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Old 03-13-2007, 12:08 PM   #35 (permalink)
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see, I think your definition of punk is too narrow. By a LOT of sh*tty, generic sounding "punk" bands copying the sound of bands like good charlotte, ew found glory (and all the other sh*tty clones like them) haven't made it big, and are calling themselves punk. So, by your logic, they would be punk, even though their lyrics ae bland and unidentifiable, their music is manufactured and predictable, and yet because they're unsucsessful they're punk. that makes no sense whatsoever to me.
No. See those bands are in the mindset of "making it big". They're trying to emmulate popular act. I didn't say every "underground" band was a punk band. Just that mainstream and punk are not the same. Hopefully everyone else got it cos it was pretty clear to me.
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