one for my notebook

raising hell : music lessons

Natalie thinks Avril Lavigne is punk. DJ thinks Matchbox 20 is hard. We sit in the living room watching the Grammys and I listen to them discuss music. I shake my head in sad disgust and ask my husband where we went wrong. Finally, when Natalie insists that Good Charlotte defines the new punk movement, we realize it’s time for action.

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3 Responses to “one for my notebook”

  1. I’m so so proud that my 11-y/o daughter can sing “Let’s Stay Together” and identify both Frank Sinatra and Barry White within 10 seconds of a song starting.
    Punk? WTF is this “Avril” thing? Doesn’t anyone know that PUNK died when Joey Ramone died?

  2. “Doesn’t anyone know that PUNK died when Joey Ramone died?”
    No it didn’t. Maybe in the eyes of the media, but it definitely still exists…
    Punk is an idea, and a way of thinking, not just a musical style.

  3. RIP
    Punk
    1975-1983
    “Oh rest ye little lamb”
    I have a CD rereleased by a group called “The Monks”. It’s banjo, crappy guitars, with the voices of ex-marines. It’s more punk than a lot of the stuff out in the heyday. It was released in the mid 60′s. Just the words and the attitude were punk enough,
    I remember having a discussion with someone who thought that Green Day was Nupunk and I kept referring them back to the oldschool stuff. Their reply was “I’m too young for that stuff, I didn’t grow up with it”. It’s just a new fashion of Punk, more commercial without the attitude of the past.