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Originally Posted by teshadoh
I don't think punk's primary issue was ever 'pop', but commercially over-saturated 'popular' music. Of course the Bee Gees & Abba, but also Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, The Who (1970's era), & Pink Floyd.
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O really? You think think Led Zepplin and the Who were commercially saturated and/or corporate bands?
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The latter grouping would not be considered 'pop' music by most people's definitions here,
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I'm sure there a many people on this board who would take the liberty of saying Led Zepplin or the Who are indeed 'pop music' if it conveniently suited thier response at the time.
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but were targeted for either being shallow or being full of themselves.
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Wait, first of all, since when has it been generally believed that Pink Floyd or Led Zepplin were 'full of themselves' or 'shallow'? And secondly, punk was anti-establishment not anti-people-who-are-full-of-themselves. Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd weren't the 'establishment', pop bands were.
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Punk was about taking rock music & stripping it down of all the pretenses that had built up through the 1970's.
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And pop music was/is about building those pretenses and reinforcing them, hence them being opposites.
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Besides, if no one thinks punk bands never played pop music
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No one said that, so what does it matter? That isn't what this thread is about so no one cares about you chanting the 'buzzc
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