Posted on 02/02/2007 8:34:10 AM PST by qam1
He's really aged badly, hasn't he?
And he was so pretty 20 years ago. I was a HUGE fan of his for years, but now that he's been drifting farther and farther into abyss, especially with the extreme slide into middle eastern music, I just can't truck with the new sound he's putting out.
From androgynous art f@g in eyeliner to wannabe sufi and a so-called, "good Muslim" in twenty short years. Kinda sad.
which buzzcocks song? Was it orgasm addict?
Today, I was showing a buddy of mine at work all the albums I have on my ipod. (589) He saw I had the Circle Jerks album "Group Sex" and asked me 'what the hell is this?" How do you explain the circle jerks to someone?
The Dead Boys, the Damned, the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, and my hometown heros, the Replacements and Husker Du, are also all conspicuously absent. Given some of the bands considered punk by the list, I think Devo should be included as well. It also fails to mention the earlier bands - Stooges, MC5, Modern Lovers, etc.
Oh, I can't believe I forgot the Buzzcocks! Has anyone else seen that AARP commercial playing "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"? Nothing else has ever made me feel so old.
modern lovers - my hometown heroes.
my friend's friend Jonathan Richman to his Thanks giving last year. According to my friend who spend several hours with him, Jonathan Richman has no idea how has affected music. He was very shy guy, who didn't really want to talk about music and when he did, he minimized his contribution. It must have been weird having him at the dinner table. I bet he ate with gusto damn you bet!
And how do I explain the Revolting Cocks to someone? Especially at my age (45)!!
Yes, relatively speaking, Peter Murphy just looks old. The guys in other bands, like the Buzzcocks, just look a chubbier than they they used to.
I love Bauhaus, and I have four CDs by Peter Murphy without Bauhaus, but they're all old. I didn't even know he/they were doing anything new. I'll listen to it on Amazon or something. And I didn't know he had anything to do with being Muslim.
I can't imagine the existence of punk as we know it without 'Roadrunner' and 'Modern World'. The Modern Lovers were the antithesis of everything that had become bad about rock and roll in the mid 70's. In the midst of the overbloated egos, odd song structures, and heavy drugs use, came these straight, slightly nerdy, suburban Boston kids who played real rock and roll. The Ramones are credited with stripping rock and roll back the basics, but the Modern Lovers did it first.
LOL, for some reason I've had the line "I think I've got/Gyno-ca-ca-ca-cas" from "Why does it hurt when I pee?" stuck in my head today!!!
Are you talking about the AARP ad? It was "Everybody's Happy Nowadays".
And I guess we can add "Butthole Surfers" to our list of unexplainables! :D
I'm just south of Little Five Points, two miles down the road actually. But we won't be here for long as I'm stayin' home for the young 'un and our taxes are bound to go way up once we finish fixing the house up. Ahhh, Fulton County...
Man, I grew up in Mass and I can't believe anyone ever took that shrimp Du-ka-ka seriously! Or Kerry for that matter....the mind reels...
"Should I cry like a baby or die like a man while all the planet's little wars start joining hands" from the song Sweet Bird of Truth, love that line! You have to give Matt Johnson some credit for prescience I suppose, that song being written in the 80's and all. It pretty much sums up the world's attitude towards jihad these days.
Where is Social Distortion?
There's a group!
I saw the Buzzcocks back in 97? I think. I've seen Bauhaus twice now too, once in 99 and then last year. Peter had facial hair! What's up with *that*? It's funny that you say "decrepit", that's kind of appropriate for Bauhaus isn't it? Heh. They are, actually, my all-time sentimental favorites. Partly for the Bauhaus music and partly because most everything they split into was great as well.
It's funny, Peter was recently on the cover of some artsy-fartsy fashion mag called Metro Pop, and he was reeeeaaally made-up. He looked like a tranny! His music got so shlocky-sounding from Holy Smoke on, didn't it?
Hopefully my little one will prefer my music to that of her daddy's...Korn anyone? Daddy likes the "neu metal", and the old too. Yes, we will be hearing "Sweet Child O' Mine" sung at bedtime, LOL!
SoCal Punk Rules. Yeah, pretty much. Punk did pretty much die in most of the world around 1979/80, but what did survive in SoCal is what has infulenced so much that has been going on for the past 10-15 years.....
And Mike Ness is still rockin', I saw them live last summer at Red Rocks in Denver, what a great show.....
His wife is a ballet dancer from Turkey. They spend most of their time there, and it's rubbed off, unfortunately. Turkish pop culture is a tad on the cheesy side, not surprisingly (I spent a summer there as an exchange student when I was in HS, just before Deep came out).
I really like Atlanta, but the driving is hell. Check out that Whole Foods in Buckhead sometime -- it's like the Super Wal Mart of "holistic" grocery stores, and has a cheese section the size of my living room.
Back when I lived in Boston, I saw this ugly little troll walking ahead of me on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing. Some college kid walked up to it/him, shook his hand and said, "Mr. Dukakis, it's an honor."
He's as tall, or short, as I am (and Robert Reich) -- had to be a five footer. Weird little big headed man.
Yeah, Murph lives in Turkey, and admitted in an interview some years back that he had rejected Catholocism for Islam, because it just "made more sense". He was quick to distance himself from the "violent" fanatics, though.
Still, I'm not a fan of middle eastern music, so I don't really care for the touches he adds to his new solo stuff. His first three albums were amazing, but he started to flounder when he put Holy Smoke out.
I think I've seen him ten times since '88. His last gig, at the HOB in Orlando was just weird, with his bleach blond van dyk beard and beaded slippers.
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