90s SKATEPUNK IS DEAD? NOFX, Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Offspring 

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Punk isn't dead it is just passed out in the corner

I credit Tony hawk pro skater for bringing this music to younger kids. Those soundtracks were amazing. Matt Hoffman pro BMX as well.

Still my favourite genre of music ever, even at 44 years old.

"Old punks don't die... they just cash in." -Youth Brigade

Skatepunk died when Bob had to quit drinkin after 15 years of getting loaded and his liver exploded.

I feel a slight disagreement with Blink 182's role in this. In my opinion and certainly over here in the UK, they got a new generation of kids into Skate Punk and the scene was slightly revitalised by their popularity, as well as at the same time napster and filesharing was kicking off allowing many people (me included) to download every single punk album we could get our hands on. Everyone I knew into blink 182 was also into nofx and lagwagon. The real death of skatepunk I feel was with the emergence of emo, which kinda took pop punk with it too. And even Blink 182 started to sound much more serious. Things shifted from fun and goofy to sad and whiney very quickly.

“The Offspring really isn’t skate punk” Lol Smash is like the skate punk anthem album I can’t even count how many skate compilations and home video skate compilations were to that album

I'm 16 and, thanks to my dad, I'm listening to this great type of music. Punk isn't dead!

punk isn't dead. it just goes to bed at a more reasonable hour.

One critical thing you missed in this discussion: The Warped Tour. That was huge for getting these bands to people who didn't live in California.

Punkrock was a phenomenon of its time. It fit exactly into the 90's to early 2000's. It wasn't just the music, it was a complete lifestyle. All people were somehow friends, you had simply found your place in the world. The scene back then was just awesome❤ I don't think there's anything like that so often in the history of music, but maybe I'm just not objective😅

I'm 14 and I listen to skatepunk everyday... it hasn't quite passed away yet

Can’t wait till 2020 for “What killed SoundCloud Rap?”

Tony hawks pro skater games were so much fun! Sometimes I would just listen to the soundtrack. They helped me expand my musical taste.

You’re videos are amazing I am currently binge watching them all. I’m always branching out to new music and by stumbling upon your channel I feel like I have hit the motherload. You clearly put a lot of work into these videos and I appreciate it.

Just found your channel yesterday and have watched over 50 videos! Great content! And love that you actually communicate with your subscribers

I'm thirteen years old, and I was introduced to skate punk (Lagwagon, NOFX, Pennywise, Pridebowl, Millencolin, No Fun at All, etc...) at a very young age by my dad. I love it, and it's the only kind of music I really enjoy listening to. I believe that I'm the only person in my school who knows any one of those bands. A shame, really.

Yo, what about Descendants? I feel like they were a big contributor to skate punk as well

Growing up in Italy remember I went from having long hair, a leather jacket and a flat "ironing-board" skate board in the early 90's when I was listening to Iron Maiden and Metallica ...then Rage Against The Machine, Green Day, Vandals, The Offspring, NOFX, LagWagon, Pennywise and such in the mid nineties when I cut my hair, wore sagging shorts, t-shirt, wallet chain and airwalks and was riding a double tip skateboard... after that, in the late 90's, I was introduced to old school punk such as The Exploited, Total Chaos, The Clash, Angelic Upstarts: no more skateboarding, 7 inch mohawk, chains and studs everywhere and lots of beer... early 2000's I moved onto Ska-P, Woodoo Glow Skulls, Rancid and so forth and went back to skating a small microbard, but by that time, still listening to all the bands from before, I had moved onto Reggae Dancehall, Drum and Bass, Asian Dub Foundation and groups of the kind and had a dreadlock mohawk... now I am in my late thirties and really enjoy listening to all sorts of punk music although I kind of gave up the punk dress code. Definitely gave up skating since I broke my elbow falling from my skateboard... check out the new wave of Chinese Punk, they appear to have that energy that has gone missing in the West... we have our freedom now, they are still fighting to say what they think

I loved guttermouth lol. The tracks they had in Think - Damage fit perfectly, and that album (friendly people) was pretty solid for being goofy with the lyrics. I think they deserve more credit

I grew up with NOFX, Lagwagon, Pennywise, Bad Religion, The Offspring, Green Day, Millencolin, No Use For A Name, No Fun At All. Good times, great music. 90's forever! :)

And you missed the Swedish skate punk, Millencolin, No fun at all and Satanic Surfers are the best bands ;v

I am 40 and I really enjoyed this video. It made me feel a lot of things including sad to see the scene die. I love Guttermouth, The Vandals, Bad Religion, and many of the others mentioned.

