What defines punk rock? Is Green Day, Simple Plan or Blink-182 punk?

myrab51

Merriam Webster defines it as rock music marked by extreme and often deliberately offensive expressions of alienation and social discontent. http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=punk+rock Where as Wikipedia says: Punk bands, eschewing the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock, created short, fast, hard music, with stripped-down instrumentation and often political or nihilistic lyrics. The associated punk subculture expresses youthful rebellion, distinctive clothing styles, a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies, and a DIY (do it yourself) attitude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk-rock I don't personally feel the named bands to be punk, but that is venturing into personal opinion for the chat boards. Jul 10 07, 3:16 PM

Cyberjus

Punk rock was originally a term to define a type of short, fast, hard rock music with distinctive anti-establishment undertones. Green day, Simple Plan, and Blink-182 more acurately fall into the category of pop punk which is revival in the late 90s and 2000s relative to style but not necessarily in message. Also, a lot of today's "pop punk" more accurately falls into the category of emo. Jul 10 07, 3:17 PM

myrab51

Check out the thread at: http://www.funtrivia.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=849114&an=0&page=0#Post849114 Jul 10 07, 3:20 PM

MonkeyOnALeash

NONE of these groups are Punk. Green day is the closest to the genre. Jul 10 07, 4:27 PM

Lympathy

All these bands cross genres including punk. Jul 11 07, 1:58 AM

MonkeyOnALeash

Punk is an old (1970's) and gone statement and a lifestyle that NONE of these bands could duplicate. Jul 11 07, 2:23 AM