> The punch line at the end of the movie was interviewing the original punk folks and seeing how angry they were that everybody missed the damn point. The point

> The punch line at the end of the movie was interviewing the original punk folks and seeing how angry they were that everybody missed the damn point. The point wasn't to imitate the "punks" well--the point was to stand against the mainstream any way you could. I’ve been listening to a lot of 80s/90s post hardcore recently and Spotifies highly advance recommendation system has been stuffing my recs with modern post-hardcore. so I decided to peak one of the more recent albums and remembered why I don’t listen to much punk genres past the early 00s. The stuff from the 80s and 90s was new, different, and completely raw. Even if you don’t care for the music itself, it’s obvious that the artists were pouring themselves into the music and you could feel that. Conversely, the modern stuff sounds “cleaner” and occasionally more technical but at the same time feels sterile and devoid of the emotional weight carried by the predecessors. I’ve been wondering lately, there was a brief period in the 2010s when some punk derived genres (notably metalcore, deathcore and post-hardcore) were hitting mainstream charts and I kinda have to wonder if that helped kills those genres because modern charting music often is very boring.