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three chords, two minutes, one giant middle finger to everyone who said you couldn't.

means A loud, fast, defiantly raw style of rock music (and its associated anti-authority subculture and fashion), or more loosely a young hoodlum, troublemaker, or worthless person.

from "Punk" surfaces in English around the 17th century meaning a prostitute, and soon also rotten or decayed woodthe soft, crumbling kind that smolders and was used as tinder. From "worthless, rotten" the word drifted to mean a worthless person or petty criminal, and by the 20th century a contemptible young upstart. The musical sense was pinned on by 1970s rock critics who took the existing slurpunk as cheap, snotty, no-goodand wore it like a badge. The deeper roots are murky; no one's certain where the original "punk" came from.

originSlang once meant a worthless person or rotten wood.
the ramonesMost songs clocked under two and a half minutes.
diy ethicFanzines taught the genre's whole philosophy via photocopier.
safety pinBorrowed from broke fashion, became a global emblem.
sid viciousCould barely play bass; sometimes amp was unplugged.
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