― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
Fuckin' WATCH THAT, Junior!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
could NOT
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
Let's go down to Mrs. Gooches for some apricots
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MUSTARD GAS
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, Jay, I'm not saying that's all the stuff is, just that ... trying to think of a way to put it. You know how high-school pop-punk bands can turn any moderately simple pop song into a punk cover by having punk drumming and playing the guitar chords as muted, distorted clicks? There's this basis of few-chords simple-melody pop it works from -- same goes for plenty of Belle and Sebastian or whoever -- which I don't think is super-difficult to assemble (hence high-school punk bands) but takes a lot to make work right.
I mean, every American rock kid I know learned to play by being in a band like this. You get the equipment. You write a song with a few chords and a catchy melody; probably you try to write funny lyrics. Everybody plays eighth notes. If things are going badly you yell "G!" before the bar that's on G, etc. As you get better you all start doing basic tricks and variations. And if you can do this with loads of grace and form, you might wind up playing "All the Small Things."
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, wow, that's funny on more than one level. It all comes full circle!
And yea, I agree with Jon. ALTHOUGH, I'm The One is, arguably, a GREAT song.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
(Or maybe I'm just being defensive. Jaymc: I'm a genius because I can play pop-punk! Nabisco: It's really just three chords. Jaymc: It's more than that! *cries*)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
too much sugar rots your teeth, balance is the key.
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― ara, Friday, 20 June 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc30.jpg
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c503/c503697u32b.jpg
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
Also, Travis Barker will end up being the most-aped drummer of our era.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
I'd like to hear a DJ Sammy treatment of "Hope". Maybe Avril can sing it.
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
I like a lot of pop-punk, older stuff. I don't find the new stuff offensive in the least, but why would I buy any of it when I still have a binder full of Descendents, Mess/Darlington, Green Day and so on? I still pull out some of those albums, but less than I used to. Rancid's [i]Life Won't Wait[/i] holds up pretty well, I like the One Man Army CD I picked up the last time I went to a Warped Tour show, of course the Descendents and the Buzzcocks.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
I notice Good Charlotte gets a little more love each time they release another single. That rocks.
Descendents are ok (my fave is probably "Jean Is Dead"), but yeah, anybody who likes them but hates ALL the pop-punk out there now is probably doing it based on some ass-backwards principle.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
I haven't heard all the pop-punk out there now and to be frank based on what I HAVE heard, I'm not in the mood to hear more.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
I think the more people wrongly simplify my stance the more I'll be amused. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link