Gen Xers may tweak our sacred cows, but they haven't invented anything worth a damn to replace Rock and Roll with.
Posted on 07/09/2004 1:17:06 PM PDT by qam1
For starters, The oldest member of Gen-Z is 7 right now so I don't know what music they were supposed to have invented.
they were too intellectually challenged to come up with a new name for it. Therefore they confuse their crap with Rock and it befuddles them.
ummm, Grunge, Alternative, Speed metal, Death metal, even plain ole heavy metal is more an Xer term, Not to mention hip hop was named by Xs and Ys.
What did the baby boomers do? Take Rock N Roll and chop off the "N Roll" and that was it.
Gen Xers may tweak our sacred cows, but they haven't invented anything worth a damn to replace Rock and Roll with.
Joey is dead. Dee Dee is dead. Johnny has cancer and the lefty Ramones fans aren't upset (because he was a Republican). Lately I've been hearing really vile things from lefties about Johnny.
And the left has the balls to cry "censorship" when conservatives voice efforts to boycott the Dixie Chicks? At least we aren't celebrating the day that they will die or distorting their politics.
I've seen this same leftist venom directed at Lionel Hampton who was also a lifelong Republican.
I don't think it is still on the charts. Not that it would be gone if they still calculated the charts the same way.
The manner by which charts are compiled changed somewhere in the 1990s (specifically to drop off some of the "old" albums). It wasn't just "Soundscan". Radio airplay is also a factor in chart placement (and has been). I don't know what the current "rules" are.
Also, you'd think those boomers would take better care of their albums instead of replacing them every few years. And how many of those are LP to 8-track to cassette to half-speed mastered LP to CD to remasted CD to anniversary remastered CD to to SACD to DVD-A sales?
Hey, I'm a big fan of depressing, suicide-inducing, music produced by idiot liberals. Put me in the crowd that considers 'OK Computer' to be some of the most interesting music of the past century.
I'm also a fan of Trent Reznor at his most self-loathing. But usually I just listen when I'm having one of my 'spells.'
Anyway, no brownie points for liking Ozzy? You won't find too many 50 year old black women who can say that.
Jimi Hendrix always cheesed me off with his stupid left-handed guitar trick. What? Tell a pianist to play treble with his left or switch hands with the clarinet.
BB King is great. I still think Eric Clapton is the best although I will take into account your Eddie Van Halen submission.One can't make Guitar World's best four years in a row and be a piker.
Yep. The Houston Comical gave The Passion of the Christ an F review. You can check the paper yourself to see how rarely they dispense that grade for a film.
The left does this sort of thing all the time. Reward the politically correct and savage those who are "incorrect".
Mr. Skinner was the boys HS gym teacher.
Tail end of the baby boom went to see them play. The band ended in 1978. Would had to have been born in 1960 or earlier to get into a club to see their US tour (maybe even 1957 or before).
A Southern man don't need Potts around anyway. Now..... "Turn it up!"
That will be the third-to the best of my recollection-mention of that song on this particular thread.
My older brother likes NIN a lot.
To be honest, I didn't really get them until I started to listen to a few tracks from some of their earlier albums, which I actually found to be pretty good.
Though, the Johnny Cash cover of their song was pretty weird.
I don't understand who this book is for. If I already hate these albums, why do I want to read lengthy essays about albums I already hate? To have my viewpoints substantiated?
If they savage an album I do like (Pet Sounds, Exile On Main Street, etc.), am I supposed to suddenly decide "You are right, this album I listen to every month and have listened to for years 'sucks'"?
This book should have been a long form letter sent to the music editors of some magazines and that is about it. "Hey, stop triumphing the same old tired albums." Then again, real music fans don't turn to Rolling Stoned for guidence these days (how many more boy bands do they need to put on the cover to drive this point home?).
Money well spent if it keeps EC from playing it again...
Whut?
I am tired. I just got back from an outdoor wedding. It was 93 degrees with a heat index around 104 or 5. Great suit weather. I just burned the suit I had on. Dry cleaning would have been cruel.
Polyester or cotton?
What a racket..
I take pride when people young and old exclaim that the bands I listen to a "just a bunch of noise". Some old people never liked rock and roll (even if they liked the words "rock and roll"). Many young people have never heard rock music or rock and roll (they have heard things that were influenced by these things).
And then there are the mall skaters who think that they invented punk.
If the bands I listen to are still able to be a thorn in someone's side then the abrassive nature of rock and roll carries on.
A "noise" can be joyful, it doesn't have to be angry. There are jazz bands as well as rock bands that typify this.
VH-1 BEHIND THE MUSIC:
Kajagoogoo.
Their precipitous rise, and their dramatic plummet to earth.
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