greenday is NOT punk

_snw_
_snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
edited October 6 in Chit-Chat
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I'm scanning punk rock banners for a new pic behind my ticker and the 4th picture displayed (out of 2,350,00 results) is greenday.

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  • gigiangelique
    gigiangelique Posts: 233 Member
    well yeah they are...pop punk I had the pleasure of seeing them with bad religion Tilt and other great punk bands ...they are just not hard core XX
  • laughingwasabi
    laughingwasabi Posts: 19
    Yes they are. Now they have evolved into pop-punk, but if you go back to their early stuff, (think 1039 smoothed out slappy hours) they were playing honest-to-god punk. Honestly.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    The only real punk is old school punk.
    - Sex Pistols
    - Misfits (Glen Danzig era, not post Glen Danzig)
    - Anti Nowhere League
    - The Clash
    (To name but a few)
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    Yes they are. Now they have evolved into pop-punk, but if you go back to their early stuff, (think 1039 smoothed out slappy hours) they were playing honest-to-god punk. Honestly.


    i was bestfriends w/ BJ's girlfriend so had the opportunity to hang a lot and I dunno, I just don't agree with the punk. Maybe 3 chord ~pop~ punk (relying heavily on the POP part of that phrase.

    Or maybe it's just because i loathe them so.
  • kristilovescake
    kristilovescake Posts: 669 Member
    I agree that they were pretty bad A back in the day. The new music makes me sad/angry/change the radio station as fast as humanly possible
  • kristilovescake
    kristilovescake Posts: 669 Member
    The only real punk is old school punk.
    - Sex Pistols
    - Misfits (Glen Danzig era, not post Glen Danzig)
    - Anti Nowhere League
    - The Clash
    (To name but a few)

    Agreed!
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    The only real punk is old school punk.
    - Sex Pistols
    - Misfits (Glen Danzig era, not post Glen Danzig)
    - Anti Nowhere League
    - The Clash
    (To name but a few)


    Amen.

    Well, I also like things like the melvins, shellac, nofx. So maybe I think punk is a little more than old school, but def not greenday.
  • ncahill77
    ncahill77 Posts: 501 Member
    Greenday is a bunch of asshats, sorry they are manufactured music.
  • gigiangelique
    gigiangelique Posts: 233 Member
    2000 light years away takes me back to highschool <3 but yeah misfits dead kennedys agent orange thats some good stuff also
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    The only real punk is old school punk.
    - Sex Pistols
    - Misfits (Glen Danzig era, not post Glen Danzig)
    - Anti Nowhere League
    - The Clash
    (To name but a few)


    Amen.

    Well, I also like things like the melvins, shellac, nofx. So maybe I think punk is a little more than old school, but def not greenday.
    Well when I hear the term Punk, I think old school punk. The Sex Pistols were my first introduction to loud, obnoxious music. :tongue:
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    2000 light years away takes me back to highschool <3 but yeah misfits dead kennedys agent orange thats some good stuff also


    I ~will~ admit I liked 1039 smoothed out slappy hours. But nada after that. I used to tour with a bunch of west coast punk bands (no one really famous, i'm not that cool). And I remember on one road trip to berkely to play at the gilman street club, we burned 1039 out to death!
  • WarriorMom2012
    WarriorMom2012 Posts: 621 Member
    The only real punk is old school punk.
    - Sex Pistols
    - Misfits (Glen Danzig era, not post Glen Danzig)
    - Anti Nowhere League
    - The Clash
    (To name but a few)


    Amen.

