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So fish keeps talking about all these pop punk bands,
and she showed me one I didn't mind (Cant remember the name)

But isn't that kind of a Oxymoron.. calling something 'pop punk'

if it's punk AND popular, doesn't that make it pop punk?
Perhaps it's a stylistic thing,. Punkrock power chords, fast, and loud mixed with harmonies and progressions.

pop-punk is the best genre of music

Jawbreaker...

My beef with the term pop-punk is that in the 90's anything wimpy, slick, minor label "punk" band was labelled pop-punk...and it tainted the term. Pop doesn't mean popular anymore...Pop became a genre in the 50's and as long as it's catchy as fuck and full of hooks, I'm Ok with people calling something pop. The Ramones were a pop-punk band...The Pointed Sticks, The Modernettes, Dickies, Descendents (at times), Buzzcocks, Undertones, Boys, etc, etc were all early pop-punk bands. Seems most of the good ones were pulling their influences from the 50's and 60's...later on the decent pop-punk bands were just aping the earlier pp-punk bands. There is a whole culture of bands who ape the ramones/ screeching weasel/queers...all those bands are better than the 90's definition of pop-punk.

oh man, you just pulled the "real emo / fake emo" argument about pop punk, that rules

i want to marry pop punk in all its real and fake forms. i'm still stoked on the first good charlotte album so suck it haters.

I don't know anything about real emo or fake emo...but I know that if it ain't got hooks...it ain't pop. Playing wussy punk doesn't mean you're playing pop-punk...it just means you're not smart enough to write catchy fucking song!

grungePIG wrote:i want to marry pop punk in all its real and fake forms. i'm still stoked on the first good charlotte album so suck it haters.

You know how I feel about pop punk.


I feel the same way as Sarah. My favourite genre is pop punk. I love this genre way too much (jk, there's never too much love for pop punk.)

wolfgang wrote:I don't know anything about real emo or fake emo...but I know that if it ain't got hooks...it ain't pop. Playing wussy punk doesn't mean you're playing pop-punk...it just means you're not smart enough to write catchy fucking song!

Pop punk is the catchiest genre besides like.. top 40 radio pop.

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Also, Pop is a genre. Punk is a genre. Mixing Pop and Punk makes Pop-Punk.

And 90's pop-punk is my favorite pop-punk. Jawbreaker, Dude Ranch-era Blink, Alkaline Trio, the list goes on. So good. SO GOOD.

Being punk is a pop-culture movement one could argue that all punk is pop-punk by default, so there.

Hollow wrote:Alkaline Trio

I never would have pictured you'd liking them. When I get home can we listen to From Here To Infirmary and eat vegan pizza?

I love pop-punk

He spent 15 years, getting loaded. 15 years till his liver exploded, now what's gonna do now that he can't drink? THE DOCKER SAID....

Jordan f. wrote: When I get home can we listen to From Here To Infirmary and eat vegan pizza?

Can I join you?

Fish wrote:

Jordan f. wrote: When I get home can we listen to From Here To Infirmary and eat vegan pizza?

Can I join you?

for sure!

Jordan f. wrote:

Hollow wrote:Alkaline Trio

I never would have pictured you'd liking them. When I get home can we listen to From Here To Infirmary and eat vegan pizza?

I love pop-punk

He spent 15 years, getting loaded. 15 years till his liver exploded, now what's gonna do now that he can't drink? THE DOCKER SAID....

YES, Although "Goddamnit" is a better album...


Emily can come too.

I'm always stoked when the band down the hall from our practice space covers Bob and brutally murders the trumpet solo EVERY TIME.