posted on Sep, 21 2008 @ 01:43 PM
I'm pretty sure punk did come back for a little while right around 2000. In junior high (which was 2000-2001 for me), I remember my friend and I
were the only two "punks" in the school. We listened to Rancid, NOFX, etc. Then, when I went into highschool, we were no longer being looked at
funny for our outrageous hairstyles, but complimented on our "liberty spikes" People started listening to crap bands like New Found Glory or Blink
182 and calling it punk. Everybody was shopping at Hot Topic. Come to think of it, yeah, punk was popular for a little while, which in itself is a
contradiction.
Anyway, now that my tastes in music have evolved and become more refined, I personally think that most punk music sounds like crap. I still love the
Misfits and some other punk bands, but punk music just doesn't have anything more to offer. It all sounds exactly the same. The same power chord
progressions, the same vocals, the same lyrical content. I can learn an entire punk song on guitar in about 20 seconds. What made it so great for
its time was how revolutionary it was. When everyone else was doing the same thing, these guys were beating on their guitars, yelling into the
microphone, and dressing in a way that offended. But these days, its all been done, and it offends hardly anybody. Punk, because of its nature,
doesn't have room to evolve, otherwise you have to stop calling it punk rock and start calling it something else. I'm sure the revolutionary
attitudes will live on, but they'll most likely become associated with some other type of music.