Quote from notmaggot

these fags at lunch were talking about how punk sucks even though im sure they have never heard of any real punk bands. they think blink-182 and greenday are punk. and they kept saying i listen to slipknot and that they suck even though i stopped listening to them last year. it made me sad. ;_;

HAHAHHAHAHAH xD people at your school are bigger idiots than my school.

ramones rules punk rules

i love the ramones but i have to say most of there music
sounds the same.

Ramones are pretty good, but about punk being dead, what would you consider bands like The Offspring?

the offspring are like pop rock i think, there really isn't anything "punk" about them except maybe the chord progressions and use of power chords... but i guess it depends on how you would define punk and is ultimately just a semantic debate about arbitrary labels. is corn more yellow than bananas?

Quote from TehPaco

i love the ramones but i have to say most of there music sounds the same.

I can agree with this I like the Ramones too but yeah all of their songs are short and just the same chord progressions over and over, don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with that but I don't like to listen to them for long periods of time.

If you ask me I really think the definition of punk has changed. It used to be stuff like the Ramones and the Clash and the Sex Pistols, but now it's taken on a whole new genre. I don't really know what you would call punk now-a-days, but the closest stuff to it right now would be Blink-182 and the Offspring, and the old Green Day, because of the chord progressions and how the music is played. I'm not saying this stuff should be classified as punk, I'm just saying it's as close as we can get now. Just cause their music is popular and all over the radio doesn't mean it's classified as pop rock.

The definition of punk hasn't changed because what punk was has been destroyed.