Music Oct 12, 2011 at 4:00 am

Talkin' Punk to the Masses

Forty People on What Punk Means to Them

Derek Erdman
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1
A smoldering stick of wood fiber or pulp used to light the fuses on fireworks.
Ron Bennington on October 12, 2011 at 12:51 PM Report this
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Correct Answer: You don't have to fuck people over to survive.

MY Answer: Hanging out with a few friends in an abandoned house, smoking black-ish weed that you only have a tiny amount of, while drinking 40's of Olde English 800. Since there's only so much pot to go around, you're hotboxing the bathroom and blowing shotguns in each other's mouths. Homoeroticism abound... Oh and you taped creepy child's drawings to the walls of the house earlier in the week to fuck with everyone when they were high.
LEE. on October 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM Report this
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lame music created by people who haven't put any work into learning how to play their instrument(s). "I hate the government!!".....wow, brilliant.
Jack DeJohnette on October 12, 2011 at 3:58 PM Report this
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THe first album was great. The second album more polished and good at best, but seemed to lack the intent of the first, therefore missing what made the first great. By the third album everything had gone to hell.
Shirt Jeff on October 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM Report this
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I don't think punk is dead. I think it's simply having a nap.
derek_erdman on October 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM Report this
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My new response: punk is when you know your response to a query about punk for an alt.weekly article is too highbrow to print, but YOU FKING DO IT ANYWAY, MAN.
davidamnesia on October 12, 2011 at 6:14 PM Report this
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I don't think it's napping, I think it's passed out. Too many blueberry wine coolers. We should totally draw the The Dead Kennedys logo on it's face and shove our pizza crusts in it's shirt pocket.
Shirt Jeff on October 12, 2011 at 6:47 PM Report this
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@5

if society survives another decade, Time Magazine or somebody needs to write an article titled something along the lines of "Why The Punks Were Right About Everything (Now Go Pierce Your Nose With A Rusty Safety Pin)".
LEE. on October 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM Report this
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At least it got to sleep through Oingo Boingo
Shirt Jeff on October 12, 2011 at 7:37 PM Report this
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punk died in 79
masgroovy on October 13, 2011 at 10:19 AM Report this
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Punk is the kid dad used to verbally and physically abuse.
neo-realist on October 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM Report this
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Not giving a shit until you need some of that sweet health insurance.
on October 13, 2011 at 10:56 PM Report this
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COCAIN and MALT LIQUOR (tm) Someone had to say it...
xxxSTEVExxx on October 14, 2011 at 1:23 AM Report this
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PUNKS NOT DEAD!!!

But it sure has sucked for at least a decade.
Cascadian Bacon on October 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM Report this
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Doing as much as you can with what little you have. Powerchords, shitty equipment picking up an instrument you know nothing about, these are all just means to an end. It's about creating something and getting out then moving on to the next thing without wasting time thinking about whether it's any good or not.
on October 14, 2011 at 8:05 PM Report this
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shaving with my eyes closed
exlucjja on October 14, 2011 at 9:56 PM Report this
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Blink 182!!!

(Totally kidding).
on October 15, 2011 at 12:26 AM Report this
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FUCK SHIT UP!
porkfish66 on October 15, 2011 at 4:43 AM Report this
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FUCK SHIT UP!!
porkfish66 on October 15, 2011 at 4:46 AM Report this
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Punk rock is letting your freak-flag fly well into middle age, no matter how corporate of an environment you work in, no matter what concessions necessity may demand of you. Punk cannot, and should not, be put in a box with well-defined edges.
Tingleyfeeln on October 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM Report this
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Punk is blowing your nose on a piece of bologna that is safety pinned to your shirt and then eating it.
B. Beatsie on October 16, 2011 at 9:57 AM Report this
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Punk is not possessing any musical talent, but forming a band anyway.
doodle4395 on October 16, 2011 at 6:31 PM Report this
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Punk is a term made up by people who have to put a label on something that they don't and will never understand.
Slug Useless on October 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM Report this
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POLY STYRENE!!
lyllyth on October 17, 2011 at 7:24 PM Report this
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Punk was rejecting everything and replacing it with nothing because nothing was what you had and everything was what 'they' wanted.
paranoid_you_bet on October 18, 2011 at 10:55 AM Report this
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punk was my stillborn future floating in a jar of formaldehyde that I now keep in a cupboard and only ever take out and look at when I'm drunk enough to remember what an authentic world we use to live in.
knobtheunicorn on October 18, 2011 at 2:49 PM Report this
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sex & drugs & rock & roll...definitely with an anticorporate vibe, which is hilarious really, since the band so many people think of as the Godfathers of Punk were basically a producer's manufactured creation to sell clothing. But they did catch something in the zeitgeist for those of us who were sick unto death of glitter and disco and synthesizers, and who thought hair bands were akin to alien pubic hairs in our salad for aesthetic appeal.
Geni on October 18, 2011 at 4:18 PM Report this
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here's one chord, here's two more, now form your own band
sprawwl on October 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM Report this
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Indeed, @4. It's what I call "punk entropy."
Sea Otter on October 19, 2011 at 7:18 PM Report this
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Way to hardly write an article.
on October 21, 2011 at 8:42 AM Report this
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@25 actually the word "punk" comes from the name of a magazine that covered these bands in the late 70s who were making slightly sloppy, sped-up rock n roll. Before the magazine, the term was used to refer to someone who gets it up the butt in prison.
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