PUNKS

Punk music is unbelievably loud, sounding much like rock, but less musical. Lyrics are shouts and screams about such things as sex, drugs, rape, murder, anarchy, war and chaos. Favorite musical groups are the Dead Kennedys, Generation X, Batallion of Saints, DOA, and Charged GBH (Great Bodily Harm). Other teens would describe Punk music as a bunch of musicians badly abusing their instruments.

These kids dress in shreds of material, safety pins, combat boots, engineer boots, and dog chains. They are involved in self-mutilation, for example, the safety pins in ears, noses, and cheeks. They are destructive, and are usually angry. They hate everyone, even other Punks, and especially authority. Their hairstyle are colorful and outrageous. Drug use is heavy, and invludes alcohol, marijuana, speed, cocaine and, if they can afford it, heroin.

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