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The way I see it, there's Old Punk and New Punk.
The Old Punk was the best, bands like the Sex Pistols and the Stooges. And you have to give credit to the pop-sounds of the Ramones and the Clash.
New Punk is devided in two categories:
1.Real Punk- stuff thats more or less screeming out a political speeches with a detuned guitar, it's more about propaganda and/or selling records than music.
2.Pop Punk- Pretty much everything that doesn't fit into real punk. Bands that just play the same four chords on every song. These bands all have the same sound, there are different types, but they all sound alike.
Bands that don't fit into these categories and have an original sound (Green Day, Rancid, Op Ivy) are my favorite.
And yeah man, Sonic Youth's awesome, but they're definitely not Punk.
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