-Sum 41, Blink-182, Green Day, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, Bowling For Soup, NoFx,
-Rancid, Bad Religion, The Distillers
-The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Sham 69.
That first lot are always called "pop-punk", because their music isn't really all that great, only 2 or 3 chords ever, and they only ever sing about feeding the cat or staying at home on friday night and that sucks, it's not involved enough. Firstly, that's wrong and secondly, who cares?
I'm a drummer, I don't even know what a chord is, let alone 3!
And besides, who ever calles the Pistols skilled musicians? That was the entire point! Sid Vicious even went so far as to purposefully not take lessons and obstinately refused to learn how to play the bass! OK, I'll grant you the thrash guitars and rocksteady drums of Cook & Jones were pretty awesome, but it was being so hectic that made it good, not talent. Punk was about just the hell of it. Seeing a band, and realising it wasn't that hard and going out and making it. Simple. And that, as far as I can tell, is what that first list have done.
In between, we have the bands that are, although occasionally disputed, usually seen as definitely punk. This I agree with, but not as far as seperateing them from so-called "pop-punk" goes. My main point for this is all the collaborations betwen them. ("Blink-182 and Green Day, the two most sellout punk bands in the history of the Universe, on tour together!" ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day)
(I have a feeling I've already said this somewhere... hm must just be my imagination...)
Singer from Rancid: Tim Armstrong.
Singer from Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong.
>>Anybody else made the connection? It's not hard guys...
Drummer from The Transplants (would go in 2nd list): Travis Barker (or Baker or something).
Drummer from Blink-182: Travis Barker.
>>Surely no-one can miss that one!?
Come on people, it's all the same stuff, and it's all really good, so shut up about it.
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