Gen Xers tweak geezers' sacred cows

Albuquerque Tribune ^ | 7/9/04 | J.M. Baról

[qam1]

"Untitled ('IV')," Led Zeppelin (1971)

I can't comment on Led. I've never been able to figure them out. Such crap. Such gold. And now look at them.

Let me guess, You are a Rush fan. I've noticed the only people who don't like Zeppelin are Rush fans.

But I would add Aerosmith, Eagles, Steve Miller, Rod Stewart and Elton John to the list of crappy over rated bands/preformers

For songs "Bye, Bye Miss American Pie" and "Paradise by the Dash Board light" would be the worst overrated songs ever.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"If a generation is normally defined as being 20 years, as you claim, good luck in explaining why your definition starts in a year that ends with 6. "

Two words for you: War babies.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Oh man, those people are the worst. They rarely judge a new album on its merits. Instead they just listen to see if sounds like the last album, and if it doesn't, they trash it.

Exactly! Albums should sound different. Otherwise why bother making more than one?

Furthermore, Metallica's been called sellouts since Ride the Lightning came out. I like all their albums, and that's all that matters to me. I am truly sorry not everyone can enjoy their entire catalog.

[SoCal Pubbie]

If you were born in 1963, you ARE a boomer!

[humblegunner]

FEAR!!!!

I see you leave me no alternative.
I must now call up the darkest of all metal gods,
UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER!!!

Balls to the wall, man.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

The most neglected and under-appreciated rock song of all time?

I'm glad that you asked.

It just so happens that I have it right here.

Why, it's:

PARTY HARD!!!

It contains soothing melodies, complex lyrics and a message that needs to transmitted across the globe.

I think that its propagation just may achieve "peace in our time."

[-YYZ-]

Don't be stupid. I was a Rush fan before I knew s#$@ about Led Zeppelin. Heck, Rush started off as a heavily Zeppelin influenced heavy rock trio - ever listen to their debut album? Rush, in particular their second phase including Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Signals is the music of my youth. Didn't care as much for a lot of their later stuff, although their last album was pretty strong. I love the classic Zep, too.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Lars Ulrich:

Did you just imply that "not everyone can enjoy our catalog?" I'm so suing your ass!

[radiohead]

no one has taken these twits to task for daring to criticize Led Zeppelin!

Most people remember where they were when Kennedy was killed. I remember where I was the first time I heard Stairway to Heaven. Good googa mooga, what a song.

Right now I'm listening to Lou Reed, 'Rock and Roll' from Rock n Roll Animal. Yeah it's corny, but the refrain, "Her life was saved by rock and roll." has always been right on point for me. Lord help me, I love this music, from Tull, to Lou Reed, to Ozzy to Bowie, to Billy Corgan and tons of stuff in between, I love rock.

I like to drive my own little Gen Xer nuts by cranking it up and yelling, "Come here and listen to some real music. You might learn something." Drives him crazy, but every once in a while I'll hear him listening to some of 'my' music. Makes me feel like friggin' Yoda, man. (wipes a tear away)

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Who's got big balls?

They've got big balls!

Who's got big balls?

We've got big balls!

But I have the biggest balls of them all!

AC/DC.

Kick it!

[The Scourge of Yazid]

You "love rock?"

Gee, going by your screen name, I never would've guessed it.

Will wonders never cease?

[uglybiker]

In other words, I have a stereotypical view that this band is not politically correct therefore I give their music a bad review. This is how you review music?

She's buckin' for a job at Rollin' Stone. She'll fit right in.

[vetvetdoug]

A client of mine sang backup for Elvis on that song, A little Less Conversation. She says that Elvis was a professional and extremely talented when it came to gospel and rock and roll music. She also sang backup to Percy Sledge's When A Man Loves A Woman, Elvis' Kentucky Rain, In the Ghetto, & Suspicious Minds. She backed up Clapton and Harrison for the Concert For Bangladesh, Leon Russel on the album The Shelter People, Paul Simon on Kodachrome. Cher on Half Breed, and backed up vocals on many of Albert Kings' albums. When she tells me someone has talent, I believe her. Some wet behind the ears bigmouth writer that has yet to write and sing a single song has no place criticizing music.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

THE HIPSTER'S HANDBOOK.

It's all in there.

Everything you need to know in order to accurately classify obnoxious, imperious liberal twits, and put them into the correct taxonomic order.

[expatguy]

Nice one ;-)

[sully777]

If you found a wormhole in the universe
that allowed you to go back in time
and watched the progression of all music, including rock
then listen to every type of rock genre
compared each song with each other musical genre
you'd come away thinking
three things that are absolutely true:

One, Spin, Rolling Stone, or any other music rag are taken seriously??? When did that happen in the real world? I can see great leaders coming together at an international conference and one says to the other, "I got me the new Rolling Stone dude." The other responds, "Spin says Rob Zombie is set for a comeback."

Two, Nirvana is not good, even in a bad way, no matter how many shotguns or wacks at the bong. Nirvana bites. Crapola. Lazy stupidity at it is weakest effort. Music to commit suicide to. Horribly overhyped.

And three, journalists for such rags are the biggest bunch of self-absorbed, know-nothings that ever walked this planet. Ever watch Vh1 productions with these twits giving their "expert comments" on music, oozing with sardonic intonations of superiority.

Well, much like me right now. Horribly entertaining, dude.

[vikk]

yeah, to the metallica fan who pines for the black album, I say, "death to false metal!!"

[The Scourge of Yazid]

VH-1 BEHIND THE MUSIC:

Kajagoogoo.

Their precipitous rise, and their dramatic plummet to earth.

[qam1]

Most people remember where they were when Kennedy was killed. I remember where I was the first time I heard Stairway to Heaven. Good googa mooga, what a song.

I can't remember the exact 1st time I heard Stairway, But I clearly do remember when I was like 5-8 years old (Born 1970) I used to love the Immigrant Song, Stairway, Black Dog, Kashmir and Trampled Underfoot. I didn't know who Led Zeppelin was back then and I am not sure I even knew they were by the same group but I clearly do remember enjoying those songs at that age. (At the time my father worked far away so I would be in the car with my mom picking him up so I got to hear all these long songs). It wasn't until High school when I dated a girl who was into Zeppelin that I put the songs I used to like with the group

[spodefly]

"I'll confess that in the midst of editing this collection, I had a brief crisis of conscience when I wondered if this book was too much of a childish exercise - the rock-critic equivalent of the bratty kid wiping his snot on the blackboard in feeble protestation of the injustices of third-grade life," he writes.

Sounds like it to me.