More Punk Rock

Today the video showed me some more about what Punk Rock was all about. It began to get pretty violent and weird at some points. I remember in the video it talked about a crazy band called the Sex Pistols. This band began touring in America in Atlanta and had a few incidents with some rednecks. Rednecks did not like their style of music and there were many fights that broke out between the band and the rednecks. Also, there was a strange band of girls called, The Slits. They were extremely different and out there, but many people liked there new style. Punk Rock got really nasty towards the end, and violence and songs about "F*** the World," were the new thing. This was known a hardcore punk, where to me things got a little creepy. Punk finally came to an end in the 1980s, and there was a bit of silence from Punk Rock until the early 90s. In the early 90s, the famous band Nirvana came out with its hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I absolutely love this song! My brother is a huge fan so that how I started listening to them. Nirvana was an escape for teenagers and young people in America. Even though many of their songs do not make sense, the rock and roll and attitude style of Nirvana made them incredibly popular. One thing that has always kind of creeped me out about Punk Rock is that there are some lead singers that ended up killing themselves. Like the lead singer for The Sex Pistols, and Kirk Cobain from Nirvana, and even Jimmy Hendrix. Most all Punk Rockers were on drugs, and some got to such a point where they killed themselves. Many of these bands were successful, it is a shame they had to end their success so soon.