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You've run into the fundamental problem with music. They're only going to put it on radio if a lot of people consume it. So then the reality about most people is they're not sharp, so they react and gravitate towards bad music that's made for dumbasses. That includes the bands you listed. Radio has no incentive to do otherwise. I've talked to a lot of radio DJ's who hate the shit they have to play, but if they try to get 14-20 year olds (the prime music buying demographic) to listen and enjoy respectable artists like David Bowie, Lou Reed, and so on, it'll never work and they'll be out of business fast.

My suggestion: Don't listen to radio over the airwaves. There are internet radio options where you can customize what you listen to or at least listen to genres that you'll never be offered on radio.

www.launch.yahoo.com

is one such example.

Get an mp3 player, load your whole collection of CD's on it, then do your own thing. I only listen to the radio for NPR and sports programs. You will not convert the masses to listen to the music that you like...your marketing plan doesn't have the financial backing to compete.

lou reed and velvet underground are great

Launchcast is GREAT. You create your own station by rating bands/genres/songs/albums, and it introduces you to bands that are similar to those that you rate highly. I use it all the time.

First off, I will agree that most of the bands/ musicians you listed are quite shitty. However, punk music does not suck. Would I say all punk music is good- no. However, some of the best music and bands are punk in nature, or have been heavily influenced by it. Anybody that considers themself a punk, or knows anything about the punk mantra, will know exactly what I am talking about. The reason why people like you associate punk with being bad is because of what the mainstream radio has packaged punk to be. This would be bands like Good Charlotte, Avril, Yellowcard, etc, the list goes on and on. But real punk is quite the opposite. I am not going to try and explain to you what good punk music is because you seem way to close minded. Of course it is much easier to go through life by simply hearing one thing one time and then labeling it for ever more. For instance, my good friend is Canadian and he is dumber than a box of rock. This must mean that all Canadians are stupid, right?

The essence of the story, try listening to some good music and then make the distinction of whether a whole category of music sucks. To do this, try first listening to the Clash.

Punk does not suck,

You sound like a punk connaisseur... I'm into punk too, but have a hard time finding good stuff outside the yellowcard etc realm. I really dig Millencolin and The Ataris-- they are pretty original (esp Millencolin) anti-radio bands. Any suggestions for similar bands, or what are your favorite punk bands??

Fugazi is an awesome "punk" band

...this is clearly one of the more objective statements I've ever read.

poster wrote:

Fugazi is an awesome "punk" band

in my opinion

true punk:

-Social Distortion (personal fav) new CD coming out in a week.

-Rancid (Tim armstrong--bass player, who is now with Social D)

-Pennywise

-Ramones

-green day to a lesser extent

if you're lookin for something with a little soul to it, check out the Transplants. the track "down in Oakland" is awesome! maybe i'm bias cuz i was born there and live there most of my life.

check out the old "punk-o-rama" comps by Epitaph. if you can find them, they're about $6-8, but the first is over $10. try Rapsputin's if you're in the bay area.

punk band labels: Nitro, Epitaph, shoot, help me out, i cant htink of others.

i agree: y-card, g-charlotte, etc= BS!! that's the type of music that true PUNK speaks against!

Since when are the Ataris "anti-radio" Boys of Summer????

What I meant to type:

Since when are the Ataris "anti-radio"? Boys of Summer????

some good punk bands:

misfits, descendents, ramones, dead kennedys

welcome to der weinerschnitzel, may i take your order please? yeah i want: two large cokes, two large fries chili-cheese dog, large doctor pepper super deluxe, with cheese and tomato you want bill sperm with that? no!

if you know what im talking about, let it be known

Its a descendents song

well i was looking for a more enthusiastic response, but well i just had to get some descendants lyrics on there.

anyway, Im by no means a punk fan but i do like some descendants (ie hope, silly girl, good things), minor threat (although the irony is that me and my friends would listen to them while drinking and trying to get laid, which is not what minor threat was about), bad brains, dead kennedys, and while you're at it, try to find some Husker Du (and then after that, you can make an ascension to the highest level of enlightenment, THE PIXIES)

I thought it was Johnny Ramone, the one who died last week, that was the staunch conservative. Joey was the one who died 2 years ago. HE wrote the song about Reagan visiting the Nazi cemetary. It made it on the soundtrack for "School of Rock.