OT: ♫ The Music Thread ♫
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I like the Offspring. I have some CD's including that one. I even like Green Day to some degree. That said I don't look at 'punk' bands from the 90's on (even the better ones like Rancid) the same as I look at punk bands from the late 70's to late 80's and a main reason is there came a point of acceptability which kind of wrecks the whole idea of what punk rock was meant to be. I love the Dropkicks first album Do or die and after that they're good but it's a slow ride downhill to becoming a rock band. I mean I've seen them on stage with Bruce Springsteen. What's with that? But even some from the beginning like the Stranglers became pretty much rock bands too. IMO it's meant to be grimy music.....not overproduced....badly produced is even okay.....not always pleasant to the ear. Either absolutely irreverent and/or a critique of society, a government or the systems they create.
I remember when the Fear record came out and I have that too. After the Ramones they might have been the next band to get real national attention----them or Wendy O. Williams Plasmatics or the Dead Kennedys (at the time more for their name....it's not like they were selling tons of records or getting on SNL like Fear did). I never was a big fan of Fear but they were for sure over the top outrageous which is what they set out to be. Not giving a shit about anyone or anything was kind of their ticket to whatever success they ever had. It didn't last long but they shocked more than a few people.
