Word: punkness
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...wait, what’s this? / What exactly is happening to us? / Our world? / Don’t you think it’s sort of fucked?” It’s safe to say that in its early days Gob was true to its self-proclaimed punk identity in almost every respect...
...Police, Offspring, Greenday, Rancid and Blink 182 all decided that the spreading of the musical word is more important than a rigid code of conduct—they are the classic punk sellouts...
...here, well to the left of the punk political center, that we find the subjects of our current inquiry...
When Gob first formed in 1993 in Vancouver, their counter-cultural, disgruntled demeanor would have satisfied any punk purist’s criteria. Plenty of classic punk themes and characteristics are found, for example, in Gob’s first full-length album, Too Late...No Friends...
...much: The list of tracks list is conspicuously devoid of such titles as “Fuck them” and “Asshole,” two tracks from Too Late. Lyrically, the songs are much tamer, and indicate a shift in focus towards some of punk music’s more marketable themes, like unrequited love, at the expense of the less saleable “fuck you” motif. As it turned out, the band’s new, more marketable sound paid off, as they were able to get How Far (originally released...