Channel 4 Teletext Guide to Punk

Unless the words "not at all..." preface the word "punk" in the sentence regarding Avril, the piece is immediately rendered moot.

Pronunciation Key (mt)

adj.

1.Subject to debate; arguable: a moot question.
2.
a.Law. Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
b.Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

TAKING A POP AT PUNK

With the rock scene flouncing around so
elaborately in the mid-70s, punk was
a way for bands to strip music back
to basics.

Most of the songs had an angry, social
agenda - dig out a Clash or The Jam
record for proof! - but it lasted
for just a couple of years.

US punk arrived with Nirvana and
Greenday spurting out tunes on teen
angst. They were a bit less vexed.

Punk pop took on a skater edge with
Blink 182 and Sum 41 giving us gems
like All The Small Things just a few
years ago.

Music execs got wise to this surge in
the genre's popularity and soon acts
were popping up all over the shop,with
many slipping into the nu-metal fold.

At the moment have Good Charlotte and
The Androids riding on the crest of
the tongue-in-cheek punk wave.

Appealing to the pop, skate and rock
fans is a mighty hard job, but somehow
Avril Lavigne has ended up with a wide
appreciation society at 18.

It's only fair to say Pink and Kelly
Osbourne have been influenced by punk
to give their commerical releases a
snappier edge.

And Busted might be pop, but their
guitars and stage jumping scream out
that they want to be like Wheatus.


HOW TO BE PUNK POP

 Say stuff like, "Dude", "I'm down
with that" and "We're rollin'".

 Wear baggy trews and hoodies, or
vests too if you're a girl. Add flat
skate trainers to complete the look.

 Style your hair in an original
fashion and mess around with colouring
it mad shades.

What I want to see, by the way, is hippies doing the "that isn't real hippie" thing -- this would be fantastic.

norwegian satan-loving black metal

nazi/bdsm-industrialist

pervy-goth

 Wear baggy trews and hoodies, or
vests too if you're a girl. Add flat
skate trainers to complete the look.

 Style your hair in an original
fashion and mess around with colouring
it mad shades. ?

i'm rollin'.

"heres a rioutous rock tune you can fill the floor with, many great riffs in this one, washes away the memory of pop pap"

"pop pap is no more, as long as these guys keep producing such fine guitar grooves, blistering"

"Why don't we talk about the underrated Delirious? on this place? Am I the only person who's heard of them? They're much better than this R&B rubbish in the charts today!"

"Does anyone know if JJ72 are touring?"

"In my opinion, the best lyricists ever are Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, and Kelly Jones"

john earls on the c4 page is a fucking muppet though.