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Originally Posted by blackstar2
There are so many bands that jump on the band wagon and label themselves punk, when really they are just pop bands that play a bit faster, punk should be about kicking out at the rules that keep us down, the corperates that exploite the people, the political class that seduce our votes with lies, the dictaters that oppress the people and the murdering cowardly scum who kill innocents because they are not honourable enough to confront THEIR ememies face to face.. Punk means passion, street passion, human passion, defend the weak and oppose the oppressors, tell me about the bands that play this music, and who stand up for the rights of others.. where are the modern 'Clash' , where are the bands that bring the real world to our attention, 'The Pistols' and 'The Jam's'..
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these type of bands you're talking about, and i'm sure they do exist cause i'm in one, will never be as big as the clash or the jam etc because record companies won't touch them. record companies are becoming more and more fickle and aren't simply looking for bands that will sell lots of records for a quick fix. they're not looking for bands with any lonjevity, integrity or passion, they're looking for what people like. what pisses me off even more is big bands that are now trying to be all political and all of a sudden trying to display a social conscience. take the new Linkin Park song for example, its complete shite but the video is clearly trying to be political by including images of atom bombs, juxtaposed with starving african kids, but unfortunately the video will have been produced by Warner Bros who will have had to pay shit loads of cash for the rights to those images. so its all complete bullshit. sorry for the pessimistic outlook.
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