Give Vent To All Your Feelings, Listen To Punk Rock

photo credit: Carlos Varela
By Tom Janison

Punk rock is a genre of music that opposes everything that
traditional rock music represented. This kind of music came into
prominence during the mid 1970s in countries like Australia,
United States and the United Kingdom. However like all other
genres of music it is rather difficult to pin point the exact
time and place of origin. The exponents of punk music were bands
like The Clash, Ramones, The Velvet Underground, Dolls of New
York and Sex Pistols, in fact they were considered to be the
earlier vanguard of punk music. Punk rock music is very
aggressive and this is clearly evident in their dress, behavior,
music, aggressive attitude, mannerisms and everything else that
is associated with the punk musicians. Punk rock musicians had a
DIY attitude and they were not very bothered about socializing.
Punk rock became more famous in the United Kingdom in the 70s
then it was in any other place.

Punk Rock is characterized by certain particular features. Punk
rock is largely different from rock music that was popular in
the early 1970s; this kind of music was in no way tame, like the
rock music in earlier days was. The exponents of punk rock were
fed up of the music scene back in those days where all music
sounded similar, and people were getting increasingly tired of
listening to the same type of music again and again. It is
during this time and due to the increasingly familiar music
being dished out to music lovers, this genre of music came into
being. Some of the characteristic features of punk music are
angry messages against consumerism, stimulating stage presence,
aggression and short frantic songs. Typical punk music
instrument includes electric bass, 1 or 2 electric guitars, a
drum kit and there is a vocalist singing the songs.

Sometimes punk music vocals sound nasal and mostly the lyrics
of the songs are shouted rather then being sung in the
conventional way. Normally punk songs last for about two and two
and a half minutes, and sometimes the song may even last for
less then one minute. Complicated guitar solos are not
considered necessary for punk music, but one can find guitar
breaks to be very common. While some punk bands have taken a
soft rock approach with the guitar there are musicians that use
highly distorted power chords in their songs.  The bass guitar
lines that are used are the most basic ones and helps in
carrying forward the songs melody. Punk music bassists generally
use plectrum instead of the traditional finger picking to play
the instrument as they make use of a rapid succession of notes.

The lyrics of punk music are generally very frank and
confrontational, and include comments on social and political
issues. There are several punk songs that became a trend setter,
some of them are Right to Work, God Save the Queen, Career
Opportunities and Anarchy in the UK. All these trend setter
songs were vocal about the prevailing anarchy in the social and
political system at that time. Punk Rock symbolizes rebellion
against any kind of disorder prevailing in a society.

About the Author: Tom Janison is a music fanatic. He loves
downloading music of all his favorite artists.
http://www.ez-tracks.com is one of his favorites sites for free
music,Punk Rock,Love Songs,free MP3 downloads and online music.

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