Music Genre: Punk

Punk music must be taken as politics, dress, lyrics, venues, raw materials, and even management style coupled with philosophy of anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian, political dissident, deliberate offensiveness, rejection/corruption of mainstream, and do-it-yourself/amateurish attitude. Self-governing in all possible aspects of music. Even so far as to rejecting outside influences that might improve useful skills (musical skill, public relations, event coordination, optimally functional instruments, etc...). Such things that might otherwise be defined as shortcomings are embraced.

This tag will not likely be the only music genre tag on a game entry. A single song may switch, alternate, or cycle several styles throughout. There can be four styles while a single line is sung.
music-punk music-rock
music-punk music-metal
music-punk music-orchestral

Musical instruments:
ANYTHING. Start with one or two guitars, bass, drums, and a human voice as typical but expect anything else to be used; horns, animal horns, ukulele, violin, flute, sax, tuba, feedback, bells, spit, bagpipes, chainsaw, organ, handclaps, blowing nose, banjo, chains, animal noises, footsteps, fruit. Also, one should not expect anything to be used as intended. For instance, a second electric guitar might only be used for the sound generated as its face is scraped over cement. A vocalist with a good singing voice is not required. If a vocalist is good, they will probably do other things with their voice beside singing good. Talent (when present) is utilized when the artist wants to use it, not necessarily when expected, certainly not when requested. "This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band".

Note the first 1 minute and 15 seconds of this song is disguised as ambient noise.


Steven Foster's lyrics make it punk:


This singer was a very bad singer. But he praticed and developed a voive that could sing _anything_. In the following video, he seems to make mistakes and sing poorly at times. Some lines sound like he's singing a lulliby, some lines are out of sync with the music, some sound like opera. Every millisecond of singing and silence is intended. He sang it this way every time. When he sang this song, he ment it. He lived it before, during, and after the song. Another punk before it was cool:




This is a corruption of disco music. Disco typically uses 4 beats per measure to make it easy to dance to. Heart of Glass switches beats, even using seven beats and eight beats per measure; challenging dancers to listen and think (or not care and dance wrong). Note a band member is playing a phone cord. And just to make their intent completely obvious, band members misuse a disco-ball. The song was a hit everywhere, except in discothèques (punk win). Debbie Harry makes good use of her voice talent throughout the song. So, the lyrics "Pain in the ass" are included; forcing the venues that would most appreciate her voice to consider censoring it.



Possibly the most stereotypical punk rock sound in this article:




Some might think Lindsey Stirling is embracing mainstream. It may be subtle, but she's actually corrupting it.