What about the '80s? Suicidal Tendencies was the greatest Skate Punk band ever. Jim Muir (Mike Muir's older brother) was a Z Boy and started Dog Town. Steve Caballero wore Misfits shirts way before most people had ever heard of them. Caballero has also been in a few Punk bands.

I'm 37. I went to see NOFX and Offspring live Yesterday!!! I felt 14 years old in 1996 again. It was GREAT!!! I'm a trained musician. I went to a jazz school, played in many bands in almost every style of music but still punk rock is my musical 1st love. It holds a special place un my heart in particuliar NOFX which is my favorite band ever. The songs on punk un drublic still have the same impact on me since the first I heard them. I actually started playing guitar to be in a punk band. I wish I could find good musicians in my area to start a punk-rock band again. But no musicians I know that were into punk-rock in their teens want to do that... Still I think NOFX, Pennywise, Rancid, Goldfinger and Millencollin put out very good songs. The songwriting was very good. Hard to top that...

"#4: The Decline" perfect unintended reference to the greatest 18 minute punk song of all time.

Crazy how the skate punk boom was in its dying years 20 years ago, feels like it was just yesterday that I was hunting for Bad Religion records lol. And I LOVED the Punk-O-Rama compilations!

Just saw Pennywise and Rancid last night and I was the 40 year old wearing airwalks with shorts and a tshirt that was mentioned at the end of the video. Great show. Im dead today tho

1880s beards and 1980s Miami Vice fashion made a comeback. It's definitely possible.

I think Agent Orange deserved a mention. Their first Album was a true surf skate punk album.

Holy shit, I'm three years late to the party but I just want to say, well done! This is easily the best (and only) mini doc on skatepunk I've ever seen. Coming from a person who was pretty involved in the scene, particularly the Fat crew, I can say that you pretty much nailed everything. The only difference is that three years on, there are some new bands beginning to make a dent. Nothing in the chart topping realms of yesteryear but skate punk is definitely on the rise, particularly with female skate punk bands (Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Bombpops, The Last Gang) and while more of a straight ahead pop punk album, the New Machine Gun Kelly album sold a LOT of units and was primarily written by Nick Long, a Santa Barbara skate punk scene OG. Give it another 4 or 5 years and I think we'll see something similar to if not quite exactly the same ride a wave of nostalgia to the top of the charts.

I'm loving these videos! Are we ever getting a video on folk punk? I think as far as punk conversations go it's left out a lot, and I'd love to learn more of the history.

Never Forget Tony Sly

I feel so small now that you summed up my entire adolescence

The absolute best skatepunk band was, for my opinion, Satanic Surfers from sweden! They sounded, or sound, like nothing else. Also Millencolin's life on a plate is a skatepunk masterpiece 🤘

Never stop learning like I do with this channel. Thank you.

Unpopular opinion: While some of Nofx's later albums are a bit underwhelming, 2003's "The War on Errorism" and 2006's "Wolves in Wolves Clothing" are absolute classics and their 2016 album "First Ditch Effort" is my personal favorite of their discography besides maybe The Decline single.

Dude, that’s crazy, u literally said exactly how I got into ‘90s punk, started with Green Day and Offspring, and moved to NoFx and Bad Religion, it’s like u got in my head or something, I guess a lot of ‘90s kids did the same thing, definitely more then I remember, nun of my friends were into it like I was, but I guess I wasn’t alone, just nobody around me liked it. Great videos btw! Love the channel!!

Crazy how different the scenes were between the coasts. In the Southeast, most punks were into Propaghandi and Pennywise probably more than NOFX. My circle was BIG into NOFX but we were odd ones out. Also, I noticed you didn't mention The Queers. They were absolutely huge here. Great video. I really enjoy your analysis

Strung Out is a band I didnt really listen to much until like 5 years ago. And I feel bad for that, I missed out in a lot. Now they're one of my all time fav bands, so glad you mentioned them in this how you did.

This doesn't even seem like that long ago. But yeah, that was definitely like 20 years ago. Ugh, getting old sucks.

"Offspring not a legit punk band like Greenday was" Excuse me?

OMG Sam Goody!!! This video was super nostalgic and I enjoyed the crap out of it. Idk how I started, but I'm currently on a spiral of all your old videos I've never watched (since I'm a new-ish fan, I'm catching up) and this video kills it. Thanks my man!!

