My opinion on JC is slightly skewd but that is only becuase I heard one of his cd's over and over and over while driving to vacation one time in my past. I think its purely annoying.
...Yeah alot do not like ska and I only like the bands that hint on the punk side (Less than Jake mainly). Punk in my terms is doing what you will at anytime with no restrictions (going against the flow). If a band plays punk themed chords but comes across as on a pop note they are doing what they want. My mind changed a couple years back about pop-punk when I read an article debating calling it punk at all. If I can locate it im sure it will show the light at the of the tunnel a little clearer.
Yeah, I guess for me punk vs pop punk is the style of the music itself, not just how the band rebels or goes against the mainstream. I mean, to me, there is a "punk sound" for sure. I'm just old school I guess. There is nothing like some good, polictical, aggressive punk to get your blood pumping.
I think I once read an interview with Green Day about how they never considered themselves "punk". It was a label they just somehow acquired. Its funny, I love stories like that. Its just like The Sisters of Mercy. I read somewhere once that they never intended to be a "goth band". But as it turns out, they are like one of the most notable goth bands in history.
Funny how genre labels really mean nothing.
Bart
I used to like Green Day back in the Dookie days and maybe a little Nimrod too, now they too annoy me.
Im guessing punk to you is anti-flag sound?
Fav punk bands:
Misfits
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
D.I.
The Vandals
Reagan Youth
Ramones
Subhumans
7 Seconds
But for me, my heart is 100% with mid/late 80s, early 90s industrial. This is the era of music I cannot live without. Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Ministry, REVCO, TKK, KMFDM, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and all the various side projects and spin offs of these bands....I'll never get sick of.
Bart
Such a GIANT question! Bluegrassy stuff/ by way of old Fairport Convention, Pentangle and such Some CSN...some Zep occasionaly..old Airplane silliness NOW...all kinds of crap...NIN, Nirvana, old Butt Hole Surfers, toss in some Portriat of an American Family and old Zombie....I love noise! God Lives under Water.....Dick Dale......Vivaldi and Bach...A GT3,one third of a tank of gas, glass down, and MILES, Bitches Brew please Some Herbie Hancock, lots of Temptations......Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springstein....if I'm drunk enough, and you must, but I'd much rather Buckwheat Zydeco, thankyou......love a good fiddle( hate a Charlie Daniels and pretty much all country.....and Opera) Jazz is pretty much a snooze......hate crooners/singers. Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp I can do this all day Wayne
KMFDM??" Machines don't make mistakes, humans do.....that's why we employ machines"
Some may have considered Frank Zappa a genius....he certainly wasn't boring.
Let's bounce around the 'ol Ipod here:
Al Green, 30 Seconds to Mars, 10 Years, Agent Orange, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Amy Winehouse, Anberlin, Young Dubliners, Yo-Yo Ma, Bauhaus, Func Haus, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Bif Naked, Big Pig, Blackalicious, Wynton Marsalis, Mozart, Tuatara, Tower of Power, Thievery Corporation, Boom Boom Satellites, BT, Celldweller, Chris Botti, Sting, The Police, The Cult, The Cure, Theory of a Deadman, Spyro Gyra, Spinesank, Social Distortion, Shirley Bassey, Flyleaf, Esthero, Frank Sinatra, Gotan Project, Hot Action Cop, Razed In Black, Kidney Thieves, Andrea Bocelli...
OK, maybe I should stop now. I tend to listen to all kinds of stuff from all kinds of genres. I'm going to have to Limewire some of the bands I've seen from other people to expand my horizons.
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
artist you'll often hear in my VX...
Citizen Cope, Audioslave, Metallica, Godsmack, Hurt, DMX, Nelly, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Tool, Linkin Park, Chevelle, Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Guns N Roses, Motley Crue, Disturbed, Eminem, Fuel, Kid Rock, Marilyn Manson, Pink Floyd, Hinder, RHCP... the list goes on and on and on.. but you get the point