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Punk Music
A lot of attention has been given on this site so far about the ideals of punk music, but I don’t think that I’ve paid much attention to the actual music. The reason for this being that I don’t care about the music that much. The thing that bothers me if the hypocrisy of the philosophies that accompany the music. But the music does disserve at least part of this page.
I went to a punk concert just last week in fact. 4 bands, it was a small venue; about 30 people were in attendance. I guess the shock value was lost to me, either that or I’ve become so desensitized to the punk scene that seeing about 20 people all dressed EXACTLY the same in one place doesn’t bother me anymore. Punk seems to have lost that original flare it had, either that or I stopped caring about anything original. Shakespeare once said "there’s nothing new under the sun," and I guess he was right because everything at this show I’ve seen before. It is interesting to note that I was the visible minority; I didn’t have a mohawk, or even was dressed in anything that even REMOTLY looked like punk. I got a few sideways glances, but no one challenged me. It was this attention that I assume the punks crave by dressing up the way they do, but no originality seems to inspire them. I, myself, was dressed in full Goth attire. I never claimed that this was original either, but in this concert, it was the most original thing there.
The first band finished setting up. The drummer started banging away, the guitar blasted some unrecognizable melody and the singer started screaming at the top of her (yes, I was surprised it was a female lead singer) lungs. Being a musician myself, I could see the work that went into composing this piece of music; 3 power cords, the drum beat was identical to "Paste" by Pluto, or "1979" by the Smashing Pumpkins, and the lyrics were so distorted and drowned out by the rest of the band she could have been singing about how she rapes little children and I don’t think anyone would have noticed or cared.
My basic opinion of punk music is thus: useless, loud noise. It reminds me of going down to the airport and moshing to the sound of planes taking off. The lyrics are uninspired and about some evil in the world that is redundant to say it sucks. "Oh yeah, ignorance sucks." Well, what are you going to do about it?
Anyway, because I don’t want to be ignorant I stayed for the whole set. About midway through I took a drinking break where I downed half a Mickey of Canadian Club. Somehow after that the music seemed a lot better.
The problem, as I see it, about punk music is that it all sounds the same. Same punk singing, same drum beats, same 3 cords and same lyrics. No "real" singing seems to trickle through the guitar, and whatever quotes are heard are always about the same problems in the world. Some may accuse me of picking only on punk while many other genre’s of music have this problem, but the fact is this webpage is about PUNK music, so I'll bring up only punk’s faults.
The only thing that punk every had going for it, in terms of sound, was the "old school" punk, from the 1970’s. Back then it was still the same mindless drivel, but at least it was new and original. Now it’s all the same, simply noise and nothing else.
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