Im doing a project on the evolution of music in skateboard culture and when i cant find a good article i come to these video essays. Great video

Agent Orange is the best skate punk band. A lot of people say surf punk, but they were the true start of skate punk

1997 dude ranch which I know a lot of people might laugh at but that album is what influenced me.

I'm so so glad you mentioned Strung Out and still their best album, Twisted By Design and Unwritten Law. The self titled is also a banger.

Dude really dig your videos I use them more to find more music hahaha cause I missed out on a lot of good music growing up, my friends sucked ass and I just heard RKL for the first time ever and I'm 38. Thanks dude, I'll be taking notes from now on.

"RIP Skacore" Too true, man. Would love to see you talk about the evolution of ska from the easy going, chill tracks from Jamaica to the crazy, in-your-face stuff that came from bands like Choking Victim.

Who remembers "punk-o-rama" at 1am at night on some random channel? Loved this era. Great time, saw bad religion, AFI (pre-black sails), Pennywise, The Vandals etc etc etc. It really started to die out when all the MTV kids were wearing the punk genre and had their Blink182 shirts and were all sudden "punk". It blurred the lines. It seemed to me the punk scene did certainly have that elitist mentality as you mentioned. The scene also sucked. Everyone was so damn angry, and if you wanted to get INTO the scene, you were a poser. If you didin't know who OPIV was you were a poser. If you didint know a friend of a friend of a friend of a guy in a punk band you were a POSER. Then to add more to this SLC punk came out, and now if you didint know everyones name in that movie you were a POSER. (At this point i started to leave the punk music scene and do my own "thing".) Everyone was a freaking poser this or poser that. I remember 12 years old in the Vandals pit and man i got knocked down SO much, but every dude there would pick me up and keep me going. It was great. Now im that 34 year old guy at punk shows, and i love seeing kids there. If it wasn't for the emotional outlet IDK what I would have become so I owe my life to punk rock ironically.

Damn, how did it take me so long to see this episode. This is my generation! Growing up skating in 80's and 90's and still going to these shows (well, before covid) all the time! Skatepunker's are still here, we just take longer to recover from the pit nowadays 😆 44 and cannot wait for live punk shows to be back...

You do such a great job with all these videos!

The sampler CDs were the shit man. I remember buying Punk o Ramas 1-6, Fat Music for Fat People, discovering so many bands. I miss those days too tbh

I listen to NOFX every day still

You have a great channel bro 😎🤘🎯

Just wanna say love the fucking channel bro! I love your foward thinking abd introspection, its very refreshing...Remeber that Fat Mike does own Fat Wreck, which has signed a lot of excellent bands and given them a chance, so even though at times Mike might have a Gatekeeper type attitude, he has also helped many new and upcoming bands as well as a lot of bands that had been a part of the scene for awhile gain a bigger audience...which im sure you know but I just want to be fair! keep it coming with the great content and I think doing an episode on The Vandals would be great content for your channel! Thank you again for the fresh air! Andy.

Skaters shifted their musical tastes to hip hop. Even skate videos were overrun with it.

No mention of millencollin?

Great video... I'm one of those people who got into punk through snow/skate videos when I was a teenager in the early to mid 90s. Still love the genre and have been to a couple of shows in the past 6 months. My kids aren't quite old enough to drive yet, but they're getting close. 😉 My favorite band is theline, mostly because I know/knew some of the members and they've actually put out new music recently.

It would be be cool to do a video “what killed ska”. That was huge for me growing up in the 90s. (There’s a Ska easycore band named Kids Can’t fly that is VERY underrated. From like 2010-2012). Anyways, just heard of this channel a week ago. And has easily become one of my favorite YT channels. I’ve Ben watching every video. Everything I needed. Keep up the good work.

Every skater from that era still carries skate punk in their heart!

I'm 42 years old now and I will NEVER stop listening to the greatest music ever :) Punk Rock will never die!!! R.I.P. Tony Sly

Hey Finn dude recently discovered your channle watched a bunch of your videos love your vibe also really cool that there are like minded peeps out there who love this music. Stay awsone

Omg thanks for bringing Guttermouth. Listening to "Gorgeous" on a regular basis gives you that adrenaline you need to keep up with life

Way too young to have ever been into these bands at their peak, but via THPS/THUG this was a big part of what made me get into music as a kid. Love the balance of history, personal anecdotes and analysis in these vids!!

it's dead? i still listen to this. but then again i'm 37, rancid and pennywise in worcester this sept!!!!

