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[[User:67.67.132.59]] wrote in the article "It has also been reported in print by the band members themselves that a principal at their school once made the comment that it would be a "green day" in hell before they amounted to anything." I cannot find any original citation of this although it is often repeated so I have made it anecdotal until we have verified the source. --[[User:TheoClarke|Theo ]] [[User_talk:TheoClarke|(Talk)]] 14:55, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Real punks should care less about whether a band is "punk" ==
Oh no, here's another "this band is/isn't punk argument. For one, Green Day is pop-punk, but pop-punk is a form of punk. While it's true they have deviated from this sound lately, they still are and will always be pop-punk. Green Day is pop-punk, as is NoFX, so whoever thinks NoFX is punk but Green Day isn't has a problem. And whoever mentioned the Ramones being the originators of punk but not political at all has a good point. A band doesn't have to be political to be punk, but many are anyway. Also, Green Day was political before American Idiot - listen to "Minority" and "Maria" for two good examples. With the exeption of War on Errorism, NoFX hasn't been all too political either. Their biggest hit was arguably "Bob", a song about as pointless as Green Day's "Longview".
True punk is dead, but punk revitalists such as Green Day, NoFX, Bad Religion, Rise Against, ect., regardless of whether they are political or not, will continue to make awesome music. And to a real punk, that's all that should matter.
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