Blue Canary
Your Friendly Neighborhood S***poster
The problem is that most do not understand the evolution of "punk", it means a lot of different things to different people.
It can be political.
It can be independence from corporations.
It can be anti-establishment/government.
It can be about DIY(doing it for yourself).
It can be about TFY(Thinking for your self).
It can be about attitude, or it can be about fashion.
It can be a particular musical style.
If punk to you means spikey hair, power chords , and saying Oi! Then you might only have a superficial understanding of the culture.
I'm not a big fan of the majority of the bands listed so far in this thread and would consider them the cookie cutter, watered down, corporate manifestations of what people now understand as "punk" but I hate to be all music snobby about it. People have different frames of reference, blah blah, subjectivity and all of that.
If you like it, listen to it I say.
I literally do not care how they look or where they are from, or even really have an opinion on what makes "punk". I just thought that a lot of the stuff I like is either classified as "alternative" or "punk", so I thought I'd ask. But yeah, I don't have an opinion on what defines punk, I just know what I like, and what I like is a lot of the time either alternative or punk.