challenge_everything
Active Member
Please please please can we not have another thread from this OP about how bad current music is, why is mainstream music so bad etc etc etc repeat same discussion ad nauseum.
On the subject of punk though, there are less good punk bands around because 1) punk was largely a product of its time and 2) punk is a musically quite narrow style of music and it's difficult to make progressions on it that haven't been done.
Nonetheless, there are still some excellent punk bands around today, you just need to look harder. Many of the 80s and early 90s punk bands are still making good music: Bad Religion for one. The best punk albums from the last five years for me would be Thought Riot's Shattered Mirror Syndrome and the self-titled album by Society's Rejects. Both highly original and I can't recommend highly enough. Rise Against and Anti-Flag regularly make good music too. AFI was producing original punk up until their last album.
On the subject of punk though, there are less good punk bands around because 1) punk was largely a product of its time and 2) punk is a musically quite narrow style of music and it's difficult to make progressions on it that haven't been done.
Nonetheless, there are still some excellent punk bands around today, you just need to look harder. Many of the 80s and early 90s punk bands are still making good music: Bad Religion for one. The best punk albums from the last five years for me would be Thought Riot's Shattered Mirror Syndrome and the self-titled album by Society's Rejects. Both highly original and I can't recommend highly enough. Rise Against and Anti-Flag regularly make good music too. AFI was producing original punk up until their last album.