{"id":1854607,"date":"2023-02-21T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854607"},"modified":"2023-02-21T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:05:39","slug":"the-most-punk-rock-thing-you-can-do-is-be-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-punk-rock-thing-you-can-do-is-be-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Punk Rock Thing You Can Do Is Be Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-most-punk-rock-thing-you-can-do-is-be-normal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>New Found Glory, a Florida alt-punk group, released their debut EP in December 1997. &#8220;It&#8217;s All About the Girls.&#8221; And it sounds exactly how one would think a punk band&#8217;s first recorded release ought to sound \u2014 rough and chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>The extended play&#8217;s initial track is &#8220;Shadow,&#8221; It provides listeners with a quick overview of New Found Glory. The video opens with one member of the band utterly ignoring the 20th Century Fox theme on his wind instrument, before bragging about never having done it. &#8220;one lesson&#8221; Before Jordan Pundik, singer, begins to <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/New-found-glory-shadow-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lament<\/a> His existential despair and personal frustrations led to his depression.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Starting at my shadow, I see the world around me \/ Never felt as if my existence reflects these walls so proudly \/ Intentions of the past defined so quickly it&#8217;s hard to change myself.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While New Found Glory&#8217;s production was improved with subsequent releases of their album, they maintained the same whimsy, chaos, and enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shadow&#8221; These would continue to grow. &#8220;Hit or Miss,&#8221; Which would be the band&#8217;s first single on their debut album? &#8220;Nothing Gold Can Stay&#8221; (1999) \u2014 released on the independent label Euology Recordings \u2014 and would later be remastered and rereleased on the band&#8217;s self-titled album &#8220;New Found Glory&#8221; (2000).<\/p>\n<p>The self-titled album <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100726165719\/https:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/pm\/review\/newfoundglory-st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> Steve Klein, songwriter, says: &#8220;Just about relationships and growing up \u2014 things everybody knows about. This is a record about looking forward to new things and moving forward in your life.&#8221; This is an important fact that is highlighted in the song. <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/New-found-glory-hit-or-miss-waited-too-long-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lyrics<\/a> The album&#8217;s cover artwork, which prominently features colored condoms in latex and an Atari joystick, is also included.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The needle on my record player has been wearing thin \/ This record has been playing since the day you&#8217;ve been with him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New Found Glory&#8217;s unique mix of lyricisms, high energy and whimsy was hugely popular and would go on for to dominate alternative music in the late 1990s, early 2000s. As it made its way into nearly every household through the cultural phenomenon known Warped Tour and the subsequent on-the-spot music festivals, it became a cultural phenomenon. <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/new-found-glory-pop-punk-songs-movie-soundtracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soundtracks<\/a> Films such as &#8220;American Pie 2&#8221; And &#8220;The Benchwarmers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their peers \u2014 notably Blink-182 \u2014 experienced a similar effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first track. &#8220;Carousel,&#8221; Blink featured on the debut album &#8220;Cheshire Cat,&#8221; Opens with Tom Delonge, founding member and co-frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Blink-182-carousel-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singing<\/a>: &#8220;I talk to you every now and then \/ I never felt so alone again \/ I stop to think at a wishing well \/ My thoughts send me on a carousel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blink-182 was a band that released songs like &#8220;The End of the World&#8221; in the early days of their career.<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Blink-182-dammit-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dammit<\/a>&#8220;about the decline of romantic relationships, and subsequent personal development &#8220;What&#8217;s My Age Again?&#8221; This is specifically about the frustrations of being an emotionally impure man-child.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p> Shoes to Fill\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Both of these bands would experience great success because they would write about relatable subjects such as personal flaws and frustrations while keeping the irreverent humor necessary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians who embrace the passage of time and mature with their craft are infinitely more &#8216;punk rock&#8217; than cynical, neurotic rockstars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":1854610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8699,19215,3730],"class_list":["post-1854607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-normal","tag-punk","tag-rock"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}