I thought they would have had a better career...

This just blew my mind.

 

I realize this is going to sound snobbish... but as someone who spent my teen years listening to the Clash, the Ramones, the Damned, etc., it's pretty weird seeing bands like Green Day and Rancid discussed like they are some kind of punk innovators. (And I like those bands.)

 

You are responding to an imaginary post.

(That said, "American Idiot" is pretty damned innovative.)

 

The ironic thing about it, however, is that if those '90s bands veered too far from the punk blueprint, they would get slammed for it by the likes of Johnny Rotten and Fat Mike from NOFX. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Billie Joe Armstrong reveres the Clash and the Ramones and all the bands you grew up listening to. But to demand he rewrite "Welcome to Paradise" for 25 years is just silly.

 

Doc and Zeke.

 

The Ginsberg character on Mad Men.

One day you're a really interesting character, the next you're handing people your nipple in a box and being wheeled out of the office on a gurney.

 

Oh, bullshit. Doc got re-tweeted by the Drew Magary the other day. Did you? I bet his followers increased from 152 to 153.

 

Sheryl Crowe's career is disappointing?
Perhaps the discussion should be about what success means in some of these endeavors.

 

Yeah, I think people don't realize how short the top 40 shelf life of your average pop star is. They are like NFL running backs.

 

I had the opposite take on Kevin Faulk. He was a nice role player and didn't really have the ability to be anything more once he got to the NFL. I thought what the Patriots got out of him was the maximum. I guess it depends on the perspective from which you look at the guy.

 

More than twenty years after they broke up, the Replacements from Minneapolis are still the next big thing. They're always mentioned as the band who was sporadically great but never could quite get it together. Same thing happened a few years back when they had a reunion tour, the breathless speculation about how the world is finally ready for them.

They've got a live album - from a 20-year-plus-old gig - coming out next month. And I just know that now they're going to get over that hump.

 

I just want to state for the record that Green Day sucks ass.