Is Old School Punk an actual genre?
 

I've asked this question to several punk rock fans. The ones who were green day fans said no. The ones who werent said yes.

It's easy to see the connection here, Green Day.

Some see GD as "New Punk", along with bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.

Others think that punk hasn't changed enough to create the "Old School" subgenre.

What do you think?

Green Day is music for 13 year old boys. Green Day fans are usually wrong about everything.

Blink-182/Green Day haven't even been pop punk in a long time (though blink was really only pop-punkish on like their really early stuff) and Sum 41 never were.

Agreed

I don't see any of that as 'new punk' though, or punk rock at all......so I'm not a Green Day fan, but I still don't see 'Old School Punk' as an actual genre or anything.....a band is either punk rock, or it's not

Green Day mascuades as punk rock. That's why when certain people ask other people "Whats your fav genre?" some are hesitent to say Punk Rock, because others (ecspecially Metalheads) automaticly think Green Day.
Annoys me to death!

Yes old punk is a genre, and it's right up there with 'old jazz' , 'old techno' . 'old polka' and 'post not quite as post as it is now rock'.

Punk has always been pop. Example - The Ramones.

Uh no. But there is such a genre as "Pop Punk". Example - Paramore

Mike Watt has his own opinion of punk - it ended in the mid to late 1980's. Personally I can't say I completely agree with him, but he does have a point. Consider psychedelic music, it clearly had it's time & place in the late 1960's, but since then numerous bands have reinvented the genre, particularly in the 1980's.

The point being - punk music was clearly a current music genre in the 1970's through 1980's. Once punk music wained it no longer became an active genre - see 'post-punk' following 1970's UK punk or 'hardcore' following early 1980's US hardcore punk. So I don't know what any punk since 1990 really is - certainly Fugazi is punk, but what about any band that started from scratch since then?

I agree with him - 'punk' was a counter movement to 1970's metal & progressive rock. Punk bands of the 1970's were really just playing early 1960's pop / garage rock but with more energy. Take a look at most UK punk - it was treated as pop music by the masses, albeit a completely different form of pop music.