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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
Joe Strummer would rise from his grave and pimp slap Billy Joe if he heard you say that.
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Oh please..I love the Clash but they gave birth to punk-pop. My husband who was a London punk in the 70's used to always tell me about how at the time there was a big group in the scene that didn't even think the Clash were punk but pop instead. My husband was one of them and would growl every time I played the Clash but that was his problem because I was never going to avoid playing them.
If you listen to modern 'punk' you can hear the bands that followed the example of the Clash and those that followed the Pistols and and that branch of the punk rock family tree.
So, even at its birth there wasn't just one punk sound. Greenday are more political than just about any band out there at the moment (out there meaning known because yes there are pleanty of political bands nobody hears outside of gigs) and punk has ALWAYS been political. From the Pistols to the Clash it was about politics from the start. It is also about rattling establishment cages. American Idiot (the album) does that and even way back with Dookie it drove my teachers nuts when they figured out we were singing about jerking off.
To me punk is an attitude and comes in various strengths. Remember the Clash (who again, I love) did Rock The Casbah which is as pop as you get and every housewife lists as their favorite punk song.
The problem to my musical tastes comes from all the wannabe Greendays that can't even tune their instruments that think they can do what Greenday makes look easy.