Punk
Punk music originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, with bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Buzzcocks, primarily as a response to the cultural sterility of progressive rock. It quickly spread to the USA where bands such as The Ramones helped punk to continue to rise in popularity.
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Musicality
Punk is charactarised by up-tempo guitar/bass arrangements. The lyrics can be concerned with any topic, generally, but are almost always written with a 1-2, 1-2 rhyme scheme. By design, the songs are usually structured to be very simplistic rock songs of the 1-4-5 chord progression variety.
Dancing
Various methods of dancing to it have emerged, such as skanking and pogo-ing. Punk-style dance is typically designed to be synasthesically expressive of an emotion, not of a particular representational style, such as a jitterbug.
Punk Culture
Punks typically distinguish themselves from others with their unmistakable appearances. This has included things such as Mohawk hairstyles, tight pants, studded leather jackets, bullet belts, combat boots, etc. Clothing and hairstyles vary widely throughout the punk scene, and often particular outfits denote particular strains of punk or core-beliefs. Most true punks however will claim that the punk subculture is more based on the idea of non-conformity.
Sub-Genres
Notable Punk bands
United Kingdom
- Poison Girls
- Subhumans
- Crass
- Sex Pistols
- The Buzzcocks
- The Damned
- Adicts
- U.K. Subs
- The Exploited
- The Clash
- The Anti-Nowhere League
- Flux of Pink Indians
- Conflict
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- The Stranglers
- The Fall
United States
- Pixies
- The Ramones
- Television
- Dead Kennedys
- Anti-Flag
- Misfits
- New York Dolls
- Bad Religion
- Dropkick Murphys
- Black Flag
Christianity in Punk Music
There are few bands that are considered to be Christian punk bands.
Some examples are:
However, these bands are not generally considered to be punk bands based on their sound.
