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Old 06-03-2010, 09:50 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Who had perfected pop punk to the same degree Green Day did?
The Clash, X, 7 Seconds, the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Generation X, the Ramones...

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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...
Well it's not much a class to be a part of anyway, but you should keep in mind that that Green Day and Blink 182 became popular in very different musical environments. Even though, in retrospect, it was only a couple of years, things really changed a lot from the early/mid 90s to the late 90s.
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