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grendel627 said:
???????? Really? I'm pretty sure Green Day would have thought of themselves as "punk" when they were playing shows at 924 Gilman Street and signed to Lookout!
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exactly

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Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990. Wikipedia
Origin: Rodeo, CA
Genres: Punk rock; pop-punk; alternative rock; skate punk; power pop
Active from: 1987
 
grendel627 said:
???????? Really? I'm pretty sure Green Day would have thought of themselves as "punk" when they were playing shows at 924 Gilman Street and signed to Lookout!
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100% disagree.
The word punk was never used on the radio.
After Nirvana rolled out, the rock music scene changed to grunge and then pivoted to alternative.

Punk is The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols etc..
 
Jbraswell said:
100% disagree.
The word punk was never used on the radio.
After Nirvana rolled out, the rock music scene changed to grunge and then pivoted to alternative.

Punk is The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols etc..
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Yeah Green Day was very much called Punk back in the day and that pretty much ran through the Dookie cycle. After that, you would have been laughed at for saying it. Radio ain’t famous for being right about stuff.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Yeah Green Day was very much called Punk back in the day and that pretty much ran through the Dookie cycle. After that, you would have been laughed at for saying it. Radio ain’t famous for being right about stuff.
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It was the alternative rock radio station. 94.5 KDGE
Famously only playing one style of 90s music ... Alternative rock
 
Jbraswell said:
It was the alternative rock radio station. 94.5 KDGE
Famously only playing one style of 90s music ... Alternative rock
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Which again, is a broad category of music that encompassed many subgenres including bands that could be called Punk. Regardless of many purists feelings that Punk died when the Pistols or the Clash broke up… there are plenty of bands like Bad Religion, Rancid, NOFX and yes, even Green Day, that are widely considered part of the music. Punk is also bands like Devo and Talking Heads that have a firmly DIY aesthetic but that meaning has been lost over time and people call them Post Punk or New Wave. Doesn’t make someone who refers to them as Punk wrong. Purists in all genres can get bent. I say this as someone who struggles with Cowboy Carter being country.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Which again, is a broad category of music that encompassed many subgenres including bands that could be called Punk. Regardless of many purists feelings that Punk died when the Pistols or the Clash broke up… there are plenty of bands like Bad Religion, Rancid, NOFX and yes, even Green Day, that are widely considered part of the music. Punk is also bands like Devo and Talking Heads that have a firmly DIY aesthetic but that meaning has been lost over time and people call them Post Punk or New Wave. Doesn’t make someone who refers to them as Punk wrong. Purists in all genres can get bent. I say this as someone who struggles with Cowboy Carter being country.
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Maybe it was just different in other parts of the country.
Nothing about punk in 1995 across DFW.


 
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