There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be... it's not art, it's expression.
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.