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Pop Punk / Pop punk militia

« on: May 03, 2007, 03:07:28 AM »

Let's talk about the best pop punk bands.

1. Screeching Weasel
2. Huntingtons
3. Vindictives

Too bad there's not really too many great ones out today. Zatopeks are about it. The Apers are pretty good as well.

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Music Shit / Re: Red Decade/Jules Baptiste (Attn: jazz enthusiasts)

« on: May 03, 2007, 03:05:22 AM »

Jazz is so bad. It's maybe the only music form in which it's impossible to make a good song.

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Pop Punk / Re: Weird 90s Pop-Punk Resurgence?

« on: May 03, 2007, 03:01:22 AM »

I used to have a word for people who listened to pop-punk when I was a kid. It was "poser." I was too busy listening to Crucifucks or early Napalm Death to pay attention to the sea of horrible shit that Green Bay was drowning in back then, like Squirtgun, The Parasites, MTX etc... I did see the Queers once, I was fourteen years old, and actually I didn't think they were that bad live, it wasn't mindblowing, but it was the first big show I'd ever been too and there was a hardcore band that opened who were great (I believe it was one of Default's first shows). Now I don't even really remember anything about the Queers set or what it sounded like other than that they played "This Place Sucks" twice and that I bought a 7" of theirs. When I put it on the record player when I got home, I couldn't fuckin' believe it. I remember not only hating it, but thinking it was the worst Beach Boys rip off I'd ever heard (I thought that the Ramones were a pretty poor Beach Boys rip off too, although I didn't mind hearing them every once in a while). I think I've heard like half a song of theirs since then when a friend tried putting "Beat Off" in his tape deck, but I told him no and we listened to some GG Allin instead. Other than that, I've succesfully avoided that band. I love the stuff with Wimpy though, but don't consider it the same band, just as I believe that Black Sabbath broke up when Ozzy left the band.

There were a few pop-punk records that I got into when I was fourteen or so though, like Screeching Weasle's "Bogada Bogada Bogada" which I thought had some good songs (mostly there vaguely hardcore-ish ones and "My Right" which I remember thinking sounded kinda grungeish) and some early NoFX like the "PMRC Can Suck On This" 7" which I listened to fairly often, their Mystic stuff and "Liberal Animation" on occasion.

I really had a hard time taking alot of people in Wisconsin seriously for a long time because I thought of them all as pop-punk kids, and alot of them I still do kind of think of as that, because they pretty much are. I know that makes me kind of an asshole and everything, but I can't help it. In my experience pop-punk was for the kids who never got beat up, it was for the teacher's pets, and the kids at my high school who every morning gathered around the flag pole before school and recite a prayer. It was for the kids that looked down on me, because I was dirty and weird and confrontational, and none of them liked anything remotely aggressive. Their shows were also always at least twice as much as the shows I was attending. The worst though is that they drank soda, not beer. Seriously, I ended up at one of their parties once, and they drank soda.

Yer a dummy. Pop punk rules!!!!! I should kill you. Pop punk militia forever.