Please Kill Me is about protopunk. It treats the early CBGB scene as the end of punk rock (aside from a brief, dismissive acknowledgement that some recent bands might have something to do with punk rock) and is like 90% 70's rock star bullshit. To steal a line from the Dead Milkmen, there's repeated references to…

I think it was Mitch Clem who pointed out that pop-punk sounds a lot more like classic 70's punk rock than any other punk subgenre.