Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described Chickita's music as "punk rock, but more interesting and heavy with two basses...
Corgan, 28, who grew up listening to bands like (surprise!) Led Zeppelin, is blunt in his criticism of some current trends in pop music. Punk rock, for instance, is "not what it was in 1977," he asserts, "and anybody who is old enough to remember knows the difference. It's being heralded as a new movement, and we all know it's bogus." On rock stars who moan about the high cost of fame: "They're total hypocrites. No one's putting a gun to your head to do videos, to do tours, to do interviews...
...where was the representation of rock right now? Bon Jovi does not represent rock right now, O.K.?" And he expresses scorn for rockers he sees as imitations: "Let's face it, Alanis Morissette is like a tame Courtney Love [a former girlfriend of Corgan's who now heads the punk band Hole]. What is Alanis Morissette being held up as? This feministic step forward. The fact is, it's people like Courtney and Kat Bjelland [of Babes in Toyland] who carved out that road. We should be rewarding the real artists...
Deliberately careless with his slides, letting them get scratched of dusty, his photographs have an unfinished quality which suited the "punk" image he tried to project. His violent adolescence as a teenage prostitute and his claim of being the son of the Boston Strangler added to that facade...
Green Day is indisputably the most popular punk band since the demise of Nirvana; yet while Nirvana was relentlessly serious--perhaps too serious, as it turned out--Green Day is playfully antisocial. The band's last album comprised punk songs with tuneful hooks, and its new one features more or less the same thing, although its music has grown more belligerent and less melodic. Truth be told, Green Day's songs are so cartoonishly simple they tend to sound alike, yet they are performed with such urgency that they seem fresh...