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Post by Playboy on Nov 18, 2001 17:15:59 GMT -5
ive been listening to punk since i was 11 years old. i used to be into that scene pretty hardcore. im not a punk now (which must make me a poseur), but i still love the music. it totally defines the nihilistic generation back in the day.
people talk about bands being punk now, but the sad truth is that punk is dead. Green day, blink 182, offspring, AFI, and so on are all said to be punk, but they arent. no punk band would ever go platinum or sell 50 million records. Real punk is bands like the sex pistols, generation x, exploited, chaos uk.
oh yeah and one more thing: FUCK BLINK182!!!!
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Post by Max on Nov 18, 2001 18:38:58 GMT -5
Sex Pistols used to rule punk! .....only punk group I ever liked. Did you used to dress punk with hair and clothes and go to underground clubs like they show in movies? I'm picturing Nicholas Cage in Valley Girl lol.
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Post by Playboy on Nov 18, 2001 21:52:35 GMT -5
yeah i thought i was so bad ass back then. i had the liberty spikes with colors varying each week, i had the black leather jacket held together by about a hundred safety pins, it was always fun to go places with my parents. i got suspended from school for a week for having green hair. i was underage so my buds and i used to have to sneak into certain shows. i remember sneaking in to see bad religion and the exploited, it was such a blast.
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Post by Creepy on Jan 18, 2002 20:07:56 GMT -5
There is still good punk rock out there, you just have to get off your lazy ass and find them! Some of the best are:
The Nerve Agents
Conflict
The Capitalist Casualties
and American Nightmare (they have some hardcore elements in their too, but they're basically a punk band)
Oh yeah and about AFI, who says punk rock can't be experimental? The whole concept of punk rock is making the music you want too on your own terms, and you can't sell out if you don't stand for anything, and AFI really doesn't stand for anything, they just like to write gloomy music.
and the Sex Pistols were the backstreet boys of the punk rock world who were hired by Virgin records so they could cash in on the movement. They didn't know each other and they didn't know how to play an instrument.
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Post by Playboy on Jan 19, 2002 17:24:00 GMT -5
the Sex Pistols were the backstreet boys of the punk rock world who were hired by Virgin records so they could cash in on the movement. They didn't know each other and they didn't know how to play an instrument. dude get your facts straight before you start throwing mud. The sex pistols were a band formed by a fashion-designer; Malcolm McLaren. They first signed with EMI records, but then were kicked from the label for their conduct at shows, they began a streak of getting booted from many different labels but ultimately cashing in. the only full album they recorded was for Virgin just before getting kicked from that label. They all knew each other before becomming the Pistols, a few of them went to catholic school together and hanging out in the rebellious groups. As for you saying they couldnt play instruments, youre partly right, Steve Jones could only play a few guitar cords when they first started playing and Sid Vicious could not play the bass, partly because he was so strung out on heroin all the time, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook had been playing their instruments for many years before joining the group and Johnny Rotten wrote poetry and lyrics in his spare time. as for bands like AFI, i dont particularly dislike them, but they are by no means punk rock. |
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