Posted on 02/13/2005 8:34:18 PM PST by CitizenHelper
In true punk rock fashion, Green Day tested the censors at the Grammy Awards on Sunday _ and the censors were ready. The Bay Area rockers, on a career high with their "American Idiot" album, added a shot of rock 'n' roll adrenaline by performing the title cut. The disc won the Grammy for best rock album.
The song includes a prominent obscenity in one of the lyrics, but the censors were plainly prepared and neatly excised the word. They couldn't delete, however, singer Billie Joe Armstrong's pointed political reference to not wanting to be part of a redneck agenda.
Green Day was energetic and confident, a band that's grown up but hasn't left its punk roots behind: witness the smoothly practiced leap and landing from the riser by drummer Tre Cool. And Armstrong was a live wire.
By the way, what's up with trios that expand to quartets onstage but pretend the other member doesn't exist? At least the camera operators didn't completely ignore the mysterious fourth member on guitar.
Yes, when was that late 80's or early 90's? And after their second album their hard core fans were screaming "sell out"....the best thing about the Grammy's tonight was no Eminem and Michael Jackson....worst was the Lynard Skynard/Alman Bros. piece, them boys can still play, but they don't sing quite as well as they used to.
Npw ya talking ..old buddies of mine RAMONES !
Me too. It's #1 on my "Mt. Bachelor" playlist, which I listen to while skiing my favorite NW mountain.
Great song. I'm not one who is into the politics of an artist. They are artists, nothing more, nothing less. I have friends who are 180 degrees opposite of me politically, yet I still enjoy their company.
That's how I view artists. It doesn't always have to be politics in my world.
gabba gabba hey!
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I know that Prince is weird and is all peace loving and all - and I don't like his later stuff - but I love his stuff from back in the Revolution/1999 days. I was happy to see that he won a Grammy for R&B song. My son wasn't happy that his fave band, Slipknot, were shut out by Motorhead and some other 20 year old band. SK appears crazy but they have creativity and smarts, and are marching to the beat of their own drum. They are all in their late 20's - early 30's. Gotta love that heavy metal, man.
Oh, and Green Day sucks.
They have a catchy sound, but I am in CHIC retro mode these days. Nile Rodgers and CHIC played our inaugural ball for wounded soldiers on Jan. 20th and they just brought down the house.
It's no wonder so many Grammys went to Ray Charles: even dead, he has more musical talent than most of these fashion models, poseurs and refugees from street gang\\
Ain't that the truth.
From what I have heard of the "so called music of today", these poor idiots have no talent, they can't even carry a tune, they just have drums banging and guitars making sounds and espouse disruptive poems about drugs and hoes, that is not hose that is hoes? And then scratch up an old album, making more stupid sounds. No musical talent, just sounds, they don't hold a candle to the Moody Blues or Beetles.
You mean " Le Freak " CHIC ?
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind f*** America.Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.
Another:
I'm the son of rage and loveAnd one more:
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with
Get my television fix sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the moms and brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane and doing someone else's cocaine
Zieg Heil to the president gasmanI can imagine the lyrics sheets have pentagrams, anarchist "A" symbols, stick figures fighting, and crude drawings of genitalia doodled all over them.
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!
Pop quiz. What city does Green Day hail from?
I misunderstood, I thought they were located in Green Bay?????????????????
Yes, Indeed...also I want Your Love, Dance Dance Dance, I Am Free At Last, We Are Family, etc... Go to http://www.nilerodgers.com and check out Nile's discography he has written and produced so many hits you would not believe.
That's why when you have people with a little talent, like Norah Jones, she becomes a national phenomenom even though I can find piano playing female jazz singers as good or better in bars here in Atlanta.
I think a lot of recording artists are sheltered and naive and thus they get easily sucked into the liberal mindset because it appears "cool" and "anti-establishment."
Who cares. When I was 17, I was a big fan of Jimmy Carter and I even went around wearing a "No Nukes" T-shirt. But I grew up. Many of these rock stars never get the chance to grow up. So do I hold that against them?
I was just thinking recently how Freepers sing the praises of all rock stars who espouse the conservative mindset such as Ted Nugent, Creed and Kid Rock. Well I'm glad to have them in our camp but frankly, I'd rather listen to other rock acts than those three.
What if Bruce Springsteen was a Reagan voting conservative?
One of my favorite all-time rock artists is Bruce Springsteen. Yet many Freepers pan his music unmercifully because he is a vocal liberal. I can only imagine how those same Freepers would be calling him the greatest rock star of all time if he was a conservative?
I hate Springsteen's politics as much as anybody here but his place in rock music cannot be denied.
Thus, I was somewhat amused when Freepers started warming to Bob Dylan after the publishing of his recent book "outed" him as a closet-conservative. Well maybe not exactly a true-blue conservative but at least one who rejected the flower-power crap of the 60s.
Zieg Heil to the president gasman...
Psych Furs did the President Gas thing twenty years ago, and much better.
I don't care and have never watched them either, I love music, but I don't need an award show to tell me what I like.
And if you want to see some cool pictures of CHIC, Michael Bolton, R. Lee Ermy, Rummy, Wolfowitz, Gen. Myers, Gen. Pace etc.... visit my web site at http://www.citizenshelpingheroes.org and follow the link to ball photos.
You are correct, they are juvenile at best!
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