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Old 06-03-2010, 09:44 PM   #321 (permalink)
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Green Day and Offspring like you said. But like I indicated before, even though those two brought punk some mainstream attention in the early to mid 90s, they were hardly innovators. Pop-punk existed long before them.
Who had perfected pop punk to the same degree Green Day did?

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That may be true but hardly anyone was listening to them back then. Blink 182 didn't make it big until 1998.
They're still part of that class in my book. They weren't much younger than Green Day or The Offspring, they just didn't get as much attention...
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