Ugh... One of my friends brought this topic up. I was surprised because he has little interest in music, yet he had such a stubborn opinion that punk is dead. His argument, that according to some big board of music reviewers, there are currently no bands with even moderate success playing "traditional punk." He said that even though there are bands that still play punk music, it doesn't resemble the style back then. He said it doesn't have the same rhythm... Wtf?
See, this is why I come here. There is the above friend, my other friend that religiously listens to Rammstein and a variety of other German "thump" bands, which is a nickname I made up because every band he listens to has a very prominent, 4/4 feel to them where each quarter note either has a heavy bass drum or snare hit, and anything that doesn't have that "has no rhythm." The only one that is cool about music is the one that tolerates pretty much any form of music.
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