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Mon 7 Jun, 2004 05:53 pm
They're starting to become popular now, but I hope that everyone soon hears about the band Story Of The Year. They're a punk/rock group. Yeah, there are a lot of those out there.. and some do sound alike.. but for some reason, Story Of The Year has stuck to me. I really like the emotion in the lead singer's voice. In tracks such as "Anthem of Our Dying Day", he really sounds like hes pushing his emotion into his voice. This is also the case with "Until the Day I die".
If you've never heard any of Story Of The Year's music, I recommend listening to the two mentioned songs, "Anthem of Our Dying Day" and "Until the Day I Die", first. I think they are a great band, not just another one of those little-known punk bands.
Not really my style of music. Reminds me of the rest of the pop "punk" out there. Thanks for the suggestion though.
One of their guys got the hell beat out of him by a couple of Godsmacks crew just recently.....Metal rules!!!!!
Urgh, pop punk sucks guys.
The only pop punk out there that is really cool is Avril Lavigne - and that just because she's a hottie!
Yumm yumm Under Your Skin Avril... :-) :-D :-o
IMO, the only cool pop punk groups out there were The Buzzcocks (one song of theirs was used in Shrek II, covered of course, which makes me feel old), Generation X (Kiss Me Deadly is a great tune), and I will give a moderate nod to the first Green Day album. I don't really consider Avril pop punk, maybe today's version of 'alternative', but not pop punk, or power pop. Heh heh, I am old.
You consider Green Day "pop" punk? How's that man?
Green Day's older LPs are IMO pretty much what I'd call punk.
Avril on the other hand is like mainstream punk (you know like being showable on MTV at noon), which is pop punk when it comes to my opinion.
I think Green Day has had enough success to be considered pop punk. Now, The Angry Samoans, or even the Dead Kennedys, that was punk, or more specifically, post-punk, or hardcore.
What does being a punk band have to do with the level of success?
Now consider NOFX. Those guys made a hell lot of money but I'm sure no one would ever dare to call em pop punks - I mean even though there last releases really puked.
thehamster wrote:The only pop punk out there that is really cool is Avril Lavigne - and that just because she's a hottie!
Yumm yumm Under Your Skin Avril... :-) :-D :-o
I agree completely. She is smokin' hot.
thehamster wrote:What does being a punk band have to do with the level of success?
Now consider NOFX. Those guys made a hell lot of money but I'm sure no one would ever dare to call em pop punks - I mean even though there last releases really puked.
Green Day have had plenty of exposure on MTV. Their songs are incredibly catchy and well-produced. Don't get me wrong, I dig the band a lot, but I grew up with raw, nasty, badly-produced real punk, when it was actually still an underground movement. Maybe it's not so much about the music as it is about a change in philosophy with the bands these days, and with the new nature of the music industry. Avril is hot, I concur.
Well OK as long as Avril is still the hottie in the house
I guess you're right. There may've been a grand shift in philosophy of those bands thus making the age gap here pretty obvious I guess.
thehamster, yes, there have been MAJOR changes in the music industry lately. My wife used to work for a music publisher, and she knows. Just like banks, they are closing ranks and retreating from anything that is actually original and interesting. Everything is now popped into a marketable package, including punk, and the artists are going for it, because, hey, it pays. I don't blame them really, but I am a tad wistful for the days of a real "F-U system, and the man!"
Well, when it comes to me I don't mind that major change in the music industry. I mean I like being able to watch a whole lot of boobies and butts on MTV when I want to do that.
And if you want some oldschool punk, then all you have to do is dig deep enough and you'll get a whole bunch of it.
awww old skool punk - The Ramones, The Clash, The Jam, the Sex Pistols, Siouxsee & the Banshees - doesn't get any nastier (although the Ramones had some pop-ish kind of tunes) Pretty punk, as I call it includes Avril IMO (and she is beautiful!) and American Hi-Fi (check out the song The Art of Losing, -- dainty as "punk-pop" can get!!)
thehamster wrote:Well, when it comes to me I don't mind that major change in the music industry. I mean I like being able to watch a whole lot of boobies and butts on MTV when I want to do that.
And if you want some oldschool punk, then all you have to do is dig deep enough and you'll get a whole bunch of it.
Oh, I have plenty of that oldschool punk. I'm up for the boobies.
You also should check out some of the "nordic" punk bands from Europe.
For example "Venerea" or "Stoned". I didn't listen to them for quite some time, but I'm pretty sure they fit the cliché of oldschool.
Well, I dunno hamster. That Nordic stuff is a bit weird. I really don't listen to much oldschool punk these days, but I do have some suggestions from those days, which are hard to classify: Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Minutemen, and The Replacements.
I miss my dead kennedys, black flag, minor threat...
and i totally think Henry Rollins still rules...
he used to my idol for a long time and my friends thought i was a lot like him because of all the pent up frustration i used to have...
Well cav, from the names of the bands you're suggesting you can conclude that those are a little "harder" than those I suggested to you.
I guess those I named above might be considered pop punk again by you...
thehamster wrote:Well cav, from the names of the bands you're suggesting you can conclude that those are a little "harder" than those I suggested to you.
I guess those I named above might be considered pop punk again by you...
I can't judge until I've heard them, so I may check them out. I don't have any problem with pop punk. I like it. Now where are the boobies?
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