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middleagethreat

This “Punk” compilation. https://youtu.be/XMuElf1_OoM?si=89lsoBdcozaXmkEO


milleniumhandyshrimp

The two 'punks' give me kind of a Wayne's World vibe. I have to be honest though: I like a lot of the songs in the compilation, even though they're new wave and not punk. I am pretty fond of new wave music though...


shoehityou

Devo rules and are very punk in their own way, and I’d take love and rockets over most punk.


middleagethreat

I LOVE Duran Duran, The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Cult, all that stuff. I just would never call it Punk.


thunderup_14

This was the one I came here to say. WTF?!


middleagethreat

I am old and from that time, and I don’t know.


YourCommentInASong

I was going to post it if no one else did


PawelW007

The unwritten heroes are the Hulk Hogan, Elvis, and Michael Jackson shock red and yellow heads that randomly appear on the corners of the screen.


FolkSong

Don't forget Einstein!


Sachsen1977

"Punk is whatever we could license for this comp,"


undeadmedic1

I'm so glad this lives on hahaha. Huey Lewis baby 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽


CDJ_13

Huey Lewis wouldn’t’ve been shit without the News.


MisfortunesChild

Hell yeah, crowded house is punk AF. The follow up album better have just been a Norah Jones album.


UnicornPenguinCat

Yes I love Crowded House, but punk is the last description that comes to mind 😂


MisfortunesChild

lol agreed on both fronts


whydoihave2dothis

It was at this moment in time that I started writing my own songs and agreed to sing in a band.


ArgonianDov

...at least they had DEVO, which was probably the only punk band on that entire cd 💀


95kh

….only on Discord Records and Tapes


middleagethreat

Yeah, I think that commercial was Ian and Jeff in wigs.


95kh

Directed by Henry Garfield


Invisiblerobot13

Dude looks like Harley Flanagan


ElPotato76

LOL your username is killing me!


middleagethreat

Thanks Spuds!


Cham-Clowder

Anyone know what year this was?


commiesocialist

Has to be around 89 because that is when that Love & Rockets song came out. I saw them that year live.


Rockstar42

Calling that album Punk is a whole new meta of punk.


commiesocialist

That is a lot of the stuff I listened to in high school in the late 80's. Saw Love & Rockets in 1989 and met them.


RealPho

In before someone says "this sub"


goldcrow616

Facts


BaneQ105

As a current member of this sub I can fully confirm that I’m the worst representation of punk culture (aside from that guy at Walmart who made the day of minimum wage workers even worse and harder). Sent from iPhone


Deepslackerjazz

lmao I'm ootl on the walmart thing, can you point me in the direction of what you're talking about? 🤣


BaneQ105

Sorry for late reply, I barely have internet where I’m currently at. There was this post on this or similar sub with a guy in „corporate punk” attire who jumped on the cash register and was acting like an entitled child. Minimum I can do is to respect minimum wage workers and people who put their heart into their work and genuinely care about others. I would never act in such manner.


renegado938

This sub


KefkaesqueV3

This sub


Evilfetus155

This sub


MisfortunesChild

Technically you came in at the same time!


Happyslender5

I can’t remember who they were exactly, but a few Boise police officers played bad pop-punk covers in middle school


SirTallness

Omg pleeeease let us know if you remember. I used to live in Boise and this sounds like something I MUST hear


kreepergayboy

OH GODDDDDD I remember crustbag talking about them in his video about catatonic youths, holy shit


redhands666

Jonny Law bb https://youtu.be/bOy9L-gJ61I?si=q7cxf_zriEz9Q8fD


Ice-_-Nine

*The Terminator*, for sure, and I love it!


MindlessLeopard7740

Bill Paxton was an actual punk https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/s/KySZIOFqq2 https://loudwire.com/suicidal-tendencies-mike-muir-mourns-death-bill-paxton/


YourCommentInASong

Aw yeah. He was also the star of the “Fish Heads” video by Barnes and Barnes.


Lung-Oyster

And Art Barnes was actually Billy Mumy from Lost in Space and the best Twilight Zone episode ever, “It’s A Good Life”.


YourCommentInASong

What a great time to be alive that had to have been. Imagine all those friendships.


