Punk?

WTF happened to punk? I finally got around to checking out some of the ‘punk’ bands a mate of mine has raved about and it’s just twee hippy twaddle.

e.g One Night Stand in North Dakota, a punk band or so I’m told.

Seriously? It’s just vapid, whiny pish devoid of any energy, passions or anger. Three things which, you know, kinda define punk.

Compare this

to this

or this

Another one of these ‘punk’ bands is Defiance, Ohio.

Which reminds me of this

Hardly what you could call punk.

So, this post is just an excuse to post great punk music and shout abuse at hippies calling themselves punks. 🙂

Now all the songs above are different in speed, style and so on but they are all angry, energetic and full of passion. Up the punks and