I listened to Propagandhi almost 25 years ago, REALLY dating myself here.
Like when How To Clean Everything came out back in 93 (24 years ago). I saw them before anyone other than Fat Mike knew who they were. I don't even think I knew any other bands on Fat Wreck at the time, it was probably still a really new label. I only knew at the time that Fat Mike from NOFX started it. That was a cool album. The year that record came out or some point shortly after it, I used to play music really loud when I was the only one home at my dad's house. The one song ''Haillie Selasse Up Your Ass'' or whatever it's called. The one where he says ''**** religion'' about 10 times at the end of the song. After a while, the neighbor complained that the music was too loud. He was an old man and he said he didn't mind the music, he just wanted me to lower it a little bit. He said to me ''I noticed one of the songs says **** religion over and over again, which I absolutely agree with'' and I laughed in his face when he said that because it was funny to hear. Dude was an old man. He probably was in his 50's or maybe 60, which is old when you're a teenager.
Other than that record, I got Less Talk More Rock a few years later and I thought it sucked. The only song I liked was the one where he says ''Jesus saves, Gretzky scores, one wrong move and we miss the cup, play the man not the puck'' or something, just cause I enjoyed the hockey references. I actually liked their early 00's record a lot more. It was a little more metal influenced, but I liked that more than the Poppy Punk stuff from LTMR. I really thought that was an AWFUL album. I liked their next few albums a lot more.
One annoying thing about that band to me, I saw them live and they preached about not dancing and would stop playing if they saw moshing. I couldn't believe they were hockey fans, but would not permit consensual dancing at their gigs. Fugazi was like that too, but I kinda understood it more with them.
Anti Flag is an absolutely awful band, but I understand people a little bit younger than me probably got into punk music by listening to them. They seem like okay people and some of their really early stuff is listenable music. The problem I have with them is signing to RCA Records, after years of preaching against capitalism. I stopped taking Bad Religion seriously when they were on Atlantic Records. I think signing to major labels is fine, but not when giving interviews about how there should be caps on the amount of money people should be allowed to make and that amount being something like $200K a year. I know they're not on the major label anymore, but that's because their major label albums FLOPPED and the label was losing money by keeping them on their roster because it wasn't selling anything. The only artists that barely sell anything that you see still on those labels are bands and singers that used to be relevant and made them a bunch of money at one time. Like the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, etc. Those artists newer albums aren't selling millions of copies, but their old ones did and the big labels still put out their newer stuff.