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[edlglide]

To be really accurate, there is no such thing as punk now (in popular music, at least). Punk was a type of music that was only around for a few years during the 70s and early 80s, then it turned into New Wave. But then New Wave merged with mainstream rock and bands like U2 which were originally considered New Wave were really indistinguishable from mainstream rock bands. Then alternative came around, and those genres all merged together to create what is called rock now. But it's as different from 1970s rock as 1970s rock is from 1950s rock.

(I just finished taking a class on the history of rock music, so I know quite a bit about this stuff now)