I've said it more than a few times in these pages, but pop punk and then-known-as "melodic hardcore" gets a WAY bigger pass when you start including DIY punk and hardcore from non-North American regions. Not only were more kids simply running with influences from the music they had access to, but it was a time with far fewer internet-dictated norms and mores...so punks were just playing what they fukkn wanted to. And here's a brutally honest newsflash....pop punk can be pretty damn fun. Doesn't mean it's not pissed, doesn't mean it's not political, doesn't mean it's not important...and is definitely doesn't mean it's not good. 5 SENTIDOS fall more in line stylistically with last week's ALL YOU CAN EAT post than with any of the commercial pop punk that might come to mind, further exemplifying how the lack (or absence) of rules simply results in better sounds. Period. It's like DESCENDENTS and WHITE TRASH SUPERMAN...and "La Puerta," even as a mostly instrumental track, is on a short list of unheralded and likely forgotten classic songs. I mean...you aren't too cool, are you?
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