The punkest band ever

[Iommic Pope]

#whitepeople

[Invisible Man]

#democrats
















#justkidding

[Iommic Pope]

#whitepunksmatter

[Cisco]

#whitepunksmatter

[Iommic Pope]

Let's not make this about who is clearly cooler.

[Blackened Soul]

hahaha

But seriously, Blink 182 is now the for real most punk band in the land. Whether or not people who listen to them understand 'punk' as an ethos rather than a genre of music that uses sneering and performative adolescence as crude measures for appealing to burnouts, they have voted Blink the 'most popular band.'

Kinda like how everyone uses 'ironic' incorrectly. At some point, the word just means what we think it means, not what linguists and etymologists remind us it means. 'Hussy' being one example, 'radical' being another.* We are learning on a minute-by-minute that democracy is powerful and terrifying...

I remember every single shot of the Fat Lip video, as well as being embarrassed by my friend who was into them. 'Become another victim of your conformity!'

He also thought he was destined for a career at a record label ( ) because he 'discovered' Story of the Year and some other shitty bands' first records before they made it to MTV.

He doesn't work for a record label.

*'Radix' derived from the latinate word for 'root,' like 'radish.' To be 'radical' is to return to a fundamental root, not to be 'extreme' as we now understand and use the term. 'Hussy' is a truncated form of 'housewife.'

Well, on the bright side, you proved punk is dead with this thread

[Chankgeez]

#punxsnotdead

It's just been co-opt'd by people who're tryin' to kill it.

[Invisible Man]

hahaha

But seriously, Blink 182 is now the for real most punk band in the land. Whether or not people who listen to them understand 'punk' as an ethos rather than a genre of music that uses sneering and performative adolescence as crude measures for appealing to burnouts, they have voted Blink the 'most popular band.'

Kinda like how everyone uses 'ironic' incorrectly. At some point, the word just means what we think it means, not what linguists and etymologists remind us it means. 'Hussy' being one example, 'radical' being another.* We are learning on a minute-by-minute that democracy is powerful and terrifying...

I remember every single shot of the Fat Lip video, as well as being embarrassed by my friend who was into them. 'Become another victim of your conformity!'

He also thought he was destined for a career at a record label ( ) because he 'discovered' Story of the Year and some other shitty bands' first records before they made it to MTV.

He doesn't work for a record label.

*'Radix' derived from the latinate word for 'root,' like 'radish.' To be 'radical' is to return to a fundamental root, not to be 'extreme' as we now understand and use the term. 'Hussy' is a truncated form of 'housewife.'

Well, on the bright side, you proved punk is dead with this thread

Mission accomplished. I think.

[snipelfritz]

Do people remember how cool it was to conform to non-conformity?

Years ago, a friend and I had an existential moment at Warped Tour while Anti-Flag were bemoaning conformists... while they were all dressed alike on stage... and then they had the crowd chant something in unison.

...yeah, it didn't take me wasting money on warped tour to recognize that...

[Invisible Man]

'Conformist' is a theoretically bankrupt term.

[casecandy]

Hi guys, I've been in the woods on a remote island with no wi-fi and I haven't listened to anything but black metal and vaporwave for a week.

Thankfully the battery on an iPhone 6 Plus in airplane mode lasts until Jesus comes back.

I have to live in the woods because the house there is full of earwigs, but fear not, the moss under the roots of a particular fallen elm is very soft.

You just haven't heard The Blood In Our Wells until you've headphoned it under a mossy tree.

[lordgalvar]

Should we play the whole lot now?

Once upon a time a man called XXXX was walking in the mountains when he noticed a huge tree. It was so big that thousands of people would have been able to sit under it.

"What sort of a tree is this?" he asked himself. "I bet it's good timber."

Then, looking up, he saw its branches were too crooked for building material and that the trunk had a crooked grain that was awful for making furniture. He tasted a leaf, but it was so sour it almost took the skin off his lips and the smell was so bad he nearly passed out.

"Damn," he said. "This tree has grown so big for it's good for nothing."

[casecandy]

Oh, yeah! Re: OP, I can't be bothered anymore. I love blink 182 but punk means different things to different people. I'll only bother to defend it in that abstract sense. Basically you can't criticize a poll like that unless you're prepared to criticize the music listeners who voted in the poll and then you're getting into some cringey patrician-pleb territory.

But basically I'm over discussing what is and isn't "punk" at this point.

The reaction to the poll is predictable and it basically reminds me of one of the first edifying conversations I had on ILF, where D.o.S. pointed out that Penny wasn't really upset about Crass tees being sold in Urban Outfitters. If the old guard can't bother getting incensed, why should you or I?

But yeah blink has always been my personal baseline for what is and isn't punk and I think there's an entire demographic of our generation that grew up on that stuff.

SPIN: I just read this funny quote from you that said something like, “I have more records by New Found Glory than I do Bob Dylan."
Max Bemis: It’s true. Well, you know, that’s like a half-truth. I do like Bob Dylan and I’ve seen him and he’s a role model. But I would rather, in the end, if I could never listen to either of those bands… the first two records by New Found Glory made such a big difference in my life. Where Bob Dylan, maybe I heard him earlier, but it’s something I appreciate more than I viscerally enjoy. I grew up listening to the emo and the hardcore and the pop-punk. When I go back and I listen to that shit it still holds a greater place in my heart. I think there are better songwriters at this point doing what Bob Dylan’s doing. It’s not like it holds that much of a sentimental value for me. I listened to him, definitely. But I definitely have listened to blink-182 much more than Bob Dylan in my life.

Crass, The Clash, and their lot are, rather categorically, "something I appreciate more than I viscerally enjoy."

[lordgalvar]

I look out the window and I wonder at it all,
Staring at the symbols that decorate the wall,
Everybody's calling to come and join them all,
But I can't go with no one till I understand the call.

Some people talk of Shiva and some they talk of God,
Some talk of politicians and some they talk of love,
They mystify their heroes offer chances we could take,
I'm not looking for escapism I just want to escape.

[lordgalvar]

Peroxide girl with a false ID
Lost and lonely she can't see
Peroxide hair and burnt out eyes
Blinded by so many lies