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Almost thirty years ago now, driving around on a hot summer day with a couple of friends. One guy puts a punk mix tape in the player, and the guy with a college music scholarship was aesthetically offended. "Anyone could make this music," he complained.

The other guy nodded in agreement and replied, "that's the point."

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The other thing about punk is that it's really more an attitude. Some punks are really skilled musicians and lyricists that bring a lot of outside influence into their music.

NOFX's El Hefe and Bad Religion's Greg Graffin come to mind, respectively in your sentence.

Good choices. I was thinking of Bad Brains, who started out as a fusion band, and Craig Finn's early stuff, but that probably gets into more post-punk.

Reagan Youth and Dave Rubinstein come to mind as well.

If we're going out in the world of genre-spanning punk, Husker Dü, Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu, Wire, and (possibly if you count them) Shellac deserve a strong recommendation. The creativity and diversity in the world of post-punk is remarkable.

You can't just mention Husker Du and not bring up The Replacements!

Was just reading parent comment and thinking “we don’t play ska anymore, we don’t play ska anymore, because it sucks”

Punk is so interesting in his variations. Compare with metal where speed, black, alternative etc are quite coded and baroque, whereas punk still manages to stat fresh.

I think while there are plenty genre that requires more skill than punk, that doesn’t make punk itself the musical equivalent of simpleton.

In some aspects, it’s the artigianal counterpart of the mass produced pop.

I got into playing the accordion because I decided that I wanted to learn some Dead Kennedys songs on the accordion (no I am not duckmandu). Some of them are quite tricky. Compare to the Sex Pistols who are musically boring but more than made up for it with the attitude and lyrics.

A beautiful sentiment :) I believe this should apply to tech as well – it shouldn't be an exclusive field and building logical apps should be simple. That's kind of why I chose to brand my freelance business as Punk Rock Dev.

https://punkrockdev.com/

Well, try to play some of the Toy Dolls tunes at their tempo. Olga is quite the master.

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