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KWSN · 06-30-2003, 08:51 PM

Pop-punk.

Pop-punk bands having the nerve to label themselves "punk" completely alienated and destryoed the original punk scene. There are very few REAL punk bands left, and even they are a rather far cry from the original punk scene. Sum 41, New Found Glory, Mest, Avril, Good Charlotte, Blink-182 and the like are NOT punk. It's the labeling of bands like that AS punk that can be blamed for the impossibility of a REAL punk resurgence ever happening. These shitty pop bands thinking that they were all that completely ruined a great genre. No one who thinks that they're a punk even knows what punk is about anymore. The "hardcore" punks aren't punks, they're just angry kids. There's the mall punks, who are all just a bunch of idiots. There's the "anarchist" punks who think that they're SO damn punk just because some punk band way back when promoted anarchy. They don't listen to the real punk bands because they like them; they listen to them to be cool. Everyone who wants to be the cool kid in the school now can, and all they have to do is dress up like a "punk" or a "gangsta," regardless of what they actually know about the music. No one gets it anymore. The real thing that punk was about is entirely overlooked these days, and I believe that the Dead Kennedys summed it up best:

"Punk means thinking for yourself"

With all the shit out there right now, good fucking luck trying to restore that mentality. It's a damn shame that bands like that had to come in and ruin the entire image of the genre. A damn shame. The same is true for rap... ask one of your average dumbass wigger kiddies to name a great rapper, and who do they say? 50 Cent. Eminem. Sean Paul. These artists are OK at times, but they are _not_real_rappers_

Bet you 50 bucks that if you go up to 10 wannabe "gangstas" and ask them who Chuck D is, maybe one of them gets it right. Maybe.

Terrible.

06-30-2003, 08:51 PM	#32 (permalink)
KWSN green	Pop-punk. Pop-punk bands having the nerve to label themselves "punk" completely alienated and destryoed the original punk scene. There are very few REAL punk bands left, and even they are a rather far cry from the original punk scene. Sum 41, New Found Glory, Mest, Avril, Good Charlotte, Blink-182 and the like are NOT punk. It's the labeling of bands like that AS punk that can be blamed for the impossibility of a REAL punk resurgence ever happening. These shitty pop bands thinking that they were all that completely ruined a great genre. No one who thinks that they're a punk even knows what punk is about anymore. The "hardcore" punks aren't punks, they're just angry kids. There's the mall punks, who are all just a bunch of idiots. There's the "anarchist" punks who think that they're SO damn punk just because some punk band way back when promoted anarchy. They don't listen to the real punk bands because they like them; they listen to them to be cool. Everyone who wants to be the cool kid in the school now can, and all they have to do is dress up like a "punk" or a "gangsta," regardless of what they actually know about the music. No one gets it anymore. The real thing that punk was about is entirely overlooked these days, and I believe that the Dead Kennedys summed it up best: "Punk means thinking for yourself" With all the shit out there right now, good fucking luck trying to restore that mentality. It's a damn shame that bands like that had to come in and ruin the entire image of the genre. A damn shame. The same is true for rap... ask one of your average dumbass wigger kiddies to name a great rapper, and who do they say? 50 Cent. Eminem. Sean Paul. These artists are OK at times, but they are _not_real_rappers_ Bet you 50 bucks that if you go up to 10 wannabe "gangstas" and ask them who Chuck D is, maybe one of them gets it right. Maybe. Terrible. __________________ Your arms are broken!