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lessthanfirst:

--- Quote from: PunkisDead ---Avril is a talented girl, and I don;t think she trys to be punk, she just sort of does her own thing... but seriously. she writes her own lyrics and music. and her stuff is pretty original, gotta give her some credit.

Besides she has never called her self. a punk, punker, punk rocker, emo victim, hardcore kid yadda yadda. the media tried giving her those titles..

and AFI was only good for the first 2, maybe 3 albums....
Sex Pistols were never good.
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Sorry but that's not true. There is a website (and I'll get a link for you later then put it in this post) where she says she makes punk music and how she hasn't listened to the Sex Pistols (the only reason being that they're old). Her stuff isn't all too original, it can be pretty much labelled as an easy cross between Blink 182 and typical pop singing. My World reminds me of Nelly Furtado. If you look at the credits for the first album all the songs are co-written with someone else and 1 or 2 of them were written for her.

Sing the Sorrow and the Art of Drowning were good albums. I haven't heard much AFI stuff from before those, only a few songs but if you read through the lyrics they're good. They mix a poetic style with a lot of darkness and to be able to mix that with the melody and energy that they have is pretty good.

Where's your proof that the Sex Pistols were never good. I mean to go backwards to the previous argument that cropped up ever so slightly in this thread that they were better then the Clash... well.... NO.

The Clash's lyrics were intelligent and said something new that could make people think. The 3rd album was just a work of pure genius. It mixed styles and the fact that it has influenced loads of bands does count for something. Sandinista was a good experiment, though a couple songs on there may be a bit boring it is good and the fact that they were brave enough to try something like that is cool. Combat Rock was good too, mostly, and we'll pretend that Combat Rock was the last album but that Dictator was a B-Side or something because that song's brilliant.

http://www.thefilthandthefury.co.uk/home Proof

And if Punk was really dead then bands would have stopped playing it. As it goes, lots of bands still play it and lots of people turn up to the shows to watch them play it.

I'm really sorry, I sound like an arrogant prick and I take this stuff too seriously :(

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: PunkisDead ---
Q. What are the Misfits named after?
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Marilyn Monroes last film.

Duh.

@Less: Because something is written on a website, especially a 404 error'd one, does not make it true. I find the Clash hugely over-rated. Maybe they inspired some good shit, but does that mean I have to like them? Worth is about which band actually sounds better, in my mind, and the Pistols ace that.

But please let's not have this argument for, what, the third or fourth time now?

ASturge:

--- Quote from: PunkisDead ---Besides she has never called her self. a punk, punker, punk rocker, emo

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I saw an interview where she said

"Before I became a punk I was a surfergirl"

Merkava:

--- Quote from: Jarne ---Another to add to the list for me would be the Ramones. Sure, their music is simple, never evolved and the lyrics where almost laughable, but they're still fun.
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SOMEBODY PUT SOMETHING IN MY DRINK!!!

MysteriumTremendum:
I was mulling something over earlier, and I'll use Arcade Fire as the objective piece.

Hypothetically, if everyone in the world (barring people from Anglesey) went out and bought Funeral tomorrow, went crazy on merchandising and created a five-year waiting list for gigs, and all of the music channels and stations started airing their music, would you:

a) consider them 'mainstream'?

and b) stop listening to them?

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