Most of the songs are in major keys, and Walter's guitar work definitely went on to influence 90's pop-punk quite a bit, so I can see how in retrospect that are regarded as poppier than most of the other youth crew bands.

I bought a Jawbox 7" at Borders long ago that there was still a punk/hardcore section, confusing it for Jawbreaker. It was a weird, slowish song and I was way too young to appreciate it. I still like Jawbreaker a little better, but Jawbox definitely survived the major label transition better of the two.

There was definitely a knee-jerk reaction to "Dear You" when it came out…it didn't help that the CD was going for $20 in most stores. That's a lot of money to pay, especially given that the departure in sound was kind of a gamble for most kids who bought the album. It seems to be a little overrated now. I like it…

Punk was super fucking serious in 1995. I wasn't even able to appreciate those early Green Day and Rancid records until years later. At the time I was stuck in that groupthink that they were like an affront to punk rock itself, almost like blasphemy or something, as ridiculous as that sounds. Ska was definitely a…

Punk was a small world back then, everybody met everyone else when they came around on tour. If you had a band you probably opened for a band better than you deserved to. I can see how from the outside it looks like this guy just bragging about who he opened for, but I was into punk at the same time in a totally…

Yeah, this sounds like Dandy Warhols or some shit. I was vaguely hopeful that something good came of Kim Shattuck's tenure in the band, but I suppose one shouldn't expect much from a reunion of a band that started sucking before the original break-up.

Is there any basis for all the butthurt here besides "this guy said something I liked sucks"? It seems like a real stretch to call a guy who started a band a good ten years before indie rock was even a thing, and is still grinding in the same band thirty-something years later, a hipster.He formed his opinion about…

I'm not shocked that all the dad rock fans here are offended that he (rightly) dismisses the lesser later works of revered 80s indie acts. Good on him. But I was hoping he'd have the balls to take shots at Nirvana and Sonic Youth, who are right in line with Hendrix and Husker Du respectively. I guess that would have…

I like that record, but there are about 100 other records, three or four of them by the Replacements, that are in line before it to make the top ten. There's some great songs but it sounds thin and limp compared to their earlier stuff, lacks the crazy energy. Also Bob's guitar work.

I was more of a hardcore kid, but I liked most of the bands you mentioned. I shoplifted a Knapsack CD on someone's recommendation when I was like 16 and remember being pretty annoyed that I risked getting in trouble. It just struck me a very middling and unexciting record that was totally derivative of those other…

You have drunken sing-alongs to "In Sadding Around"? That sounds like the last move before suicide.

@Patrick_Batman:disqus I have a theory about the Ramones. It goes like this: the only people who dislike the Ramones are sociopaths and child molesters. It also applies to CCR. Ergo, you are a child molester or at the very least a sympathizer.

Newsgroup reader for Delphi, which was kind of like an off-brand Compuserve. Early proto-ISP.

Most of the Italian American standards that didn't originate in the NYC area originated in SF, it was a compliment that assumed a fair amount of food trivia knowledge.

You sound offended. You should write some corny raps about how sad you are.

Every time Drake releases a shitty album the clock resets.

If you hunt around youtube, there are some really loud, garage-y demos of a lot of songs. Can't Hardly Wait with Stinson on guitar fucking smokes.

I don't see what capitalism has to do with it. I am pretty positive towards capitalism but don't think anyone ever has to do anything they don't want to do…the natural consequence may be that people are less willing to see him perform, but it's totally within his rights to perform however he likes. It's not like he…

I worked in downtown Hartford as a chef for years, about a year of it in a restaurant that did comedy on the weekends. Knowing the crowds in Hartford, which are composed largely of frat boys from the law school and insurance companies, there's an excellent chance that the crowd was full of racist drunk douchebags.

It's pretty rich for the author to take a shot at a filmmaker for making movies about "first world problems" when almost every entry in the article takes a pot shot at middle American stereotypes for laughs.