• numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I chuckled heartily earlier today when I saw a post on the front page of the R-word site that was posted to the conservative sub. It was a picture of the band holding up a mask of Trump with idiot written on it and a title along the lines of “After Trump assassination attempt, Green Day holds up head of Donald Trump”.

    Literally, it was just a mask of Trump with something like “Idiot” written on it from a band that quite literally is known for criticizing the government (understatement).

    They were making it sound like it was an implicit threat to Trump and hateful rhetoric inciting further violence.

    I swear there must be some brain damage involved in those types of conclusions.

    • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I don’t man, I don’t consider them punk punk but pop punk, but still doesn’t change your statement.

      I’m still surprised punk hasn’t made a come back. We are dying of old age and this is the right environment for punk to flourish.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Check out Desaparecidos, side project of Conor Oberst. They have 2 albums, one in 2002, one in 2015, both just as relevant today.

        • person420@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          People have been saying Green Day aren’t punk since Dookie. That’s always been a thing with punk. Once you leave the underground clubs of NYC, you’re pop.

        • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Classifying them pop rock would be gatekeeping. I still classified them within the punk genre and still agreed with their statement of punk.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          classifying in genres is by definition gatekeeping. somewhere you have to draw a line between punk and everything else, otherwise the term punk loses all meaning.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I grew up in (what I perceive as) the heyday of punk, but mostly ignored it. Lately I’ve been tempted to take a closer look at some of those old punk bands I always heard about back in the day.

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I will do - can you recommend an entry point or two? Heavy on the political/social messaging is fine with me, but a more understandable lyrical style than what I remember of a lot of those old punk bands would be preferred.

            • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              The partisans, subhumans, the exploited, discharge.

              Cheap sex, the casualties, cockney rejects for newer late 90s early 2k. Some of the ones I think would be what your are looking for.

              Hardcore punk, oi, crust, anachro punk.

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Those kids were right. Not so much as adults anymore some of them. John Lydon in particular having become a bit of a disappointment. But it’s still a fun era and easy to listen through. Seeing as it really encompassed about a 5 to 6 year span.

          Post Punk/ dance Punk is having a bit of a Resurgence again though. Lots of good new stuff coming out. Though not as much political necessarily.

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 months ago

            it’s still a fun era and easy to listen through

            Posing the same question as I did to someone else - can you recommend an entry point or two? Heavy on the political/social messaging is fine with me, but a more understandable lyrical style than what I remember of a lot of those old punk bands would be preferred.

            • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Wikipedia has a decent list to get an entry point. At least for the big ones. Start following any of those through YouTube Spotify Etc and you’ll get down into rabbit holes of small bands that only put out a few songs as live bootlegs that only five people in the world remember. Rabbit holes are always a good time.

                • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  Punk was a musical big bang of a sort. I spend most of my time in adjacent subgenre. Most people do without realizing it honestly. Postpunk, goth, new wave, alternative, and industrial all descend from it. As well as other genera like ska, psychobilly, and horror punk. Though I’d argue that a lot of the political sentiment today is in industrial and EBM. Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot 20 years ago were suuuper political. I mentioned KMFDM elsewhere, they go way way back to the early 80s. Even Trent Reznor and nine inch nails, very political. Even male model Marc Massive and his group Massive Ego. Really continues the political and social commentary.

      • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’m down with you being all in on the statement but I have a question for you.

        What would you consider Punk in 1990 or even 94?

            • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Narcoleptic youth, total chaos, rancid, one way system, nofx, penny wise.

              Playing? TSOL, circle jerks, the adicts, D.I, the exploited

              • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                On Wikipedia Rancid, NOFX, Penny Wise all have a similar paragraph about all the other bands that came out of the same area and Green Day is in all of them.

                Green Day may have shifted over time into Rock or Pop Punk as you say but make no mistake when they originated they were Punk. Especially if NOFX, Penny Wise, and Rancid is. The problem is that when a band hits it, they are usually tagged with whatever they were defined as from then on. So they are punk because they were originally punk. I know I am arguing and I am not meaning to. Just trying to point out that there isn’t much reason to say they aren’t punk anymore.

                It’s like my argument about “hover boards” I lost that one a long time ago and it doesn’t help anyone to keep correcting people an say it’s not a hoverboard. The name stuck from the start.

      • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The day Trump was elected I was excited for a new wave of anti-government human-rights protest music. The best we got was “This Is America”.

  • MermaidsGarden@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So Green Day does the most Green Day thing ever and the MAGA crowd loses their minds. Who are the snowflakes again?

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    ROFL!! Apparently the folks complaining haven’t actually ever listened to Green Day. Though the severed Trump head at the concert was probably a bit much.

  • folkrav@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Did these conservatives miss American Idiot, or are they just being reactionary as they so often are?

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This is the same group of people who (somehow) thought Killing in the Name Of was aligned with their views, and now make comments like “I liked RATM until they got so political.”

      • folkrav@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        American Idiot and the what, 3 albums before it and all the following, were all on Reprise Records (Warner). American Idiot specifically had some very strong marketing campaigns. If one really does subscribe to that “selling out” rhetoric, they did so much earlier than that.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Most of them are just peanut brains with the Goldfish attention span who only like the sound but never listen to the lyrics. Hell one of the local grocery stores around here in their mix has a few tracks by the stones in particular give me shelter. It’s an iconic song. But most people have no idea what the lyrics are. It’s sort of surreal to walk through the store listening to the singer scream out rape and murder it’s just a shot away. It’s a fun sort of irony I suppose.

  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Green Day used to be anti-establishment, now they are the establishment.

    American Idiot is almost 20 years old and the message hasn’t changed. Do these people just have zero media literacy?

    • rainynight65@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Media literacy has never been a thing with conservatives - to this day they don’t understand what the Bruce Springsteen song ‘Born In The USA’ is really about. Reagan famously wanted to use it for his campaign in 1984.

      Also somehow conservatives have been so keen on appearing as ‘not the establishment’ that by now they have terminally deluded themselves into believing that they really aren’t part of the establishment. How their voters believe this is anyone’s guess.

      And let’s not talk about how the self-proclaimed defenders of free speech constantly take issue with speech they don’t like.