thoughts and things

u2.  interesting, although i'm not sure if this latest album won't kill them.

as you said, great ands are still doing great things, but nuder the radar.  yes, TMBG, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Neil Young.  but the public has just missed out, somehow. (side point: how many people have even heard of the pixies?)

i think part of the prpoblem is that listeners have no idea what it means to stand out as a band.  that's how you have people naming simple plan as the best band ever.  ok, remind me in 5 years, i'll see if i can figure out what song they sang.

indigo girls, one of my favorites, has a huge underground following.  i feel like in 40 or 50 years they'll be re-discovered.  i read once that they have the highest selling albums of any band that's never had a song break the top 40.  but the general public?  they have no clue.

re: U2, were the people who were fans when we were kids still going to play this for their kids?  my father was so beatle obsessed that as a kid i thought they were a current band.  when i found out john was dead (i was eight), i not only was crushed, but called my father in to tell him.

so, yeah.  i want to know what band today is going to resonate with out children (of tomorrow...  ha ha).

also.  finally saw the following movies last night:

blade runner
sweet sweetback's baadasssss song
this is spinal tap

blade runner just wasn't engaging.  ie it wasn't as AWESOME as i'd been led to believe it would be.

sweetback - i wanted to break the TV.  the ppl who shot this movie must have been trying to make every motion sick.

this is spinal tap is easily one of the funniest movies EVER.  combined with the fact that people thought it was a real band...  i think we're going to have to own this one.  and buy the soundtrack!