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I think that it was one of the guys in Sparks who said recently that there are lot of bands who look great these days but sound awful. |
I know we're heading towards a sad future.
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glam rock and cock rock intermingle but one is not the other. david bowie was glam but not cock van halen was cock rock but not glam there are a lot that mix it up though. my favorite category of rock was created by my friends willord and michael RUMMY ROCK. That is how they describe bands like Bad Company, ELO, Eddie Money, bar bands made good basically. |
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boo fucking hoo! no! no! I REFUSE there's been manufactured crap since the days of chubby checker for fucks sakes. let's quit talking like doomsaying abuelitas -- impale life with joy! carve your own hole & make yourself a space, of course the future (and the present and the past ) are "sad" if you must rely on external circumstances for your well being. adapt or die like alemming!! & while you're at it read "candide", a most instructive XVIII century book -- edits: i mean to say doomsaying not naysaying. and then rats are some of the most adaptable little shits-- lemmings on the other hand die in hordes. there. |
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Radiohead Nirvana Sonic Youth's 90's stuff Pavement Pearl Jam Chili's 90's stuff Slint Primus But if you aren't a fan of many of those bands then I see your point. |
the 80s was an infinitely better decade than the 90s as far as music goes. i'm not saying that there was no good music to come out during the 90s - i like a fair bit of the music that came out then. "alternative" rock (an alternative to what, exactly?) kind of lost its lustre during the 90s with the advent of lollapalooza and the mass normalization and popularity of the genre.
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(late response) but...what, like fucking Pagoda? FUCK THAT. But the '90s, the majority of it was laaaame. The underground was rad, don't get me wrong. But like, five well-known bands of every million were good. And they could not be imitated (NIRVANA. Note that everyone who tries to be Nirvana sucks fucking ass... see above...) |
when you think about it, gimmicks have been in rock and roll since the very beginning from chuck berry being a slick dressed sonofabitch to the boy bands from the british invasion to the sex pistols (haha). there's nothing wrong with having a gimmick, but i think the issue is more with bands that rely on the gimmick to get them recognized.
with that said, slipknot rules...fear the mask. |
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yes, but my point was that lately, every single band seems to have a gimmick, and from every strain and genre and scene, whether before it was more distributed and less obiquious. there was always people doing it and people reacting to them, now it seems everyone is doing it. again, i'm not saying it's new or that it's wrong, i'm asking why is everyone doing it? it's been so overdone i'm sick of it. |
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i think this is pretty much surreal. what are you kids complaining about? corporate markets will always try to sell you a product. there's lots of killer music around the net, and it's actually for free, too.
examples? SMALL WHITE comes to mind. TRUSTY BLACK SHEEP is another. JOEL NOBODY. THE TWEETER SMILIES. THE REPLICATORS. a lot of the bands on our myspace friends list, and so forth. and those are just UNSIGNED musicians... to begin with. i mean, why complaining? i dig this current period of time when with little money you can make decent sounding things and let them be heard around the world. let's start supporting it. |
can't miss a chance to plug your band, uh?
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music is great and all, but if i'm going to see someone PERFORM, why would i want to just see some dude wearing the same clothes he's been wearing for four days straight? If I'm going to look at the stage, I want something visual. If you're so opposed to gimmicks and image, play in complete darkness.
Marilyn Manson's stage shows are entertaining. Sunn o)))'s smoke machines are entertaining. What really gets my goat is all the noise acts that are so focused on negativity, death, blood, mutilation, and other socially undesirable traits. People trying to be "extreme." Wasn't Whitehouse doing that shtick in the early 80s? I'd rather see someone with a shtick than sit there watching a dude click his mouse on his ibook. . . |
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There is a lot of truth in that.I find a lot of young bands either too keen on shallow rock n roll lifesyles or too intensely into the whole destruction/ self destruction thing.When both become as sterile as they have, it is not fun anymore.I have a real problem with, say, one- dimensional bands like Radiohead who seem devoid of any humour or more light- hearted spirit in their music.I mean, do they literally spend the whole time being that fucking miserable?I doubt it. |
hey when we talk about gimmicks please let's not forget LEGS!
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kill this fucking thread already, i was just voicing an opinion about heard mentality only to encountering that in the people of the board.
i bet 5 years ago and in 5 years time all of you are going to go "where is barebones rock n' roll? i can't identify with a dude who's wearing costumes and facepaint!!" |
GWAR!!!
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