MTV's Unplugged

A Jimmy Eat World unplugged would be cool

alice in chains unplugged is amazing; quintessential grunge listening.

garbage's unplugged set at y100- http://garbage.shattereddreams.net/thevault.html

Garbage suck. A Jimmy Eat World would be cool. Or Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday would be awesome too.

Originally posted by amity75
I've still got that on VHS and still watch it. Pearl Jam ruled the world back then. Can anyone remember Kiss doing an unplugged show? Jesus.

No, not Jesus, Kiss. KISS

Originally posted by el_barto
No, not Jesus, Kiss. [B]KISS [/B]

They are hard to differentiate between though.

Originally posted by Smallville
Garbage suck. A Jimmy Eat World would be cool. Or Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday would be awesome too.

I dont like TBS but your right Coheed and Cambria would be good

Garbage suck but you suggest anything involving Taking Back Sunday would be awesome?

Priorities and talent perception obviously not a strongpoint here.

-AC

You guys are hilarious. Garbage are the only band in the mainstream that represent traditional punk rock ethics but you'd rather listen to a bunch of sad poser sucks like TBS and Jimmy eat world? christ

Jimmy Eat World are not posers, they're also better than Garbage.

I really like Garbage, but to call them punk rock is stupid. There are no real punk bands left. Punk had a lifespan and it's gone.

-AC

explain why garbage are not a punk band?

i'll reply after classes

Because they're not a punk band are they? They're just a rock band, with pop elements. What an odd question.

Nothing remotely punk about Garbage. The Sex Pistols, Fear, The Misfits, these were/are punk bands. Garbage are not a punk band.

Not much further we can go.

-AC

blondie, the go-go's, souixsie and the banshees, the pretenders, and even the B-52's were lumped in as punk at one point or another. You're trying to define punk as a particular sound as opposed to a rock philosophy and approach. You don't have to sound like the Circle Jerks or Black Flag or Minor Threat to be a punk band.

The key there is "lumped in".

Many bands get wrongly lumped in where they don't belong, hence why there are so many problems.

-AC

Originally posted by Darth Jello
You're trying to define punk as a particular sound as opposed to a rock philosophy and approach.

Wouldn't one reflect the other? I mean, if we aren't defining music by the sound, then couldn't Garth Brooks or Peter Frampton be Punk?

'punk' is all about the attitude of the circa 70s/80s movement.
see: iggy pop

if not involved in said movement, classification could be seen as 'pop-punk' or 'punk revival'

Every genre born out of time or phase has a lifespan.

Grunge, nu metal etc. It all dies within time. Punk was one of them. Music was the catalyst for a movement. No more movement, no more musical catalyst.

-AC

One could argue that punk has been reborn as something new

True. Much like there is Nu Metal ( 😆 )

punk's been around since 1958 in one form or another and is still around, if not in the spirit of garbage, in the fact that the misfits, tsol, di, and the adolescents are still releasing albums and touring.