This album > that album.

Violent & Funky · 06-12-2010, 08:43 PM

That's not very open-minded of you, Jackhammer.

Why can't pop punk exist? It's just pop at a quick pace to three chord guitar and sometimes it sounds GREAT...

EDIT: I'll call it fast-pop or aggressive-pop if you'd like?

duga · 06-12-2010, 08:44 PM

^

If they called it something else, then maybe...but the fact they put the punk label on such whiney unskilled crap makes punk look horrible. Punk means something totally different than what those bands did to it.

Violent & Funky · 06-12-2010, 08:47 PM

LOL, isn't all punk "whiny, un-skilled crap"? That's like punk by definition...

duga · 06-12-2010, 08:49 PM

Pshh...you know what I meant.

Violent & Funky · 06-12-2010, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duga

Pshh...you know what I meant.

I kinda do but I don't, man. I like pop punk and you didn't exactly sway me the other way...

TheCunningStunt · 06-12-2010, 08:53 PM

I've always had a problem with pop punk because it's a contradiction in terms and for the most part, it sounds fucking terrible. Although Blink are a guilty pleasure. Dude Ranch.

Violent & Funky · 06-12-2010, 09:03 PM

I categorize all of these as pop punk, and they all have at least one album I absolutely love:

Alkaline Trio
Green Day
blink 182
The Offspring
Lagwagon
Screeching Weasel

BTW Jackhammer, I don't see how you can hate on pop punk but then turn around and post a nu metal song in another thread...

jackhammer · 06-12-2010, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Violent & Funky

I categorize all of these as pop punk, and they all have at least one album I absolutely love:

Alkaline Trio
Green Day
blink 182
The Offspring
Lagwagon
Screeching Weasel

BTW Jackhammer, I don't see how you can hate on pop punk but then turn around and post a nu metal song in another thread...

I don't take Nu Metal seriously and generally the whole scene sucks.Punk is a genre that has gained respect and changed the whole musical spectrum so when bands produce commercial 3 min ditties I find it hard to take seriously. Most people hate Nu Metal anyhow.

When people say Metal is this:

I will answer with this:

and when people say this is Punk:

I answer with this:

No comparison really.

Violent & Funky · 06-12-2010, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

I don't take Nu Metal seriously and generally the whole scene sucks.

So don't take pop punk seriously?

TheBig3 · 06-12-2010, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

I don't take Nu Metal seriously and generally the whole scene sucks.Punk is a genre that has gained respect and changed the whole musical spectrum so when bands produce commercial 3 min ditties I find it hard to take seriously. Most people hate Nu Metal anyhow.

I had to comment on the Nu-Metal piece of this post. While I agree with you, I don't think its entirely fair to paint the whole genre the same. Its comparable to thrash in 1985. I think Kerry King said

Quote:

"the issue was Thrash blew up over night, and you had 100 thrash bands by 1989 and 98 of them sucked."

Fairly the same with nu-metal except we have ~200 and 4 good ones. And for what its worth, Linkin Park is the absolute worst of the worst. There have been few corporate shills larger and more obvious than Linkin Park.

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duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ If they called it something else, then maybe...but the fact they put the punk label on such whiney unskilled crap makes punk look horrible. Punk means something totally different than what those bands did to it. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

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TheCunningStunt love will tear you apart Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Manchester, UK. Posts: 5,107	I've always had a problem with pop punk because it's a contradiction in terms and for the most part, it sounds fucking terrible. Although Blink are a guilty pleasure. Dude Ranch. __________________ I don't feel and I feel great. Last FM

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Violent & Funky FUNky Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Midland, MI Posts: 2,482	I categorize all of these as pop punk, and they all have at least one album I absolutely love: Alkaline Trio Green Day blink 182 The Offspring Lagwagon Screeching Weasel BTW Jackhammer, I don't see how you can hate on pop punk but then turn around and post a nu metal song in another thread... __________________ http://www.last.fm/user/ohio0808 sometimes I don't thrill you sometimes I think I'll kill you just don't let me fuck up will you 'cause when I need a friend it's still you