pop punk?
The Hat plays the Memorial Cup in London tomorrow night. Despite my residence in Hockeytown, I greatly prefer basketball to hockey. I dig hockey, mind you, but there just isn't enough scoring nor enough bling. Besides, the Pistons are an inspiring, unselfish team to watch. The Wings are basically the Yankees of the NHL, trying to buy the Cup every year. Well...every year but this one, I suppose. So yeah...go Pistons.
In any event, the London Free Press threw us a little plug for this event:
"It continues for almost the entire run of the Memorial Cup, with London performers ranging from R&B's Soul Sausage* to pop punk's Ruth's Hat to alt-country rocker Chris Hart and his band."
People still call us "pop punk"???
I find that rather amusing. These days, mere mention of the words "pop punk" brings to mind the bland sameness of bands like Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, and Not By Choice. Whiny, nerve-grinding vocals and cookie-cutter 3-chord songs. It's not that these bands are so awful; they're just safe, designed for radio airplay and nothing more. A monumental bore, in other words. As such, I reject that characterization of the Hat.
Don't get me wrong; I love the 90s wave of pop punk bands, and still listen to them regularly. The Hi Fives, Pansy Division, Riverdales, Sicko, MTX, Green Day, Queers, and the Smugglers definitely influenced us. I could take or leave the SoCal skate punk crap. I love 70s punk, but hate the shirts-off 80s hardcore horseshit. Give me the Ramones, Replacements, Buzzcocks, and Undertones. You can keep Fear and the Exploited; apparently those bands thought "punk" and "asshole" were synonymous.
But, as usual, I digress. My point is that I don't see us as a "pop punk" band, at least in the conventional sense. I don't think "punk" adequately describes the band at this point; though we grew out of that scene, it never really embraced us, and vice-versa. "Pop" could describe us, provided one defines "pop" music as a separate genre based on hooks and songwriting, rather than simply as a shorter way of saying "popular".
At this point, we're just a rock n' roll band. Or maybe a pop n' roll band. Read the bio (www.ruthshat.com) if you simply must categorize us, but "pop punk" is NOT the way to do it. We all love the Ramones, but we'd rather be the Who or the Beatles.
* - Soul Sausage?
In any event, the London Free Press threw us a little plug for this event:
"It continues for almost the entire run of the Memorial Cup, with London performers ranging from R&B's Soul Sausage* to pop punk's Ruth's Hat to alt-country rocker Chris Hart and his band."
People still call us "pop punk"???
I find that rather amusing. These days, mere mention of the words "pop punk" brings to mind the bland sameness of bands like Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, and Not By Choice. Whiny, nerve-grinding vocals and cookie-cutter 3-chord songs. It's not that these bands are so awful; they're just safe, designed for radio airplay and nothing more. A monumental bore, in other words. As such, I reject that characterization of the Hat.
Don't get me wrong; I love the 90s wave of pop punk bands, and still listen to them regularly. The Hi Fives, Pansy Division, Riverdales, Sicko, MTX, Green Day, Queers, and the Smugglers definitely influenced us. I could take or leave the SoCal skate punk crap. I love 70s punk, but hate the shirts-off 80s hardcore horseshit. Give me the Ramones, Replacements, Buzzcocks, and Undertones. You can keep Fear and the Exploited; apparently those bands thought "punk" and "asshole" were synonymous.
But, as usual, I digress. My point is that I don't see us as a "pop punk" band, at least in the conventional sense. I don't think "punk" adequately describes the band at this point; though we grew out of that scene, it never really embraced us, and vice-versa. "Pop" could describe us, provided one defines "pop" music as a separate genre based on hooks and songwriting, rather than simply as a shorter way of saying "popular".
At this point, we're just a rock n' roll band. Or maybe a pop n' roll band. Read the bio (www.ruthshat.com) if you simply must categorize us, but "pop punk" is NOT the way to do it. We all love the Ramones, but we'd rather be the Who or the Beatles.
* - Soul Sausage?
posted by Pj at 4:43 PM
1 Comments:
"I dig hockey, mind you, but there just isn't enough scoring nor enough bling."
*sigh* At least in hockey, the scoring means something. A 3-2 game is much more exciting than a 85-75 game any day. Not that I'm not enjoying the Pistons games...but still...
As for the bling, I know there are removable gold teeth out there that you're just not paying enough attention to.
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