I don't have it with me, but in "Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer," Joe makes a comment about how all contemporary rock music is crap and you have to dig deep to find the good stuff. Which makes the good stuff have a much-higher value.
How very true.
Rock music has devolved back to the over-produced, over-stylized crap sung by the prettiest boys (and sometimes girls; would Paramore be famous if not for their jailbait singer?).
Same with punk rock, these days. It's all image. It's all about self-loathing and screaming about it.
Gone are the days (for me, the mid nineties) when GOOD punk bands came out of the woodwork.
Now, we are having to search them out. I'm 31. I don't have the bloody time to browse myspace, while being bombarded by the movie ads.
I'm going back into my library and listening to the bands I've loved many years. And going with a few of the bands that have been around for a while.
That said, here are my top-10 still-active bands:
1. Less Than Jake
2. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
3. (The International) Noise Conspiracy
4. The Bouncing Souls
5. Decibully
6. Maritime
7. NOFX
8. Alkaline Trio
9. The Offspring
10. Green Day
