What do you know about punk rock in the 70s?
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Wikipedia might get ya started.
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Because to most people punk is a fashion.
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Having grown up in the 70's - I can tell you that American culture was a bit crazy - we were dealing with the Tail-end of Viet Nam, the worst environmental pollution in history and Richard Nixon being impeached for Watergate. At the same time, we were not the most fashionable, it was a time of wide-collar polyester shirts with loud print and corduroy pants - all with tennis shoes! Still, what we lacked in sophistication we more than made up for in fun! Southern Rock was at it's apex (Lynard Skynard, 38 Special, CCR), R&B was a blast with groups like the Commadores and Earth, Wind and Fire, and Disco was beginning to emerge (the BeeGees).  Drugs were primarily psychadelic in nature: LSD, PCP, Heroin - and lots of pill poping. People were promiscuous - AIDS had not made it's official debut yet - so sex was rampant. All in all, the 70's was a crazy, wacked out decade. Still - I feel that it was a much less damaging era than what we face today!
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The pop punksters reveal details of their most ambitious album yet...\nGREEN DAY return this autumn with their most ambitious album yet.\n\nThe punk superstars headline the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds bashes this weekend, where they will debut material from 'American Idiot'.\n\nReleased on September 21, the band's eighth album is a self-confessed rock opera which 'details the alienation and disillusionment of the American citizen under Bush's post-War On Terror administration'.\n\nThe band have been heavily involved in the US rock campaign to urge young voters to take part in the forthcoming presidential election.\n\nTwo tracks, 'Jesus Of Suburbia' and 'Homecoming' are five-part operettas, making a mammoth tracklisting as follows:\n'American Idiot'\n'Jesus Of Suburbia' ('Jesus Of Suburbia', 'City Of The Damned', 'I Don't Care', 'Dearly Beloved', 'Tales Of Another Broken Home')\n'Holiday'\n'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'\n'Are We The Waiting'\n'St Jimmy'\n'Give Me Novocaine'\n'She's A Rebel'\n'Extraordinary Girl'\n'Letterbomb'\n'Wake Me Up When September Ends''Homecoming' ('The Death Of St Jimmy', ''East 12th St', 'Nobody Likes You', 'Rock and Roll Girlfriend', 'We're Coming Home')\n'Whatsername'
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Quite often they were attracted to punk because they were an outsider to begin with.  Just take the time to get to know them.
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lame. please go buy a Misfits record, The Cramps, Suicidal Tendencies, The Cult, The Clash, New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, The Ramones and such. go listen to some real punk rock instead of that . your probably 10 or something anyway...
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Greenday used to be a very good punk rock band.\nUnfortunatly they've turned very commercial now in a bid to improve sales (seeing as they're last album was appalling)\nIf you want to hear Greenday at their best listen to their Kerplunk! or Dookie albums\n\nThey're music is easy to play because it uses simple chord progressions as you said and only very basic open or power chords. Also, Billie Joe Armstrong is hardly a guitar virtuoso is he? It's the golden rule of punk: maximum effect within minimun effort\n\nOh and the definition of a power chord as I know it is the root note of a chord played along with the dominant 5th note
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it will ever be the same,the punk of the 70s was unique,kids are too spoiled to rebel these days.
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mainstream punk rock IS NOT TRUE PUNK ROCK\nhell, "hot topic is NOT punk rock"!\ntrue punk thrives with it's true followers in the underground.
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Check out: www.gimmegimmes.com\n\nThe band "Me First and The Gimme Gimmes" takes old music and puts a punk flavor to it.\n\nThey are great.
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I'm, with you!! It's old, trite and outdated. But, it is new to the younger crowd. \n\nBut, maybe some of them will actually live the so called punk lifestyle, rebel, and actually "revolt" and cause some sort of social change...Yeah right.\n\nNever mind the bollocks...
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Punk Rock!!! My Fav Bands are FOB, MCR, and GD! Freaking awesome!!!!
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The 80's rocked!That generation had the best music!If you love the 80's music you rock too!
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they're great....love the classic 70s bands, love led zep, bad company, steppenwolf and allman bros too!
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punk is depressing to some people, so punk rock would be a good choice.
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are you looking for a dictionary definition or what punk is?\n   1. Dry decayed wood, used as tinder.\n   2. Any of various substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks.\n   3. Chinese incense.\nadj. Slang\n   1. Of poor quality; worthless.\n   2. Weak in spirits or health.\n\npunk is no rock stars, punk is DIY, punk is we are all in this sewer together so f*** it.  its not about buying cloths at hot-topic or how many colors are in your hair.\n\nand though punk music tends to get labeled as only being three chords, that doesn't quite explain bands like television, pere ubu, the pogues or the much later mission of burma...the list is actually very long.  there is also some very sophisticated lyrics in many punk songs, not all, but then it wouldn't be punk if it wasn't also fun and stupid sometimes.  and for many its feels very relevant, especially if you look at what is now "classic rock" that was being made when punk came out. after all for however "technically good" stairway to heaven might be, how the crap is anyone suppose to relate to it, but then you have iggy pop yelling about how he has a right, or x singing about being fed up with the city or agent orange singing about "everything turning grey" or whatever else and you hear it and think, thats how i feel!  i'm sick of all the BS as well!\n\nif there had been "punks" at the time, the who would not have been playing to hippies.  and to say that punk music is worthless or whatever is to deny alot of music history, as many bands were first inspired by punk bands.  after all its accessible, you look up at the stage and think, "i can do that! i want to do that!"  of the velvet underground, which punk has its roots in, its been said that though not many people saw them play, everyone that ever did started a band.  an exaggeration yes, i'm sure one person didn't :)\n\nif you are looking to read some just about the history of punk music i suggest "please kill me"\nthere is also "the philosophy of punk" which is a rather good read as well.\n\ncircle jerks, paid vacation, 81-82\nI hope you're having fun\nwhere's your uniform? where's your gun?\nbetter rub up that suntan oil\n'cause you'll be fighting in the desert\nit's not..vietnam\njust another oil company scam\nsalute that flag of uncle sam\nget your money out place your bets\nit's afghanistan!!\nfix baionets,check grenades\ngot enough bullets\ngot enough rounds to wipe out this place?\nWere the infantry & cavalery\nparachutes fill the sky, bodies burn and people die
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The Ramones are the best. Sex Pistols is interesting to see how the musica market work, how to create a band, take the money and destroy it.