punkiness

Pulling out the punkiness of adolescence, she shook herself.

People attending the ball try to outdo each other in punkiness, including Bill (who sings a punk song).

Ditching the stage names and the overt punkiness, the remaining members continued together as Simple Minds (naming themselves after a David Bowie lyric from his song "Jean Genie").

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that the song "rework[ed] the Stranglers' "No More Heroes" into a more universal anthem that loses none of its punkiness".

Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that its "big, crisp, and clean" sound "undercuts some of the punkiness of Green Day's intentions", but complimented their "attack" as "precise" and wrote that the "huge" hooks "gleefully bludgeon doubters into blissful submission."