I understand its real/underground punk and not "pop punk" which is why these bands didnt go mainstream but I wish they had better singers at least to make the music more palatable. When Nirvana exploded they tried to make these punk bands bigger by singing them to major labels and putting them in movies but it didnt work because they didnt have the catchy sing a long songs.
shareSorry that these bands aren't catchy enough for you, but that wasn't really the emphasis of punk, now was it?
shareI disagree, the music to me is melodic and catchy, a lot more "pop" then some of punk rock bands that were popular at that time, especially since a lot of the rock music that was popular at the time had metal and harder influences that are devoid of the standard verse-chorus-verse style that pop songs are in appended to.
At live shows, girls sing along to Bikini Kill songs like their anthems.
On the topic of the singers not being good enough then I surrender because I admit that the singers I like are not the status quo's idea of a nice voice (I can never wrap my mind around the argument that Bob Dylan isn't a good singer, his voice is beautiful to me).
I don't recall Riot Grrrl signing to a major label. In fact, I recall them purposefully avoiding journalists and media because their messages were being skewed by sensationalism. Nirvana's success influencing riot grrrl music into movies? I don't think a Nirvana song was ever in a movie when Cobain was alive and controlled the rights to his music, he even turned down money when asked for his song to be used in the movie Singles, because he thought it was stupid. The songs of riot grrrl and K records were mostly in independent films when the bands were together, mostly made by friends as was shown in the movie The Punk Singer.
You said it all. The music is great.
shareYou think that punk music is about catchy tunes and good singing? Oh, boy...
You have a lot to learn, kid.
Did you ever think that making music "more palatable" is one of the things that makes it mainstream?
Punk isn't about "catchy sing a long songs." Hell, even the Wikipedia page on punk rock knows that "Punk rock lyrics are typically frank and confrontational; compared to the lyrics of other popular music genres, they frequently comment on social and political issues." Do you understand the difference between punk and "more popular music genres"?
By the way, you sound like the guy in "In Bloom":
He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means.