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Today's punk is stale.
To us, punk is about shock value. Whether it was the Buzzcocks releasing "Orgasm
Addict" and "Oh Shit" as singles, the Ramones with "Now I Wanna Sniff
Some Glue" or the infamous Sex Pistols cussing for the first time on the BBC, punk
was always meant to be shocking. Something that made people gasp. Something that made
people embarrassed of their dumb, apathetic, ignorant consumerist lives. Something that
made them look, and made them look twice, panic. Something that wasn't just, as Crass
said, a "token tantrum." Something that was, like Johnny Rotton said,
"sheer, brazen honesty." And perhaps noone was listening, and perhaps the
problem is that noone really listens anymore, but it wasn't just singing to your friends
about not selling out at a show with some beer in your belly, it was yelling, screaming at
the world, kicking at the wall, living, desperate energy, living. Something completely new
and exciting and...
But people really didn't ever get it. There was a definite dichotomy in general between the masterminds of punk and the audience. So punk was destined to implode. You could argue, we suppose, that "this gives punk rules," but we might answer that the general audience was most often the group searching out rules. "This is how you must be if you are against society: costume, all methods of hurting your body, fighting between the factions ['rock and roll elite'], DIY 'ethics' [as if that makes any sense!!], that drumbeat, and, of course, plenty of that same apathy you find in the society you are scratching at." The audience was too busy gladly slurping up the ideas of others to think on their own... But of course... isn't that what america is all about? Suckahs...
Today the punk scene is just made up of uniform-grabbing, watered-down kids who completely copy each other and who lust over those legends about having a fuck-off attitude. It is no longer an insult to be a punk, in fact, it's cool. The glossy, punkrock image you (and face it, american pop culture) drool over... The contests about who is the most "real"... The exclusive "clubs" where only "real" punkrockers belong (and where only a select audience hears whatever message is to be had). The vows never to sell out... They make you feel pretty good about yourself, don't they. They make you feel like you really raised a middle finger at society. Well, it seems like you bought into it to us.
Punk has never been a difinitive musical style. And when two bands sound and even look the same, its a rip off. Christ, it seems like every melodicore (ha ha) band out there tries to be NOFX. Only NOFX sounds good being NOFX. And that's besides the point since NOFX has little to do with the punk movement. Theyre just a rock and roll band. As for the shittier hardcore bands -- maybe not knowing how to play and having loud guitars and drunk yelling to that pkk-ch-pkk-ch beat was once outrageous and new and exciting, but it's pretty boring for the most part.
Maybe the only band who has any original punk spirit is a band like Marilyn
Manson.
Punk is dead.
drunk on the street. thats not what i aspire to. no i dont admire you. no punk
is dead. and youre its corpses. bloated and rotten. formula disguised but its all fucking
lies. shave a nice mowhawk. rip up yr shirt. gotta get punk points and you dont go to
work. cos pathetic sods just rip off their friends. "oh could i borrow." (yeah
my foot up yr ass.) intellectual social movement but you guys have never heard of it. what
think you? no way. do you aspire to be so dumb. johnny wondered why thugs followed. now
the thugs are the ones that play. are you so hypotised. (four over four.) hi-hat-snare.
(its getting boring.) no more hearing. no more ears. all stagnation. nothing new. would
you like us better if we shouted "oi." well oi fuck you cos punk is dead. so go
ahead. listen to crass. say you like anarchy but yr heads up yr ass. all yr rules and in
and outs. this game is so fucking old. how pathetic you make you look. anarchy symbol and
a big rule book. drunks are all you want to be. but the sxe scene isnt better.
competition. can i join? yr words are so hardcore. so hardcore. such a joke. punk is just
a fucking joke. never gonna get anywhere with dicking around on yr borrowed concepts. and
you water them down so much. its almost like you pissed. almost like you fucking pissed.
piss. now youre wasting yr time. now youre wasting my time. and i will pull yr plug again.
cos at least i work for it. what would all you punkers do if it wasn't there on a silver
platter? we are getting madder and madder. while you sit back and swallow the seditives.
we just want to play suckers. we just want to make some noise. you just want make an
image. steal away want its really about. one pathetic dying organism. with uniform
meaningless parts. how does it feel now? feeding off someone elses back. sex pistols back
together. they are so right. and it pisses you off. tomorrow you ask what we did today.
mommy we killed punk. piss.
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