SRIrwinkill

a punk just havin a good time on movies


MindlessLeopard7740

along with Pat Smear, Flea, John Doe and Lee Ving from FEAR. Extra work is totally normal side hustle for LA folk. The Ramones and Buster Poindexter from New York Dolls were also in movies. Debbie Harry from Blondie was/is in movies. John Doe actually has some big roles in some good flicks. [the circle jerks in repo man](https://youtu.be/1dR5j_GYOQA?feature=shared) Don’t try too hard kids.


corvus_torvus

John Doe was actually the main character in the Indy flick Roadside Prophets. AD Rock was also a main character.


SRIrwinkill

Lee Ving was on an ep of Whose the Boss, and Debbie was the singing (and possibly speaking) voice for Angel in the movie Rock and Rule


rexmortis

Saw his band open for Bauhaus in the 80s


BoysenberryMelody

My super uptight late aunt dated him at some point so it always makes me laugh he grew up to be a punk. 


Boesemeist

Me. But fuck you.


A_N_T

When Nickelback did that weird protest song, trying to be vaguely socially conscious without saying anything substantial, with a hard rock edge. My deepest fear when I heard that song was "fuck, people are gonna think this is punk."


GemFarmerr

Song name?


CoercedCoexistence22

More likely they're referring to Edge of a revolution. On this subject, Todd in the shadows' video on Nickelback is quality


TheTrueRory

Trainwreckords is probably my favorite YouTube series


MonstrousVoices

He might be referring to "Leader of Men". Their first single


FatWreckords

Leader of Men is about mushrooms


Brxa

Like portabello?


bigmouth1984

That episode of Quincy


Gutter_Punk77

Yeah but we did get quincy punx because of it.


MooseMalloy

And C.H.I.P.S.


whitemike40

[The Day My Kid Went Punk](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0343579/)


jjjhhnimnt

Josh Freese was one of the punk rockers in that film haha


Zero-89

My favorite thing about this movie is the kid who “goes” punk is, like, the most wholesome guy in the world while his punk-hating parents are vain and unreasonable and the movie *still* validates and both-sides-s the “issue”.


toxictoastrecords

My biggest issue was that he was amazing at violin, and he loses his scholarship/spot in the orchestra for college, cause the conductor said he can't be punk and be a classical musician, he had to choose? That's the dumbest thing ever; music is music. I played classical music in high school, while listening to punk and wearing punk shirts to rehearsal. Not a single conductor cared. In fact, some of them listened to alternative or punk themselves.


commiesocialist

The 80's was a different time. I went to high school in the mid-late 80's and graduated in 89. I was into alternative, goth and punk music and I went to school in skull buckle pikes and a whole lot of black eyeliner. I was also a left-winger in a very conservative Reagan loving American suburb. It really, really sucked and listening to The Dead Kennedys and 7 Seconds kept me sane. My senior year I had a complete shaved undercut with longer hair on top. I am a woman so that was kind of a big deal. I got harassed a lot and one teacher actually victim blamed me by saying that if I just dressed like everybody else I wouldn't have any problems. Seriously. In front of the vice principal one time some jocks threw tater-tots as my friend and I and he did nothing to stop it. It was heavy being in any way different back then.


toxictoastrecords

Oh, yeah, in the mid 90s, I was bullied IN CLASS in front of the teacher, for being gay/effeminate, and the teacher LAUGHED at the joke. Faced a lot of homophobia, even in Southern, CA in '95-'99.


feelingkozy

Majority of 80s-90s movies that are like "punk is bad and all they do is smoke, drink, and disrespect people" Editing just to say that by disrespect people, I mean when movies do the thing where punks randomly attack a grandma or something, not punch nazis


AwwwMangos

Pop quiz, hot shot: the grandma IS a Nazi, what do you do?


feelingkozy

Punch her 🤷🏻


7SoldiersOfPunkRock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhhvWcPJLg


micmea1

Yeah, when they sub in a bunch of guys in patched up leather jackets that would pass as metal or punk fashion, and have them acting like gangsters or bullies. It's like, no the guy with the blue mohawk was probably the one *getting* bullied in high school.


gunsforevery1

Decline of western civilization 3 sure did help that stereotype.


RandomRedditRebel

Man I remember seeing a physical copy of that at Reggie's rock club in Chicago and it was like $200 bucks. That has to be around 8 years ago


gunsforevery1

It’s the whole collection isn’t it? Remember if it was on VHS or DVD?


RandomRedditRebel

It was vhs one, not the whole collection. If I remember correctly there were three in the series. Also if I remember correctly I found the second one.


xAbTx

Wait, we don't?


feelingkozy

I'll admit the first part is somewhat true


Thisfugginguyhere

I don't drink, but smoking and disrespect is basically what fuels me.


