"Rock 'n Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died."
Posted on 07/30/2016 8:49:28 AM PDT by OddLane
A brilliant exposition of what's wrong with our society by one of my favorite modern philosophers.
And there’s the other side of the coin, “Bro Country”........
Here’s proof that every Bro Country song is exactly the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
It’s the ones that have the “squeaky clean” image that you find out later are much worse in private.
"Rock 'n Roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died."
Except if you're a merchant in Oakland, CA (14th & Broadway) or San Francisco (Market & 8th or thereabouts) and you pipe classical music loudly on the street to drive away the drug dealers and the panhandlers.
“I have been driven out of more than one store by the excruciating sounds of pop music, usually at deafening levels sufficient enough to interfere with your thought process.”
My wife and I recently had dinner at a local Red Lobster restaurant that played a constant stream of mindless millenial music over their sound system. It annoyed me so much, I told my wife that it’s the last time I’ll ever set foot in that place.
The worst thing was, I couldn’t spot a single customer in the place who fit the demographic of those who enjoy that music. I couldn’t have been the only one who was turned off.
What a riot. Didn’t know that. That’s funny.
“...mindlessly humming along to The Beach Boys.”
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Seriously, only us grey hairs listen to the Beach Boys anymore.
If they did, there’d be three things I would do right away. Bring back the grand pianos, bring back Ralph Lauren, and bring back those great Beefy-T’s that they used to have and you can’t find anywhere anymore except at Goodwill.
Andy Partridge put it best:
XTC – Funk Pop A Roll
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul
Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill
Of your radio
Into the mouths of babes
And across the backs of its willing slaves
Funk pop a roll consumes you whole
Gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco
Everything you eat is waste
But swallowing is easy when it has no taste
They can fix you rabbits up
With your musical feed
They can fix you rabbits up
Big money selling you stuff that you do not need
Funk pop a roll for fish in shoals
Music by the yard for the children they keep
Like poseable dolls
The young to them are mistakes
Who only want bread but they’re force-fed cake
Funk pop a roll the only goal
The music business is a hammer to keep
You pegs in your holes
But please don’t listen to me
I’ve already been poisoned by this industry!
Funk pop a roll beats up my soul
I mentioned that liberal people naturally gravitate towards these sorts of vocations. Let us face it. Actors LIE for a living. They falsely portray themselves as someone who they aren't, and they create mostly false portrayals of life to create their illusion of a reality that is far away from actual reality.
For example. "MacGyver" featured a clever inventive fellow who always eschewed guns in his dealings with various bad guys. The reality of such a person would be a quickly deceased MacGyver. The "A-TEAM" had the opposite problem. They routinely use guns, but nobody ever gets killed. Both are false, but in distinctly opposite ways.
And you are right. The public has become so stupid, they can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
What is enjoyable for entertainment purposes is vile in excess. Suspension of disbelief was never intended to become a lifestyle. Today, it has progressed to a complete inability to understand the difference between fantasy and reality.
And here we are. I've been saying for about three decades, that if there was some way to destroy all television broadcasting apparatus, the nation would be better for it.
Television has become the "SOMA" of which Aldous Huxley spoke in his novel "Brave New World." Television has become an opiate for the masses, and it leads the now dumbed down population around by the nose.
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it?
The homosexuals have completely taken over the Industry.
It makes you wonder just what every actor and singer had to do to get where they are.
And you’d better not spout any political opinions that don’t go along with the Party Line, if you still want to work.
That’s exactly what came to mind when I read the title of this article!
Yup.
It makes you wonder just what every actor and singer had to do to get where they are.
Lots of actresses have had to audition on the "casting couch". That's been documented for years. So far as male actors go, there has also been plenty of documentation regarding the molestation of male child actors.
Hollywood needs to be severely beaten down and reformed with more control by the public.
And you’d better not spout any political opinions that don’t go along with the Party Line, if you still want to work.
I favor RICO prosecutions to deal with this issue. Same thing with the news media.
I hear you.
Axis of Awesome illustrates a well kept secret to the listening public:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1DIgPyxiWU
This makes playing these songs a lot easier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqm5-aeoAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Smt1VsoqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMt52k1DQ0
So nothing's changed then?
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