... and used real instruments and shunned "real rock and roll" and looked down up guitar solos and musical complexity. Punk first hit the mainstream in the form of the UK's Sex Pistols, so sometimes punk is called "The Second British Invasion" even though punk probably came from New York. Punk was the music of social and class rebellion. Also "true punks" would ... ...
... abuse of religion and the warring it causes. Other songs like "Hangar 18" show a mistrust for the government, an attitude also reflected in Mustaine choosing to record a version of the Sex Pistols" "Anarchy in the U.K." Though a dark figure in the world of guitar heroes Mustaine remains a hero to many, if not for the protest music of his own, then for the hope ... ...
... be "more than music- (to use a popular slogan of the hardcore scene). Sociologist Dick Hebdige, for example, analyzed British punk fashion "popularized and commoditized by bands such as the Sex Pistols "as symbolically conveying politically and ideologically subversive meaning. Punk (for Hebdige) operated as a closed, subcultural entity within a specific national (British) configuration of class, race, and generation. Yet, punk/HC ... ...