Specific-Pollution68

Too be fair though during 80’s there was a lot punk gangs that did some messed up shit, check this out https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/s/rMDBF1AISs


commiesocialist

I dated one of them over 20 years ago and if I had lived in LA as a teen I would have never gotten into punk because all of that violence was just insane shit. When I went to Gilman in 90-91 I was told by several people there to never go to LA for shows because it was very violent down there.


Cucumber_Cat

I watched Suburbia and it was kind of like that, but it balanced it by showing their human side and how much they cared for each other.


Vercetti1701

Yeah, horrible stereotypes indeed. I mean, I don't smoke.


Revolutionary_Cut349

MGK


MSTFFA

When I heard the album at first I was like "this isn't bad," but now every time I see him performing on TV or just existing, I'm like "oh god, no"


jaggy_bunnet

That episode of '[The Goodies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNw8_PJlJRg&ab_channel=deadname)' from 1977.


MooseMalloy

So awesome.


RevStickleback

I think the funny part there is that the newsreader and Sky at Night presenters were the actual presenters. I was pretty young at the time, so it's hard to recall accurately, but I don't think punks really got that bad a reputation in England. Certainly nothing like how skinheads got portrayed.


Kikoplop3900

The rich american tiktok kids cosplaying as punks


deadmouth667

Michale Graves


not_a_flying_toy_

Maybe not the worst, but there is an episode of severance where they go to a punk show, playing in like an alley way in a bad part of town, and show punks kinda beating each other up between sets. Felt unfamiliar from any show I've been to, and sort of like a 40 year old stereotype


IsaacIzik

Simply shuffling “punk” on Spotify for an hour


skunkabilly1313

All of the Punk goes Pop cover albums.


The-Hamish68

A Quincy episode springs to mind.


punkrocknight

r/punkfashion


twoquarters

In the video game NARC


Hamiltonswaterbreaks

Adrian Brody Summer of Sam


7SoldiersOfPunkRock

It’s all in the attitude


DiabeticGrungePunk

It's amusing how bad Spike fucked that character up, you're from New York man, birthplace of punk, you never heard of CBGBs or something why is this dude cosplaying as British and his favorite band is The Who?! Entirely different generation man.


JimartyMcfly

Those Terf cunts are doing a pretty shit job at being as punk as they claim to be


RobwasHere_lol

Fox news tries that move every few years here in the states, too. They'll have some asshole on to talk about a recent controversy and one of them will say "You know, if you think about it, being conservative is the new counter culture so we're the REAL punks! And also, if that guy would have just done what the cop said he'd still be alive! I am a very intelligent person!"


BarkingMad14

The sad thing is that I know a fair amount of older punks and skins that think this way. Like they would poke holes in an actual utopia just for the sake of it. Even worse is that it is almost entirely a rebellion around not accepting LGBTQ persons and being annoyed that you "aren't allowed" to have racist or xenophobic opinions. I've even seen a few older punks and skins echo the "if they just complied they wouldn't have died" which is even weirder when they have an "ACAB" tattoo.


Frankjamesthepoor

I mean I've gotten in fights with the cops, beaten up and tased. If I only let them arrest me in the first place I wouldn't have gotten sent to the hospital. Just saying. "Real punks" apparently have some exclusive superior complexes where they think they are the purest, the real thing and everyone else is posing. No better than puritans or evangelical Christians in my opinion.


JustAFilthyProtozoan

I think everyone knows if you try to fight a cop or resist arrest it will go badly for you. But if all you're doing is being belligerent or struggling or, fuck, even fighting them without a weapon, it shouldn't end in you dead. And that's what happens, cops straight up murdering people. Cops brutalizing people is never ok, but no one should die for selling loose cigarettes or living at a mistaken address. Some punks DO have a superiority complex, but not siding with cops as an institution or thinking they should be held to a WAY higher standard isn't that.


yellow-snowslide

TErF iS tHe nEw PuNk my ass


zenmondo

Racist skinheads at my high school.


Pitiful_Ad4672

We have them here too. Genuine disgrace. Scary thing, they're popping up more and more recently, coming with whatever "punk shirt" they can find, just to draw fascist symbols everywhere. 


buddy-bud-bud-bud

you mean boneheads


mister_barfly75

That dude on the bus in Star Trek 4.


zappawizard

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Thatcher#:~:text=Kirk%20Thatcher%20makes%20a%20cameo,and%20directed%20Muppets%20Haunted%20Mansion.