Thanks for the great content!

Hey I dig your channel for sure! I gotta a laugh in one of your videos recently where u mention Everett. I think we r pretty close to the same age. I was 13-14 in 92 and loving all these bands. I wanted to mention a 90's skate punk band I didnt discover until 2011 that I absolutely LOVE and still listen to all the time. Backside. They are super rad and any one digging the bands you mention will dig them. Start with Backside No Today. Also a band I loved in the 90's who I'm not sure are that well known but should be are 30 Foot Fall. I had Acme 143 on repeat back in 97. Someone needs to put up all their albums. I bet you were probably at the Good Riddance,MDC show this past November. I think I saw them in this video but didnt hear their music. Huh? Love your channel man! Keep em coming!

Man you literally described my teens in the 90's! Some of the best times of my life! BUT YOU FORGOT MILLENCOLIN AND GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Great job with this video. I'm 37 and I totally still listen to Skatepunk. And you are 100% correct in the current crowds at shows. I would love to see a revival of the genre, especially more of the NUFAN/Lagwagon style. Thanks for putting this out.

I like how you reached way deep in the roots to How could hell...... but IMHO Suffer was the album that was the one, from start to end. Production, etc. thx for the vid!

I always thought that part of the issue is that skate punk had a relatively short heyday before the rise of pop punk, post-hardcore, emo, and other genres, to the point where a lot of people unfamiliar with punk rock confuse it with those. I hear lots of people complain about skate punk while listing bands and artists that have literally nothing to do with it

Am I the only one missing Goldfinger, Less Than Jake and also Descendents? Good bands! Nice review! keep it up!

Operation Ivy, anyone, anyone...?

Rancid, and out come the wolves. The only album not mentioned that really committed my taste to this kind of music. Great video.

being born at the start of the century and having my dad be the founder of a punk zine. i grew up with him blasting music around the house he was sampling all the time. It was great music, got me into all sorts of punk and metal. Only downside as of being 19 years old is that no one my age listens to this anymore really.....

had it not been for the tony hawk games I would have never gotten into bands like suicidal tendencies, dead kennedy’s, primus, anthrax etc. which led me to a bunch of others.

Watching this in my Dickies shorts, with the same chain wallet I've had since I was 18. Good watch.

Skate rock (punk) started in the late 70d early 80s in So Cal. Some of the bands were comprised of skaters (Faction, Tales of Terror, Code of Honor, Los Olvidados, Agent Orange, The Big Boys, JFA, Drunk Injuns, etc).

that latest Lagwagon record is so sick! skatepunk is here to stay! lol. in all seriousness, I really enjoyed the video. Im that 38 year that just saw Lagwagon and Face to face play a couple of weeks ago. still skates and still loves everything skatepunk. good video, 5 stars!

Still blasting skate punk and still blasting pop punk great bands out there old and new! Rad video man!

Bad Religion is in a league of their own. Pulley is good stuff. The singer was an MLB relief pitcher and coach too. Props on the reasoning. I'm in my early thirties and a huge fan of this genre, but Black Metal as well. Perhaps the most elitist gatekeeper genre of all time.

We still think it's the year 1999 and we're not ashamed of it 😂 thanks for another great video!

Authority Zero got me into skate punk in the early 2000’s. Their song “Over Seasons”, even has a skateboarding music video. They are still rockin today! 🤘

Most of what you're calling "Skate Punk" is what most of us old guys blame for killing real punk. Not that the talent wasn't there but the attitude and aggression was way out the door. Great video though.

Whatthefuck...not even a nod to Agent Orange? They were quite literally playing live at the edge of Upland bowls and had a board on Vision.

Stoked to hear you mention Guttermouth... my band opened up for th a couple times, and I used to run into Mark in Tijuana quite a bit. That’s all I’ll say about that! Also the Unwritten Law dudes are dope. Used to party with them in San Diego. I got into a fight with Sugar Ray once back stage, and Wade (drummer of UL) jumped in and had my back. Too much booze and blow all around

I feel like the main issue was that about the same time a bunch of our favorite skate punk bands started trying to cash in on the pop punk movement, the army of kids supporting that whole scene matured enough to realise that a whole bunch of other great music had been made whilst we were too punk to notice. We expanded our horizons and drifted away from what felt like a dead scene.I think that it could be due to explode again though, simply because all our children are growing up and starting to dig those old albums we've got kicking around. My 9 year old daughter just devours old NUFAN and F2F cd's, and has started pounding out power chords my old guitar, claiming she will play in a punk band when she grows up. For this reason punk will never stay dead, it just lies dormant waiting for the next generation of youth to make it theirs. IMO, so long as Mute and Belvedere are still making music, skate punk isnt quite dead.

