Bored Teenagers - A Punk Mixtape Book (by Jonas Engelmann)

'Anarchy in the UK' or 'Boredom'? 'Bored Teenagers' or 'I Wanna Be Sedated'? These are precisely the questions posed by musicians, fanzine writers, authors and journalists, punks, ex-punks and anti-punks. They look back on 50 years of punk and search for their most personally significant song: Which song brought me to punk, which best embodies punk for me?

The anthology 'Bored Teenagers' provides around 100 different answers – with one thing in common: for the authors, punk is still not just another music genre among many, even after half a century. Some look back with a melancholic gaze at their own youth, for others punk is still very much alive. In the collected texts, the music is past, present and future. Punk functions as a musical revolt, break and driving force. It comes as a squat, DIY label and fanzine mail order, can be theory or practice, an introduction to feminism, anarchism and critical theory, art and anti-art, dead and still alive. Only one thing it never is: boring.

While 'Bored Teenagers' is dedicated to the global history of punk, the volume 'Angriff aufs Schlaraffenland' (Attack on the Land of Milk and Honey) will be published simultaneously, shedding light on central songs in German-language punk history.

Bela B, Simon Reynolds, Rike van Kleef, Nikel Pallat, Tex Rubinowitz, Caroline Kraft, Yvy Pop, Veronika Kracher, Annette Simons, Tobias Levin, Christine Franz, Jim Avignon, Triebi Instabil and many more write about classics by Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex, The Ramones and Slime, post-punk by Wire, Au Pairs and Gang of Four, forgotten bands like The Units, Residenz and Leather Nun, chart-toppers by Green Day, The Offspring and Hole and contemporary artists like Sleaford Mods, Coach Party and Negro Terror.