it a=can any music really die? There is awalys going to be someone from somewhere that is going to like some 'diffrent' type of music. Whether it's punx or not I coulden't really say.

**Sigh**

Punk is dead. Only people who think they know what punk was think it is still alive today. People who were punks when punk was alive, are now middle/old aged men and women who look washed out (or they are dead) My generation, and your generation for anyone born in the 90s/00's are to young to even try and be punk, the world is not the same, there isn't a band out today who isn't merely copying some idea of what a punk band should sound like to try and sell records, or make tribute to their predecessors. Theres no one out there singing for a cause worth singing for. If a band came out that sounded different they wouldn't be classed as a punk band, if they sound the same its because they are copying a concept. Its a catch 22 and that is why Punk is dead. Once its originality died, it did too.

I refer back to my previous post where I said if I invented the genre RB6K it would only be alive as long as the original mythos behind it existed. Once my message died, or my songs meanings wavered there would be nothing but memories. If some people 30 years later want to listen to those memories then great, but they can't then say "Hey we are listening to the rb6k music which makes us rb6kers!" thats like me saying "I listen to African tribal music so I am an african tribesman!!" its just not true no matter how much you want it to be, you are just sheep.

The best advice is to stop trying to find somewhere to fit, and do something yourself. Even being a fucking misfit is so saturated with conformists its impossible to be unique now days so why don't people try harder?

I'm pretty hypocritical there I imagine, but I don't really think about what I am considered to be, I used to like everyone else when I was younger but I imagine as you go on you care less. I would be more proud of myself if I could look back at college or school and say I created my own image, my own ways and my own self instead.

Enko said:

1. Dead Kennedys
2. Black Flag
3. Meat Puppets
4. Suicide
5. Ramones

Speaking of originality... Way to go with the copying and pasting of MDK's response further up top (and even included in my response to his).

Don't join the discussion if you haven't a clue as to what's being discussed.