The Band That Started Pop Punk

Now I know who to blame.

My guitar teacher is going to see the descendents in a few days and I’m so jealous

Buzzcocks.

Though not to say "no" to Descendents, either; just to say, both sprouted up independently in response to their times and both are pioneers in defining the fusion of pop and punk. And not to dispute that the Descendents, naturally, have a much stronger influence on the kind of pop-punk out of '90s SoCal that became definitive later on such that often that sound is conflated with pop-punk in general.

Chad is such an amazing vocalist, ALL is the shit! 🤘

Descendents are the worst thing to happen to rock and roll, it set the precedent that its ok for punks to be pussies

my goats

filmage is a great film

I Don't Want to Grow Up & especially their cover of Wendy was their apex. Period. Nothing after that is worth a damn . 💯

Great vid.Saw them @ 1st Ave- think it was their last show, they did a live album with a photo on it from the night. Like Breakfast Club was for disaffected youth for movies- they were for music. Never dug All much. Milo Goes to College is 1 of a handful of what i consider the 'core' of punk rock music. Sex Pistols- Bollocks/ Subhumans- Day the country died/ Bad Brains- Rock for Light/ Black Flag- Damaged/ GBH- Leather, Bristles, etc../ 7 Seconds- The Crew/ Youth Brigade- Sink with Kali/ and pretty much any Exploited album. (Let's start a war or Troops probably my fav). There are a few thinga that I cherish- and 1 is to have been there, in that snippet of time, with people like myself, interacting and being human. No gen after this feels that about each other. There is no connection in the world for them, there was for us. And as I sit here, weathered, it is with an immense gratefulness that I was able to experience that, especially considering society is so different now, you can't even experience a like moment of a different flavor- they don't exist at all for the new generations. I feel sad for them. Like Hippy's I wasn't a part of that culture/ but their struggles were the same flavor as ours, just different reasons and different things- but it was a counter culture. People are fully homogenized now so the counter culture is dead. And everyone likes something different b/c there's so many different entertainment choices, so no one relates to each other- they have no monoculture like we did. It's what I envy about the Japanese- they all feel connected, despite their differences, b/c the all feel like they are together- in this world and spiritually. Anywho- The greatest generation wasn't the stupid boomers or whatever that one guy said it was= it was US, the most original, and the last of the TRUE generations. It's appropriate they labeled us X.

No, they started Cuck Rock.

why didn’t they just do speed?

Hallraker is the best live album of all time IMHO.

You guys are being too literal here; yes other popular punk bands existed well before them that you could in hindsight call a punk/pop act.
Now that said; Do blink 182 sound more like the Ramones or the Descendants? Did Taking Back Sunday do a cover of a pop adjacent post punk UK act from the early 80s….or did they pick a cover of suburban home for their slot on the Tony hawk ost. The important thing here is the scope of their influence and the branding on their style/sound.

Whats being credited is taking all those earlier punks and then Refining that more and adding in their own signatures/musical elements. When saying they made pop-punk it's more that what they honed down would all go onto be absorbed and carried forward by other hyper popular acts is what we are talking about.
The descendants are inseparable and emblematic of the sound and style that was a blueprint being used by 90s west coast bands. Theyre a significant influence of "pop-punk" but they didn't invent making catchy popular punk music

Now we need a Dead Kennedys video.

I'm not a fan of the tone of this video. It sounds like you don't really have any respect for the music you're talking about. Then, the lack of research and the faulty premise of the whole video just make this not a great watch.

Fuck that thumbnail, i fucking hate the wojakification of the internet

now imagine them on adderall

Your editing just keeps getting better and better