What happened after punk?

[bluepunk18]

Okay everyone! This thread/poll was started because of a discussion in this thread:http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=88826

For those of you who followed or do currently follow alternative lifestyles, which did you turn to after being Punk? Multiple choices are allowed, so if you tried a few, don't be shy to mark them all.

I personally started with Punk in middle school. It progressed into more punk and I started to branch out when I heard NIN. I wasn't angry enough to stay punk or to try being goth, so I opted to dress like a skinhead briefly. I liked wearing shiny boots and suspenders/braces, but this lifestyle is a big negative stereo-type in a lot of places in the world. That being said, I've made a lot of friends from different backgrounds, some skinhead, some punk, some rockers. I had a mini-epiphany, if you will, and came to love Psychobilly and Rockabilly. I tried greasing back my hair and wearing dark jeans and western shirts. I try to be retro as much as time and money will allow, and thus I enjoy shaving with a vintage Blue-tip, wearing 4711 and hanging out at Rat Rod Shows. I'm dabbling a bit with preppy, and like being well dressed, but I'm not ready to give in and go totally main stream. Enjoy the post!

 

[masonjarjar]

I've never really been defined by the music I listened to. I caught the hardcore/punk train a few years late, after getting kind of bored with heavy metal in the mid-to-late 80's hair metal overload years. But then I quickly moved, via bands like R.E.M., the Meat Puppets and Husker Du from punk to more indie/alternative music. I voted "goth" because I did go through a few years trying to recapture the spirt of the early 1980's by diving into bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Smiths, Siouxsie, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode and the Cure, dressing all black, smoking too much and acting all depressed. However, I listen to so many kinds of music that the "goth" thing didn't last very long. Reggae? Check. Manchester? Check. Industrial? Big Check. Those early NIN years in Cleveland were a blast. I still love punk music. Never really was a punk though.

 

[OldSaw]

That was sooo long ago. I sort of quit being a punk when I joined the Navy.

 

[professorchaos]

Post-punk?

 

[masonjarjar]

Post-punk?

I was huge into what we called "post-hardcore" in the early-to-mid 90's.

Helmet
Melvins
Jesus Lizard
Tar
Unsane
Hammerhead
Alice Donut
Steelpole Bathtub
Don Caballero
Cows

to name a few..

 

[Brodirt]

Is the inquiry into our taste in music, our style of dress or our adaptation of a "life style" wholesale?

Also, I think that the time period in which we were "punk" is very important as it would absolutely effect the direction you went after "punk."

 

[bluepunk18]

Is the inquiry into our taste in music, our style of dress or our adaptation of a "life style" wholesale?

Also, I think that the time period in which we were "punk" is very important as it would absolutely effect the direction you went after "punk."

Excellent question. As far as I was thinking, the lifestyle and music. I agree that depending on the time frame, you might have a very different outcome and a different idea of punk music and culture.

 

[Nishnabotna]

I'm leaning towards Libertarian.

 

[GoldenMonkey]

What?!? No choice for METAL!!!!!!11!!!1!?

I sorta went from punk to...well...there wasn't any analog at the time, but I guess cyberpunk and industrial...this was mid-late 80's, and I was really into bands like Sigue Sigue Sputnik, The Cassandra Complex, Ministry, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Bigod 20, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc. I used to wear some weird stuff...I had this sorta military/industrial look going...epaulets made out of circuit boards, huge nails along with the ubiqiutous safty pins, East German Paratrooper boots, strange bits of electronics here and there...it was all William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams and Bruce Stirling's fault, along with Tony James, Blade Runner, and Clockwork Orange.

After I mellowed out and got apolitical and increasingly dystopian, I just migrated to an open mind, more metal, classic rock, industrial, blues...anything and everything.

 

[professorchaos]

I was huge into what we called "post-hardcore" in the early-to-mid 90's.

Helmet
Melvins
Jesus Lizard
Tar
Unsane
Hammerhead
Alice Donut
Steelpole Bathtub
Don Caballero
Cows

to name a few..

I am still into a lot of Punk and Hardcore. Early Bad Brains still rock way harder than any one band should.

 

[GoldenMonkey]

I am still into a lot of Punk and Hardcore.

...and early weird Rolling Stones as well apparently...

 

[neilxvx]

Punk will never die. It assumes new forms and expands, progresses, but it never dies. The philosophical mindset of punk and the concepts that mindset carries can be found today.

Just a year ago I was in a van touring across the states with four good friends with nothing in our pockets but enough cash to get to the next city and buy some food. Now I work 12 hours a day at a German car dealership, with pressed clothes and always a clean shaven face!

I started listening to punk when I was about 12, and I grew up around a blossoming punk and indie scene. Nowadays I keep my inner punk alive in a few ways, but you wouldn't know it unless you knew me well.

 

[neilxvx]

Early Bad Brains still rock way harder than any one band should.

YES!

 

[Brodirt]

I think my direction, post-punk, can best be described by a "small" concert I went to in the mid-80's...Murphy's Law opening for Public Enemy warming up for The Beastie Boys.

What a show that was! The Boys stage dressing were 2 "go-go girls" in cages @ stage left and stage right, and behind the DJ in the center was a 25 foot inflatalbe penis.

I was a post-punk 80's prep at that time...musically my tastes were, and remain, mostly the slightly out of the mainstream alternative. My lifestyle is decidely more conservative and always has been.

 

[endcycle]

adult, with a job, still punk. just don't show it at work is all.

 

[moojuece]

I would still class myself as a punk. I selected multiple options though.

I am still a punk and will always be one, but I currently act as a promoter/booker locally for rockabilly/psychobilly/roots country/etc and run a site called twincitiesrockabilly.com to promote the local rockabilly "scene". I have often viewed rockabilly and punk as very compatible lifestyles. I look more rockabilly these days but can still be found in the pit at a punk rock show with mohawked kids half my age. At least until I finally break a hip in there.
I also selected adult with a job because I do that thing too.

 

[Chuck Jager]

I was huge into what we called "post-hardcore" in the early-to-mid 90's.

Helmet
Melvins
Jesus Lizard
Tar
Unsane
Hammerhead
Alice Donut
Steelpole Bathtub
Don Caballero
Cows

to name a few..

I would like to add Quicksand to that list!

but to piggy back on the second post it, I've always listened to many styles of music to consider myself part of any kind of movement or scene. I love to tell people that I love Abba (which I do, sue me) and watch thier eyes go from my tattoo sleeve to my EPMD shirt with the most puzzled expression on thier face.

always keep em guessing...

 

[masonjarjar]

I would like to add Quicksand to that list!

"Landmine Spring" is classic.

 

[joshmpdx]

this is an interesting poll, when i started moving on from simpler chords and melodies i started listening to the pixies and modest mouse... which i suppose are more "indy" or "art-ish"

 

[neilxvx]

I would like to add Quicksand to that list!

DUDE, YES x10000!