What I have been thinking about punk, based on what little I have heard and something else I mention below, is that it could be more the idea and argument that "Why does it have to sound like everything else? Why can't we make it different and unusual?" and similarly "It should be strange and 'messy', shouldn't it? Why not?", sort of things. I read or heard something years ago that said punk was supposed to sound as it does, so I think it is more deliberate. Hey, if you can make music out of pots, pans, plates and pantry items, then why not?! Lol. People are fed-up with "the system", "the man", "the powers that be", "the establishment", so I am guessing it was borne out of that, and maybe bullying and fitting-in, or lack thereof, with current genres of music and genres of other things and sub-cultural groups, etc.
One song I like, and before I realised the name of it and what the main lyric was, is Adolescents - Amoeba. I don't know all of the lyrics - mostly the main one. It sounds quite good... until I realised they're literally lyric-ing "amoeba"... lol. The song was written by a Rikk Agnew -
Despite graduating with a 4.2 GPA, he loathed high school, saying it "destroyed more than it taught socially" and describing it as a place where people going through the changes of puberty and angst are being taught together to learn stuff for their lives.[5] Because he was shy, Agnew gravitated toward music, and played various instruments that he and his younger brothers Frank and Alfie found around the house.[6]
Formerly of
Social Distortion
Adolescents
Christian Death
D.I.
45 Grave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikk_Agnew
I mentioned pots, pants, plates and pantry items before I read this. I don't know if they count as instruments in this Wikipaedia entry, though.
