damn, I've been on this site for a while now......and I'm still surprised that many of the younger generation think that punk is MCR, FOB, Blink 182, etc........
damn......it just aggrivates the hell out of me. Anyone else?
2007-08-02 03:56:59 · 30 answers · asked by Dani G 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Other - Music
I hate to sound like my grandparents but these damn kids are freaking idiots. They have no concept of music. They haven't a clue as to the history of punk. They merely imitate what their friends do. However, there is hope. Once they get out of high school, some will develop actual taste and go on their own path of discovery. Back when I was that age, all my friends were deep into hair-metal. Some of it was OK, but mostly it was a steady diet of Poison and it sucked. My saving grace was spending a quarter of my life stuck in rush-hour traffic. There wasn't much to do other than listen to the radio. That is where I learned most of what I know now. Radio was very adventurous right around the time Nirvana broke in 1991. Can't say the same now.
2007-08-02 07:16:23 · answer #1 · answered by Rckets 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it stems more from the growth and change of musical genres. When I was a kid, hair bands were metal (Def Leppard, Poison, etc.) When you turn on a metal station now, all you hear is unmusical screaming and growling into a microphone to some guitars with such heavy feedback you can barely discern the tune. Back in the day, we were listening to Blink 182 on our hard rock and alternative stations. Now, they're not easily found there. Back when TV was still black and white, 16 Tons was a country song. Now, it's just classic oldies (not country).
It may irritate us, since we grew up with it and it was in one classification, but music is ever-changing, and that's what happens. I mean, I was horrified to hear Nirvana played on an alternative and soft-rock station. What happened to my Grunge? ;_;
2007-08-02 04:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just burned three discs for a 12-year-old friend who is just learning about "real" music" - The Ramones Greatest Hits, The Clash Greatest Hits and the B-52's first album. She has gone through the Green Day phase and I'm helping expand her musical appreciation by introducing her to some other the older stuff..She is learning how to play guitar and can play pretty cool riffs from Sabbath's "Iron Man"! She's the daughter of one of my best friends and she calls alot to chat about music and other things on her mind - very cool and encouraging!! We watched "School Of Rock" last year, and it helped launch her into the appreciation of older classic rock and punk...
As for many younger generation folks, they are being spoon fed culture just like we all were...With all the sources of music and technical ways to hear it, they share and compare the endless newer stuff without really being exposed to the older "truer" stuff...
Mix in the "short-attention-span" aspect to the times and its very easy to understand the lack of exposure...And it's not just music - many kids can't even tell you who the last five presidents were, but I'm sure they can tell you what dipping sauces are available at McDonald's with an order of Chicken McNuggets! :)))
2007-08-02 08:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by Bemarian 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think people think that. I'm in a younger generation, and no one my age thinks they're punk at all. We have a good grip on music genres contrary to popular belief. FOB? NOBODY thinks Fall-Out Boy is punk. Not even POP-PUNK. Maybe people think it's rock or pop rock... but it's more than just regular pop isn't it? It's got an edge to it, so of course we're not going to say it's pop.
2007-08-02 04:02:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bands like mcr, fob are about as Punk as Metallica is country in my opinion
2007-08-02 04:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by Bored @ Work 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too and those bands are what I call "Boybands" except for Blink 182 is pop/rock
I read an answer where they thought FOB was indie
2007-08-02 05:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah and people consider Green Day punk as well
whats up with that
2007-08-02 03:59:43 · answer #7 · answered by Scratchy_Joe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those bands you listed are more like emo and alternative bands. Punk bands are bands like the Ramones and such from like the 80s and from the 90s.
2007-08-02 04:13:01 · answer #8 · answered by Marjie L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not punk! I love the Misfits, now there's some old school punk for ya.
2007-08-02 03:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, I love music with meaning although i agree to your blink etc example - i think all have their own taste and the right to stick by it, maybe suggest some alteria music for the yiungsters education peace 0ut l8ter smsnyou
2007-08-02 11:25:23 · answer #10 · answered by ym 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