sleepy
Well-Known Member
I think I see what you’re getting at. It’s what happens when a once rebellious style of music that developed naturally is then taken over by a very conservative element who are resistant to any sort of change or development, so it ends up becoming completely formulaic.It's an interesting thing how it has become a formal style. Like this cover led me down a listening alley of early NOFX and Descendents earlier, and you can really hear them working out a thing as they went along (i was mostly listening to Ribbed).
Now it's a bit like playing rockabilly or Doo Wop or something, all you can really do is pay homage or parody it, or invert the rules, but those rules are now set.
I have to say Descendents and Nofx both progressed in their own ways over the years. Whereas when I watch this video, I see 4 middle aged still refusing to believe that their teenage years have ended