Is punk dead?

Question

If so why?

Answer 1

Not at all. It's dead if you choose to sit back and accept the My Chemical At The Disco crapola the radio gives you. I have heard several real good punk bands of late. Remember, even during the supposed hey-day of punk, this music was never top-40, so you will always have to dig deeper for it.

Gallows
Poison Idea
Riverboat Gamblers
New Rivals
Authority Zero
Tiger Army
Tsunami Bomb - broke up in 2005, sad!

Plenty of older bands like Bad Religion, D.I., and Bad Brains are still around, so don't listen to the fools who tell you punk is dead.

Answer 2

Punks dead, if it was alive it wouldn't be punk anymore. What people consider "punk" today is not punk at all. There's a few good bands out there today, nobody even came close to mentioning them here. Punk should stay in the gutter at the Tenderloin where it belongs, that way nobody will ever know it still exist. Plus, how sad is this that were disscussing this on the internet. Hell, I just signed up for this thing so I could annoy people that weren't standing right next to me. Screw it, I guess I can just walk outside and yell at real people that piss me off.

Answer 3

no it's not dead...and it's not EMO like that one chick wrote. Nobody even knows what real emo is anymore. It's out there....it might not be exactly what it was in the 70's and 80's, but it's out there. It's just emerged into different forms.

It seems today that alot of the old punkers are reverting back to roots music. There's a huge underground scene out there for americana, rockabilly and psychobilly. I just think that the whole "punk rock" culture has become so mainstream, that because it's everywhere, people forget that the "real" **** isn't all over the internet and on satellite radio and etc...

hell, we're talking about punk rock on an internet forum.

.....it's all really a matter of opinion and this is just mine.

Answer 4

its not dead, but if you looked at it as a family name on a tree, you would not be able to trace any current bright eyed little space monkey back to its beginings. probably right around 1990 it scattered, too many step kids, foster children, and part relations pulled at their inherritance all at once. for better or worse it became 1 million seperate things. if you wanna see some of the causes of this then consider defining all of the following as one: op ivy, circle jerks, crass, fugazi/minor threat, aquabats, pougues, and vandals (these arent all represenative of that time exactly but they are easily accesable examples of how varried punk got). its easy to see how punk became alot of things. if you feel antiquated then there are still bands trying to be what punk already was, and there are still bands playing from the 80's, lots of them. If you know what you're looking at then you'll see it left a huge footprint everywhere. You aren't however, gonna find many new punk bands that are exactly like everyone remembers it being, or any punks that are. you cant recreate the past.

Answer 5

I think it's funny that people who have the convenience of being able to look back in time through punk's history and who know how it started as a fringe movement almost out of sight of the regular public all of a sudden declare it dead the instant they don't find it foisted on them via the radio. Irony of ironies.

Answer 6

Yes
It died when the Clash became popular with "Rock The Casbah", a good song, but it ain't punk
There are no better Punk bands than The Clash, The Stooges, The Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, The Damned, and The Ramones

Answer 7

Nah it's not really dead.

As long as there are kooky people who dont fit in the mold, it would never die.

As long as there are bored teens, punk will never die.

As long as we still have right to be cynical and question authority, punk will never die.

As long as we are frustrated, punk will never die

As long as rock reaches a period of bloated creative stagnation, punk will never die.

Answer 8

no cause half the people that try to say a song is rock music is really punk

Answer 9

NEVER!
well not to me.
im talking REAL punk though, not my chemical romance and fall out boy. though if it DID die, those are the ones that did it id say.
punk is great

Answer 10

NEVER!!! But half the stuff that says its punk is really emo or some other weird thing...