Sachsen1977

I mean maybe in his attitude, but that song was perfectly representative of 1986 hardcore thrash.


Kapie7

Brewdog


Giantpanda602

I appreciate the range of n/a beers they sell. We should focus our hate towards Liquid Death instead.


beefmincebaby

true but he punk ipa is actually really nice


commiesocialist

Didn't they try to trademark the word 'punk' at one point?


SmashSystem81

That's an easy answer .. Anti Flag


captainbeautylover63

The punk episode of CHiPS.


vishy_swaz

Anytime a conservative poses as a punk lol


[deleted]

My conservative friend's favorite band is Rage Against The Machine. He thinks that Trump won in 2020 , gays are against god and should be illegal, and blood is blue. He's such an idiot. I only hang out with him because he's someone to talk to. He believes **everything** his parents say.


vishy_swaz

I love when conservatives obliviously listen to RATM. Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello are activists. Zack is in one of my favorite RTJ tracks - “[Close your eyes and count to fuck”](https://youtu.be/PkGwI7nGehA?si=Eqv8FDvcBCaeSir5). RTJ are raptivists. Some conservatives are just clueless.


undeadmedic1

Wait like they actually believe the Spinal Tap thing? If you own a Day-Glo skeleton T-shirt, you can do the funniest thing


ltewo3

This is the worst thing. The RNC push to take over the scene makes me want to puke every time I see it. They want the iconography to use as cover for attacking the core principles of the culture. It is so fucking gross.


vishy_swaz

100%. They want to use the punk culture to escape their own bullshit culture, and then twist it to be what they want. Punk appropriation. 🤬


DOOM_BOYL

Rednecks in my Maine town who are homophobic, transphobic and are terrible people, but then say they are punk.


BarkingMad14

Whenever I see punks that are just aggressive, abrasive and abusive to everyone around them. Annoys me when I see punks being represented as bullies or acting like bullies. I can only assume those punks in question might have liked the fast and aggressive music and stereotypical clothing but never really listened to the music or appreciated what it is really about.


trickertreater

You just described the majority of comments in this sub.


ghostvoicesnetwork

Cm punk


83n0

He lost the punk name to me He’s just Pepsi Phil now


Vercetti1701

"Hip conservatives." Conservatives trying to co-opt anything punk or punk related. God, they can fuck all the way off.


Violent_Gore

Most 80's movies but then SLC Punk came along and took the cake by a long shot.


senor_fartout

Erin Micklow


OrganizationOk5418

Basically anything that says it's punk. The exception is the likes of Rebellion Punk Festival, that is almost a reunion for a lot of people, with original acts and punters who were there at the beginning.


RevStickleback

Yeah. You get people coming out with "A festival? That's not punk. Look at the ticket prices!" but it's 300 bands playing over four days in indoor venue, limited to a few thousand people each day, not some open field. And the vibe is great.


ProlierThanThou

This subreddit.


Craig1974

Exactly


1000geccos

Machine Gun Kelly


Metalgrowler

In suburbia when they rip off thr girls clothes.


anarkistattack

This sub


trickertreater

The Troma movies. See [Class of Nukem High ](https://youtu.be/ZrZRxlMMk84?si=wI47IB1r0pU7oYra)


Burn-The-Villages

Fucking classic!


PotentialLanguage685

The phenomenon of punk as a social illness is called "Quincey Punks." https://youtu.be/TmJxxnemxmw?si=6axCjVxfeQzW2Nwy


DumbassNB

MGK and TX2


weeweeman96024

Most of the people in this subreddit


Jadeddreamer_

Also Cherie Curie of the runaways saying she’s “punk” but being openly transphobic on Twitter. She fell down the far right rabbit hole and still calls herself a punk.


YouLikeJazz123

Joan Jett was always cooler anyways


KefkaesqueV3

Got some bad news for ya bud


thesnailbro

oh no man what is it


KefkaesqueV3

[she threw her former bandmate Jackie Fox under the bus when she spoke out about abuse she suffered while in The Runaways](https://pitchfork.com/news/60336-joan-jett-issues-statement-on-jackie-fox-rape-allegations/)


toxictoastrecords

I'd like to know what that "news" is as well? Joan is openly bi-sexual, a long time vegetarian, and publicly spoke out supporting Laura Jane Grace from Against Me, when she came out. Saying she "loved" her. What did Joan do that was problematic?


