Re: The Punk Rock Thread
The pop-punk stuff is what made the genre profitable, and I saw most of the big ones of the early '00s (MxPx, Blink, Rancid, Dropkicks, Bad Religion), thanks to the Warped Tour (and I knew Bad Religion's singer Greg Graffin when he and I were students at Cornell at the same time). Truth be told, I don't like music that sounds terrible on purpose, which is why the Sex Pistols never did anything for me. The pop-punk bands knew how to make loud music, but make it with a melodic hook that you could sink your ear into. I don't listen to much of it anymore, although Green Day's American Idiot shows what the genre can do at its very best. All I can say is, I was there when it was big (the second time around, anyways), and I wasn't bored, but it's nothing I'd write home about either. The Clash, I've never really listened to beyond the singles. Probably worth at least a bit of investigative listening. The Ramones were the Beach Boys in leather jackets. Nothing I was terribly impressed by.
The genre as a whole doesn't really float my boat these days, but when I was big into the Warped scene, it was fun. Blink put on a hell of an entertaining show, as did the Dropkicks (of course, I'm a sucker for anyone with an Irish slant to their music). Rancid (I thought, anyways) kind of sucked. The early bands, they haven't played much of a role in my musical taste, but again, I'm open to a re-listen.
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