History of Pop Punk: Part 1

10/07/20 • 23 min

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Before we get to the topic at hand, I’d like to revisit the movie “Forrest Gump,” specifically Forrest’s shrimp boat buddy, Benjamin Buford Blue—but you can just call him Bubba...he knew all the ways one could serve up shrimp...

What Bubba could do for shrimp, other people can do for punk...punk rock comes in as many different varieties of shrimp...there’s hardcore punk, ska-punk, cyberpunk, synthpunk, anarcho-punk, cowpunk, gypsy punk, Christian punk, Celtic punk, art punk, garage punk, glam punk, crust punk, horror punk, street punk, melodic punk, afro-punk, skate punk, Chicano punk, folk funk, trall punk...

There’s punk blues, punk pathetique, punk metal, riot grrrl, queercore, rapcore, straight edge, emo, and oi...

And then we can get into all sorts of subgenres...hardcore punk includes bent edge, deathcore, pornogrind, screamo, powerviolence, positive hardcore, nard core, nintendocore...and that’s about all I know about that...

Most of these punk derivatives are pretty niche and none of them have a hope in hell of growing beyond a cult following...but a few have blown up into worldwide phenomenon’s—including a version that I haven’t mentioned, which remains one of the most popular forms of punk rock of all time...

This is the history of pop-punk, part 1...

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There’s punk blues, punk pathetique, punk metal, riot grrrl, queercore, rapcore, straight edge, emo, and oi...

This is the history of pop-punk, part 1...

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Where Are They Now? Part 4

At some point, you may end up being invited to your high school reunion—and you’re probably going to go because you wanna see what happened to all those people...

Where’s the jock that made your life miserable?...the girl or the guy who snubbed you for that date and broke your heart...the shy, nerdy guy who was really smart...who did well?...who got what was coming to them...

But—oh, wait: people at the reunion are going to be thinking the same about you...how’s your hair and your waistline and your complexion?...dammit!...what am I gonna wear?...what am I gonna say to these people?...and so the anxiety sets in...

But you’ll still end up going...why?...because we’ve all got the “where-are-they-now” gene...it’s only natural to be curious about the whereabouts of people we were close to (or at least in close proximity to) during an important time in our lives...

Connecting people this way was one of the first projects for the internet...classmates.com went online way back in 1995...its sole purpose was the find anyone you might have gone to school with from kindergarten to university...

This was also the purpose of a site called “Friendster” back in 2002...then came MySpace in 2003...anyone remember “hi 5?”...it showed up in 2004...then finally, Facebook in 2005...

You know what we need?...a site that links together all the artists and musicians we once knew—a proper one-stop-shop where-are-they-now resource for music...

As far as I can tell, such a site doesn’t exist so we have to piece together things ourselves....so let’s try to do that again...this is another look at lost Canadian alt-rock bands of the 90s and beyond...

Damn...would someone get on that idea?...it would make doing a show like this a lot easier...

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History of Pop Punk: Part 2

Here’s a list of words that shouldn’t go together but do...alone together...how many times did you uses that during the coronavirus pandemic?...deafening silence...I know what that means, but when you think about it, the juxtaposition is strange...

Definitely maybe...good name for a Britpop album, but an odd combination of words...random order...walking dead...original copy...

Here’s another one: pop-punk...you know what I mean by that...but those words should not go together...punk was originally created as an attack pop...

Over the decades, pop and punk merged to create a hybrid that’s responsible for selling hundreds of millions of records and concert tickets...

How did this happen?...that’s what we’re looking at...this is part two of a history of pop-punk...

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