Would you consider punk rock to be dead?

Question

I dont but my friends tell me that it is I know Punk was all the rage in England in the 1970's like The Clash but with the s*x Pistols reuniting and these bands ive never heard of would ou conside it dead?

Answer 1

YES.

s*x Pistols returning is pretty much a joke, it's harder to hammer home the idea of anarchy when you 60+ and cashing in thousands for these gigs. [Plus, I could have done without having to listen to them, they suck]

Punk rock, what it means now - Retards like Good Charlotte [blergh]. So yeah, it's dead.  

Answer 2

brandon c might wanna listen to the devil wears prada before he calls them "bubble gum pop"

cuz i think he is confusin them with some disney b.s.

and to answer

punk is never dead

it was more of an idea than a music style

Answer 3

no it's not dead, there are still some great little punk bands out there, which means it's alive.

it's just not at it's height anymore.  and who cares? that's punk, it doesn't need to be the most popular thing out there.

Answer 4

Yes, have you heard any these bands that they call punk. No that's not punk. They're not even post-punk. Devil Wears Prada, MCR, New found Glory, these bands are bubble gum pop.

Here's some good punk that you need to listen too.

The Stooges - invented Punk

Bad brains

Dead kennedy's

Buzzcocks

Violent Femmes

Black Flag

Answer 5

punk was never alive in the main stream. maybe some local stuff was good, but not that over produced garbage.  

Answer 6

NEVER. If you know then you know ;)

the "punk" that is the mainstream now sucks  but that will never kill what is really punk (I hate the word)

-and good charlotte will NEVER be punk.

Answer 7

Yes, The s*x Pistols have lost their talent (that was horrible Anarchy in the UK re-recording from GH3) and there is no new (real) punk being produced.

Answer 8

Some people think green day brought punk back in the nineties. I'm not sure if you guys agree with that statement, but now, at least, punk rock is underground, which is where it should be. It's was originally meant for those people who think it's them againts the world, those kids who rebelled against anything that held them down, those kids who were almost always ahead of the curve. Other than the occaisional song that ends up on top of the charts, that's where punk should stay.