punk
punk (pngk) noun
1.Slang. a. A young
person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture
group. b. An inexperienced young man.
2.Music. a. Punk rock.
b. A punk rocker.
3.a. Slang. A young man
who is the sexual partner of an older man. b. Archaic. A
prostitute.
4.Dry, decayed wood,
used as tinder.
5.Any of various
substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks.
6.Chinese incense.
adjective
Slang.
1.Of or relating to a
style of dress worn by punk rockers and often characterized by
unusual clothing, hairstyles,
and makeup.
2.Of poor quality;
worthless.
3.Weak in spirits or
health.
[Origin unknown.]
- punker noun
punk rock
punk rock (pngk rk)
noun
Music.
A form of hard-driving
rock music characterized by harsh lyrics attacking
conventional society and popular culture and often
expressing alienation
and anger.
punk (noun)
male: youth, lad, tyke, teen,
punk, stripling, young man, boy, youngster
Punk
Punks in their silly
leather jackets are a clich. I have never liked the term and
have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of
it when it became a competition.
John Lydon [Johnny Rotten]
(b. 1957), British rock musician. _Observer_ (London, 4 May
1986).
punk (adjective)
bad: no good,
worthless, shoddy, tacky, crummy, ropy, punk, pathetic,
useless
vicious: punk,
worthless, unworthy, meritless, graceless, disapproved
Punk
Punk to me was a form
of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds
of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have
expected to hear in public were being heard all over the
place.
Greil Marcus (b. 1945),
U.S. rock journalist. Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern
Art and Culture, "Punk and History" (ed. by Russell, Ferguson
et. al., 1990). The essay is the transcript of a discussion,
24 Sept. 1988, New York.
Punk
At its best New
Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that
if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they
want in absolutely any fashion they can
dream up, they'll be
creative about it, and do something good besides.
Lester Bangs (1948-82),
U.S. rock journalist. New Musical Express (London, 24 Dec.
1977).
Plagiarism
Stealing things is a
glorious occupation, particularly in the artworld.
Malcolm McLaren (b.
1946), British rock impresario. "Punk and History," transcript
of discussion, 24 Sept. 1988, New York City (published in
Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, ed.
by Russell Ferguson et. al., 1990).
Rock 'n' Roll
Rock & roll
doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and
it doesn't mean a lyric, really. . . . It's that question of
trying to be immortal.
Malcolm McLaren (b.
1946), British rock impresario. "Punk and History," transcript
of discussion, 24 Sept. 1988, New York City (published in
Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, ed.
by Russell Ferguson, et al., 1990).
cyberpunk
(s'ber-punk`) noun
1. A genre of
near-future science
fiction in which conflict and action take place in
virtual reality
environments maintained on global computer
networks in a
worldwide culture of dystopian
alienation. The prototypical cyberpunk
novel is
William
Gibson's
_Neuromancer_
(1982).
2. A category of
popular culture that resembles the ethos of cyberpunk fiction.
3. A person or
fictional character who resembles the heroes of cyberpunk
fiction.
after being obsessed with it over 10
years, i realized what attracted me to punk the most was the
energy. it was definitely a backlash within a certain
context of time and
region, and spread
memetically
and systematically through the whole world. it mutated
often and it is probably now indefinable. what mattered
the most was the the idea of bombastic, stripped down energy
and fun. usually in a negative direction. when i
found the concept of TAZ and the transcendental inclinations
of "the party" or "the gathering" within a sociological
context, the notion of punk made more sense. the most
potent space/time coordinates for punk were 76-78 u.k., 80-82
u.s.
hardcore..
then the thousands of variants that proliferated until
the
Nirvana
explosion. the reason for this was to initiate the
idea of DIY and the empowerment of the individual within the
entertainment
"industry".
resonance,
feedback and
iteration will occur more slowly in the realm of film and
video, because usually it starts with music and moves on from
there. why? well, music can be made by modular
units - a group of friends, or even individuals. the
production revolution followed the band revolution which
followed the zine revolution... it's all a breakdown of
empowerment to modular and self sustaining levels.
whereas before, you depended on a huge entity to get your
memes across, now it is going peer to peer. punk was a
catalyst for that. things no longer needed to be
"professional". it became more spontaneous and
individualized.
to me, it was a
natural course to follow punk with that of the musical TAZ. punk was
still within the structure of the industry, very urban, then
suburban, and always decaying. when rave hit my
psyche, i
focused
the energy of punk into that of movement and
communication. the party scene involved and embraced
technology. now punk seems archaic, with blunt
instruments and a very predictable format.
the party scene was still too urban for me, so i emigrated
over to the secret outdoor gatherings. it made perfect
sense there. punk energy, constructive and positive,
with no political drives but only a
strange
attractor of nonsensical and highly meaningful
experiences.
so punk served its
purpose, and was very necessary. there seems to be a
pattern within scenes of any kind - music, art, industry,
school, workplace, etc. the initial spark of chaos and fun and
indefinability gives way to snobbish pretension and ego
infested jockeying for cool. rules get set up and
things start becoming "this or that". the only
way to re-
dissolve
boundaries is to opt out in a timely manner and find
something new. don't stick around to argue. if you do,
you end up clinging onto "the good old days". this is
waste of time, when something fresh and new is happening
NOW. the trick
is to keep the new thing a secret for as long as
possible. hype kills. we don't need to
rush towards oblivion,
let it come gradually so we can have time to acclimate and
create new scenes. there is no need for the whole
world to know
immediately,
this great thing. selling millions of units and
advertising and marketing should be left up to those that
want to define it and make a parasitic living off of a good
thing. the smart ones dip into the
moment, and
leave quietly and let the loudmouths argue over the rags and
bones. this is what
i learned
from the scene of my time. it applies to the scene of
now, and in whatever future energy attractors that may
arise. the "generation gap" is a myth. we all
have our push and our time, and the skill comes in
recognizing what it is, and when to stop and to not let it
become a habit and a sweet nostalgia. punk died in '77, and
hardcore died in '81, and a hundred deaths for a hundred
subgenres followed. scenes follow the pattern of the
universe, from the big bang on. goa
died in '96. long live all those scenes - in all
four
dimensions
of time and space that we can sense. otherwise, it's
rehashing nostalgia. - @Om* 8/29/01
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political anarcho punk
band Flux Of Pink
Indians on Crass records (disbanded 1984)
The previous year,
punk rock had appeared and the King's Road had become
heartland. Without success, the Sex Pistols, their manager
Malcolm McLaren and their art director Jamie Reid tried
to
contact Barrett, to
ask him to produce their first album. The Damned hoped he
would produce their second, realised it was impossible and
settled for the Floyd's Nick Mason ('Who didn't have a clue',
according to the band's bassist Captain Sensible).
- _You Shone Like The Sun_ - article on Syd
Barrett in _The Observer_ October 6th, 2002
video (vhs/ntsc) - _Louder, Shorter, Faster -
San Francisco live punk_
alt.punk
alt.punk.seventy-seven