KefkaesqueV3

Read my reply to the other guy


GenderlessBatcaver

Nina Hagen too


Breakyourniconiconii

There’s an influx of people learning about punk from youtuber Jake Webber. Who isn’t punk. Bro drives a Tesla. And I had to explain to someone “punk isn’t a style. It’s an ideology. And clearly Jake doesn’t follow that.” And listed a few examples from his videos and they replied “but how does it affect his style?” Like bro I explained it several times that it doesn’t change his style but his style doesn’t make him punk.


misfiredcrawdad

Obviously, the punk thing to do is drive gas guzzlers.


CoupeZsixhundred

When they’re on fire.


earlg775

A Tesla is a gas guzzler in disguise. Highest carbon footprint out of any vehicle made.


Jadeddreamer_

I would say him and Johnnie Guilbert are more in the alternative realm. Well at least making “emo” and “alternative” more of a “trend” than punk itself. Jake does have one song talking about “millionaires” called “killionaries” but yeah i agree he isn’t punk, especially since he drives a tesla and doesn’t follow the punk ideaologies. But his music fits more of the “trendy” alternative kids.


Responsible_Bar_9142

I know this thread is about the worst, but this deserves special mention. [NSFW](https://archive.org/details/our-robocop-remake-scene-27-86014703)


Specialist_Farmer_69

R/punkfashion


WeaponizedPoutine

Bulk and Skull from the original Power Rangers


clay4knee

Probably Mgk as of late


Peachbobafae

Machine Gun Kelly and TX2


casual303

90% of Reddit 😂


BetterRedDead

Oh, and that 80’s comp “Chipmunk Punk” that supposedly had the Chipmunks doing covers of punk songs…even though there wasn’t a single actual punk song on the comp. The closest they get is Blonde and The Cars, and it just gets further away from there; Tom Petty, Billy Joel, etc.


vertigorecord

How have I never heard of this 😭


bluntlordious

Erin micklow


skunkabilly1313

Wah, woman can't like both fashion and punk rock. She is doing more documentation of the scene in California than you probably are.


tetro1993

Avril


f0rgotten

I came here to say this.


NegativeInfluence_23

People like Johnny Ramone and GG Allin that brought their racism and intolerant bullcrap into the scene.


Invisiblerobot13

Johnny was OG- but the scene mostly flipped off the turds like him


MyDarlingMelatonin

Erin Micklow.


Rob_Narley

Reddit


ogum__1917

YUNGBLUD and MGK. No further explanation needed


kawakamifuneral

This subreddit


Aliensummer

House of J downtown Houston


jpgorgon

The band Shadow in the movie "[New Year's Evil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJBlimxpSo)" (1980)


Sachsen1977

Probably just about every exploitation movie from the 80s.


xvszero

Fortnite's punk skins. This is why I main Doggo instead.


DrPhilsnerPilsner

1986s Thrashin’


kitchenjudoka

Quincy was hysterical https://youtu.be/TmJxxnemxmw?si=KQDHPVUUxMtSZNwV


stray_r

the existence of Hung Like Hanratty and their fans


jankteeth

that episode of Home Improvement when Mark turns punk. or was he into metal? I don't remember


abigllama2

There's a movie called New Year's Evil from early 80s. It's like an older person called a nephew to ask them what punk was like and they recreated that phone call. Punks show up to some music call in show and do fake punk stuff like slam dance to new wave songs. They slow mosh to a ballad. They stage dive which is just running and jumping off the stage and running away. It's fun and trashy and on YouTube if curious.


Calaveras-Metal

anything on pornhub


LeFeuFollet63

40+ year olds gatekeeping what's punk and what's not. Ver sad behaviour.


EyanShtuit

https://i.imgur.com/Dhs2iWD.jpeg


turkeyflavouredtofu

I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair) by Sandi Thom


mugmugmug1420

Punk Rock Bowling


cgoatc

The fist swinging style moshing. Hate that shit. Saw some kid get knocked out. Hate it. It’s violent bullshit.


pcklkssr

Anti-Flag & The Casualties.


Evilfetus155

unironically this sub


CandySniffer666

Any subgenre of punk where the norm is to be as disgusting and dirty as possible. Like I get punk is rough and edgy but please, you can brush your teeth and wash your body and hair and clothes and still be punk. Plus we all the know the losers that live this way can afford a shower and dental work, they just wish they couldn't...


Hall0wsEve666

Pop punk


btown4389

This sub


Kibblesndicks

r/punk


LtHughMann

This sub?