stickin to the topic, i think the definition of punkrock and emo has "distorted" over the years. i'm not talkin about "selling out" (for you 'fulltime' punks). depends the environment you "grew up" in, if you're the oldschool timers you probably considered bands like The Who, Husker Du , Ramones etc as punkrock, then came the "next generation", greenday,offspring,mxpx,nofx,nufan,blink182 (this is the part where you oldsch full timers consider punkrock as selling-out) and however (from what I can remember) after that the trend came around with skapunk bands like less than jake,goldfinger,suicide machines etc, and then slowly for some reason everyone went into emo/punk with ataris,rufio, getupkids err namely these popular few cos I listen to underground bands. and by now the media somehow made it a trend and bands supposedly "poppunk" genre like simpleplan,goodcharlotte seriously sounded way different than they used to. one hit song bands like Story of the year, Lost prophets , SR71 etc came and went. and with bands like MyChemRomance (helena was a punkrockish music but with a gothic look?? then now they got some musicvideo with them as high school student wth) by now there's the whole "fashioncore" problem if you guys read the other topic , i guess thats how the market works as "selling an image", i guess the younger generation now see "punkrock" and "emo" in some sorta 'confused' perspective. I used to be a bigtime greenday fan, hearing someone mention in the earlier posts that they're EMO really kinda bums me out but that's just individual perspective which is alright.grunge is dead but they try to dig up gold by selling dead celeb's cds. punkrock soldout. emo ppl stopped crying and started "screaming" (screamo).old school rock became modern and went on american idol/rockstar inxs.reggae turned jewish (
http://www.hasidicreggae.com/) and ska.. well could be the next target. haha. soon you'll see everyone wearing business suit at gigs with brief case etc.It's just phases.Everything's fusing into each other slowly like some mongrel music until the media's got nothing left to market. my boring point of view. 50¢ worth.
p.s : bassplaying cats and guitarplaying cows don't mix. :wink: