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More Musical Curmudgeonry
By Ned | May 9, 2007
I know I’m not the first person to comment about how far punk has fallen, but this got me thinking about it again.
Seriously, how did punk go from The Clash all the way down to this? Stuff like Avril Lavigne, Green Day, etc. always has and always will be watered-down corporate manufactured pop music with some superficial punk touches. It’s embarrassing.
Not like punk is the only genre this has happened to. Every single counter-establishment music movement in American history has ended up getting co-opted by the same machine it was a reaction to. Punk gets Avril Lavigne. Look at what they did to Woody Guthrie - taking “This Land is Your Land” and sucking out any of the social relevance. Hip-hop’s got it pretty bad too when even a member of the once-proud Public Enemy has his own awful VH1 reality show.
But, and maybe this is just me, it doesn’t seem like any genre has been so aggressively watered-down and marginalized as punk. Sure there’s still some good punk out there, but not enough. As a fan, that kills me.
For those of you who watched all the way through the above embedded video, I apologize. Here’s a palate cleanser from one of my favorite punk bands:
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