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Posted 2003-07-09, 08:31 PM
in reply to Batosi's post "Favorite Punk Bands"
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InvaderJon said:
I call them pop. Other people can call them whatever, as long as it's not punk. Punk rock is not about looking "hardcore", as Good Charlotte seems to imply. Punk rock is about topics that generally aren't discussed among the media, or about being against a movement or such that has a general public following. Take a look at the Dead Kennedys, did they ever write about how "tough" high school is? No. Now you may be thinking of the song "lifestyles of teh rich and famous", how that was a sort of "anti-" message. Well, it doesn't count when it's about the artist. That song is very much like "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. In the song she vents about people trying to be what they are not, when in fact, that is what her whole image consists of. Same with GC, they get up their and complain how the rich and famous are always complaining, when in fact, that is what they, the rich and famous, are doing.
Now, enough about the lyrics, onto the actual music. When I listen to GC, i can't help but be reminded of another band MxpX, which coincidently is one of Good Charlotte's "influences". Did you know that Good Charlotte has admitted to having no previous musical experience? Now, let's put two and two together. GC can't play their instruments and their music has an amazingly similar sound to MxPx, who Good Charlotte likes. Hmmm... oh yeah, they fucking ripped them off! Despite the very few amount of quasi-original songs they have (one of them having an orchestrated backround sound, which I know for sure wasn't Good Charlotte), for the most part, they are just MxPx wannabes. Not to mention I don't like MxPx either. Not very punk rock now are we?
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Yeah i do have to admit that GC do make alot of their shit up. They never had crappy lives like they say in their music. I did some reasearch and they all had pretty well to do lifestyeles and yes they did have musical experience like you said. And MxPx ownz GC. MxPx is fuckin amazing on CD and live.
By every fiber of your being you are truely a man slayer.
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