>Discuss why metal is better than punk.
I like both, and Punk helped me get into extreme music, so I can't knock it too hard.
That said, Punks go lengths to overcompensate for some of their relatively privileged backgrounds. I knew a RASH/SHARP "skinhead" (initially a generic Hardcore Punk) whose parents were both doctors. His parents were incredibly stingy and strict, but he found his ways to rebel against mommy and daddy, and he made sure to take a few cues from them politically. The family was progressive as hell, and at virtually every opportunity, he'd extol the virtues of socialism even though, should his vision of a people's revolution happen, there'd be no place for pampered ilk like him. He eventually went to Oxford and graduated. The fucker wouldn't know "working class" if the ghost of Samuel Gompers shit on his face.
A Crust Punk I knew grew up with two lesbian parents, with his biological father eventually becoming a tranny. The family was horribly broken in every facet of life (allegations of abuse were rampant), so he warmed up readily to the nomadic lifestyle of a Crust Punk squatter. At one point, he confided in me his plans to break into his folks's home and steal all the valuables to pawn off. I stayed silent and never heard of what happened later, so it's entirely possible he was merely blustering. Fast forward four years later, and he died at a party of an overdose. He became heavily addicted to virtually every type of intoxicant, so news of this didn't remotely surprise me. I showed up at his funeral with a mix of the kids we knew in school and the Crust Punks he knew along the way as well as his bandmates; whole affair was incredibly depressing, really.
Song related: one of my favorite skinhead Oi! anthems. Wish Metal and skinhead subculture would overlap some more.