Gen Xers tweak geezers' sacred cows

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

[CBF]

I'm still a bit of a metal-head, from Mozart to Metallica is my tag-line. And if you don't like the Dead then you haven't been properly introduced.

[CBF]

Mötley Crüe! G n'R, Poison, Skid Row -- Gimmie the hair days of Rock n'Roll, they are sadly missed. Turning on "Kick Start My Heart" - now....

[CBF]

OZZY !!!! I'm sitting here looking at my unused tickets for the Oslo Spectrum performance that was originally scheduled for 16. Sept. 2003 -- at $120 a pop, I want my money's worth baby! Get better OZZY and get your ass over here!!

There is no better voice in Rock n' Roll.

[R. Scott]

I often find myself asking, “Why did I ever think that was great?” when listening to some of my old stuff - but only some of it. If I want to feel better about “our” music - I’m an early baby boomer - all I have to do is listen to any disco that was praised during the ‘70’s, most of the pop and head banger stuff from the ‘80’s, the “new” heavy metal and of course rap from the ‘90’s. I do like some of the lighter contemporary (non-gangsta) hip hop. These days I find myself listening to a lot of salsa, jazz, some classic rock and even some of daddy’s favorites - Frank Sinatra, Toney Benet et al
One of my main criticisms of the classic acid rock - to include the Beatles - was with the people who, sitting around the hookah would listen intently to every word, trying to decipher the hidden meaning and discover some new reality. I would stand up in disgust and exclaim “They used that word because it was the only word that would fit the rhyme and rhythm!” No one believed me. Years later the truth came out and I was right.

[R. Scott]

"It sticks in my craw that rock is so skewed to the boomers," Potts says. "Like 'You don't know; you weren't there,' in this condescending tone, like we were born too late.

Sorry kid - you were born too late. You missed all the fun and haven’t a clue.

[R. Scott]

Some damnyankees were born in the South.

[R. Scott]

…it's all the drugs that make one able to tolerate 15-20 minute guitar solos.

Or having an attention span longer than 3 ½ minutes.

[expatguy]

We are the tail end of the Boomer Generation (me June of 1963)

Definately not an Gen Xer

[humblegunner]

It took a few times on the audiotape player to realize what the raging German was screaming about:

You don't mean to tell me Accept's lyrics were actual words do you?
I figured the formula was one intelligible phrase per song and the rest
of the time they would sort of just let Udo be Udo.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Cotton and wool summer blend. i can't wear polyester.

[normy]

They probably caved to pressure after the line in Sweet Home Alabama " Now Watergate does not bother me, does your concience bother you? (Tell the truth)

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Disco Stu:

Disco Stu says: "polyester is great for disco! And for sweating!"

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Yeah!

But ya need some more cowbell.

Ya can't have a cool bridge without the cowbell!

[R. Scott]

But ya need some more cowbell.

Sounds like a Tommy & Rumble (FM99) bit!

[The Scourge of Yazid]

I don't know.

I suppose you can oppose the song on a purely political/philosophical level.

However, if I based my opinion of music/musicians on judgments like that, there's no way I would ever listen to any songs written by Tom Paxton, who happens to be one of my favorite musicians.

In fact, "Dr. Blue/White Bones Of Allende" is one of the best folk songs that he has ever written, and it is also probably has the most prominent exposition of left wing/radical values of any part of his song catalog.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Could be.

But if Christopher Walken's producing the record, you know it's a given.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Polyester to me is like wearing plasic bags.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

But slightly less comfortable.

[Xenalyte]

You and I will soon be blacklisted by the Skynyrd fanatics. There are many.

[Xenalyte]

He's a midnight mover . . . coming in the night, going with the light.