30 years ago today:

[Haven]

On 30 March 1976, the Sex Pistols played the 100 Club in London's Oxford Street and punk rock hit the headlines.

The combination of loud music, ripped clothing and spiky hair formed part of a movement that is said to have influenced everyone from Oasis to the Arctic Monkeys.

Source - bbc

 

[Taffy]

I can't really appreciate Punk music. I find it too... random. Is there meant to be any rhythm in it, or is it just random crashing of various instruments?

 

[Haven]

Its anarchistic protest with drums and guitars - beat and rythm is optional, intent is mandatory.

Or, given todays media centric world - its a fashion statement complete with expensive high-street accessories.

Take your pick.

 

[Gopha]

Hehe, Anarchy good concept,never work

 

[Taffy]

A bit like communism, except that communism can rarely work. Anarchy would never work. Ever.

 

[Haven]

Its not supposed to work, its an enabler i.e. a means of enforcing change. Its not supposed to be an end point in and of its own right!

Its like protest isn't supposed to become a political or belief system - its a tool that gets a job done.

 

[Taffy]

Ah right I get it

 

[Gopha]

Just as a temporary situation. Hmmm which countries are "supposedly communist" in the world today, i know China

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

The commercialization of punk rock was not a good thing. Punk was against conforming to what was popular, but now it's popular...

Wikipedia sums it up rather nicely.

 

[BiG D]

Uncyclopedia does it better

 

[Nanor]

Just as a temporary situation. Hmmm which countries are "supposedly communist" in the world today, i know China

Cuba and Vietnam also

 

[Gopha]

O hyer cuba has had the same man for like 40 years

 

[Fuzzy Bunny]

That's a dictatorship, which is different from communism. A dictatorship is governing, and communism is economic. Like democracy and capitalism.

 

[Pestcontrol]

Vietnam communist? Not really as far as i know. Also all communist states have been dictatorships to some degree, including china.

Best examples today: North Korea, Cuba. Burma's another one (officially titled: Socialist republic of Myanmar), and probably a few that aren't in the news so much that i missed. The world's a big place.

But the best example i know of communism the way it was meant to be, isn't a state but rather some rebel-controlled regions of south America. It's not all bad there.

As for punk, i like the music, and the idea of punk still lives, in other kinds of music. The original punk is an era that is no more. I think it's important to separate punk in it's musical and political elements, as each of these have gone completely separate ways.