interestingly enough, fleetwood mac from 2004 doesn't sound as good as from 197*. maybe it's cause i haven't been hearing it for 25 years, maybe it's because they're just not doing as many drugs. unclear.
so the question that remains to be answered - will any band that started in my lifetime still be around and popular when my children are buying their own (digitized) vinyl? let qualify that with if kurt had lived, they may have started to suck (remember greenday's downfall? wasn't it bad? don't you wish sometimes you could go back to the good old dookie days?)
i mean, who the hell is our pink floyd? our who? our ABBA (admit that you love dancing queen)? velvet underground?
my father claims springsteen, but i dont know any cool young people that listen to him. definitely not his new stuff.
remember when blink was great for 2 months? and then simple plan for like a week? counting crows were hot too, once. wallflowers were supposed to be the next dylan (haha). i find myself listening to sean paul and dixie chicks cause "rock" isn't doing it for me. it goes nowhere after all this lead up. like years of sex and NO orgasm! what the hell is wrong with these musicians? are they all impotent?
i'm going to make my own compilation of songs that excited me before the band went the way of my used tissues. get back to you later.
1. 'Dani Weiss' posted on the Thu 11 Nov 2004, 8:07 pm
ReplyDeletemy friend johnny claims that if kurt had lived, he may have taken to be the modern beatles. i'm going to argue that based on a really shaky premise - nirvana and pearl jam were huge, and major competitors. they were the IT bands. if any band was going to make it for the next 50 years, it had to be one of them.
and where is pearl jam today?
nirvana already sounds immature and outdated. i mean, they're great to listen to when i'm steaming mad and all, but...
side point - aerosmith is still hanging on, and not by just a thread.
2. 'Marti Joy Davidson Sichel' posted on the Fri 12 Nov 2004, 12:49 pm
ReplyDeleteDude, I get an entry named after me? Dude. Bwuh? Anyway, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there are a couple of bands that are still around doing good things after a long time. TMBG is one, but they're never going to be recognized as loved by the general public, and i'm willing to accept this. Radiohead on the other hand, is still doing some Faboo things, but more than them, and more widely appreciated, hello, U2!! They got their start when we were mere whippersnappers, but had we been our age now, then, I think our kids would be rocked to sleep to the dulcet tones of Bono and the Edge. I think U2 has 'modern-day-Beatles' potential. They're even being played on teh classic rock stations now. Eesh. And yea, our people don't 'do' Springsteen. As if.