Great video man. Green Day’s Dookie and The Offspring’s Smash were the 2 albums that got me into punk rock back in 1994, I was 16 years old. After that I immersed myself into punk rock, and living in the NW burbs of Chicago in the late 90’s was an awesome time, in the midst of an awesome musical movement. I still remember the day I picked up Losing Streak from Less Than Jake at Tower Records in Schaumburg, IL.... I remember when Making Friends by NUFAN came out, still one of my favorite albums ever. I had all the Punk O Rama albums, The Fat Music for Fat People and Asian Man sampler CD’s. I also had that VHS tape “Cinema Beer Nuts” or whatever it was called, and that opened me up to bands like Millencolin, The Voodoo Glow Skulls, Ten Foot Pole, AFI.... my younger brother and I used to watch it every damn day. I remember when The Impression That I Get by the Bosstones was played on the radio, I was like “holy crap! I can’t believe they’re playing the Bosstones on the radio!!” My brother and I saw so many awesome shows at the Metro and the Fireside.... Great times. Punk rock still has a huge place in my heart. I guess it was in the latter 90’s, sometime in the summer of ‘98 I believe, when a band called Alkaline Trio came out of McHenry. That was the start of my interest in more of the indie style. Then in 1999, an album called Clarity by Jimmy Eat World was released, and that was the end of my punk rock fascination. I still listen to a lot of my favorite punk bands, and I’ll go see them when they come around. Just saw Millencolin a couple years back. Strung Out’s new stuff is absolutely killer too, but the fact is, I’m 40 lol. I like acoustic stuff and folk rock now. Good thing is, a lot of the punk bands I used to love went a little softer, had great side projects, and still make a lot of music I still love. Anyways, thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Descendants MxPx Goldfinger Rancid Millencolin ????? Solid video though, and big props for RKL.

Unwritten Law are criminally underrated.

Hi, I'm also 44 and arrogant about my era. Sick video, dude.

I think the shift in whats cool to skateboarders musicwise is also a factor to why the genre died. Skaters nowdays are more into hip hop like odd future vs back in the 90s were alot of skaters were into skatepunk.

Great video from a 33 year old skate punk guy who cant let go lol. Spot on about pulley, no use, strung out and may I add millioncollin

I got into punk back in high school with the offspring. I also remembering seeing punk cd's at certain stores, but I didn't know them, untill I was like 22 to 30, like pennywise, bad religion, nofx, mxpx, rancid, less then jake, millencolin, no use for a name, and alkaline trio. Then in 2013 at 22, I got into bad religion with true north. Then I got into pennywise, nofx, mxpx, less then jake, face to face, goldfinger, descendents, the bouncing souls, anti flag. I also found lagwagon, the casualties, millencolin, good riddance, strung out, zebrahead no use for a name, rancid, and teenage bottlerocket. I also want to get into screeching weasel, the queers, adolescents, the suicide machines, the bombops, the interrupters, the mighty mighty bosstones, creeper, propaghandai, slick shoes, pully and ten foot pole,mdc and fear.

I''m 41 and I still go to see NOFX, Descendents, Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Vandals, Guttermouth, & even The Offspring....all while wearing my Dickies & Doc Martins ;-) . NOFX is my #1 favorite band and I've seen them live many times, the shows are wicked fun and hella funny . Guttermouth was one of my all time favorite shows in a tiny bar on the way to Lake Tahoe....the lead singer jumped in the pit with us and had fans sing a few of the songs. And yeah, my oldest daughter has a drivers license.....but I can afford to go to shows now...unlike when I was 16. Also, your choice of using "The Decline" for the last bullet point is pretty funny.......the absolute best NOFX song...evah.

Face to Face are a great band that aged well, better lyrics than most of their peers.

Dude. My Aunt was in a band with Steve Caballero called Soda in the 90s. He gave me my first board. She also did a song with No Use For A Name! Shaped my whole life man.

Twisted by Design is and will always be a masterpiece. Thanks a lot for the mention!