    Well, I also like things like the melvins, shellac, nofx. So maybe I think punk is a little more than old school, but def not greenday.
    Well when I hear the term Punk, I think old school punk. The Sex Pistols were my first introduction to loud, obnoxious music. :tongue:

    I'm with you...The Sex Pistols were my introduction to punk!
  • ScotsLenny
    ScotsLenny Posts: 139 Member
    Real Punk only lasted a few months in 1977, anything else is just a load 'o old bollocks

    STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    Real Punk only lasted a few months in 1977, anything else is just a load 'o old bollocks

    STIFF LITTLE FINGERS


    I haven't heard anyone even mention stiff little fingers for, well, for about ever.
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
    what about good charlotte and avirl levine?
  • Colleen268
    Colleen268 Posts: 25 Member
    hahahaha, those bands brought back memories, God, I'm old.
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    what about good charlotte and avirl levine?


    I guess, definition wise, they'd be punk, but I'd have to really push them to POP punk.


    heh - i just looked up greenday in wiki and they list "punk, pop punk and alternative rock" For good charlotte, they only list pop punk and alternative rock.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    How about the Undertones?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    How about the Undertones?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4


    they've got that classic punk chord work.

    Whoa - they are from Ireland.
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    NOFX anyone? lol
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    How about the Undertones?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4


    they've got that classic punk chord work.

    Whoa - they are from Ireland.
    They're from Derry in Northern Ireland. The lead singer, Fergal Sharkey, went very mainstream after leaving the Undertones.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9qUR9P2ZQ
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    NOFX anyone? lol


    Hell ya. I mentioned them above. I ~heart~ fat mike.
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    How about the Undertones?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4


    they've got that classic punk chord work.

    Whoa - they are from Ireland.
    They're from Derry in Northern Ireland. The lead singer, Fergal Sharkey, went very mainstream after leaving the Undertones.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9qUR9P2ZQ

    Holy crap. He went totally mainstream!
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    Must've been the gf that inspired "She" not sure if that leads to objectivity. I think Pandora gives them cred a punk. But sure, sold out or not hard core or you simply don't like it that's all cool.

    I like em. And the clash and the Ramones and ministry and Rollins. What does this mean? No not that I'm old. Just my taste in music is back with the earlier days to the mid 1990s of punk. Anything since sublime and I'm kind of meh.

    Likes me some old Public Enemy too from when rap stood for something
    Yes they are. Now they have evolved into pop-punk, but if you go back to their early stuff, (think 1039 smoothed out slappy hours) they were playing honest-to-god punk. Honestly.


    i was bestfriends w/ BJ's girlfriend so had the opportunity to hang a lot and I dunno, I just don't agree with the punk. Maybe 3 chord ~pop~ punk (relying heavily on the POP part of that phrase.

    Or maybe it's just because i loathe them so.
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    Must've been the gf that inspired "She" not sure if that leads to objectivity. I think Pandora gives them cred a punk. But sure, sold out or not hard core or you simply don't like it that's all cool.

    I like em. And the clash and the Ramones and ministry and Rollins. What does this mean? No not that I'm old. Just my taste in music is back with the earlier days to the mid 1990s of punk. Anything since sublime and I'm kind of meh.

    Likes me some old Public Enemy too from when rap stood for something
    Yes they are. Now they have evolved into pop-punk, but if you go back to their early stuff, (think 1039 smoothed out slappy hours) they were playing honest-to-god punk. Honestly.


    i was bestfriends w/ BJ's girlfriend so had the opportunity to hang a lot and I dunno, I just don't agree with the punk. Maybe 3 chord ~pop~ punk (relying heavily on the POP part of that phrase.

    Or maybe it's just because i loathe them so.


    I dont' think so, but maybe. I'm pretty sure they split byu the time dookie came out.

    btw, i'm totally not saying people shouldn't like them (or any punk or unpunk band out there. I was just laughing at the fact google as them 3rd in spot of most punk rock on the internet. :)
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member

    I dont' think so, but maybe. I'm pretty sure they split byu the time dookie came out.

    btw, i'm totally not saying people shouldn't like them (or any punk or unpunk band out there. I was just laughing at the fact google as them 3rd in spot of most punk rock on the internet. :)

    I have nothing against Green Day (I have "American Idiot" on my iPod). I just don't consider them to be punk. I consider true punk to be the period from the mid 1970's to about 1980.
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