8 Irrefutable Reasons Punk Rock Is Good For Your Kids

5. It Encourages Kids To Actually Want To Pick Up An Instrument

Most of what you see in the pop charts hasn't actually been written by the artists singing the song. They haven't picked up a guitar or sat at a drum kit and made music from scratch - they've merely danced and mimed to whatever their backstage songwriters have come up with. What can you possibly learn, musically, from that? Your favourite punk band was more than likely inspired by another awesome punk band, and the reason they made music was due to their inspiration from another punk band. There's something about a real pulse-racing riff that makes it impossible not to want to learn an instrument and bash the hell out of it, even if you totally suck.