Some of the punk bands that came later (in the '80s) were pretty legit. Subhumans spring to mind, with their "Pay no more than £2.50" worked into the sleeve art and stuff.
Sure the Pistols thing was a bit dishonest but they made a good fist of it in the end. TBH I think PiL was way more punk than the Pistols anyway.
I found some that are a bit meh but 98% of it was awesome.
I already find Tenacious D funny.
And i simply love Flyleaf and godsmack.
Kings of Leon has a band that looks a bit like it to Foo Fighter i like that band to.
Tenacious D is very funny, yea. Have you seen the movie? A Must-see.
Anyways, Kings Of Leon doesn't really compare with Foo Fighter imho. And also Disturbed...well...imho it sucks
I tend to like individual songs rather than bands per se - I have so many artists in my music library that I just have 1 song of, however I also have lots that I have loads of songs from.
I'll admit to not being very good at "labelling" music in specific genres, nor would I say I really know what "punkrock" is I can however say that there is a definite correlation between how much I hate a song and how "heavy metal" it is. I listen to lots of different types of music, from your "pop" stuff through to "classic rock" from the 80s. Some of the bands mentioned definitely go on my "dislike" list [metallica et al] - they just sound like someone from down the rough part of town shouting alot. [ofc my opinion ]
My favourite music atm, I would say, is kinda "pop-rock" stuff. [does this genre exist?? ] Stuff like Avril Lavigne, Pink, Nickleback, REM, Simple Plan, and more general "pop" stuff, like Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, The Feeling, James Blunt and things like that.
However, if I were to give a list of my favourite all-time acts, it's [slightly surpisingly] dominated by British Bands:
The Beatles
ELO
Queen
Robbie Williams [no, I'm not gay - he rocks!]
REM
Oasis
Michael Buble
The Police
So you could probably say I have quite a strange taste in music for a 17yo boy, but I don't care - music gets me through the day whether it's good or bad
There's one thing I don't like about metal / rock / punk, which is that I can neve keep up with what my favorite sub-genres are called these days.
I like most of it and love quite a lot of it. Until the dreaded user error incident I have a very large collection which I'd regularly listen too.
My favorite band are Genitorturers, which may or may not be in one or more of the following sub genres: Metal; Heavy Metal; Industrial Metal; EBM infused Metal; Black Metal; Fettish Metal; and/or Hardcore Metal.
Actually, that list is far from complete since those are only the rock bands.
I do mainly listen to rock but love me some pop (not the likes of Britney Spears and Lady GaGa :P) or trance (with female vocals) as well. A lot of german bands are missing as well since putting them in wouldn't make much sense on an international forum.
I love most types of metal music, stuff like Arch Enemy which Crashgate3 posted about, i really like. I suppose my fave sub-genres would be thrash metal and melodic death metal.
Pantera, Metallica, Opeth, Slayer, Hatebreed, In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Stone Sour, are all bands i listen to frequently...
My taste tend to stick into this very thread, i only listen to this kind of music... anything else is kinda pisses me off.
The list is in no particilar(spelling?) order its just as i come up with them...
Power/melodic
Blind Guardian(1996/1998 albums and forward)
Nightwish
Bal sagoth
Falconer(awesome swedish band, a must hear!)
Epica
Magica
Sirenia
Avantasia
Gamma Ray
Edguy
Kamelot(awesome live)
Freedom Call
Rhapsody of fire
Finntroll
Korpiklaani
WASP
Arch Enemy
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Motörhead
Hammerfall
Then there is alot of single songs i think its to much job of typing... But it´s mainly all the classic songs like "stairway to heaven" and some 80´s songs by Motley/def leppard/poison... yeah you get it... the list gets very LONG
If you like both thrash and power-metal, check out Hospital Of Death. They play 80s-inspired power-thrash. They have both their albums up for free download on their last.fm and Myspace pages.
ELO's a strange one. My older brother listened to them a lot when I was growing up so I know most of their songs, but wouldn't expect anyone younger than me to know/care about them. They were shockingly uncool even at the time.
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I can however say that there is a definite correlation between how much I hate a song and how "heavy metal" it is. I listen to lots of different types of music, from your "pop" stuff through to "classic rock" from the 80s. Some of the bands mentioned definitely go on my "dislike" list [metallica et al] - they just sound like someone from down the rough part of town shouting alot. [ofc my opinion 
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