Forum Idiot said:those four bands arent punk rock bands. listen to a real punk rock band and youll understand why. blink, offspring and greenday USED TO BE punk but then they turned mainstream especially offspring. its almost embaressing. ill vote blink though.
El Garbo said:Forum Idiot, you've just lived up to your name. Listen to a real 'punk rock' band? Why is it that when a punk band develops popularity amongst the general population, they're views to have sold out? It happened twice with the Offspring - after Smash and again after Americana.
Popularity doesn't determine musical genre. Style does. I listen to the Offspring and the Green Day of today and the style sounds remarkably similar to how it used to be. And yet, because they've been accepted by the mainstream, they're no longer 'punk' bands?
The problem is that 'punks' tend to think of themself as some sort of social minority, and anything that is mainstream can't possibly be a part of their 'rebellious' lifestyle. The fact that the punk style has become so cliched (like Goths) that by rebelling against everything, they're just conforming to a mainstream fashion sense.
i think you need to listen to them both again. they are completely different. SWJ will agree with me there.half-man said:but idiot
duderanch and enema sound the same
Forum Idiot said:i think you need to listen to them both again. they are completely different. SWJ will agree with me there.half-man said:but idiot
duderanch and enema sound the same
get out some old frenzal cds or even the sex pistols if you want punkrock. in the meantime - go f**k yourself
:lol: ben is a merkin! that is an awesome song.El Garbo said:get out some old frenzal cds or even the sex pistols if you want punkrock. in the meantime - go f**k yourself
Ahhh lovely. The boy can't put together an argument so he resorts to name calling. Well done.
I own all of Frenzal Rhomb's CDs - and you mean to tell me that such hits as a cover of Home and Away's theme song, a song where the chorus is "I think you're really nice but I couldn't bring myself to f**k you" and another where almost all of the song is just "Ben is a merkin" repeated ad infinitum - these are all what punk is all about???
Because if that's the case, then bloody hell, sounds a lot like some of the gibberish that comes from the Offspring and Blink etc these days.
I listen to modern Offspring and it sounds pretty much the same style as it was back in the self-titled, Ignition and Smash days. Some of their songs are more aimed at marketability, but they still sound like the same old band.