What got you into Punk?

How in the world did you end up the way you are? Is it in your blood? Sick of being like everyone else?

I was always into punk. My first C.D I ever got, at the age of four, was Punk Rock Is Your Friend. I was immediately entranced. Then slowly became the strange, unique person I am. My friend showed me a bunch of bands that he liked and then I started listening to more punk. Went to my first concert in November of seventh grade and saw mohawks and liberty spikes. I wanted one so bad, I got one over the summer.

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Permalink Reply by Wolf Madchen on December 6, 2010 at 6:49pm

My close friend got me into punk, she took me to my first show when we were 17, Total Choas. I really wish I woulda started younger. Haha sometimes I feel 'behind'. It's all good. I used to be a loser goth anime nerd haha good times, not really.

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Permalink Reply by ┌x┐ • •┌x┐Pots Pots Pots on December 6, 2010 at 7:27pm

Tara got me into Punk ---; )

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Permalink Reply by Käse Koplin on December 7, 2010 at 7:34am

hehe I'm feeling behind as well, I'm listening a lot to swedsih punk bands like asta kask and smuttstvätt :)

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Permalink Reply by Cpt. Oblivious on December 7, 2010 at 2:50pm

I got into it through pop-punk like Green Day, Sum41 and Blink 182. Then I looked at their influences and liked what I heard then, I just started trying to get as much punk as I could. I've slipped into metal more nowadays, but they're both good.

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Permalink Reply by Emily! on September 2, 2011 at 7:09pm

That's exactly how I got into punk. in 8th grade was obsessed with Green Day. When i read about who their favorite bands were it opened me up to a whole new world of punk.

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Permalink Reply by scumtriumphant on September 2, 2011 at 8:52pm

I'm actually really jealous of people who had the whole Green Day, Blink, Sum 41 phase, it seems like tons of people have that background, whereas I went from no interest in music ----> indie shit ----> Rancid + punk. Always feels like I've missed something along the way

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Permalink Reply by Josh Also on December 8, 2010 at 2:18am

i came into punk in a prefect sory book sort of manor. but the condensed version is that once i finally realized that i didnt need to fit any sort of mold to be happy (durring summer when i was 13, oh the memories), i just sort of let myself go. out came a punk rocker, and im happier than i have ever been.

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Permalink Reply by Sloth on December 12, 2010 at 2:27am

well my dad used to be a punk so i grew up around it but i got more serios after i saw suicidal tendencies and went into the pit and met this girl who was to old for me when i was 12. :D

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Permalink Reply by ZachAttack on February 25, 2011 at 8:42pm

Actually, over time I had seen other punks (and this was the time that I was unsure what I was going to do about myself on high school) I had bad mannerisms in junior high and was often accused of being gay. I had seen other punks and wanted to have the hair that they did. I didn't like the clothes or accessories or anything, but I just wanted the hair. After convincing the Mom about it, I then decided to do some research. Boy, was I wrong. Punk was nothing about the look and the more I thought about it, the more I came to realize that these are my actual beliefs. And, I've grown to be one tough punk since and I've never been called gay. I left those old mannerisms in junior high and went into high school being the best punk I could be and it proved to be good for me :) It even got me a hot ass girlfriend, which was very nice ;)

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Permalink Reply by Vox-mercy on February 26, 2011 at 2:26pm

Metallica. When they did the garage days album where they covered a few punk rock songs by Misfits, Anti-Nowhere League etc. So I wanted to investigate the originals.

I picked up a misfits album, that did a 180 for me.

Me and my buds in grade school were Metalheads. We hated punk rock. Our exposure was with the bubble-gum nasal-vocal stuff. We did not know anybody who was into 'The Exploited', 'DOA', 'Subhumans', 'Discharge', 'Charged GBH' etc.

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Permalink Reply by Sesh Hunt on February 26, 2011 at 2:49pm

lol everyones story sound better that mine xD

I came from a very prissy very 'normal' family, we had no money but my mother liked to look like she had alot of money. My mum was very srict and i was never aloud past the front gate unless i was going to school.

One day i had an arguement with my mum when i was ten and smashed my bedroom window (which i paid for badly lol), and ran into the garden. A guy walked past my house with a massive blue and pink hawk with leopard print, i was crying and he looked at me funny so i swore at him and he laughed and was 'i like you' and had a go at my mother for me, after that i wanted to be like that guy lol. I started to hang around with him and a few skins and it went from there....pretty boring really xD